Originally Posted by Roland
my guess would be 1.5 lbsneo
Well, that's over 0.5 lbs. What's your problem?
Me no care, me here free beer. Tap keg, please?
Okay, I bought it..... drum roll please.............. 2 pounds 12 ounces.
lol.
Interesting - in the Product Features it says "Weighs 8 ounces" but in the Product Description is says "Fill Weight: 8 ounces". How does it even have a fill weight if it's fleece?
Under materials is says, "Liner: 240-gram fleece lining". Assuming that's 240g/yd2, that comes out to 977g for the lining - about two pounds. Can't be right.
Looking forward to neo's weight!
Edit - you guys posted while I was typing - that's quite a jump from 8 oz to almost 3 lbs! That's an important difference to folks like us - should we sue them for false advertising?!
I told the manager of the hiking dept. in Bass Pro... he didn't seem too concerned. When I said the box had "8oz" on it, I meant the tag that bass pro puts on the bag that describes it. The actual box has nothing on it.
Either way, it is a nice little bag for 30 bucks. It's almost 3 lbs, but it does have a plus side... it packs down quite small. about 4 inches by 9 inches in one of my compression bags.
I don't know if I'd call that a very good deal for something that weighs 3 pounds and is only rated to 55 degrees. Of course, I paid twice as much for my Mountain Hardwear Polarguard 3D Upgrade bag that weighs just shy of 2 pounds and is only rated to 45 degrees by itself, so YMMV.
http://www.campmor.com/webapp/wcs/st...uctId=39205353
And tho our health we drank a thousand times, it's time to ramble on...
Neo, did you ever get to weigh this bag?
For sure fleece is heavy...down quilts good for 40/45* at 14 oz beat fleece in weight, warmth and compressability.
Pan
ounces to grams
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Neo's got to be right. During the summer I use a fleece blanket and it weighs about 1.5 pounds if my 50+ year old memory serves me correctly.
sierra designs wicked light
they went and screwed it up this year and made it heavier.
last years wicked light was supposedly 14 oz for a regular- rated at 40 degrees... ive seen them in real life and they seemed feasible...
anyone used one?
I would either get this, or one comparable from mt laurel designs or the nunatak arc edge or marmots one pounder whatever its called, helium or atom..?
any beta on these?
Hey, hey, hey.... I resemble that remark.
One the topic - forget fleece bags for hiking. There are much better options in warm weather bags - lighter and pack down better. The bag Neo mentions looks like a good choice.
Check out the Sea to Summit options
This thread intrigued me, so I did a little research of my own. I do some of my hiking in Florida and have often wished for a lighter bag, both in carry weight and in insulation/warmth.
Sea to Summit seems to have met the challenge with two new liner bags made from DuPont fabrics.
The first one is the Adaptor CoolMax Travel Liner. The site states that it is specifically for warm humid climates:
http://www.seatosummit.com/products/display/54
The next one is the Reactor Thermolite Liner, made from the "new" Thermolite fabric. The site states that it provides "extraordinary warmth for its weight."
http://www.seatosummit.com/products/display/24
Both weigh 8 oz. and compress down to a 3x5 stuff sack. That sounds fairly amazing. There are links to several online vendors. Basegear.com has them for right at 40 bucks.
http://www.basegear.com/sea-to-summi...r-coolmax.html
http://www.basegear.com/sea-to-summi...ite-liner.html
I am thinking of getting one of the adaptors for early Fall scout camping in Florida.
Has anyone used either of these?
Rainman
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
- Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass; Song of the Open Road.
Rainman,
It's been 3 months since you bought the Sea to Summit Reactor Thermolite Liner; how is it? Does it come close to an additional 15 deg as advertised? Is it comfortable sleeping?
Egads
The trail was here before we arrived, and it will still be here when we are gone...enjoy it now, and preserve it for others that come after us
Quite curious myself as I am on the verge of picking one up.....
lightweight liner bags
Egads & saimyoji:
I have not actually bought either of these yet. The campout I planned to use it for was cancelled and then we got into cooler weather so I have been using a bag I already have. I still want to get one for the late Spring, but don't have a report yet. I will try to remember to post something here when I get one.
Rainman
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
- Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass; Song of the Open Road.
what about this bag? anybody ever use one?
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/CAMP168-47330-590.html
27 oz. is a bit heavy for a two season bag. The primary reason for using a summer only bag is to cut weight. This one weighs as much as many 30 or 40 degree bags.
I have never used it.
Rainman
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
- Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass; Song of the Open Road.
I used the reactor liner and it did not get me 15* of comfort. Temps got into the low teens at Carter Gap. I had a 30* WM in which I had been comfortable in the high 20's, and that plus the reactor liner did not do the trick. I was damn cold. Used my emergency chemical heaters on my socks and shivered a lot through the night.
I was very sick at the time, taking anti-biotics and likely dehydrated, so that may have had an effect.
Frosty
www.nunatakusa.com
They have an 8 ounce quilt called the ARC AT. Meant to be used with an insulated jacket.
dumbest thread ever. my long jons weigh more.
matthewski
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