I got the men's and women's versions of this three-season sleeping bag soon after my wife and I were married. She needed a warmer sleeping bag for chilly nights, and I was about due for a new sleeping bag also. I'm 5'11" and skinny and the regular fits great. The cinch-able hood is very comfortable, and the 650 fill power down keeps us toasty. The North Face's Water-resistant Pro-Down seems to work too -- most nights in humid, rainy Juneau I wake up with some dampness on the outside of the bag but can't notice any wetness inside. The glow-in-the-dark zipper pull is a neat gadget. The only thing that could be improved is a larger accessory pocket near the head, the current one is too small for anything other than my contact lens case. I wish it could fit my small contact solution bottle (bad morning to wake up to that frozen) or my phone (if you let the battery get cold it dies extremely fast). However this is a minor concern.
But the coolest thing about them is...
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| Men's dark blue on the left and women's lighter blue on the right. |
...they zip together! Mine is the men's regular and Dani's is the women's long, so their zippers are just about the same length. Dani makes up for the difference in length by stuffing clothes in the bottom of her bag to keep them warm for the morning. Men's sleeping bags zip on the left and women's zip on the right, so they fit perfectly.
Specs:
Temperature rating: 15 degrees F
Weight: 2 lbs 9 oz
Fill Power: 650 loft down
Do the zippers go all the way to the bottom or across the bottom so you could ventilate your feet?
ReplyDeleteThe zippers don't go down all the way through the footbox, there's about 12 inches of the bottom of the sleeping bag that are enclosed like a traditional mummy bag. The zipper begins above that and could be opened from the bottom zipper to ventilate however. When the bags are zipped together essentially you have two separate footboxes, while the rest of the bags are open together.
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