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 Tam O'Bam 01 Mar 2015
Just an idle thought.

Has any sleeping bag manufacturer thought of putting a sleeve on the underside of their sleeping bags to retain/house sleeping mats?

Quite possibly totally impractical, but it would help to prevent sliding off the sleeping mat in the middle of the night. Probably.

T.O'B.
 jezb1 01 Mar 2015
In reply to Tam O'Bam:

Macpac have, no idea if anyone else has.
 Billhook 01 Mar 2015
In reply to Tam O'Bam:

But if you rolled over in your sleep wouldn't it roll the mat over with you?
 Nick_Scots 01 Mar 2015

Cool and clever Product Designers at Decathlon. Google - sleep in bed decathlon. Ray Jardine - of friends fame - came up with the idea. As the sleeping bag under you gets compressed anyway. Cuts down on weight if you only need the top half.
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 PPP 01 Mar 2015
In reply to Dave Perry:

No - not with this design:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/review.php?id=5624
 zimpara 01 Mar 2015
In reply to Scott_vzr:

Ah compression. Brings back memories of sleeping in a net style hammock too small to fit a roll matt on and yourself... Bad memories... Shivers*
 Graham 01 Mar 2015
In reply to Tam O'Bam:

Quite a few companies have done this, or something like it - Sierra desigs, NEMO, Big Agnes.. It never really seems to catch on. I had a sierra designs bag with some straps on it to go around the pad, but I ended up just cutting them off.
In reply to Tam O'Bam:

Thermarest's new sleeping bags have this feature, no?
needvert 02 Mar 2015
In reply to Tam O'Bam:

If you took an existing bag and just added a solid sleeve, you'd end up using somewhere between 1/3 or 1/2 more fabric I'd imagine, driving up price and weight.


Quilts often attach to pads, eg:
http://www.enlightenedequipment.com/blog/quilts-102-pad-straps/
 galpinos 02 Mar 2015
In reply to Tam O'Bam:

My Mountain Equipment MM bag has sleeves for balloons so effectively and integrated balloon bed. Lots of other companies do the equivalent for sleeping mats.
 LastBoyScout 02 Mar 2015
In reply to Tam O'Bam:

North Face bags have loops underneath to attach the bag to a sleeping pad - you're supposed to add your own cord, depending on width of pad. Annoyingly, on my bag, the only have them at shoulder and hip level - could do with them at ankle level, too.
 Tricadam 03 Mar 2015
In reply to needvert:

> Quilts often attach to pads, eg:

+1 for quilts. I splashed out on one of these: http://katabaticgear.com/shop/alsek-sleeping-bag/ (or see here for review of similar bag: http://www.outdoorgearlab.com/Ultralight-Sleeping-Bag-Reviews/Katabatic-Gea... ) A 630g bag which, combined with e.g. an Exped SynMat UL 7, will do you down to -5 or -10 C - or lower if you wear some clothes too.
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