Sleeping Bags and Quilts

Feather Friends Tanager 20° (19oz)

This is my (Moose) go to bag for almost all my backpacking, excluding the coldest winter trips. They call it a "hot sack", its essentially a zipperless sleeping bag, which reduces both weight and bulk. It has a thin 7 denier shell and a 10 denier liner. With the exception of one snag on my running shorts zipper I've never had any issues relying on these thinner materials. Stuffed with 12oz of 1000+ fill power goose down this bag has kept me comfortable cowboy camping under the stars down to about 17° with light leggings and a down jacket. If you're a hot sleeper you may find this bag a little more challenging to ventilate on warm nights but fortunately I'm a cold sleeper and only struggle with this on the warmest nights, which is probably anything over 55°F. So to be fair, not that warm, but most of our hiking seems to favor cooler overnight temps. This bag performs as well as it did new, even after over 2500 miles and 150+ nights of use. I love this bag and have learned to accept being called an inchworm as I wriggle in out and of it sans zipper.

(Its the vibrant green bag in this photo on the Tonto trail in Grand Canyon National Park.)

Enlightened Equipment Enigma 20° (short, regular width 18oz, 950 fp down)

Enigma 30° (short, regular width 16oz, 850 fp down)

This is Bug's favorite quilt, she first got a the 30° for our Pacific Northwest Trail thru-hike in 2019 and never regretted the switch to the quilt. She's a warm sleeper and loves the freedom to ventilate the quilt on warm nights and to clip the straps on the back for cooler ones. The 30° was also used on our hike of the Grand Enchantment Trail across Arizona and New Mexico but she did find cowboy camping in the teens and low 20's to be a little chilly, leading to her purchase of the 20°. This new quilt has almost 13 ounces of 950 fill power down and has kept her warm during snow storms on the North Kaibab Plateau in Arizona and frosty desert nights Utah. She loves the sewn footbox of the Engima model but Enlightened Equipment offers two other variations and endless customizations.

(Seen here in Steven's Canyon, UT. No tent, no problem, it's probably just a passing shower anyway.)

REI Magma 17° (~2lbs 10oz) (new models available)

This was my first quality down bag and it actually preformed really well. I used it for the entire 1200 mile Pacific Northwest Trail in 2019, and a minimum of another 1000 miles of hiking. I actually combine this with a lighter quilt for use as a winter bag, into temps that sometimes dip below 0°F. Is it the lightest? No, but its well stitched and the 850 down is still pretty good quality and highly compressible. If you want a tradition style mummy bag with a big draft collar at a slightly less expensive price this is a great option.