'Sleep Accessories' Post Category

Most people sleep with some sort of foam pillow at home, and are quite comfortable resting their head against foam at night. But foam pillows are large, and not very well suited to something like backpacking, where the size of your gear matters. F...

While most sleeping bags come with a sleeping bag stuff sack appropriately sized or that particular sleeping bag, yours may not. Or perhaps you lost or damaged your stuff sack, or even want a compression stuff sack that will make it easier and mor...

If you find yourself in cold conditions then you need an insulated sleeping pad, because you actually lose quite a bit of heat in to the ground at night, and you need to capture that heat and reflect it. Of course the same is true for your head, w...

One of the most important aspects of a sleeping bag is that it packs up small and compact in the morning. If sleeping bags didn’t do this, backpacks would have to be a lot bigger than they currently are. And if you want your sleeping bag really co...

If you’re a lightweight or ultralight backpacker it can be tempting to leave comforts like a pillow at home. But at the same time you have to be able to at least sleep at night, or else you’re not going to enjoy yourself while out there backpackin...

A sleeping bag cover, which is more commonly referred to as a bivy sack or bivy bag, is a good way to add some waterproofing and some warmth to your sleeping bag without adding much weight. Many people actually use a sleeping  bag cover in place o...

There are all kinds of choices when it comes to sleeping bag liners, but if you are looking for a lightweight sleeping bag liner, there is definitely a few options that you will want to avoid. But there also a few choices to make, the most importa...

There are a whole bunch of different materials that get used for sleeping bag liners, but micro fleece is definitely one of the more comfortable and warm of the bunch. Fleece is very soft, and is thus a great material to sleep against at night, un...

Sleeping bag liners are designed with a few different purposes in mind. Many are designed just to keep the interior of the sleeping bag clean, so that you don’t have to go cleaning the entire bag in the washing machine every time you go camping or...

When you go hiking you can always just stuff whatever is handy under your head and get by, but a good hiking pillow makes for a much more comfortable sleep. And that really is the logic for something like a hiking pillow. You can reduce your backp...