Reviewed by: hikeaz
I bought this bag last year thinking it would solve my mummy bag phobia, but didn't know how what I wanted from my bag would create a slew of other problems. 70 inches of girth sounds heavenly until regular sized people have to heat it. This bag being rated down to 15 regularly left me, who is alway warm, cold into the mid to upper 30's. With a fleece throw, I made it to the upper 20's. I never rolled off my pad, but I also couldn't sleep due to a cold ear from being a side sleeper in a bag that always points up. Since 70% of sleepers prefer their side (Exped's statistics), it seems like this would be a common problem. Long and short...buy it in the winter from a store that allows returns, open all the windows and see if you can hack it all night long. My bet is you will swiftly return it the next day. It's fine for summer car camping, but so is my $50 coleman rectangular.
Sleeping Bag Water Test Pt. I:
In this gear test, Shannon Davis jumps in three sleeping bags and we hose them down to see how each one handles high-force rain.
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Sleeping Bag Water Test Part II:
Yeah, we know you probably won't ever get fully submerged in a raging river while in your sleeping bag, but that's not good enough for us.
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Q.}
On an episode of Survivorman, Les Stroud cooked grasshoppers, stating if you didn't, you might get a tapeworm. But he ate a raw scorpion–couldn't one just as easily get a tapeworm from a scorpion?
Submitted by: Doug, Oklahoma City, OK
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Here's what I think I know: Grasshoppers are herbivores. They can eat tapeworm eggs and larvae, maintain them in their gut, and pass them to you.
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