Montbell Down Hugger 900 #2 Sleeping Bag Review

[Stephanie Jordan]

Companion forum thread to:

Montbell Down Hugger 900 #2 Sleeping Bag Review

[Billy Ray]

Article states that the Zpacks bag does not have a zipper baffle, but it does indeed have one.

billy

[Billy Ray]

correction, the Zpacks zipper baffle is an option at time of ordering..

billy

[carlos fernandez rivas]

""""The hoodless PHD Minim 400 will be available soon with 900 EU (936 US) fill-power down."""

"""Both the PHD and ZPacks bags are hoodless, """""

I din´t notice that phd had hodless bags in his range…. thank you for the info ;-)

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/phd_minim_400_sleeping_bag_review.html#.U5gEWHaJnFY

Maybe including "loft" measures in the comparison chart would be interesting …

[Ken Thompson]

Glad to see Will has not lost his touch. Excellent review.

[J C]

PHD are making a hoodless bag? How bizarre.

[Roger Caffin]

It's the beard that does it, sticking out of the opening …

Cheers

[J-L]

Good looking sleeping bag.

12 oz of down seems a little low for a 24 oz bag weight. The down shifting makes me think it is barely enough down to fill the bag.

[Andy Jarman]

I've always wondered, are the baffles through-stitched or do they use box-construction with a divider between the inner and outer fabric? The stitching looks very pronounced for box construction.

[Gary Pikovsky]

Will and BPL,

I'm very surprised to find that you omitted what is arguably the best and lightest sleeping bag of the bunch – Enlightened Equipment's Enigma Pro. I own the Enigma, Zpacks and Montbell bags and can without a doubt say the EE and Zpacks are easily at the top of the list for warmth comfort and weight. EE bags inches to the top, however – fantastic design a super compressible. I would like to see more attention being paid to cottage makers on this site as they have by far the best gear for what a lot of people on BPL are looking for.

I think many others will agree with me on the above. There is no hood, but that's where a light down/synthetic hat can serve a double purpose for hiking, camp and sleeping.

Gary

[Will Rietveld]

Hi Gary, Sorry for the delay in responding, I have been in MT for a week. I did check Enlightened Equipment, and Katabatic Gear too, and all I found was QUILTS. I didn't think it would be appropriate to compare mummy bags with quilts, so I kept the comparison to comparable products. Perhaps the hoodless bags should have been left out. Some of the bags are made by cottage industries. Will

[kevperro .]

I think keeping them in separate categories is important. People who know they like quilts will shop for quilts and those of us who know we want a bag/hood want to see them compared apples to apples.

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