Blankibr_at_aol.com wrote: > The other side of this spectrum is to use a vapor barrier. I personally am > not a fan of the idea but I confess I have not tried it. The idea is to keep > the moisture around your skin causing your body to stop producing moisture. > Personally I don't think it would be a comfortable way to sleep. I used a vapor barrier liner (VBL) for the first few nights of a snowshoe trek last year. Thanks to my polypro longjohns & low temperatures, it didn't feel clammy & it did add noticable warmth. It also protected my sleeping bag from icing up. However the darned thing was much too tight fitting & I'm a tad claustrophobic. I went bonkers just trying to worm into it. It was too tight for me to cross my hands on my chest. So much for freezing in a proper position for burial. :-) I complained to MEC & they refunded my money. I checked Campmor & found that theirs was the same width. Odd - my mummy bag isn't large but has much more space than the liner. I guess I have to make my own. -- Lloyd Bowles The Mad Canoeist "Keep the open side up!" http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/clearstreets/358/index.html *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Oct 17 1998 - 07:08:41 PDT
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