Thursday, April 12, 2012

Girls and Boys Sleeping Bags

By Eugenio Fiorelli


In any camping trip a sleeping bag is always a major part of it. Your choice of sleeping bag will offer you either a good night's sleep or several hours of damp, cold misery and in extreme circumstances even worse. Hence it is important that you ask yourself as many questions as possible when you come to decide on a bag. This article is going to provide you some guide about a few scenario which your bag would be particularly important and help highlight the main considerations.

The sleeping bag retains the body warm by trapping the non-circulating or dead air next to the body and holding it within the sleeping bags. The body heat or the metabolism of the body in turn warms this dead air and the bag creates barrier in between it and outside air or the colder ground. Nonetheless, the sleeping bag warms up quicker and stays warm, if there's less air area to heat up. Nonetheless, the camping bags are roomier than backpacking bags with greater comfort, with the trade off being less effective warming of the dead space.

It is the main cause why it's essential to treat all producers' figures as a guide. Subsequently, a warm sleeper will probably be comfortable with a sleeping bag somewhere below its comfort rating, compared to cold sleeper who needs a bag rated as little colder. Normally a bag is rated extreme by the producer to emphasise the minimal temperature at which an experienced user can make use of the bag to stave off hypothermia.

Choice of the sleeping bag ought to be based on the temperature rating that's bit lower compared to the temperature you're expecting to encounter. For instance, a bag with temperature rating of 20 F should be selected instead of 35 F, if you're heading for freezing temperatures. To give more circulation on warmer nights, you can always open or create vent in the bag, in case the temperature climbs higher than the expected. A thing to note is most sleeping bags feature a temperature rating in between 15 F and 50 F.

A top bag should also be considered as it relies on a sleeping pad to insulate the bottom of the bag to saves the weight Always look for a top bag with a pad sleeve to make sure your sleeping pad stays put.




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