what are you using on your head (and at what temps) w/ your quilt/hoodless bag?

It never ceases to amaze me that people buy quilts without a hood. Your head is the most sensitive part of your body, yet for the savings of a few grams these hoodless quilts leave you totally exposed.
On the other hand, with a hood on your quilt you have so much flexibility.

For me…run hot naturally; using20 degree loco libre and Nemo tensor insulated, w/1/8 foam pad

– 32+ 120 baselayer and hooded R1 w/wool buff as needed to cover my face

– 25-32; add kuiu hooded under R1

– under 25; add see 250 beanie

That said, my wife is the opposite, runs cold…she added a balaclava and hooded puffy. My take, prep as you would for stopping and have an insurance layer or two until you sort it out.

A terrific bagless hood.  Now just have to find the right quilt or bag before freezing solid.

MYOG quilt attached to the hood.

See https://backpackinglight.com/MYOG_down_quilt_bag/ for details.

Cheers

just got back from a snowshoe trip using my FF Flicker 20 (in conjunction w/ a 50 degree Apex quilt), the temps got down below 0 according to a nearby Snotel site- which jives on how cold I felt :)

started the night out w/ my Kuiu 97 hoody up and my BlackRock down beanie, about half way into the night pulled up the hood on my Patagonia Nano Air Light (I knew I would be pushing the limits of the bag and quilt)- head was toasty throughout the night :)

me feet were toasty courtesy of Tiny Elvis :)

Recently purchased Chinese down hoods from eBay for about $16 each, haven’t tried them backpacking yet.  But they loft up great and are quite light, and appear perfectly fine.  They look to me just like the much more expensive ones I see from US manufacturers.

China must have developed industrial-scale production of down.  I also purchased down mittens from AliExpress, but their one-size-fits-all is too small for me, although it fits my wife fine.

Tiny Elvis is SWEET! My wife said she would go camping with me if she had a Tiny Elvis to keep her feet warm!

China must have developed industrial-scale production of down.
Actually, the down is just a side-product of their ‘industrial-scale’ production of duck-meat.

Cheers

Mike, You get the regular or wide Flicker? How was the sizing? I’ve heard people complain that the regular was too small and the wide being rather large. Run into any issues with the drawstring?

I got the regular and seems fine to me; not sure I’d want it wider- -I’m 5’11” ~ 185 lbs

If Tiny Elvis was always going with me, then yeah the wide might come in handy :)

I did find that if the zipper wasn’t all the way zipped up (or close), that when I put an arm out or any pressure on the zipper, the zipper would slide down (open up)

I would also say that anyone even close to 6′ should go with the long vs regular as when you cinch up the foot box you lose overall length, enough that it could be an issue- I ordered the long and glad I did.

No issues w/ the drawstrings; the only issue I had was with my Apex quilt- I could slide the Flicker into the foot box and half way up I used the pad strap to loosely go around the sleeping bag, but the top of the quilt would simply slide off when I moved/rolled- both are pretty slick material and the snaps on the top of the quilt would make it too tight.

I called Ron up today and he’s going to send me a 2 foot long piece of the flat stretchy stuff w/ a snap at each end, which then wrap around the top of the bag keeping it in place.

Mike