Hello everybody,
Looking for some opinions on my next climashield quilt. The last one I made was almost three years ago, out of 5.0oz climashield with m90 nylon cover, and sinchup footback with flat buckles and velcro up to my thighs (seemed like a waste of weight because I barely used it), ended up weighting 25oz. I have used it about 50% of the time in those three years, and lent it out multiple times. Sometimes I went down to 15 degrees with thermals, 2ozclimashield coat, bivy and liner and felt the chill but mainly due to my 6oz sleeping pad getup. But now at 45degree nights I am starting to feel cold around the center of the bag, with all the use it gets I’m not surprised.
Now there seems to be 7.5 and 3.6oz climashield available, the options are seemingly endless. The ideas I have are to make a closed footbox 7.5oz quilt for deep winter, my old quilt for everything else, or maybe a 2.5oz quilt to go inside my 5.0oz, or also make a new 3.6oz to go with the new 2.5oz, 2.5 in summer, 3.6 in fall/spring, both in winter. Or the SUL in me kind of wants to make 2.5oz pants and boots to combine with a new 2.5oz quilt and my 2.5oz coat. This might also extend the life of both bags by going between the two.
I have not overheated in my 5.0oz quilt unless it were in a house, so it might be worth going heavier on the sleep system because I can only hike between october to march due to my seasonal job. Any feedback is certainly appreciated. and if you have advice on nylon of silk material for the shell, would love that too. I used 5mm silk on my coat and it seems to breath well. how does m90 compare to m50?
