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User Review: The North Face Blue Kazoo

Rating: rated 2 of 5 stars
Design: Mummy
Fill: 600 fill down
Temperature Rating: 20F
Weight: 3lb
Price Paid: $169

I don't have much luck with this sleeping bag. The first one was a defect and got replaced. The second one looked OK but then found feather leaking never stops. Both ones came with lot of dust.

Pros: it does keep me warm at +30F, and it's very light and can be compressed into very small pack. It dries quickly even though it gets wet easily.

Cons: getting wet too easily despite of the "water-resistant" top shell, every morning I found wet spot here and there from the tent condensation. Feather leaks too much. Not rugged structure, feather moves among cells after one wash (hand wash), now one cell is completely empty and the other one is half empty. My wife's Igloo doesn't have this problem after the same wash.

I have a TNF down parka for 10 years, used it extensively and washed every year (didn't have Nikwax down wash until this year, just used normal detergent, even dry cleaning once). Never had any problem and it always keeps me warm. That's why I bought this TNF sleeping bag. However, I must say I am disappointed and TNF's quality definitely is going down.

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