[pct-l] trail clothing

[Stephen Adams]

I don't much like seeping binded up in clothing.  Long johns are enough.  And wearing a bunch of clothing in a sleeping bag only helps a little.  If you had a decent bag it should actually be warmer without all that stuff on.  
Actually starting with a light backpack is the key to lowering your weight.  Lowering your sleeping bag weight will remove that safety factor form your kit.  
My kit excuse me.  My light rig weighs about 10 lbs and includes a 2lb 20 degree bag.  To me sleeping in clothing is uncomfortable, but it is a stop gap if you get in trouble or uncomfortable.  But if it works for you I can't argue that it doesn't.  But I would suggest anyone thinking about this get out there and test out the theory.  
On Feb 13, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com wrote:

> My Patagonia down sweater is a very light jacket with only a tiny bit of down in it. It's not a big puffy thing. It was the most I ever needed.
> 
> My philosophy is, if I've got a bunch of clothing I'm not wearing, my sleeping bag is too warm. Making full use of your things is key to keeping your pack weight down.
> 
> Diane
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> On Feb 13, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Stephen Adams wrote:
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>> I'm an old man, and actually live in So Cal.  And my down sweater, maybe I meant to say jacket, weighs more like 2lbs or a little over.  winter only.  And why didn't you just get a more comfortable sleeping bag?
>> For a light sweater I got the Mountain Hardware Compressor on sale and that is a light weight sweater and still only used that when the temps really dropped, but never hiked in it.  I'd venture to say the Mtn Hdwr sweater is too lightly built to last thru a three season of constant use, but I'ma a young old man who is hard on things...
>> On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com wrote:
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>>> My down sweater didn't weigh even 1 lb. I wore it every night in my
>>> sleeping bag through late June and often in early July, too. I also
>>> wore it constantly during town visits. It's not always as warm in So
>>> Cal as you think. I thought it was weight well spent. But I am female
>>> and might get colder than young men do.
>>> On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:17 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Do you really need a down sweater that weighs two pounds when you
>>>> may only wear it for thirty minutes and then only on a few nights
>>>> when it will more often than not be overkill?
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