Thread: sleeping bag recommendations

Originally Posted by huglife

Chur for the continued advice.
Got bills multiplying right now and no relief milking currently to supplement my student allowance so purchases of sleeping bags are a distant dream. I've been looking on Alibaba, the aegismax sleeping bag 800 down that seems to get prettygood reviews on amazon etc is only us $20 if you buy 20 of them so I'm considering lining that up and just sticking the rest on trademe to cover my costs a bit and see how it goes. Either that or just save up for one of those montbell ones if I can afford/ justify it or the smallest packing snugpak one could be good too.

I had a first night out under my tarp up Kumeti road last night and really enjoyed sleeping under the tarp I slept like a log. It wasn't raining but was windy as fak. Took off in the afternoon after uni and got to my planned campsite just before dark and then had to leave first thing in the morning to get back to uni for the afternoon so the gun was only really carried to make me feel manly.

Off up Matamata for a couply weeks from Sunday for some uni shit so might try get out for a walk in the Kaimais... I hear it's filthy with supplejack up there

Some of it, some nice bush and clearing also. Generally speaking the thick shit is on the north side of the faces, when navigating if you stick to the southern edge of ridges etc it usually makes the going a bit easier. We've found the deer seem to shelter in shallow, sheltered punga guts/dry creek beds this time of year. So when you come across one have a good peak around it

Originally Posted by Nick-D

Some of it, some nice bush and clearing also. Generally speaking the thick shit is on the north side of the faces, when navigating if you stick to the southern edge of ridges etc it usually makes the going a bit easier. We've found the deer seem to shelter in shallow, sheltered punga guts/dry creek beds this time of year. So when you come across one have a good peak around it

chur thats some good info.. going to go up te tuhi road first thing saturday morning and spend the whole day out I think until I get one or it gets dark haha. I'm a hungry man

Have a look ant the recon 4 sleeping bag made in Ausi for the special forces. I ve had mine for years. Weight 1.5kg size the same as my macpac goose down packs to 320mm x 200mm. Has a tough waterproof underside and foot area inside and out. Synthetic insulation. Mosquito net. Fully unzips. -10 rated. Check them on YouTube. I use it for bivouac hunting. I haven't used my macpac in years because I end up sweating in it in the summer. Price was about $250 when I got mine years ago. They have updated the model and I think it no longer has the mosquito net and has a central zip now.