Winter sleeping bag

hypan

17/04/2012 at 07:25

i know its early but i'm looking at sleeping bags for next winter and came across a Ray Mears/Nanok Sleeping Bag - Osprey i know its weights is high but i wounder if any of you have used it and how good it was.

thanks

Peter Clinch

17/04/2012 at 12:26

Looking at the blurb, it starts off with "This spring/summer/autumn sleeping bag", so if the folk selling it suggest quite directly it's not up to winter use I'd not have it at the top of my shortlist for that job...

Pete.

hypan

17/04/2012 at 19:44

i thought it was funny to as down at the bottom it said this with the temps

Details:

Performance rating: 3 Season
Packed size: 22 x 22 x 40 cm (equivalent to 15.2 litres)
Unrolled length: approximately 181 cm (from top of zip to feet) plus head room
Internal length: 200 cm approx.
Width at shoulders: 82 cm
Weight: 2 kg
Minimum comfort temperature: -15 °C
Minimum extreme temperature: -25 °C

Peter Clinch

17/04/2012 at 20:05

"Minimum extreme temperature" means "will keep you the right side of hypothermia... just"

By contrast, a more serious winter bag like the ME Snowline has an extreme rating of -37. On the other hand, I personally find a Lightline (extreme -22) does fine for me year round but it depends a bit on how cold you sleep and how often you'll be out in serious cold.

Pete.

Metric Kate

17/04/2012 at 20:20

Blimey, that's huge, and heavy! Especially for a 3 season bag.

What are you intending to use it for? A down bag might be a better option if you're wildcamping and want to carry it.

StoneHuggingHippy

17/04/2012 at 20:23

That's what i thought, 15lt.

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Moel Hebog

18/04/2012 at 18:46

I had one of these bags for a number of years for work use and found it to be quite a good bag. Lowest recorded temp was -6 deg and I was more than comfy in base layers, sleeping on a thermarest. The quoted size is before you compress it in the supplied compression sack. The build quality was good as you would expect from Nanok. I sold it on when I was given a Carinthia double sleeping bag to trial.

If you are going to find it difficult to keep a sleeping bag dry, it isn't a bad purchase. I would agree with Kate though and suggest down for the warmth/weight/packability. Alpkit or the next PHD sales

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Moel Hebog

18/04/2012 at 18:47

apologies for the very annoying hyperlink in my last post. I didn't put it there, it just appeared !!!!!!

rob dixon 3

18/04/2012 at 18:56

Agree with Kate - go for down! All mine are - or at least 7 of them...

lentenrose

19/04/2012 at 00:03

i have a similar specced adjungilak bag---comfortable to -10c and i am a cold sleeper----problem with it is- the huge size in a compression sac---and once compressed its a solid block which takes up a lot of space in my rucsac because it won t settle into the odd corners---now mostly use a phd bag uncompressed in a stuff sac which is soft and pushs into the bottom of the rucsac more easily---regards lenten

Edited: 19/04/2012 at 00:06

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