Sleeping bag w/o open baffles?

You'll need to shake that down into place when you go to sleep. In some cases, it works its way down to the sides again if you move around when you sleep, and you have to do it again.

This happens with lightweight quilts or bags that have just enough down to loft the baffles, and aren't very full of down in order to keep the weight low.

You might contact Tim and ask for an overfill modification to your quilt, so that the down stays more evenly distributed.

The original Golite 20 quilts had closed baffles. I have one. I hate those closed baffles, mostly because it doesn't have enough down to be warm anywhere near 20°F and those baffles make it extremely difficult to add down without destroying those baffles or cutting open the shell over each baffle.

What's the big deal with shaking down into the center every night? It takes a few seconds and the shaking helps loft the down.

Tim would probably close the baffles if you asked. I don't have the sewing knowledge to know if it could be done with a finished bag.

Y'know, I guess I didn't expect the down to migrate so easily and so quickly. It sounds like the expectation is that you just shake it toward the middle every night it's being used, huh? Not a big deal I suppose, just surprising to me, and not something I particularly want to do after hiking all day, getting into camp after sunset, and hardly having the energy to make dinner, let alone try to get the down back into place in the dark. So it sounds like this is normal, which is the answer to my question.

It's why most people opt for the overstuff on custom made quilts/bags in my opinion.

Yeah, an overstuff definitely solves this problem. But without that it should only take folding the quilt in half, grabbing the edges and giving the quilt a couple of good shakes as you're setting up camp to compensate. Shouldn't be too much effort even when overly tired (I just remember that a few seconds of "pain" at the end of a long day is ALWAYS better than a cold sleepless night).

Thanks for the input, guys. Nice to know that its normal, not a big deal, and I need to just make it part of my routine before laying my head down.

Definitely normal. I've had this happen on bags and quilts, just depends on how much down per baffle and how the baffles are spaced.

Regardless of whether I'm using a quilt or bag I fluff it by shaking it a little after I unpack it when setting up camp, and sometimes again right before bed just for kicks. It's not something I even think about anymore, just part of the routine.

-David

It's a catch twenty two situation really, having no side block baffles allows down to be redistributed in warm weather and for a cheaper lower weight bag, side block baffles keep the down better in place but add a bit more weight and cost (not by much though)

If you dont want to mess with it get ahold of me and we can overstuff it easy enough.

-Tim