Half-Bag / Insulated Pants

Perhaps the greatest advantage of going through the hassle of converting pants to a half-bag is not to keep your body warmer, but to avoid waking up to your water container a solid brick of ice, your camera frozen shut, your socks stiff as a board from ice, and your boots like concrete. You can’t very well stuff all that crap down the legs of insulated pants, but you can put it inside a half bag for instant use in the cold, cold morning.

True. But I don’t foresee using these without at least a top quilt b/c I only need insulated pants when it really cold…otherwise I just get into my quilt.

I could put these pants on over my boots, though…another advantage.

Still not sure if it’s worth the effort, though.

> not to keep your body warmer, but to avoid waking up to your water container a solid brick of ice, your camera frozen shut, your socks stiff as a board from ice, and your boots like concrete.
You forgot the worst one of all: frozen contact lenses! Found mine is a little bed of slush one morning…

hmmm… that’s pretty neat… gotta bookmark this…

Not sure if anyone thought of it already, but I seem to remember somewhere a mention that the zippers would be on the inseam and therefore irritating. I just had a thought about making the zippers on the outside, full-length, and flipping it around somehow to make the waist/crotch area the foot, and zip it together that way. Not sure if it would work at all, but it just came to me a minute ago. Might have to hack into an old pair of pants tonight to satisfy my curiosity.

Making the circumference of the ankles big enough to fit your waist when you flipped it around might make for baggy pants…like bell-bottoms! At least you'd be stylin!

Of course, it depends on how big your waist is compared to your ankles…might work better for some than others…

Definitely worth experimenting with.