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Subject: sleeping bags
From: Andrew Taylor <>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:24:44 +1000
Ultralight sleeping bags can be  cheaper bought from the US.
I upgraded my bushwalking gear with these for a Tassie trip:
http://www.moontrail.com/mont-bell-ul-spiral-down-hugger-3-reg.php
http://www.moontrail.com/poe-peak-elite-ac-reg.php
I love them but if you are car camping you wouldn't buy ultralight gear,
and if you feel the cold you'd go for a warmer sleeping bag.

If you are looking locally, checkout Macpac I like the look of their
sleeping bags and the other gear they are selling - and they have good
sales a couple of time a year if you can wait.

One tip for sleeping warmer is to add to your insulation from the
ground by putting a blue foam mat (Clark rubber & K-mart sell
them) under what ever you are sleeping on.  If its a regular air 
mattress, if I have the physics right, it would better to put
the blue mat on top of the air mattress - if you can.

I'm saving up to get something like this for Tassie bushwalking in winter:
http://www.moontrail.com/exped-downmat-9-pump.php
Andrew

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