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    Default Western Mountaineering Everlite

    This is not a review, as I have only recently bought the bag, and only slept under it at home. I had been eyeing the Everlite before catching it on sale, but there were not many pics or details online-and that's why I'm posting this. Hopefully the title will make it show up on Google search results for other people looking for details, and it can be of some help to them.
    Loaded these from photobucket, but didn't realize I was actually uploading them to this site rather than linking. I'll try to edit with image tags(or just add them again in a response), when I get time, so that you don't have to be logged in here to see them.
    Edit: pics will be repeated in the second reply to this post, assuming they work properly
    I may add comments about the bag at a later date.

    I have the "Regular" 6' Everlite.

    Dimensions are to spec. Width is 60" at the top, 39" at the bottom, exactly as stated. The bag obviously tapers so the hip measurement is relative to your height and leg length. I've no doubt the listed spec for that is dead on at the point they measure it, but the width at the center of the bag is 52".
    Length is 72" from the top to the draft collar at the bottom, which you will see in the pics, and about 72 3/4" total.

    Weight for my sample of one is a hair over the claimed 14.5oz.
    420g/14.81oz for the bag
    24g/.85oz for the stuff sack
    444g/15.66oz total

    The Everlite comes with a stuff sack, cotton storage bag, and a Western Mountaineering sticker:
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    Straight out of the packaging, wasn't full lofted:
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    With a 60" width, the Everlite makes for a very roomy quilt:
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    On a 72" sleeping pad with the bottom closed up:
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    Quilt mode. I'm ~5'7"-comes almost to the top of my head with my toes pointing down.
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    Blanket mode on a queen size bed(it's lofted up now!):
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    Here's that draft tube in action. Seals the foot end...to keep out drafts:
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    My only dislike. The attachments at foot and neck use velcro on an unreinforced extension of the bag material instead of a snap, which I think is pretty cheesy given the otherwise outstanding construction of the bag. I hate velcro:
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    But it does seem to hold just fine-note the drawstring is at the shoulder when used as a bag, centered when used as a quilt.
    I was very happy with these drawstrings. They're the flat "shoelace"(?) type, just like the one on my Katabatic Palisade, as opposed to the ones on my UGQ quilt, which don't hold worth a crap :
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    Scale pic for my fellow gram weenies:
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    Last edited by OwenM; 05-08-2019 at 21:10.

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