[pct-l] Brag

[Steel-Eye]

Good evening, All,



I'm quite adaptable to the various types of sleeping bag and the orientation 
of their features. That's a good thing considering the wide variety of bags 
that I've used over the years. I currently have a bag with a right-side 
zipper, one with a left-side zipper, one with the zipper in the center in 
line with the face hole, and one bag with no zipper at all.



Often I just slid in and out of the bag without even using the zipper, which 
works fine for me.  The bag with the zipper in the center in line with the 
face hole is great because I like to sleep on my side so I just rotate the 
bag so the zipper and the hole are on whichever side I happen to face.  The 
bags with a side zipper often get rotated 180 degrees so the hood portion is 
on top of my head rather than beneath. In that way my head stays warm, and 
gear I use for a pillow has plenty of space.



Sometimes I rotate a bag, and spread it, to have the unzipped side down, as 
with a toe-box robe.  One summer-weight side-zip bag has no insulation on 
the bottom, just a single layer of rip-stop.  For a warm evening I'll turn 
the thin side up and use it as a breeze and mosquito layer.  After an hour 
of so when the air has cooled I turn the bag right-side-up again.



Even with all that gyration I have no trouble finding and manipulating the 
zipper, wherever it may be.

Steel-Eye

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <cvano at tmail.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 7:46 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Brag


> Went to REI today!  This is always an adventure and a difficult
> excersise in keeping any money at all in my pocket.  Anyway, I went
> specifically to buy a new sleeping bag, my old one being 10 years old
> and lost on that mountain, cashed 6' up in a tree and now under at least
> 5' of snow.
>
> So after about an hour of laying on the floor looking like a vagrant
> with people stepping over me, while I fully tried out at least 6 bags, I
> finally decided that the 15 degree Zepher Regular was the best option
> for me.
>
> They had ONE left with a left hand zipper.  Actually, they had one left
> of several different kinds, but some were gone, this being the end of
> the end of the year clearance.  I was lucky to get the bag I wanted to
> start with and not have to settle for less, or more money.  The pad I
> wanted (Exped 7) is lost and gone forever.
>
> The left hand zipper... I'm right handed but have never been able to
> figure out how to bend my elbow to zip up a right hand zipper bag.  I
> had to do all kinds of contortions for 10 minutes or so, while freezing,
> just to get'er done, and then I'd remember something, spend another 5
> minutes getting out, and then have do it all over again.  With this one,
> I just reach over and zip it up.  Is this a common problem?  Has anyone
> really ever thought about this?  Does anyone really care?
>
> As I was walking around looking at all the other 'I Wants,' I stopped in
> the shoe dept to see if anything could be done about the annoying squeak
> that had developed in my left shoe.  (I was in the Bellingham, WA. store
> and talked to Mickey.)  She said that it would NEVER go away and to
> please let her replace them!  I did, and she did.  New shoes AND a new
> sleeping bag from REI for a BUC and change.  You can't beat that with
> any stick!
>
> I'm going outside now... no wait... no I'm not... its raining seals and
> otters... and I didn't get my pad... I'm turning off the heater now and
> climbing into my new bag inside the boat... Ahhh, comfy, cozy... Nite
>
> It's not the Mountain that we conquer,
> but Ourselves.  Anon.
>
> Ol' Three Toes aka Chris
> S/V Drifter ~~~_/)~~~
> Anacortes, WA.
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