[pct-l] break strategies, now sleeping bags

[Jeffrey Olson]

Nunatak ARc Alpinist Quilt - 22 oz.  Rated to 20 degrees.  this is 
accurate for me - I'm a warm sleeper.  I've had it for 10 years and 150+ 
nights, and it still has loft.  It's NEVER been in a stuff sack.  It 
lives in a plastic garbage bag and is always the last thing to go into 
the pack.  I too wear sleeping clothes, including sleep socks...  It's 
not "too" dirty...

Jeff

On 11/24/2013 1:56 PM, Mary Kwart wrote:
> "WIred" used a zpacks bag.  I have used a 28 oz dri down SIerra
> Designs bag for one month on the PCT in Oregon this year and was happy
> with it especially when it rained for 8 hours straight overnight. I
> usually use a Mountain Hardware Women's Phantom 15  (34 oz.) and it
> has not lost any loft or looked the worse or wear in 3 years of
> use--CT, AZT, GET and 1000 miles of the PCT. It is true to its
> temperature rating. I am not a sweaty sleeper and always wear sleeping
> clothes of lightweight long underwear tops and bottoms, a hat and
> socks set aside for sleeping. So I haven't noticed the inside of the
> bag getting appreciably dirty.
> Don't know how I'd do without a hood option--seems that I often am
> hiking in spring in freezing temps and like the option of closing the
> drawstring when I need to. I don't carry a down jacket with a hood.
> --Fireweed
>
>
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