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Thought my sleeping bag was defective for 2 years, turns out I just cant read a temp rating
Noticed on a trip to Flagstaff last weekend that my bag felt way colder than it should, so I checked the tag and saw "comfort 32F" right there in small print. I had been reading the "limit 15F" number the whole time, which is basically the temp where you survive but hate your life. Two winters of blaming the gear and buying liners and pads when the real problem was me at a picnic table squinting at a label. So how many of you actually trust the comfort number, or do you just subtract 10 degrees from whatever the bag claims?
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blairm355d ago
Reading that tag right is a whole skill nobody teaches you. I used to swear by the limit number, figured the comfort rating was just marketing fluff for car campers. Then I spent a 25 degree night in a bag rated 20 and learned real quick that limit means you will live, not that you will sleep. Now I check the comfort number FIRST and I plan around that, not the flashy number on the front of the box. If a bag says comfort 32, I treat it as a 40 degree bag for me, because I sleep cold and I want to actually enjoy the trip. Two winters of buying gear to fix a problem that was just a misread label sounds about right, we have all been there.
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