Keeping warm in the tent
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dapolrbear
New member
Interesting bag.
Is it me or does the chick in the bag on her back have her ********** hanging out?
Their tent intro is interesting too, with the orange plane and all.
Are the propane heaters with the 2 burners (Mr. Heater) dangerous to use inside the tent? I'm tempted to use one of the Coleman catalytic heaters.
Is it me or does the chick in the bag on her back have her ********** hanging out?
Their tent intro is interesting too, with the orange plane and all.
Are the propane heaters with the 2 burners (Mr. Heater) dangerous to use inside the tent? I'm tempted to use one of the Coleman catalytic heaters.
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Hilldweller
SE Expedition Society
The wife is telling me that she definitely wants one now.miller_au said:Those tent heaters are wild! ive never seen them before.. nor have i ever thought i would need one! My girl loves camping and usually keeps me warm enough
pygmyowl
Member
Here is a link to my Espar heater install. It will cost you but is very high quality and you can run it off diesel - very efficient. I only use it when I first climb in to my RTT to warm things up so I can read, and then in the morning so I can get dressed. If it is very nasty out, we put our Crazy Cr chairs in and go up and read or play cribbage. The thermostat is very effective and varies the rate of both the fan and heat output.
http://expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6739&page=7&highlight=espar
http://expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6739&page=7&highlight=espar
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Hilldweller
SE Expedition Society
I know I do...IH8RDS said:
I can't bring myself to trust anyone who doesn't like boobies. Can you?
dapolrbear said:
Yep, they're nudists and definitely hold some unusual ideas about tent and sleeping bag design. We've had our Stephenson's bags for over 20 years. I remember being convinced they were on to something when I read their argument that traditional sleeping bags with down on the bottom were poorly designed because the down simply compresses and is worthless as insulation. It seemed so obvious once Stephenson pointed it out that I continue to wonder why people still make sleeping bags that way.
highlandercj-7
Explorer
I used to have a extreme cold military surplus bag, it was insane it had the mummy bag and another that it nested into. I couldn't find a polace cold enough to use it nested. I just checked the surplus site here and a use done runs about 90.00 wtih new at 125.00
http://www.calarmy.com/sleeping/index.html
http://www.calarmy.com/sleeping/index.html
paulj
Expedition Leader
kerry said:
but does the bottom of the sleeping bag always stay on the bottom? Particularly with close fitting mummy bags, the bag turns with the sleeper. If I want to turn in the bag, I have to wear the bag quilt-style, draped over me, and loosely tucked around the edges.
I bought a few things from Stephenson back in the 80s. I wore out a pair of side-zip pants, but the frame pack never worked out. Maybe I should try to sell on this forum.
Honu
lost on the mainland
when I used to do a lot of bicycle touring or packing I cared about size and weight and other things like that
now I am in a truck/SUV hauling a trailer I care more about comfort with a huge bag for the whole family current one is 80x81 inches the size of our bed on top and having a heater and hot water and a refrigerator and a stove a pett toilet inside the tent room for emergencies and the little ones midnight run and all the nice amenities that my family loves also and makes them more willing to go with me
not knocking the idea of really nice bags but I guess to me they were more important when I was having to haul them on my person and storage was a premium etc..
winters I had a Moss tent for summers a cheap sierra expeditions the moss was overkill for hot weather and weighed a lot more
my summer bag was some decent square thing that worked mid season was a really nice light kelty and I forgot the name of cold sleeping bag ? marmot I think ??
so my personal thoughts are choose a bag for the job and a hardcore backpacking mummy type for a RTT system is so overkill
again just my thoughts and not saying others who think its not are wrong to each his own
on a side note I think it was marmot who had those bags that were a pad system on bottom and you could get dif thermal tops for them ?
that as a super cool design I think would be killer for RTT use
now I am in a truck/SUV hauling a trailer
I care more about comfort with a huge bag for the whole family current one is 80x81 inches the size of our bed on top and having a heater and hot water and a refrigerator and a stove a pett toilet inside the tent room for emergencies and the little ones midnight run and all the nice amenities that my family loves also and makes them more willing to go with me not knocking the idea of really nice bags but I guess to me they were more important when I was having to haul them on my person and storage was a premium etc..
winters I had a Moss tent for summers a cheap sierra expeditions the moss was overkill for hot weather and weighed a lot more
my summer bag was some decent square thing that worked mid season was a really nice light kelty and I forgot the name of cold sleeping bag ? marmot I think ??
so my personal thoughts are choose a bag for the job and a hardcore backpacking mummy type for a RTT system is so overkill
again just my thoughts
and not saying others who think its not are wrong to each his own on a side note I think it was marmot who had those bags that were a pad system on bottom and you could get dif thermal tops for them ?
that as a super cool design I think would be killer for RTT use