HOT weather under quilts

**perdidochas** · 01-09-2015, 11:15

Originally Posted by Gresh

Here in South Carolina, now that we're staring down the loaded barrel of February we're getting geared up for summer...which starts in March.

Summers here get up into the hundreds, which I'm sure is par for the course for lots of different parts of the world. That said, most of my hangs have taken place in late fall and winter and thus, I'm ill prepared for what awaits me in the hot, steamy months ahead.

What do you use (if anything) as an underquilt in the summertime? Are they mostly just good as bite-deterrents from creepy-crawlies, or do they serve a purpose beyond that?

Guide me, learned ones.

I use no underquilt in the summer here in NW Florida. No real need for them.

**gunner76** · 01-09-2015, 14:42

For hot humid weather I use a 1 season Jarbrige from Arrowhead. I will push it off to one side until and if it cools down enough to need it.

**ckmaui** · 01-09-2015, 15:15

I never new about UQ before when I lived in the tropics Maui is my home so low temps were never bad and other places

when I lived in the Bay Islands of Honduras I had a hammock up full time and just wore warm enough clothes and or used a blanket and laid on the blanket then wrapped the other half around me but I was inside a room so no wind or other weather dropping on me
even full time in my house just had to put one on for winter but most likely will come off in the summer again

think I would try to do some kinda super light synthetic with a shell covering to cut wind if I was out side

**Al-Bal** · 01-10-2015, 19:45

Well I'm new to this forum and I'm looking for an underquilt down to 0. So my question is I'm 5'11" and do I need a little extra length?

**ckmaui** · 01-10-2015, 19:52

if you are hiking with it and dont want to carry the extra bulk and weight of a longer one would be the question or if you car camp or short walk in to spots etc... ?

myself just shy of 6'
got the HG long and really like it so far with a bit of wiggle room back and forth and no worry about my head being past or needing a bit more past my feet but I dont hike with it
would get the long again to have that comfort of move around length

Originally Posted by Al-Bal

Well I'm new to this forum and I'm looking for an underquilt down to 0. So my question is I'm 5'11" and do I need a little extra length?

**Al-Bal** · 01-10-2015, 19:52

Perfect that's what I needed thanks

**SilvrSurfr** · 01-10-2015, 22:34

I'm 5'11" and have three standard length HG UQs. I don't think the long is warranted - you'll be fine with the standard.

**silent chad** · 01-15-2015, 12:54

In this part of Texas, we get the humidity with the heat. In 70f plus I find that a bug net can warm up the sleeping enviroment a little... I imagine from wind reduction more than anything.

I camp all summer long, I'm just a hot weather guy, and most of the time I haven't used an underquilt in the summer.... and I'm NOT really a warm sleeper.

If it looks rainy / windy, I may carry a light UQ and vent it or use a cheap microfiber sheet from walmart rigged with a little shock cord, but that's a very rare occasion.