Re: Lightest Bag for Alaska Range?
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:46 am
I do love it when a thread goes batshit crazy.
I've never used a VBL in a sleeping bag. Never felt the need. Between 2000 - 2009 I spent anything from 30-80 continuous days each year in temps down to -50C, usually -15C to -30C, and never had a problem with condensation building up inside the bag. Never. All kinds of weather, all kinds of temps, three different bags. Mostly this was in Antarctica, but includes a (May) trip up Denali, plus additional time in Tibet etc.
Do WTF you want, but I wouldn't want people reading this thread to think that a VBL was an automatic must-have for this season's well-dressed ice-warrior.
Steger's extra 20kg? I think that is crap, pure and simple. Either exageration, mistake, misprint or incompetence, but still crap.
I've tried VBL socks and didn't like them because they increased heel slippage. I do have some non-slippery ones from RBH but I've never really tried them on a real trip.
BTW Dane, your blog is blocked here in China. No doubt your capitalist-running-dog hardware sales have you ideologically opposed to the Party
I've never used a VBL in a sleeping bag. Never felt the need. Between 2000 - 2009 I spent anything from 30-80 continuous days each year in temps down to -50C, usually -15C to -30C, and never had a problem with condensation building up inside the bag. Never. All kinds of weather, all kinds of temps, three different bags. Mostly this was in Antarctica, but includes a (May) trip up Denali, plus additional time in Tibet etc.
Do WTF you want, but I wouldn't want people reading this thread to think that a VBL was an automatic must-have for this season's well-dressed ice-warrior.
Steger's extra 20kg? I think that is crap, pure and simple. Either exageration, mistake, misprint or incompetence, but still crap.
I've tried VBL socks and didn't like them because they increased heel slippage. I do have some non-slippery ones from RBH but I've never really tried them on a real trip.
BTW Dane, your blog is blocked here in China. No doubt your capitalist-running-dog hardware sales have you ideologically opposed to the Party