We do have pricier choices (the Montbell Down Hugger 650 #1 and the Marmot Girls’s Teton) that might be good crossover baggage for anybody planning on doing some backpacking in addition to cool-weather automotive tenting, in addition to a suggestion for backpackers preferring to sleep on their sides.
As well as, we’ve comfy down baggage (the Feathered Buddies Swallow YF 30 Sleeping Bag and the Feathered Buddies Egret YF 20 Girls’s Sleeping Bag) for multiday backpacking journeys, and a bag for {couples} who’d prefer to sleep collectively.
Our decide
The fairly priced, recycled poly-fill Siesta 20 is nice should you want a bag that you simply’ll use primarily for automotive tenting—it’s heat, comfy, moisture resistant, simple to scrub, and straightforward to stuff away.
The REI Co-op Siesta Hooded 20 is as a lot sleeping bag as anybody might need for fundamental automotive tenting, and it prices nearly a 3rd the value of extra specialised backpacking choices. It’s mild, comfy, and adjustable, and is available in two sizes: common and lengthy, in addition to a single model and a double model. The Siesta 20, which has artificial insulation, is lots heat for three-season tenting (it’s rated to twenty °F—that’s, under freezing) however nonetheless packs right into a cylindrical stuff sack, about 13 inches by 11 inches, that gained’t take up a lot room within the trunk of your automotive—a pertinent element for big households. Although the bag is hooded, it’s extra akin to bunching a pillow round your head fairly than a conventional mummy bag hood. Moreover, the polyester exterior is waterproof, and REI’s return coverage is beneficiant. In 2023, REI up to date the Siesta to incorporate 98% recycled insulation fill.
Improve decide
Reasonably priced for a down-filled bag, the Montbell has diagonal baffles that make it really feel roomier than most mummy-style choices, plus it comes with a lifetime guarantee. It’s greatest for folks with broad shoulders and narrower hips.
Higher for extra narrow-bodied individuals who sleep chilly, the Teton is a heat bag (it’s rated to fifteen °F) that’s made with silky-soft cloth and crammed with well-lofted, water resistant down. Marmot presents a lifetime guarantee.
In the event you already know you need to work loads of backpacking into your tenting habits, you’ll want a lighter, extra stuffable bag than the REI Co-op Siesta 20, and we expect the unisex Montbell Down Hugger is your best option for folks with broad shoulders and narrower hips who are likely to get scorching at night time, in addition to for individuals who transfer so much of their sleep. It’s uncommon to discover a comfy down bag that prices lower than $400, but the Down Hugger was softer and had extra loft than some baggage that price $100 extra. The bag’s form and diagonal baffles made it really feel far roomier and extra accommodating than a lot of the conventional mummy baggage we examined. We didn’t discover any fraying throughout our testing interval, both—however must you expertise any manufacturing defect, the bag is backed by Montbell’s lifetime guarantee. (The guarantee doesn’t cowl regular put on and tear; Montbell does supply repairs for which the corporate will cost “an affordable charge.”)
Though it’s billed as a girls’s bag, the Marmot Girls’s Teton is an effective match for any narrow-bodied one who will get chilly at night time. It’s hotter and slimmer than the Montbell Down Hugger, nevertheless it’s additionally among the many softest, warmest baggage we examined: The fluffy insulation feels plush and nearly overstuffed; it swaddles you whilst you sleep. The Teton additionally has considerate options, like a pocket inside the bag to retailer electronics, and (new within the 2022 redesign) a compression zipper within the footbox that you could unzip to create extra room. It’s EN rated to fifteen °F—and after many chilly nights of sleeping underneath the celebs, our testers discovered that quantity to be correct. It’s price noting, nonetheless, that it is a a lot hotter bag than lots of the others we examined; at instances it was too heat. A lifetime guarantee covers producer’s defects however not regular put on and tear.
Additionally nice
Although meant for side-sleepers, the design of this backpacking bag (which is insulated with a mixture of down and artificial fill) works effectively for anybody who tosses and turns whereas they sleep.
