What cloths do you sleep in.

[John Sheridan]

If its nice and hot NOTHING, but if it's coldish what do you sleep in ??

Do any of you guys and girls take some extra pants or tops to sleep in, just so your gear has some time to dry, get a little less smelly

I was thinking of taking some Microfibre pants and top, just to sleep in, Don't really want to sleep in my pants I have been wearing all day, also the Microfirbe gear can be used as a layer as well if the weather gets colder.

Cheers.

[Tortoise]

It's usually coolish where i walk, so I always have a 'clean' layer, put on after ablutions - hate that sticky old sweat feeling in bed!
So my nice new toasty down jacket stays sweet smelling too

I pick a sleeping bag to match expected temp, with silk liner. Have a 'silk weight' thermal top, and a 2nd pair of polyprop thermals - one to walk in, one to sleep in. And always keep 1 pair of dry sox for eve/sleep. I find it much easier to cool down than warm up during the night, so would rather take off long johns if too warm than put on layers if too cold.

If 'walking' thermals & sox are wet, i put them in a plastic bag in the foot of my sleeping bag for warm rather than frozen feet/body in the morning - if no hut / heater / room for drying. (Oh, and now i have wet feet (good boots died), i wash my socks out first because they're soaked already.)

Learnt about the solid iced boots, sox & woollen pants the hard way (showing my age now, i know )

BTW, I've recently started taking a pair of very basic nylon overpants to wear over my clean thermals in the evening. ($1 at an op shop). They weigh less than anything else i've taken, and because they keep the wind / cold air out, I'm warmer in them than in the fleece pants i used to take.

[Moondog55]

Answer depends in how cold it is, also it depends on how much room is inside the sleeping bag, some ( especially modern SBs) simply are too tightly cut to wear clothing inside, in my sleeping bags system if it is really cold EVERYTHING

[Graham51]

I find that unless it's below zero it's best to sleep in nothing. If it gets lower than that, say down to -5 or something, I might put on a clean, dry thermal top and pants. I have a reasonably good sleeping bag and silk liner which help.
It's certainly not an option to wear what yuou have been wearing during the day as that will always contain some (in my case, lots of) moisture whkich will always mnake you colder.

[north-north-west]

I'm assuming you mean whilst walking. Elsewhere I don't believe in wearing anything to bed.
Mostly merino thermals. 'Cos I do most of my walking where it's cool enough for them. Always carry a clean, dry set.
If it's warm enough, light cotton singlet and satin boxers.
If it's really stinking hot, nothing except a lot of sweat.

[corvus]

Good question John, unless my base layer was really wet that is what I sleep in using a Silk liner to keep my bag clean even on extended walks (one set of stinky thermals can be no worse than several) in my opinion
corvus

[doogs]

Star Wars Romper Suit.

[Snowzone]

I use a silk liner to keep my bag clean. I usually sleep in polypro thermals that are kept for camp use only so they don't get too stinky. And a clean pair of socks if its really cold and as a last resort the down jacket gets added into the equation.
If on the other hand its a hot night then no point putting anything on really is there? After all your enjoying the wilderness aren't you.

[north-north-west]

Star Wars Romper Suit.

With the Princess Leia ear muffs to avoid frostbite?

[Lady McGuyver]

One of these. . . the bag I mean, not the contents
Not quite the Star Wars romper suit, but good fun. . and ideal around home when there's no firewood left!!

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[doogs]

Yep similar, but mines from a galaxy far, far away......

[Macca81]

I always take a second set of clothes with me that i put on at the end of each day. It is a luxury that i quite enjoy, getting the sweaty (and dependent on weather, wet) clothes off for the day and put some nice fresh dry clothes on. If i am going to be sleeping in clothes, it is this set. Otherwise, usually just nude up.

[John Sheridan]

Trying to get my kit as light as possible at the moment it's about 12 kg with everything, maybe less when I put some stuff on my belt and anything on your belt does not count as pack weight right

Maybe under 10 kg if I use dehydrated meals.


Cheers.

/PS That's for a 3 day camp out

[Macca81]

Trying to get my kit as light as possible at the moment it's about 12 kg with everything, maybe less when I put some stuff on my belt and anything on your belt does not count as pack weight right

Maybe under 10 kg if I use dehydrated meals.


Cheers.

/PS That's for a 3 day camp out

Wrong thread?

[The Trout Hunter]

G'day all, I'm in a predicament I guess.. I just purchased the Kathmandu Pathfinder down sleeping bag rated at 0. I pitched my tent in the backyard to test it out. With my thermometer in hand I slept the night in just my boxers and polyester tshirt to see how it went. I woke around 4am a little chilly, it was 5deg in temp inside my tent.

Did I buy the wrong bag? Or should I be using a pack liner? Or should I just be wearing my polypropylene thermals? Merino thermals?

I have always had a synthetic fill roman -3 bag until now and always wore thermals to bed, I was hoping the down would eliminate that.. Maybe not..

Am I doing something wrong? Or am I just a cold sleeper?

