What do you sleep in?

Hiking clothes + any insulating layers if they are required to extend the range of the sleep system on cold nights.

Exceptions:

i like to have a balaclava or beanie available, even if i didn't need it on the trail, just in case. Not much hair up there (either shaved or buzzed, but thinning quite a bit anyways) and my head gets cold.

sleep socks. often just a spare pair of socks which i change into and then may also place a pair of damp trail socks over them to dry them (or place the damp trail socks on my chest). sometimes, when it's colder, a dedicated pair of down socks are worn over my sleep socks – i really hate cold feet; it wakes me up.

Last summer I hiked from Sonora Pass to Tuolumne Meadows and went to sleep in wet/clean clothes each night. Specifically, I put on my damp/clean underwear and shirt before bed, plus dry sleep socks, dry pants, and a dry Micropuff. By morning my clothes were always bone dry, even when the temperatures dropped below freezing and I camped well after sunset. I can not say that I was comfortable at night prior to falling asleep, but I wasn't cold and didn't have to change into cold/stinky clothes in the morning.

Whatever I was wearing. Bikes shorts are fine for 3-4 days as long as you don't take them off :grin:

More than one set of clothes while hiking? Faux paux! Two sets of socks if you're doing big miles but that's about as "clean" as I get.

Nothing special here. I sleep in whatever I had to put on to stay warm before I went to bed. The quilt goes over that, if I'm not already wearing it.

My three season layers are:
Head: nylon sun hat, fleece balaclava hat.
Torso: wool hoody, hooded windshirt, synthetic insulation.
Legs: wool briefs, wool long underwear, nylon pants.
Feet: shoes, wool socks (2 pair, only wearing 1).

I've debated bringing sleeping socks, but I haven't felt the need yet.

My winter layers are in a state of flux and my experience level is low so I haven't included them. It largely boils down to, thicker versions of the above.

I sleep in long underwear.

I can rinse my hiking clothes and they mostly dry overnight.

I don't feel safe when I do not have dry clothes.

I carry three pair of socks. One pair stays dry and the other two are rotated daily. I also carry three pairs of gloves in the winter.

Except for extra underwear and socks I can wear all my clothes at the same time.

Most of my trips are just one or maybe two nights, so I never pack more clothes than needed to stand on a peak for 5 minutes. I rarely would have any extras of anything, and for sleeping I usually just crawl in the bag with everything still on (minus shoes, fleece for a pillow). I had wet socks last time in 20F and kept them on and they were bone dry in the morning, wasn't expecting that!

I generally end up with dedicated sleepwear. The reason, however, isn't because I don't want to wear wet clothes to bed. Most of the time I sleep in a Patagonia silkweight long underwear and a long sleeve lightweight or microweight merino wool top. These are usually too hot to hike in, so I'll use either a short sleeve merino T or hiking shirt during the day.

I put insulation and wind suit over my clothes for all seasons. No changing into a different base layer.

Head- put on 100 wt fleece balaclava and montane lightspeed hood (nunatak down balaclava added in winter)
Torso- put on insulated vest/jacket and montane lightspeed windshirt
Legs- put on montane featherlite pant
Feet- take off socks and put on 200 wt fleece socks

I sleep naked most of the time (with my clothes tucked into the bottom of my mummy bag) unless it is winter, late fall or very early spring… then I sleep in what I was wearing when I headed for bed. In winter I also wear socks and a toque (Canadian for winter hat) to bed.

I usually carry bottom long johns and sleep in those, as I cannot stand sleeping in a tight cut mummy with my legs pressed together. In summer, if it is hot, I just sleep in my shorts. Usually I wear a tank top under my hiking shirt, so often I sleep in that also. That and the layer of clothing keeps my sleeping bag a lot cleaner inside.
In winter, I many time sleep with my down jacket on, inside my bag, with hat, liner gloves and down socks on.

Every peice of clothing I have, wet or dry, with the exception of dirty pairs of spare socks.

I don't like waking up cold at night and having to disrupt my sleep for several minutes to throw on more clothes…so I start out with everything on and just lay my quilt over myself loosely, tucking it in tighter if I get cold.

A change of dry, warm clothing is one of the so-called 10 Essentials. I use my sleeping/camp clothing for that, so it does double duty. This consists of:
wool socks – 1 pair
balaclava – 1
silk scarf (to cover face and nose) – 1
wool/silk base layer top – 1
wool/silk base layer bottom – 1

In cold weather, I don't sleep in the clothing I hiked in. In moderate weather, I may sleep in my day clothing if I have washed it and it is getting a little dry – so it will dry out overnight… the old sleeping bag/clothes dryer trick. In warm weather, I wear the long underwear to keep my sleeping rig clean and to keep from sticking to it.

I sleep in my hiking clothes + camp insulation. Since the outside of the insulation stays clean this keeps my bag clean. I always change into dry socks (Possumdown). However, if my nylon hiking shorts are soaking wet when I go to bed then I usually take them off rather than bring that much moisture into my bag.

Generally, I just sleep in my hiking clothes. The one exception is a warm, dry pair of sleep socks. A couple of times I wished for an extra base layer but survived O.K. without it.

(WildChild) spaketh: I sleep naked…..

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I don't bring camping pjs.. but on some trips I will have a an additional base layer that mostly gets worn at night. If the weather turns colder than I expect, the "sleeping" base layer gets used for extra warmth during the day. I have found that powerdry dries quickly enough that I don't worry about carrying "dry" clothing for camp. My trips are almost always less than 8 days, so I don't worry about getting my quilt/bag dirty cause I can clean them when I get back home if they need it.

Hot: I typically use a supplex shirt which I don't like sleeping in. I bring a featherweight base which I sleep in or wear if it is surprisingly cool during the day. I will typically sleep in my hiking pants, or just briefs depends on temps and how dirty the pants are.

Modest: Sleep and wear a Sekri Level 1 zip-neck base layer shirt made from Polartec Power Dry with X-static. Sleeping in my hiking pants.

Cool/Cold: I typically sleep in my hiking clothing, sometimes with additional clothing to keep me warm in the face of the night time temps.

–Mark

Lots of people sleep nekked! What's the big deal?
In summer I sleep W/ only a "nighttime" T shirt.
In winter it's long johns, head/face gear & heavy sox.
In spring fall it's light long johns to keep my bag cleaner.

All sleeping clothing is for sleeping only OR emergency clothing if other clothing gets soaked.
I like to sleep clean.
When I worked as a professional trail builder on the Snow Creek section of the Pacific Crest Trail in '80 I took a bath EVERY night.
Eric