Bushwalk Australia

Hey all,

I'm planning on doing a section of the Six Foot Track (explorers tree to coxs river, spend a day fishing, then back the next day) in a few weeks and have concluded that my current sleeping bag will not be warm enough for the temperatures I'm expecting. Therefore, I am asking for a bit of help finding a decent, ideally low cost sleeping bag rated to 0c comfort.

Cheers in advance.

Warm; Light and compact; cheap.
Pick any two
Or just wear extra clothing

Moondog55 wrote:Or just wear extra clothing

The bag must then be large enough to accommodate the extra clothing.
I'd add in space for batteries to keep them warm too... starts to get a bit crowed and lumpy

Also factor in the sleeping pad .. is it's R value enough to keep you warm? You an add can additional closed cell foam pad - cheap but bulky..

Heh AT
Have a look at some Aegis Max bags
The Dusk series here https://www.aegismax.cn/index.php/produ ... hard-dusk/
John

You can layer a warm wear layer over the top too, so long as the sleeping bag insulation isn't totally crushed it adds warmth doing that.
Some sleeping bag makers do offer a large sized bag for those of us who use a our warm wear as part of the sleeping system.
Too many variables Re the OPs weight/height/fitness levels and experience with cold weather to really give an opinion or advice without also knowing the budget and even that would be my own biased opinion.
But Snowys have the S2S Traveller series on clearance and I get a lot of use from my Traveller sleeping bags, probably more so than my OP Cocoon or the Macpac Firefly

As mentioned above, it does depend on many factors, but have you considered just adding a thermal liner to your current sleeping bag ? (along with extra/warmer sleep clothing)
Could be a cost effective way of extending the comfort of your current bag.
Sea to Summit have a number of options and I'm sure there are others.

Thanks for the replies all, sounds like I have some backyard camping to do. I'll check out those sleeping bag liners and I'll try putting one of those foam mats under my air mat.

It might help if we could know what you already have and how much you can afford to spend.

A couple of references to Sea to Summit bags in previous comments. https://www.snowys.com.au/trek-tk2-sleeping-bag-1c. I have one of these and grabbed another (wide) yesterday for one of my teenagers. This a great clearance price $251-255. I actually prefer this model to the new version.

MikeB62 wrote:A couple of references to Sea to Summit bags in previous comments. https://www.snowys.com.au/trek-tk2-sleeping-bag-1c. I have one of these and grabbed another (wide) yesterday for one of my teenagers. This a great clearance price $251-255. I actually prefer this model to the new version.

I've compared both side by side and I agree that the old version is better, not least the quality of the down.
I have one in my cart but haven't yet purchased, but part of me also thinks that the Trek1 is also a very useful weight and warmth level. Makes a great booster inside my OP Cocoon.

At around 0 c you need a 5R type mat. that can be achieved with 2 mats.
The typical blue foam mat has an R value of around 1.3 so you need another mat at around R 4.
Most often when people complain that their 0 c mat is cold at that it is because their mat is not adeguate.

I've slept on a 2.3R air mat on snow and that felt cold after a few hours. I now always use a full length blue 3mm CCF mat under the air mat and a short covering the shoulder-to-hips pressure points 6mm blue CCF mat on top. The thinner mat helps protect the air mat from punctures and stops the ground drawing out thermal energy from the warm air mass, and the top mat protects the air mat baffles from damage from pressure points from elbows etc. You'll feel cold from the ground first on pressure points like hips and shoulders and in the kidneys when lying on the back. They roll up to the same size as the air mat and are a backup in case of puncture. Just saying. Works for me and I'm toasty warm now even on snow, using a 4.5R air mat on snow only.

The combination of a short thick CCF pad plus a thinner full length pad works well.
Especially when combined with the comfort of an aircell mat.
Anything you can do to increase the insulation against the ground or snow.