Golite Ultralight 3-Season quilt.

[Trev]

I was just wondering if anyone uses one of these quilts, and if so, then how low have you pushed the temps?

I was thinking about purchasing a cheap, synthetic mummy style sleeping bag that is rated to +30/+35 degrees; something along the lines of a Lamina +35 or LaFuma X950 +30, to help bring my sleep system closer to 0 degrees so that I can enjoy some of the winter fun here in Colorado.

Do you guys think that a +20 degree quilt and a +30/+35 degree bag, combined with Capilene 3 baselayers (top+bottom), a First Ascent Downlight Sweater, WM Flight pants and the standard fleece hat, gloves and socks, would be enough to keep a person warm?

I am just interested to hear some thoughts as this could potentially save hundreds of dollars and would mean that my two bag-winter sleep system weighs in at only around 4lbs.

[skinewmexico]

Try it tonight in the back yard. Works for me. Should work though, as long as the outer bag doesn't over-compress the inner.

[tammons]

There is an original golite ultra 20 over on BPL for sale for about $165.

I used mine in 14dF weather in a hammock under a tarp pitched tent style and was warm all night.

As I understand some of the ultra 20s were underfilled but mine is fine.
I have a long and it weighs 22 oz with the stuff sack and it stuffs tiny.

If you used one inside a bag, I think it might crush the down a good bit, but I would expect it might take you to 5dF just guessing.

Not big enough in the footbox area IMO to use as a topper.

A better option might be to build a 2.5 oz or 3.7 oz climasheild topper quilt that would double as a summer quilt or use to extend the ultra 20.

[Trev]

There is an original golite ultra 20 over on BPL for sale for about $165.

Thanks for the heads up; but to clarify, I do already own the newer and heavier, but more realistically rated Ultralite 3-Season quilt.

What I do not have is the "cheap, synthetic (or down) +30 degree bag, hence why I cannot try it out tonight. I was just wondering if such an additional bag would get me anywhere close to the low single digits?

As for crushing the down-- I was thinking of simply fully unzipping the mummy bag and then laying it over the quilt. I am guessing that the Golite footbox would be too narrow to layer the bag/quilt combo the other way around.

[tammons]

Oh got it.

I still think it would be better to build a climashield topper quilt, which is exactly what I am going to do.

That said I found a 40% off code for a golite 1st purchase and thought I would try out a synthetic R1 at $84 as a topper.

As a topper it crushed the down in the ultra 20 quite a bit. Maybe like 1/2"-3/4", but I never tried it outdoors.

It was actually to the point where I wondered if it would add much warmth at all. The R1 is somewhat heavy too so I returned it.

A 2.5 oz climashiled topper would weigh about 16 oz and would cost about $50 to make depending on the outer shell material, and you can design it so the footbox fits around the golite quilt. Should add about 10 degrees. A 3.7 oz combat would add about 15dF just guessing.

As far as bags, I think a good bag to use as an outer shell would be a Montbell SS due to the stretch, but the synthetic montbells are heavy and the down bags are expensive.

As far as cheap, I just dont know.

You could also convert a cheap synthetic sleeping bag to a quilt, just get one with a big footbox.

You could also build a sewn through down summer bag as a liner quilt and that would be the lightest option.that would be easy to make.

Something like this....

http://www.montbell.us/products/disp...5&p_id=2321806

If you built it with a 1"-1.5" loft the combo should be good to maybe 0dF or below.