IYO what to do with 2.5# 900+ loft down

[Roadrunnr72]

What would you do with 2.5# of 900+ loft down.

What would I do? I would give it the chop chop. Get the down out of it and make a winter UQ, a summer UQ, and a TQ. I am problably not the best to answer your question as to the fact that I need all of the above.

[tammons]

No #6 option ?

[MedicineMan]

another option....
Look at a Western Mountaineering Ponderosa....it has two zippers.
In the early days of my hanging it served as a pod. The foot box zipper allows one suspension line to go to a tree....the other simply went to a tree.
I think with the Ponderosa and surely with your bag you'd have 8 inches of loft surrounding you.
So you could have someone with sewing skills add the foot box zipper. and probably will have to replace the existing zipper.
It's not exactly a peapod, it is open at the top but will cinch down around the neck, head in a balaclava and a very small pad under the head will do the trick.
I think JustJeff has(d) pictures of the Ponderosa set up at his site and they used to be in the gallery at WB. After sleeping in this set up I would not take it out unless I felt the temps were going to be 20 or less. I think the Ponderosa was rated at 15F,,,yours will take you far lower. I did use a Speer 8.5 hammock and one night when it was going to be around 0-5F I also put a ccf pad in the hammock.
I bet it would work with a Traveler but have never tried.
Just looked, JustJeff still has the pics:
http://www.tothewoods.net/HammockCampingWarm.html

[jred]

Why don't people wet the down & work with it like that? Seems like it'd make things much neater.

[KerMegan]

A) it takes forever to dry again and is clumpy
B) difficult to measure out equal portions
C) clings to everything; hands, fabric, tools, walls, cat....YMMV
KM