Or do you think I got the wrong bag?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Brad

[wildlight]

Brad,
What were you sleeping ON ? Did you have a thermarest or at least a piece of portable concrete>(blue closed cell foam)< this makes a huge difference. Thermals will improve your comfort ( temp ) in cold conditions. Try a beanie also, and use the hood. I was in the outdoors industry once, and at that time, there were no benchmarks for determining temp ratings for sleeping bags. One person's plus3 will be another's minus2 - often a good way to work it out is to see how much warmth you wear compared to others when you're in a group. Are you a little more susceptible to the cold?

The consolation to this is that you are trying the bag and your ensemble out before you head off into the bush.

This allows for fine tuning.

Best of Luck with it all! Keep tweaking the kit- it never ends in our household.

SafeSteps

WildLight

[The Trout Hunter]

Thanks Wildlight..

I was on a Kathmandu self infl mat so off the grass.. I come in and put on my polypropylene top and bottom plus a beanie and was toasty as.. I guess an inner sheet plus thermals would do the job, it got down to 2 deg outside so I think I will be right with a layer inside to be safe

Thanks
Brad

[andrewa]

Sleeping bag temperature ratings......Don't go there.

I sleep in as many clothes as I need to stay warm in whatever quilt I've taken with me.

I'm normally in areas where we can light a fire, except ski touring, so even if fly fishing /packrafting in NZ and everything gets wet during the day, if you stand around in it at night near a fire, it dries off by the time I go to bed, so I just wear my day clothes ( which by then have had a rinse from standing in the river/rafting, so they are not too toxic), plus some insulation if needed, and throw the quilt over the top. Makes getting up easy.

In the snow, I again just wear everything. In the evening, if you wear goretex type outers, over your damp ski clothing, normally everything inside has got warm enough to put the moisture out to the inside of the goretex layer ( there's usually not enough molecular momentum to get through it!). Then off with goretex, and under quilt again.

Tassie would be a completely different proposition. You are likely to be wet, without a fire. I'd probably need some spare clothes down there...

A

[greyhairwalker]

In cold weather I use a Exped Down mat. It is lite weight and stops the cold from coming up from the ground.
Also use the highest loft down sleeping bag that I could find that is no more than about 1kg.(to keep weight down in the pack.)
With a silk liner, I find I am still warm enough not wear anything, thus cutting down on clothes to carry..

[Macca81]

I just purchased the Kathmandu Pathfinder down sleeping bag rated at 0. .....I woke around 4am a little chilly, it was 5deg in temp inside my tent. ..................I have always had a synthetic fill roman -3 bag until now and always wore thermals to bed

Answered yourself. You have gone from a colder rated bag to a bag rated 3 degrees warmer, plus you are not wearing what you normally would try wearing the thermals and see how similar the warmth level is...

[ILUVSWTAS]

just purchased the Kathmandu

THATS your problem......

[icemancometh]

everything so your body heat can dry your gear
dont take spare clothes

foam mat + some kind of reflective layering too

[TerraMer]

Winter - Wilderness Wear merino thermals or Columbia Omni Heat thermals or both if I'm really cold. 1 or 2 pairs of clean dry loose fitted Wilderness Wear merino socks. Pure silk bag liner. Alpaca wool beanie. Headsox as neck/face warmer. Merino glove liners.
Summer - singlet, boxer shorts, light sockets, pure silk bag liner and if it is not too hot a headsox/bandanna to protect my bag if I haven't been able to wash my hair for a few days.

[Macca81]

Last night on Ben Lomond - jocks, thermal bottoms, shorts, pants and socks on the bottom. Short sleeve thermal top, long sleeve thermal top, walking top, softshell vest and synthetic insulated jacket on top. Was around minus 5 and quite windy. I was toasty!

[icemancometh]

I just purchased the Kathmandu Pathfinder down sleeping bag rated at 0. .....I woke around 4am a little chilly, it was 5deg in temp inside my tent. ..................I have always had a synthetic fill roman -3 bag until now and always wore thermals to bed

Roman temps are known to be off

but yeah I think most bag manufacturers assume people will wear thermals, be wear hydrated blah blah when they make the 'recommendations' so bear in mind if you sleep nude outdoors. Yes at home, not outside...good to protect the sleeping bags a bit too rathe than having to wash/clean them all the time,,,pain in the proverbial behind

[Son of a Beach]

G'day all, I'm in a predicament I guess.. I just purchased the Kathmandu Pathfinder down sleeping bag rated at 0.

My wife bought a Kathmandu bag a few years ago. It's been quite disappointing, but she doesn't do a lot of alpine walking, and is a warm sleeper, so we haven't bothered replacing it.

The down is just terrible. It doesn't loft up at all. With a good down sleeping bag, it almost looks as though somebody is inflating it with a pump when you pull it out of its stuff sack. But the Kathmandu down just never lofts up in that bag. It is nowhere near as warm as a down bag of that weight should be.

[neilmny]

Denali merino thermal pants and Kathmandu polypropelene thermal zip neck top and Teko merino wool socks.
S to S Reactor liner and Black Wolf ("-4C" Ehem!) sleeping bag with Denali standard mat.

[corvus]

One of my older down bags (around 20+ years) is a Kathmandu Goose Down and it has a really good loft weighs around 1kg and is still in really good nick,reason for replacement non water resistant shell,next was a MD Cornice and when I look at it now that is one big bag ,water resistant shell, reasonable loft but 1.67kg ( hey I was younger and fitter then)and a warm bag.
corvus