by Dave MacLeay
This spring, Trailspace forum members debated the merits of the Selk’Bag, a hybrid sleeping bag / snowsuit made by Chilean outerwear manufacturer Lippi. Many posters’ main criticism of the Selk’Bag was that it couldn’t possibly be as warm as a traditional mummy bag of comparable weight and materials.
I put the question to Lippi’s Luis Alberto Martinez, who readily acknowledged the point. The idea, he said, is that the Selk’Bag is able to provide an all-around more comfortable experience, by allowing the user to move around camp and to sleep in a wide variety of positions. What you lose in warmth, he said, you gain in comfort.
Lippi plans to have two new Selk’Bag models available in the spring, featuring higher-quality insulation (down and Primaloft versions) and enhanced draft collars.