Let’s face it, most individuals toss and switch after they’re sleeping exterior. We predict the Large Agnes Sidewinder SL 20° is a good bag for backpackers who transfer round whereas they’re sleeping in a tent, together with side-sleepers. The form of the shell is one issue: It’s minimize extra broadly within the center than your common mummy bag. We had been in a position to transfer between each attainable place you may need to lie in with this bag—on our aspect, abdomen, again, and even within the fetal place. Whereas we had been shifting round inside, the bag by no means felt constrictive. And along with the bag’s “primary” down insulation, the hip areas have a further layer of artificial fill, which compresses lower than down does. Anybody who strikes of their sleep has in all probability woken up tangled of their mummy bag, unable to search out the aspect zipper. Effectively, regardless of how a lot we moved round, we might all the time discover the zipper that runs down the entrance and middle of this bag. Plus, the Sidewinder has a pillow sleeve behind the hood that holds a pillow beneath your head as you discover that comfy place in your sleeping pad. Large Agnes presents a restricted guarantee towards manufacturing or materials defects; it doesn’t cowl put on and tear.
Additionally nice
Minimize wider for backpackers who sleep scorching, this dear bag is filled with light-weight down insulation, made in America, and backed by a strong guarantee.
The Egret 20 has all the benefits of the Swallow 30—light-weight down fill, a strong guarantee, and it’s US-made—however with a narrower minimize and extra insulation for individuals who get chilly at night time.
The light-weight Swallow YF 30 Sleeping Bag is a strong selection for individuals who carry a sleeping bag with them typically whereas climbing or touring. This bag is easy and unadorned but crammed with top-quality down. It’s rated to 30 °F and presents a looser match for vast our bodies, making it a very good purchase for bigger folks or individuals who sleep scorching. It’s not an ultralight bag, however its 900-plus fill-power goose down (extra about fill energy later, however in brief, this implies the bag may be very lofty and subsequently each light-weight and heat) is a uncommon discover for underneath $500 and makes it mild sufficient to hold simply on long-distance journeys. All Feathered Buddies merchandise include a lifetime assure (which doesn’t cowl common put on and tear) and are made with licensed RDS down.
Just like the Swallow, the Feathered Buddies Egret YF 20 is a high-end bag that’s, nonetheless, a uncommon discover for its value. Thoughtfully constructed with the identical 900-plus fill-power down), the Egret is made with top-quality supplies leading to a easy, confirmed design that works in all situations. It’s billed as a girls’s bag, however we expect the bag’s additional insulation (it’s rated to twenty °F) makes it a very good match for anybody who sleeps chilly, so long as they’re not taller than 5-foot-9. (The bag is available in two sizes: small and medium.) As with the Swallow, the Egret is backed by Feathered Buddies’s lifetime guarantee.
Additionally nice
The synthetic-fill Large Agnes Dream Island is probably the most comfy double bag for car-camping {couples}, due to a built-in sleeping-pad sleeve, which prevents midnight misalignments.
The Large Agnes Dream Island is spacious, heat, and cozy, with a built-in sleeping-pad sleeve that solves an issue it had by no means occurred to us to attempt to resolve: the annoyance of bag and pad getting misaligned in the midst of the night time. The pad, which it’s a must to purchase individually, replaces the artificial polyester insulation on the underside half of the bag, making the Large Agnes, which is rated to fifteen °F, additional heat relative to its packed dimension. Since there isn’t any insulation on the underside of the Dream Island, it actually must be paired with the sleeping pad to work. The sleeve suits one among Large Agnes’s 50-by-78-inch double air mattresses (such because the Hinman) or two customary 25-by-78-inch pads. Many firms make car-camping pads with these larger-than-average dimensions, and any of them will match the Dream Island simply high quality. Large Agnes presents a restricted guarantee towards manufacturing or materials defects; it doesn’t cowl put on and tear.
