[at-l] sleeping bag question

[pvpvpv at earthlink.net (Pat Villeneuve)]

A couple tricks for keeping warm in a wet or inadequate bag:
-If in a shelter, slip your bag into your DRY, unpitched tent, bivy-sack style.
-Wear your DRY rain gear inside your bag.
-If worse gets to worse, turn a large leaf bag into a vapor barrier by "bagging" the coldest part of your body.
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At 06:15 AM 9/8/2005 -0700, boulder wrote:

>ALSO... dummy me, only from reading since then did i
>find out that down is pretty useless when wet. i'll be
>in shelters or bivy on rainy nights. is that enough?
>if i have to sleep in a wet bag, and advice on getting
>any protection out of it at all?
>