The Sleeping Bag Rule Wool Lets You Break There is an old rule in backpacking: never breathe inside your sleeping bag. With a conventional down or synthetic sleeping bag, there is good reason for that advice. Every breath releases warm water vapor. Trapping that moisture inside your sleep system can increase humidity and condensation. Down […]
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How much does a wool sleeping bag weigh? Ours weigh from 4 lb to 15 lb depending on the bag, the size and the loft, and the one you would carry — the Rewilder in Standard 2″ loft, field rated 20°F — is 4 lb / 1.8 kg. That is about three times a 20°F
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Canvas tent care comes down to one rule and a handful of habits. The rule: never store the tent damp, not even for a night. The habits: pitch it clear of the ground, brush before you wash, re-wax before it leaks, and put it away loose in something a mouse cannot chew through. Do that
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Waxed canvas is the one outdoor fabric you can bring back to new in your kitchen. When rain stops beading on a jacket, pack, tarp or tent, the fix is a bar of wax, a hair dryer and half an hour. This is how to rewax waxed canvas step by step with Trail Wax, how
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Sleeping outside without a tent is not a stunt. Under a tarp you carry a fraction of the weight, wake up dry instead of dripping with condensation, and see the ridgeline from your bag. What you give up is bugs, wind and walls. This guide lays out the trade honestly, shows the three pitches that
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A sleeping bag liner is the cheapest way to make a bag warmer, and the only way to make it cleaner. A sheet of fabric inside the bag adds a few degrees to a lot of degrees depending on the material, keeps sweat and skin oil out of the insulation, and doubles as a bed
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Non toxic camping gear is a phrase that gets used loosely, so this guide is specific. It covers the four classes of chemistry that actually show up in tents, sleeping bags, pads, packs and rain shells: PFAS water repellents, flame retardants, polyurethane coatings and foams, and shedding synthetic fibre. For each one it says what
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Tent Condensation: A Natural Approach to Sleeping Dry Wake up after a cool, damp night outdoors and you may find droplets hanging from your shelter, dew covering your gear, and moisture in the air around you. The conventional solution is to fight it. Seal out the weather. Vent the tent. Keep moisture away from your
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The cowboy bedroll solved a hard problem with two materials: a canvas tarp to shed weather and wool blankets to hold heat. A century and a half later the problem has not changed, and neither has the answer. A modern wool bedroll is a 4 lb sheet of dense US wool felt, 50 by 76
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Summer Nights Call for a Lighter Sleep System There’s something special about sleeping outside on a warm summer evening. The air is soft, the stars stay out late, and you don’t need bulky winter gear to enjoy a comfortable night’s sleep. One of the greatest advantages of wool is that it naturally regulates body temperature.
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