Sleeping bag temp extension "discovery"

T’Rest also make some self adhesive snaps that fasten to the underside of your pad. You could probably make your own with some Tenacious tape if you can’t find some in the sale bin somewhere.

Thinly insulated overbags have been around for decades. I still have a light, synthetic filled Montbell/Chouinard bag from 1986. They work!

I suspect few bag makers offer them anymore due to how practical they are… most of these makers would prefer we all have a minimum of 2 or 3 bags!

PS, I know you’re describing a single top “insulated sheet”, not a full over bag, but the principle is the same.

Brad,

Yeah, it’s just a top synthetic insulated layer but as mentioned my mattresses are warm. Plus I always lay my pants and middle insulation layers under my mattress to add insulation and save space in that small Moment DW solo tent.

Nice.

For several years now, I’ve been stuffing my quilts entirely inside of a silk mummy liner, in order to add a little CLO value to my overall system. But the best benefit from doing this is it entirely wicks away all the surface condensation I used to get.

It’s a lot easier to dry out a silk mummy liner than a quilt or sleeping bag.

This past weekend, I had a toasty night’s sleep in 19d weather under that silk liner, a 50d down quilt overbag and a 40d quilt inside of that.  While the 50d quilt had a tiny tiny bit of dampness near the top (probably from my breath), everything else was perfectly dry.