Remember the little wooden spoons you used to get with single serving ice cream cups? Nemo has fashioned their new line of sleeping bags around this classic shape. Designed to let your knees bend and move around during the night, even the heaviest thrashers will sleep warm and comfortably in these unique sleeping bags.
If you plan to camp during all four seasons or even three plus seasons of the year, you usually need to buy multiple sleeping bags to accommodate the wide range of temperatures. Both Wenger and Sierra Designs hope to alleviate this problem by designing modular sleeping bags that can comfortably take you from summer to winter.
In the quest to design the lightest, warmest, sleeping bag on the market, the name of the game seems to be 900-fill down. Sierra Designs has joined the race with Marmot, The North Face and others by launching their new Cloud 15, an ultralight, highly compressible 15 degree down sleeping bag.
Not happy with the current down sleeping bags on the market, Sea To Summit brought in new materials and a fresh take on design to create a range of better performing bags. Lighter and warmer with key moisture management technology, the Sea To Summit down sleeping bags are set to create a new benchmark for the industry this Spring.
According to the international animal welfare organization Four Paws, Patagonia is using down feathers that have been plucked from live geese. Four Paws claims to have dug up evidence that Patagonia is buying down from a source in Hungary that practices live plucking.
If you are a thrasher like me when you sleep, you will be excited about Deuter's new Neosphere down sleeping bag for 2011. An updated, down version of the popular Exosphere synthetic sleeping bag, the Neosphere will help you sleep comfortably through those cold, cramped conditions.
