'Sleeping Bags' Post Category

It’s extremely important, when you find yourself in extreme cold weather, to be able to get warm. If you have no way to get warm and stay warm you’re in serious trouble. So it’s very important to have a good extreme cold weather sleeping bag in su...

When the temperature gets down low you need a sleeping bag that can keep up. Something like a 0 degree down sleeping will keep you warm down to that very low temperature while only taking up a minimal amount of room in your backpack and contributi...

When it comes to sleeping bag liners there is no end to the variety of products available to you, and the best sleeping bag liners will depend entirely on what you want your sleeping bag liner to do for you. If you want to keep your sleeping bag c...

Many backpackers try to bring only a few luxury items when they go backpacking, but for many, a pillow is less a luxury item and more of a necessity. But the best backpacking pillow wont take up much room in your backpack or add much bulk to your ...

There are a whole bunch of different materials to choose from when it comes to sleeping bag liners, many with several different uses. But thermolite is different, in that a thermolite sleeping bag liner is meant for just one thing, really, and tha...

In alpine conditions you need gear that can perform, like alpine sleeping bags. There is plenty of gear that will perform when conditions are good, but the real test for gear is when conditions are not good, and conditions are very often not good ...

Sleeping bag liners come in a few different shapes and sizes, each one ideally suited to a certain kind of sleeping bag. A rectangular sleeping bag liner, after all, would be a poor, likely uncomfortable fit for a mummy shaped sleeping bag. Instea...

The average sleeping bag is made for the kind of safe, predictable conditions that most people go backpacking or camping in. But sometimes you need something that will handle conditions that range beyond safe and predictable. Gear like extreme sle...

When the temperature gets down in to the sub zero range it takes a very specific kind of backpacking and camping gear to keep you comfortable and safe from the weather. In particular, you need a sub zero sleeping bag. Cold temperatures can be dang...

Sleeping bags are great at keeping you warm, provided that you don’t get them wet. Both synthetic insulation and down, but down especially, loses insulating power when you get it wet. So if you’re unlucky enough to get your sleeping bag wet, you w...