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Have you used them How good are they Who manufacture them

Thanks in advance

Diego Sahagún wrote:Have you used them How good are they Who manufacture them

Thanks in advance

In an earlier thread, Kai wrote:

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:11 pm GMT

I recently bought a "bothy bag" as an emergency shelter. I got it from Wild Things.

It's made of Cuben fiber and weighs just a hair over 9 ounces. It will easily accomodate two people laying down and 4 people sitting up.

More information here:

http://www.larsonweb.com/shelter/id8.html

That's 257g. I think that other marks manufacture bothy bags but I don't know them. Wich is better Prices

I had read that bothy bags were more popular in the UK than the US so you might want to search on some outdoor gear sites based there and read reviews. For example I found a couple of brands at http://www.ellis-brigham.com

I have one made by the british mark Terra-Nova. They make them in different sizes and normal and ligthweight versions.The one i got is a two person ultralight bag.It is just big enough for two persons to sit on their packs in it.For more than emergency use you would probably want a sligthly larger size.

Thanks Baarb and Aksel, I hadn't heard of them since some days ago. I wonder if they are good in a hard rain storm or the oxygen is insufficient in them after 45 minutes, for example

Diego Sahagún wrote:That's 257g. I think that other marks manufacture bothy bags but I don't know them. Wich is better Prices

That's not a lot! I carry more than that in rescue webbing when I go solo.

As for O2 ... I think you'd be pretty hard-pressed if you used one -- maybe a dark descent in pouring rain. I guess you would have to keep alert and keep the lower opening pumping with occasional foot motion. I wouldn't expect a great night's sleep!

"Some" have upper vents.

MoapaPk wrote:

Diego Sahagún wrote:That's 257g. I think that other marks manufacture bothy bags but I don't know them. Wich is better Prices

That's not a lot! I carry more than that in rescue webbing when I go solo.

I had not said it was a lot, I was only converting into the SI mate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio ... m_of_Units

Diego Sahagún wrote:

MoapaPk wrote:

Diego Sahagún wrote:That's 257g. I think that other marks manufacture bothy bags but I don't know them. Wich is better Prices

That's not a lot! I carry more than that in rescue webbing when I go solo.

I had not said it was a lot, I was only converting into the SI mate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internatio ... m_of_Units

While I'm a fan of cgs, most SI users prefer kg to g.

If it's light SI users prefer g to Kg

You can get the Terra Nova superlite bothy's here: http://www.prolitegear.com/site/search_engine.html?mv_session_id=ju34r6s2&search_clear=1&default_rank=1&criteria=bothy. The bothy 2 superlite is only 230g. The 4 is 325g.

I think the Wild Things bag is actually made of spinnaker and "reinforced" with cuben; at least according to their site. If it was all cuben it'd be ridiculously light (and ridiculously expensive). Looks like a great sack though, I'm a big fan of Wild Things!

Diego Sahagún wrote:If it's light SI users prefer g to Kg

I just wanted to see you deal with the decimal point.

Actually I was just being a pain in the ass. Both cm and g are perfectly good SI units. SI does deprecate older mixed cgs units like ergs. I love it when packaged food gives the energy content in joules.

MoapaPk wrote:

Diego Sahagún wrote:If it's light SI users prefer g to Kg

I just wanted to see you deal with the decimal point.

257 g = 0.257 Kg

Diego Sahagún wrote:

MoapaPk wrote:

Diego Sahagún wrote:If it's light SI users prefer g to Kg

I just wanted to see you deal with the decimal point.

257 g = 0.257 Kg

What? No upper comma? What kind of Spaniard are you!?