[at-l] Sleeping bags

[ellen at clinic.net (ellen)]

With reasonable care, one can keep down dry. In 25 years, mine has never been seriously wet. I keep it in a stuff sack and the stuff sack in a plastic garbage bag. JUst sleeping in a down bag drives out most of the moisture from a damp bag. Occasionally, I would run it through a dryer in town.

Weary

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: David A Jones <dajones@isp.com>
> To: "AT-List" <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: Mon, Oct-25-2004 9:16 PM
> Subject: [at-l] Sleeping bags
> 
> People who know the most about hiking, and sleeping bags in particular, 
> 
> seem to talk about choosing a sleeping bag like it's a matter of 
> choosing which down bag to get.  I also hear a lot of talk about not 
> getting down wet.  I may be completely ignorant, but it seems pretty 
> wet 
> out there to me.  Are there just a lot of people confident that they 
> will not get their down bags wet?  Or does  down actually respond as 
> well to dampness as any other material?  (Actually, I think geese do 
> get 
> wet.)  I don't hear anybody saying "down kills".  Nobody is talking 
> about down like some talk about cotton?  I would think the best bag be 
> the one that is still warm when wet, or the one that will dry most 
> quickly, or at least one that won't self destruct if it gets wet?  I'd 
> use this sort of logic to choose a wool sweater over a cotton sweat 
> shirt.  How does wet logic apply to sleeping bags?   Easy cleaning of a 
> 
> synthetic bag would be a second consideration to me, but still a 
> valuable one.  I just don't get it.  So down is light.  How much more 
> weight are you really lugging when you choose synthetic?  A pound?  
> Isn't that extra weight kind of like wet insurance?  Never mind the 
> cruelty thing.
> 
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