My experience with quilts that I haven't really seen…
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My experience with quilts that I haven't really seen discussed
Disclaimer that this is based on only like 5-6 nights of using a quilt, but I wanted to share my experience.
The quilt used: REI Magma 30 wide (1lb 6oz)
Conditions: Mid-Atlantic, lows in the mid-40s
I tried out a quilt for the first time this past spring, taking it out 5 or 6 times on various trips that were in the mid-40s to low-50s.
Quilts are usually presented as nearly as warm as a sleeping bag while allowing more freedom of movement with a significant weight savings. I found that it ended up being that either you had freedom of movement, or warmth close to a sleeping bag, but not both at the same time. If you leave the pad straps a little loose and don't cinch around your neck you have great freedom of movement, but let in a ton of drafts. I was finding parts of me very cold in the mid-40s and I'm a warm sleeper who usually takes my sleeping bags closer to their limit rating.
To prevent drafts, you need to tighten up the pad straps and cinch the quilt around your neck. I found this configuration very restrictive, much more restrictive than any mummy bag I've used, especially because of cinching around the neck. Every time I rolled around I felt like I was taking the whole system with me and had to be careful about when and how I applied force to turn over.
In the end, I found the cinching around the neck to just be too restrictive and gave up on the quilt. Instead, I found a sleeping bag with a similar temp rating that weighs the exact same as the Magma (Sierra Designs Nitro 35) which also has a foot vent which is like 90% of what I wanted out of a quilt anyway.
Again, this is just my experience and could have just been the particular quilt I used and I only used a quilt a handful of times before giving up on it. This isn't a "quilts are actually bad" post, I just hadn't seen this perspective on quilts before and wanted to share. If you love quilts and don't have these issues that's great and I'm jealous.
#activity #hiking #camping
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Disclaimer that this is based on only like 5-6 nights of using a quilt, but I wanted to share my experience.
The quilt used: REI Magma 30 wide (1lb 6oz)
Conditions: Mid-Atlantic, lows in the mid-40s
I tried out a quilt for the first time this past spring, taking it out 5 or 6 times on various trips that were in the mid-40s to low-50s.
Quilts are usually presented as nearly as warm as a sleeping bag while allowing more freedom of movement with a significant weight savings. I found that it ended up being that either you had freedom of movement, or warmth close to a sleeping bag, but not both at the same time. If you leave the pad straps a little loose and don't cinch around your neck you have great freedom of movement, but let in a ton of drafts. I was finding parts of me very cold in the mid-40s and I'm a warm sleeper who usually takes my sleeping bags closer to their limit rating.
To prevent drafts, you need to tighten up the pad straps and cinch the quilt around your neck. I found this configuration very restrictive, much more restrictive than any mummy bag I've used, especially because of cinching around the neck. Every time I rolled around I felt like I was taking the whole system with me and had to be careful about when and how I applied force to turn over.
In the end, I found the cinching around the neck to just be too restrictive and gave up on the quilt. Instead, I found a sleeping bag with a similar temp rating that weighs the exact same as the Magma (Sierra Designs Nitro 35) which also has a foot vent which is like 90% of what I wanted out of a quilt anyway.
Again, this is just my experience and could have just been the particular quilt I used and I only used a quilt a handful of times before giving up on it. This isn't a "quilts are actually bad" post, I just hadn't seen this perspective on quilts before and wanted to share. If you love quilts and don't have these issues that's great and I'm jealous.
#activity #hiking #camping
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