I've been very pleased to have had a synthetic sleeping bag with me and to prove out its "keeps you warm even when wet" qualities. After three solid days of rain in Glacier Bay National Park last summer, EVERYTHING in my gear was some level of moist or wet. It was cool there in early May, frequently in the 40s although not freezing at night, and I never slept cold. We were camping out of our sea kayaks and there was no option of pulling up to a warm dry spot to camp for the night. The bag compressed well in a compression sack, inside a dry bag. On this particular trip, was paddling a no-bulkhead tandem kayak (an older Eddyline design) so getting through a small hatch wasn't an issue. I've taken a slightly smaller bag camping out of my Eddyline Falcon and it got in the aft hatch with minimal coaxing. Natalie (Natalie Wiest, wiestn_at_tamug.tamu.edu, Houston, Texas) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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