[pct-l] Sleeping Bag - For Hot Sleeper

[Jeffrey Olson]

I highly recommend a sleeping quilt to be comfortable.  I tend to be 
cold when I go to bed and warm up like you describe.  The quilt is 
perfect - I can snuggle down and get warm, and then as I heat up, 
un-snuggle and let my knees or a foot or feet hang out.

If you buy one retail, they are very expensive - $400 and up.

http://www.nunatakusa.com/

There are patterns to make quilts out there.  My sister made one for her 
husband at less than half the price.  He uses his down to 0 degrees 
because she added down beyond what was called for.

Jeff Olson
Martin, SD


On 3/7/2010 9:23 AM, Kathi wrote:
> 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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