[pct-l] Western Mountaineering sleeping bag - clumpy?

[Bill Burge]

In order:

no, yes, yes

My GF and I each have a WM bag.  (Used them in the Sierras last  
weekend!) It should not be clumpy.  Lay it out and give it a few good  
shakes from the foot and the head and it should POOF right up.  If it  
doesn't, then it sounds like it got wet.  If it was that way when you  
got it - send it back.

If it got that way when you slept in then start breaking up the clumps  
and restoring the loft.  This condition is what happens you wash it as  
well. So it's a good skill to learn, but you shouldn't have to learn  
it on a new bag.

BillB



On Mar 31, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com wrote:

> Is the down in a Western Mountaineering sleeping bag supposed to be
> clumpy? I have a Go-lite Ultra 20 quilt and if I set it out and wait
> a few minutes, it fluffs up. All the down is fluffy. The Western
> Mountaineering bag doesn't seem to do that. The down is clumpy and
> doesn't seem to fluff up. It seems stuck together. It doesn't even
> really feel like down to me. It's a 30 degree model. Should we send
> it back? Can it be sent back if it was slept in one night?
>
> Diane
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