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Posted by Bill S on April 11, 2008 at 12:58:50 am EDT
In reply to How in the heck do you get the sleeping bag into that tiny little stuffsack! posted by dm1333 on April 9, 2008 at 4:43:29 pm EDT

And be sure you are stuffing it hard down to the bottom of the bag at each of BigSmoke's prescribed "stuff grab" steps. If you don't really stuff it, you will end up with a quarter to half the bag hanging out of the stuff sack.

As for the compression sacks, well, yes, some of the quills are broken each time, so that over time, you lose some loft. That happens in regular stuff sacks, too (which is why you should always store sleeping bags and filled parkas unstuffed). But after 48 years, my Karakoram is still reasonably close to its original rating, and I have never had any problems with the zippers or losing loft in any of my down bags. I get my Feathered Friends bag out in -20 or lower temps several times each year (not this year, since I have had other things going that reduced my cold weather camping, like going for 3 weeks to Africa during December and other things from Jan-Mar - good grief! it is now mid-April! Wha hoppen?)

I have had loss of loft in synthetic bags, with Polargard and Hollofill losing significant loft in 5-8 years, and noticeable loss in the older Primaloft bags (my ID Primaloft seems to be standing up to the compression sack just fine at the 5 year mark).

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• Re: How in the heck do you get the sleeping bag into that tiny little stuffsack! - dm1333 11:17:41 04/11/2008

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