BB Bag Compression

[StumpJumper]

I have a great Black Bishop bag that fits my WBBB, TQ and UQ and very easily let's me deployed the entire thing of beauty by just snapping on one dutch biner and pulling.

My problem is stuffing into the bottom of my pack. Because the volume of down (Incubator & Hudson River) I'm not able to really condense the BB enough (getting a smaller BB would make stuffing everything nearly impossible!). The moment I stuff into the bottom of my pack, it starts EXPANDING like crazy. Stuffing the rest of my kit doesn't seem to help compress enough either.

Anyone have ideas for super light weight DIY compression straps that can be added to a BB? Or even a better way to compress?

[Cold Butt Stephen]

Just an idea, but what if you sewed two loops of grosgrain with buckles on them at perpendicular directions? You could make them long, buckle each of them and then cinch them down to compress your bag. The other option I could think of would be to make a blackbishop bag / compression sack hybrid, in which you would have the two corded openings of the bishop bag underneath the two compressing pieces of the sack.

I'm kinda havin trouble explaining it, but it would look something like this.

http://www.altrec.com/outdoor-resear...DDS&affNT=true

And under the top and bottom pieces would be the opening for your bishop bag.