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Mar 1, 2018 at 3:37 pm #3521510
In 1975 while on a 30 day Greyhound bus pass trip from So Cal to the Canadian Rockies, at the one and only REI in Seattle WA I bought an expedition down jacket for $75 (5″ loft, the common way in those days to measure how warm stuff would be). Also a pair of expedition down pants for $25 (3″ loft). The pants had zips on both sides of the legs and could be zipped together to make a 2/3 sleeping bag, the opening at the bottom had a drawstring to close it down. I used this as a sleep system and it worked pretty good.
I also had an expedition sleeping bag with 9″ of loft, a lighter weight down jacket, and a down vest. I stayed up in the Canadian rockies until December, lurking around Banff and Jasper. Many nights it was so cold I was in that sleeping bag with all my down on! I finally left after a -40f snap and went to work as an unpaid slave at my dad’s nightclub in New Orleans – one month of that and joining the Army looked attractive, so I enlisted.
Mar 1, 2018 at 4:37 pm #3521522$100 for a down parka and pants- those were the days :)
Mar 3, 2018 at 12:59 am #3521977What about the Patagonia hybrid bag? Seems a legit option for this kind of system.
Mar 3, 2018 at 3:39 am #3521998it certainly looks like it would work, paired with the right jacket
interesting top portion- would help keep heat in/drafts out, but guessing not overly “weather protective”, probably still need a bivy
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