Can you recommend a sleeping bag: light, under 30 degree rating, soft cloth liner, water repellent exterior?

If you can help me find our ideal sleeping bag, I would be so, so grateful! I‘m looking for something that is under 5 lbs carrying weight, the lighter the better, for cool/cold weather, has a flannel, brushed polyester or other soft/plush inner lining, with a water repellent exterior cover, and compressible insulation. Extra points if it is rectangular in shape! Any ideas??? All brands models considered. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you :) Jaspen

You are looking at good characteristics as well as poor. I think that you should study the REI sleeping bag finder. Furthermore, I will give you my choice of compressible, down sleeping bags: Marmot Sawtooth +15, $200, and Marmot Never Summer -0, $300. If you care about a soft lining, then buy a fleece blanket to put inside with you or, better yet, wear dry fleece baselayer to bed. Water repellent is a weird term, since fabrics vary tremendously in repellent strength. If you sometimes want your sleeping bag to resist penetration, then buy a casing bivy sack for it because more often you are going to want condensation inside your bag to escape. I have read about men carrying twenty-pound sleeping bags after a few days in below-zero weather because they did not release body condensation from their four-pound bags. Also, your desire for rectangular shape is not wise, since a mummy bag retains heat far better than a rectangular bag.

With every day pass, our country is getting into more and more trouble. The inflation, unemployment and falling value of dollar are the main concern for our Government but authorities are just sleeping, they don’t want to face the fact. Media is also involve in it, they are force to stop showing the real economic situation to the people. I start getting more concern about my future as well as my family after watching the response of our Government for the people that affected by hurricane Katrina. According to recent studies made by World Bank, the coming crisis will be far worse than initially predicted. So if you're already preparing for the crisis (or haven't started yet) make sure you watch this video at www.familysurvival.tv and discover the 4 BIG issues you'll have to deal with when the crisis hits, and how to solve them fast (before the disaster strikes your town!) without spending $1,000s on overrated items and useless survival books.

some of the qualities you're asking for in a sleeping bag contradict themselves, so it may be difficult to find one that has every single thing you're asking for. when you're looking at rectangular bags, those are designed for car-campers, and so you won't find one that's particularly light or compact. i've never seen a rectangular bag filled with down, which means they won't be compact. i agree with a previous poster that if you end up getting a mummy bag, then just buy a separate fleece or nylon liner. plus, those give you a variable bag rating so that you can use it in more temperatures. a warning on waterproof sleeping bags: you can indeed find a few that advertise themselves as such, and the exterior of the bag is certainly waterproof, but the pin holes that they have to make in the exterior of the bag to sew it together aren't waterproof, so you'll still end up with a small bit of seepage no matter the quality of the waterproof bag that you get. also keep in mind when you're shopping that apart from really only one manufacturer, a bag rating isn't the temperature which you'll be comfortable at, but the temperature that is basically survivable. so be prepared if you're taking a 30-degree bag into 30-degree weather with no additional warmth.

You are looking at good characteristics as well as poor. I think that you should study the REI sleeping bag finder. Furthermore, I will give you my choice of compressible, down sleeping bags: Marmot Sawtooth +15, $200, and Marmot Never Summer -0, $300. If you care about a soft lining, then buy a fleece blanket to put inside with you or, better yet, wear dry fleece baselayer to bed. Water repellent is a weird term, since fabrics vary tremendously in repellent strength. If you sometimes want your sleeping bag to resist penetration, then buy a casing bivy sack for it because more often you are going to want condensation inside your bag to escape. I have read about men carrying twenty-pound sleeping bags after a few days in below-zero weather because they did not release body condensation from their four-pound bags. Also, your desire for rectangular shape is not wise, since a mummy bag retains heat far better than a rectangular bag.

With every day pass, our country is getting into more and more trouble. The inflation, unemployment and falling value of dollar are the main concern for our Government but authorities are just sleeping, they don’t want to face the fact. Media is also involve in it, they are force to stop showing the real economic situation to the people. I start getting more concern about my future as well as my family after watching the response of our Government for the people that affected by hurricane Katrina. According to recent studies made by World Bank, the coming crisis will be far worse than initially predicted. So if you're already preparing for the crisis (or haven't started yet) make sure you watch this video at www.familysurvival.tv and discover the 4 BIG issues you'll have to deal with when the crisis hits, and how to solve them fast (before the disaster strikes your town!) without spending $1,000s on overrated items and useless survival books.

some of the qualities you're asking for in a sleeping bag contradict themselves, so it may be difficult to find one that has every single thing you're asking for. when you're looking at rectangular bags, those are designed for car-campers, and so you won't find one that's particularly light or compact. i've never seen a rectangular bag filled with down, which means they won't be compact. i agree with a previous poster that if you end up getting a mummy bag, then just buy a separate fleece or nylon liner. plus, those give you a variable bag rating so that you can use it in more temperatures. a warning on waterproof sleeping bags: you can indeed find a few that advertise themselves as such, and the exterior of the bag is certainly waterproof, but the pin holes that they have to make in the exterior of the bag to sew it together aren't waterproof, so you'll still end up with a small bit of seepage no matter the quality of the waterproof bag that you get. also keep in mind when you're shopping that apart from really only one manufacturer, a bag rating isn't the temperature which you'll be comfortable at, but the temperature that is basically survivable. so be prepared if you're taking a 30-degree bag into 30-degree weather with no additional warmth.