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Extreme Cold Weather Sleeping Bag

By Stuart Morris

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Extreme Cold Weather Sleeping BagIt’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 such a situation, since that will likely be your main way, if not your only way, to get warm. And even more, you need a sleeping bag that you can depend on, that wont fail you when you end up needing it most.

Extreme Cold Weather Sleeping Bag

What to look for when looking for an extreme cold weather sleeping bag.
  • Water Resistant – For extreme cold weather it’s a very good idea to have a water resistant or even waterproof sleeping bag. A wet sleeping bag is not a warm sleeping bag, and a failing sleeping bag can make for a dangerous situation when you find yourself in extreme cold weather.
  • Temperature Rating – It’s important to plan ahead for extreme cold weather, and get a sleeping bag with a temperature rating that can handle it, and keep you warm. You can always throw on a few layers to wear inside your sleeping bag, but it’s more comfortable, and safer, to get a sleeping bag with an appropriate temperature rating.

Best Extreme Cold Weather Sleeping Bag

Some of the very best extreme cold weather sleeping bags.
  • Mountain Hardwear Phantom Sleeping Bag - First, an excellent 0 degree sleeping bag from Mountain Hardwear. What helps this bag stand out is the impressive weight of just 2 pounds 10 ounces, or 1.19 kilograms, which makes it one of the lighter sleeping bags with a 0 degree temperature rating. And what helps make this good for extreme conditions is the narrow alpine mummy cut, which helps to eliminate as much unused space within the sleeping bag, which keeps you warmer. Besides all that, the Phantom uses 800+ fill down.
  • Mont Bell U.L. Super Spiral Down Hugger EXP - With a temperature rating of -20, this is a sleeping bag well built for extreme cold. It uses 800+ fill down, and uses a DWR, water resistant exterior shell to keep you and the down inside your sleeping bag dry. Mont Bell also uses an angled baffle design, which coils around you at night as you sleep, which helps to keep you warm. So another excellent extreme cold weather sleeping bag. It weighs 3 pounds 7 ounces, or 1.55 kilograms.
  • Marmot CWM EQ -40 - If you need something for the truly extreme cold, then the CWM from Marmot is an excellent choice. It's good down to an impressive -40, so that you will stay warm just about anywhere in the world, regardless of the season. It uses 800+ fill down, and all the usual features that you find on a cold weather sleeping bag, like a draft collar and zipper insulation tube. But what helps this stand out, besides the temperature rating, is the fully waterproof exterior, so that you can be sure your down wont get wet, and leave you cold at night. The CWM weighs 4 pounds 10 ounces, or 2.09 kilograms.
See how these sleeping bags compare to other extreme cold sleeping bags over at the compare sleeping bags page.

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