Advice for winter/alpine sleeping setup!
Posted: Tue 12 Jul, 2022 10:10 pm
Hello,
I'm pretty new to overnight hiking and would really appreciate some advice.
My partner and I are new to hiking, and progressively getting into it. We're planning our first overnight hike at the end of July, and hope to build up to hikes in AAWT (winter and summer), NZ and potentially Nepal in the coming 2-3 years. Keeping this in mind we're slowly working on developing our skills and accumulating gear. Gear wise, we'd obviously like to keep things as light as possible whilst maintaining a reasonable buget (not shell out for really expensive unless we really need to).
Presently, we'd really appreciate some advice regarding sleeping setup and sleeping mats. We're one hot and one cold sleeper between us
- Amongst other things, we've inherited the following:
1. 1xBig Agnes Insulated Q-Core SLX: R-value:3.2, weight: 539g
(https://www.bigagnes.com/Q-Core-SLX)
2. 1xBig Agnes Copper Spur HV UL2 (https://www.bigagnes.com/Copper-Spur-HV-UL2-2020)
3. Kathmandu - Columbus Down Sleeping Bag - 650 fill
(https://www.kathmandu.com.au/columbus-d ... olour=4739)
4. Hi-Country Lite Hiker -5 Sleeping Bag
https://www.aussiedisposals.com.au/hi-c ... ker-5.html
- We've been eyeing sales at Snowys on the Sea to Summit sleeping mat range. These seemed like possibly good options to us:
1. Ether Light XT Extreme Insulated Sleeping Mat: R-value:6.2, weight: 720g
(https://www.snowys.com.au/ether-light-x ... eeping-mat)
2. Ultralight Insulated Sleeping Mat: R-value:3.1, weight: 480g
(https://www.snowys.com.au/ultralight-in ... eeping-mat)
We'd appreciate advice on the following:
1. Would the tent we have inherited be good enough for AAWT during winter?
2. Would the sleeping bags and sleep mat combos be good enough for AAWT winter?
Between the two options from SeatoSummit, would you recommend one over the other. Or would you recommend something else enitrely.
Any advice is greatly apprecaited, thanks very much
PS - should add, for summer, we have cheapo and light sleeping gear sorted
I'm pretty new to overnight hiking and would really appreciate some advice.
My partner and I are new to hiking, and progressively getting into it. We're planning our first overnight hike at the end of July, and hope to build up to hikes in AAWT (winter and summer), NZ and potentially Nepal in the coming 2-3 years. Keeping this in mind we're slowly working on developing our skills and accumulating gear. Gear wise, we'd obviously like to keep things as light as possible whilst maintaining a reasonable buget (not shell out for really expensive unless we really need to).
Presently, we'd really appreciate some advice regarding sleeping setup and sleeping mats. We're one hot and one cold sleeper between us
- Amongst other things, we've inherited the following:
1. 1xBig Agnes Insulated Q-Core SLX: R-value:3.2, weight: 539g
(https://www.bigagnes.com/Q-Core-SLX)
2. 1xBig Agnes Copper Spur HV UL2 (https://www.bigagnes.com/Copper-Spur-HV-UL2-2020)
3. Kathmandu - Columbus Down Sleeping Bag - 650 fill
(https://www.kathmandu.com.au/columbus-d ... olour=4739)
4. Hi-Country Lite Hiker -5 Sleeping Bag
https://www.aussiedisposals.com.au/hi-c ... ker-5.html
- We've been eyeing sales at Snowys on the Sea to Summit sleeping mat range. These seemed like possibly good options to us:
1. Ether Light XT Extreme Insulated Sleeping Mat: R-value:6.2, weight: 720g
(https://www.snowys.com.au/ether-light-x ... eeping-mat)
2. Ultralight Insulated Sleeping Mat: R-value:3.1, weight: 480g
(https://www.snowys.com.au/ultralight-in ... eeping-mat)
We'd appreciate advice on the following:
1. Would the tent we have inherited be good enough for AAWT during winter?
2. Would the sleeping bags and sleep mat combos be good enough for AAWT winter?
Between the two options from SeatoSummit, would you recommend one over the other. Or would you recommend something else enitrely.
Any advice is greatly apprecaited, thanks very much
PS - should add, for summer, we have cheapo and light sleeping gear sorted