Average. A lot seems to depend on my day and last meal of the day.
I'm a "Hot" sleeper. My gear takes me to colder temps than what it's rated for.
I'm a "Cold" sleeper. I find that the temp ratings on my gear are a little exaggerated.
I'm an "Average" sleeper. Buying gear is easy for me, because the temp ratings are "just right".
Average. A lot seems to depend on my day and last meal of the day.
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I reckon 'average' since I adapt very quickly to my surrounding area. Never paid too much attention to all the temp rating since I never really got cold.
Well that is, I got cold sometimes but that was due to having a 5 mm thin pad below me when I went to ground with minus 8 (Celsius). Not the temp that scared me but the ground thing
I have a sleeping bag rated to -40 (-40 F = -40 C ), just looking at it makes me warm. Haven't used it yet
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I said "average", but maybe I lean more towards warm sometimes. I would have said def "warm" back in the day(on the ground) when I was younger. When I used Marmot and NF down bags with adequate ground pads, I was always plenty warm at or maybe below rated temps. Especially in a tent and especially if other people were in the tent. And usually even under the stars. Once it hit exactly 20*F for 5 nights straight, and I was in a tent with a zero rated Marmot, and I was way to warm every night unless I did major venting.
But then at about age 50 more or less, I got a surprise. On a trip to the Wind Rivers in early Sept, my tent mate was bad sick so I chose to sleep under the stars, which I like to do any way. This was a horse packing trip, so I had the thickest possible Thermarest pad with me. I had my fairly new NF Cat's Meow bag with a Pertex Endurance shell(WPB). Normally rated for 20F, but due to the windproof shell the rating had been boosted to 15F. I do not remember what all I was wearing, but there was plenty of fleece and long johns and fleece hat at the least. I think the lows were only in the upper 20s, but by morning I was kind of cold. Even in full mummy mode, neck collar and hood cinched down to a small breathing hole.
I've been cold once before well above a Marmots rated temps, but I blamed that on sleeping on snow on a 3/4 length Ultralight(thin) Thermarest inflatable pad. This time, there was no snow, all was dry and I was on a TR Camprest, very thick and heavy. I was shocked to be kind of cold.
So, was this a case of the Cat's Meow bag not at all living up to it's rating- as all my NF/Marmot bags had done in the past even under the stars? Or was it me becoming more cold natured as I got older? I tend to think the later. I just don't seem to handle cold quite as well as I used to. But I still figure I am about "average".
The European Norm (EN 13537) is the only standardized rating system I know of but it does include a rating for men vs women. Body types are only 1 individual factor. There are also the questions of clothes you sleep in, if you wear a hat, if you are in a tent or bivy or hammock, what kind of pad or if there is a pad at all, how the bag fits your body...
The big advantage of a standard like EN is that it is the same across all brands and models. Its nice to have the ability to say bag X was shown to be warmer than bag Y in the same test. If all the manufacturers used the same system I'd be satisfied. I can always add more clothes or vent the bag if its off for me personally.
I would say I'm slightly above average but a DEEP sleeper.
COLD sleeper, no doubt!
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cold sleeper here, the wife is hot as heck sleeper, so I don't have a problem for example ordering a TQ say, 40 degree with 3 ozs of overfill for me, then at 20 degrees the wife is using it while I am using a 20 degree with a couple of 2 ozs of overfill, and she is post toasty with the overfill 40 and I am post toasty with a 20 over stuffed, we balance our quilts out that way. Now if you give the wife a 50 degree quilt, she is good all the way to 40 maybe even 35,,lol,,but me,,I love lots of down.
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I found out the hard way that I sleep hot. Went on my first winter hang and the temps were forecasted to be in the low 30's. As a result, I felt confident in my 20 deg UQ and TP. The low that night went to 13 deg but I managed to sleep through the night.
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