Cart (0)
Your cart is empty
Choose a sleeping bag by its comfort temperature, the point where you should still sleep well, and treat the limit and extreme figures as a margin rather than a target. The mummy sleeping bag lists all three: comfort down to 10°C, limit at 0°C and extreme at -10°C. A bag like that is fine on mild nights. For an alpine winter you want something like the cold weather sleeping bag, with a comfort figure of -15°C. On the coldest nights, a sleeping bag liner inside adds one more layer.
The sub zero sleeping bag holds its comfort range between -6°C and -2°C, while the down sleeping bag goes from -8°C to -30°C depending on which of its two weights you take. Plan the rest of your sleeping gear around the same cold night, not the forecast for the drive up.
Down gives a lot of warmth for very little weight. The ultralight hiking sleeping bag holds 90% white duck down in a 320T nylon shell and weighs 500 g, and the ultralight down sleeping bag comes in at 350 g. Keep down dry, because it flattens when wet. Hollow-fibre polyester is bulkier for the same warmth and goes into several of the camping and winter bags. For something softer against the skin, the cotton lined sleeping bag holds 700g of cotton-silk filling under a washed cotton lining.
A mummy cut follows your body, so there is less air inside to warm. The cold weather bag is one, at 1.65 kg. An envelope bag gives your legs more room, and the camo sleeping bag opens flat on a full zip as a blanket or ground sheet. For an army sleeping bag look, that camo bag comes in army green, grey or green camouflage, from 0.7 kg up to 4 kg. The double sleeping bag, 190 x 150 cm, packs into a 35 x 25 cm carry bag for cold nights out in the bush.
Some pieces are worn as well as slept in. The insulated poncho goes on with the hood up and opens flat as a blanket, and the sleeping bag quilt doubles as a hooded cape with a kangaroo pocket. Whatever you sleep in, the ground draws warmth out of you all night, so lay a camping mattress underneath.
