Sleeping bags ? What do you use ?

Zombie Master · Post by **Zombie Master** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:05 am

Duane Ausherman wrote:I guess that Diane would qualify as a sleeping bag.

Got that right!

moosehead · Post by **moosehead** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:51 pm

Newspaper...seriously....buy the local rag or two if its a thin one....put equal amounts of newsprint beneath you as above you...you will not believe how warm you can be.

Don't believe me...put a newspaper on your lap and wait 5 min...feel how warm your lap gets?..Now, go out to your rugby match or hockey game and sit on a newspaper...you're arse never gets cold...and.....

the next morning you can wipe your ass with it and start a fire as well....then burn it of course and you don't have to pack it!

Zombie Master · Post by **Zombie Master** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 1:31 am

moosehead wrote: the next morning you can wipe your ass with it and start a fire as well....then burn it of course and you don't have to pack it!

That must smell interesting. I've never burnt shit when camping.

Sibbo · Post by **Sibbo** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:12 am

When i was a young bloke a very light bag but camping under a pine tree was the go on cold nights .6'' of pine needles under and 6;'' on top . Warm as toast ...if you can find a pine tree !

SteveD · Post by **SteveD** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:35 am

Sibbo wrote:When i was a young bloke a very light bag but camping under a pine tree was the go on cold nights .6'' of pine needles under and 6;'' on top . Warm as toast ...if you can find a pine tree !

Always looked for the bed of pine needles, and burning shit keeps the mozzies away too!

That's a good thing here right now, as encephalitis has been on the increase with the recent floods .

moosehead · Post by **moosehead** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:11 am

Zombie Master wrote:
moosehead wrote: the next morning you can wipe your ass with it and start a fire as well....then burn it of course and you don't have to pack it!
That must smell interesting. I've never burnt shit when camping.

As they say..."leave no trace"...

The Bigfella · Post by **The Bigfella** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:05 am

I've got a Kathmandu 600g goose down bag that I carted around Cambodia and Vietnam for two months. Used it twice.

I took it out a couple of weeks back... ended up getting out of it and just using the silk liner. My wife took it on a NZ south island walk at Christmas... and took a thermal liner (tiny thing) that gives a lot more warmth.... so now its small, three parts and covers a wide range of temps.

Sibbo · Post by **Sibbo** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:42 am

Well ,they're still doing business in Christchurch ...thank God .
The parcel will arrive in a few days . $200 all up ,free postage from NZ .from Bivouac Outdoor <shop@bivouac.co.nz>

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The Bigfella · Post by **The Bigfella** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:53 am

Size "standard".... half yer luck. My first sleeping bag, I busted out the bottom and stitched (OK, Mum stitched) some old blanket on as an extension, so that my legs could stretch out.

Sibbo · Post by **Sibbo** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:52 am

You could have stitched 2 standards end to end , it might have been long enuff .

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