[pct-l] Sleeping Bag - For Hot Sleeper

Kathi pogo at pctwalker.com
Sun Mar 7 10:23:31 CST 2010


Hello List,
Hope you are all able to enjoy some of this beautiful weather (at least 
it is in Sacramento, CA)...

For years I've been struggling with getting the right sleeping bag or 
combo of clothing/bag. On cold nights when I get in my bag I am 
generally freezing. Especially my feet, it doesn't seem to matter if I 
am wearing socks, long johns or what ever... I just can't get warm for 
about the first hour. If I wear clothing it makes that time longer 
because I think I'm heating my clothes and not letting my sleeping bag 
loft do it's job of trapping my heat. Once I get to sleep I wake up 
about an hour later just burning up. I sleep VERY hot once asleep... I 
am my man's own personal little electric blanket. :)

I generally sleep in a 30º bag because the others are way to hot for me 
even when the weather dips into the teens. So my thought for thru-hiking 
was maybe to take some hand warmers and throw them in my bag on cold 
nights before I get in to kinda warm things up. Those little things 
aren't necessarily light weight so I'm not sure about that. Are there 
any other hot sleepers out there? What do you do? Just suffer through 
the cold until you are asleep? I was thinking of just suffering and 
taking a back up hand warmer just in case I was really having a problem 
I could use it.

Suggestions greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Kathi



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