Slept Friday and Saturday nights in breezy 10 degree cold air, up on a mountain ridge, toasty and warm and comfortable. Use my Kelty Light Year down 20 degree bag with it zippered footbox open an inch to let me pull it over and around my hammock. In I go, up goes the zipper, and I and my hammock are cocooned in warm down with no fiddling with top or under quilts. The Grand Trunk Nano 7 with whoopies and structurual ridge line and tree straps stays pulled through the sleeping bag and I can still stuff the whole bag/hammock/suspension setup into the Kelty compression stuff sack that came with the bag. Ultralight. Ultra warm. Disclaimers. I had my MacCat deluxe tarp over me, with the tarp pulled within about 3 inches of the ground at its bottom sides, but no wings/doors added. I slept in Smartwool top/bottoms and a down jacket, with a super lightweight breathable pair of pants and jacket as my outer layer, and wore a smartwool balaclava and light fleece beanie. This made getting out of the bag in 10 degree air less painful, since I had my warm clothing on in the bag, and it effectively pulled the 20 degree bag rating down to probably zero or maybe 5 below. I really was plenty warm inside my little cocoon. I'm very happy with my setup. Oh, by the way, it was on Pennsylvania's Elk Trail. Lovely weekend hike with a high school friend I hadn't seen in 30 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xUY6_uMGQY
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