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Big Agnes Encampment Sleeping Bag: 15 Degree Climashield HL

Big Agnes Encampment Sleeping Bag: 15 Degree Climashield HL description

The Big Agnes Encampment 15F Sleeping Bag features Climashield HL synthetic insulation to warm you from spring to fall. The Encampment's high-loft insulation surrounded by a water-repellent shell is ideal for damp climates and conditions. Big Agnes put a sleeve in the Encampment's floor into which you slide your sleeping pad. This system not only provides insulation from the cold ground, it prevents you from rolling off your sleeping pad in the middle of the night. Use with any of Big Agnes' 20-inch rectangular sleep pads.

Bottom Line: The Big Agnes Encampment Synthetic Sleeping Bag is all you need for your spring-to-fall camping trips.

The semi-rectangular cut and pad sleeve make this bag a must for anyone who tosses and turns in their sleep. This is the first bag I've owned that didn't end up coiled around me after 15 minutes of sleep. Combine that with the low price (relatively), variable warmth control (add a thicker pad for cold-weather camping), and little extras (like a built-in pillow pocket), and you can't lose.My guess is everybody will be building bags this way soon...

First off I am one of those who believe that the less clothing you wear the warmer your bag becomes and the more comfortable you become, not so with this bag. I tried this bag out on two separate occasions. First trip I used it with the REM pad on a cot. Every time I moved my feet I found cold spots. Second night I wore socks this seemed to help out. Second thing I am a side sleeper and have always liked my bag to move with me, at least I thought the reason for the Mummy bag is for your face to be the only thing exposed to maintain warmth. Well Big Agnes doesn't do this unless you maintain the supine position all night, when I moved to my side I ended up breathing into the side of the bag, kinda hard to cinch down the hood for us side sleepers to. The only thing I could come up with for the next trip was using a liner, kinda defeats the purpose of the bag I think. So, if you are a motionless sleeper that can maintain the position of a corpse for 5-8 hours, or you do not mind the moisture of respiration soaking the bag by morning this might just be for you. Oh, and forget using a Crazy Creek or it's equal, sitting up in the bag can't happen. You can't even pull it down below the armpits to keep the bottom half warm, the mat idea stops this from happening. It is roomy though, which to me means more dead air space for your body to warm up and less use of valuable insulation. Might make a good base camp bag.