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Standard mummy bag used as a quilt?


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    Gordon Gray
    BPL Member

    @gordong

    Locale: Front Range, CO

    So I have a typical Kelty Cosmic long 20 down bag.  Not my favorite but does the trick for $150 new.

    I’m guessing I’m not the first to do this but I discovered it on my own.   I unzip it all the way and use it like a quilt.  With the bag’s foot box, my NeoLite pad fits right in perfectly.  The rest of the bag naturally tucks around.  I have used it this way for 3 nights and really like it.  I can move around and am not constricted as I was before.  Though it hasn’t been colder than 40 degrees so far, I have not felt any chill/ cold spots whatsoever.  I actually feel more heat from my pad now than before.  This could just be my perception but I am stoked on this new, no cost find.

    I now want a $400 quilt.

    #3414892
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    Standard route into quilts. The loose lay of the quilt over you eliminates the thin patches you get with a SB.

    Cheers

     

    #3414930
    Richie S
    BPL Member

    @landrover

    I turned an old western mountaineering highlite, which is far too containing, into a quilt. I sewed a a couple of mitten hooks on either side in imitation of the Katabatic system so I can lock the thing down if it gets cold and drafty. 

    #3414931
    Richie S
    BPL Member

    @landrover

    I could of course also zip it up if it got really cold, or if I wanted to prepare myself for what happens when the men in white coats come t take me away.

    #3414970
    James holden
    BPL Member

    @bearbreeder-2

    Folks use sleeping bags like that all the time when its warmer  …its usually works around 10-20F above its rating

    below that you just zip it up and use it normally

    ;)

    #3415561
    bradmacmt
    BPL Member

    @bradmacmt

    Locale: montana

    Yeah, been using “quilts” since 1975… just didn’t know it :)

    #3415891
    Rich G
    BPL Member

    @talus

    Locale: Rustbelt

    I had a seamstress remove the zipper and hood from my old Kelty Lightyear.  We now use it as a loner or “junk” bag for car camping and such.

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