 After freezing in my 10 year old Blacks Great Bear sleeping bag (specs are 4 season -15c, weight 2250gms, filled with Qualofill)in Langdale last weekend I need someting warmer that is not down or goose. Ok, so I know I feel the cold but perhaps my current bag is no good and over-rated. I was looking at the ME Sleepwalker III but although it is actually lighter than my Great Bear is it warmer?
I will probably use it with a thermarest (zzzz, boring I know)
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 I have a sleepwalker 3. Haven't use it at -15c yet, but it was too warm at zero a couple of weeks ago. Its comfort rating is -12c. Sounds about right.
Its a comfy bag. The knee thing allows you to move about during the night. I would recommend it.
Maybe you could just buy a fleece liner for your old bag though!
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 Fleece or Meraklon (sp?) liner could solve your probs, depends on how much warmer you need to be.
No experience of ME synth bags, sorry.
Si(C)
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 Ajungilak Kompakt Winter or Kompakt 2000 Winter.
The 2000 is £150 and has a 2 metre hydro head outer. -20 comfort
The standard is less (dunno how much) and -15 comfort. I have a friend with the 2000 and he's slept out ino the open on a night down to about -10, and was "toasty"!
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 there was a gorg rab bag in outside monday. bout £250 which was a 4 season. was very light too. :0)
I use a vango Q7 200 which is a suposed 3 season but i find it quite toasty enuff in the - temps
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 ME synth bags are toasty and the Sleepwalkers are sooooooo comfortable.
When I had the old bag and a karrimat I never slept properly, but with the Sleepwalker and a thermarest I'm a new woman.
;0)
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 Guy, synthetic filling technology has moved on quite a long way in ten years, and your bag will also have deteriorated with use as well, so most four-season rated synthetic bags will be warmer than your bag is now. How they'll compare with it when it was new is harder to say.
Mountain Equipment's synthetics have a good reputation, ditto RAB's. We have a Snugpak 10 on test at the moment and that seems reasonable as well. TNF's synthetic bags use a good quality fill, ditto MHW's. Ajungilak aren't bad either. In a way bags are one of the hardest items to test simply because no two people sleep at identical temperatures and nights are all subtly different in terms of conditions - temperature and humidity so up to a point you have to take manufacturers' specs on trust. If you go for something like a Mountain Equipment bag rated to the temperature you think is adequate, I'd be pretty confident it'll do the job. In relative terms, a ten-year old synthetically filled bag is about 90 in our human years...
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I put in a review of my Sleepwalker III TDS in the gear section. Top Bag - the 'stretchy legs' are the dogs wotsits for me. Sometimes over warm, but toasty when the temp drops. I'd buy another, which is saying something for me...
Cheers all,
PB
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 I've just bought a Dreamcather 500 and am waiting for a nice cold opportunity to try it out
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Helen - you need to spend a night in a sno-hole!
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 Helen
I bought a ME Dreamcatcher 500 a few weeks ago and spent a long weekend in the dales when temperatures dipped to below freezing (water bottle was solid in the morning) .
The bag performed superbly , you'll love it especially the TDS system which allows free movement . I bought ME gear on the strength of many positive reviews . Top gear which I'm sure will continue with bags rated to even lower temps (Dreamcatcher 500 is rated to -5%) .
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