We bought two sleeping bags and zipped them together but when we tried them out at home we couldn't move! Decided to take them back to the shop for a refund. Going away in a few days time and we will be taking our duvet with a few blankets.
HAve taken 2 zipped together sleeping bags but this year we're taking a light weight 4 tog duvet + cover and one sleeping bag. This duvet packs up as small as a sleeping bag.We're going to France and expecting night time temps to be reasonable. Also taking small fleece blanket in case it's not!
There's only the two of us, which makes life easier I know, but we take 2 duvets and 2 sleeping bags. We each sleep on one and have the other over us, but the lower one is available should it get too cold. Mind you the dogs help. Neither of us will fit in a single sleeping bag these days.
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I like the odd drink. Five is odd, seven is odd, nine is odd...........
my hubby insists we take sleeping bags, otherwise it's not "proper camping". we both have the rectangular types. He snuggles right down into his and zips it all the way up to his chin. I open mine out and use it as a duvet, as I find it too restrictive and too hot for comfort otherwise. Personally I'd prefer a duvet, but space is an issue.
Do duvets really keep you as warm as a sleeping bag? My partner and I each have 4 seasons bags but I hate the restricted feeling of a bag and usually end up getting myself in a right twisted mess! I would MUCH prefer the relative freedom of a duvet but am scared of getting cold. The duvet we have on our bed at home is 12.5tog. Would this be warm enough for camping late August....? We also always have a duvet on top of the blow up mattress in the tent.
What is a sleeping bag but a duvet sewn up into a tube shape.
I've never not used sleeping bags throughout 40 years of camping, and "perceived wisdom" (ie everyone else uses them) seems automatically to be that if you go camping you use a sleeping bag. I've not known anyone who has used a duvet instead of a sleeping bag when camping. Sleeping bags pack up smaller so are more convenient that way, and can the rest of the camping & outdoor world all be wrong about using sleeping bags? (No I know that's not really a very good argument!)
Realistically to be as warm under a duvet as you would be with a sleeping bag, you'd have to wrap yourself in the duvet so it resembles a sleeping bag round you, or else you'd need something similar underneath you as well as on top, because you do get cold from underneath (& from the sides too). The sleeping bag just seems so more obvious & practical.
With a TT or FC you have the warmth underneath provided by a mattress. We put a duvet under for comfort and as a spare top cover. It's more just somewhere to keep it. It seems to me a sleeping bag is an opened duvet filled with a material that packs up a bit better. I agree tent users have a different problem if they sleep on the ground.
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I like the odd drink. Five is odd, seven is odd, nine is odd...........
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Topic: Do you really need sleeping bags???
and we will be taking our duvet with a few blankets.
