RE: Re[2]: [at-l] sleeping bag

["L. Clayton Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>]

Nah, I FREEZE easily <G>. Besides, I prefer hiking on the AT in the winter
months. I did my first ever "in season" hike this April from Springer to
Dick's Creek. Although I met some neat people, I vastly prefer off season
hiking. This of course, means that it WILL get cold. I was using a Blue
Kazoo with a silk liner for the off season hikes.

We had a few campfire discussions where I pulled out my "Florida Sleeping
Bag" (the liner), it is all I use here in Florida during the summer. At
about 2 oz. I think it is a shoe in for lightest sleeping bag.

Lee I Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas McGinnis [mailto:tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 7:25 PM
> To: AT-L; L. Clayton Parker
> Subject: Re[2]: [at-l] sleeping bag
>
>
>      (Slightly playing "troll")
>      Naahhhhhhh. One bag's plenty, IF'N you leave Springer at a
> reasonable
>      date. One of the things I just don't get is the current fascination
>      with March -- February -- even, for Goodness sakes, JANUARY leaving
>      dates. Take a 20* bag, start in April, and plan on a couple
> of nights
>      of "full dress sleeping." In the summer, you can sleep with your bag
>      open, or even on top of it, or even spend the $16 for a fleecy liner
>      jobie. (Technically, though, that's STILL two bags. Hmmmmm.)
>
>      Are we being a little too anal here, or are we just trying to keep
>      warm?
>
>      Sloetoe'79
>      (Devotee of the Synthetic Bag Church
>      of Warm Feelings After Dark.
>      SBCWFAD)
>
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> Subject: RE: [at-l] sleeping bag
> Author:  "L. Clayton Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net> at ima
> Date:    7/8/99 6:53 PM
>
> <snippage>
> If this is for an AT attempt or a PCT attempt, Bill is right, buy
> two bags.
> You need a zero degree for the beginning, the end, and ALL above
> tree line
> portions. Lower altitudes and summer months require a much lighter/cooler
> bag.
>      <lots more snippage>
> All of this ignores a very basic question...what kind of sleeper are you?
>

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