Teton sleeping bag -35F

[elkhound]

Well after 987 years i finally took advice from @Sourdough and bought a Teton -35f sleeping bag that he has used for many many years.

It arrived yesterday and i crawled in it and zipped it up and in couple of minutes was zipping it down and crawling out...that thing is hot...its gotta be cold to use it for sure.It is a high quality bag.Its not a bag to backpack with its super heavy and large.I have other bags and one was a very very expensive bag way back in the day.But with current events the way they are and certain things i seen in real life happening to folks i decided a better bag might be prudent to have on hand...you can roll this thing out in any type building or shelter and be good to go in cold temps.

best place seems to be off amazon.

Some of the reason behind this bag goes back to my treeless survival thread.

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/treeless-survival.37506/

 

[randyt]

Well after 987 years i finally took advice from @Sourdough and bought a Teton -35f sleeping bag that he has used for many many years.

It arrived yesterday and i crawled in it and zipped it up and in couple of minutes was zipping it down and crawling out...that thing is hot...its gotta be cold to use it for sure.It is a high quality bag.Its not a bag to backpack with its super heavy and large.I have other bags and one was a very very expensive bag way back in the day.But with current events the way they are and certain things i seen in real life happening to folks i decided a better bag might be prudent to have on hand...you can roll this thing out in any type building or shelter and be good to go in cold temps.

best place seems to be off amazon.

Some of the reason behind this bag goes back to my treeless survival thread.

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/treeless-survival.37506/

I see there are two rated for -35, One is 119 the other 199. I wonder what the difference is

 

[elkhound]

I see there are two rated for -35, One is 119 the other 199. I wonder what the difference is

It should be 133 and 199....the best we can tell is the 199 priced one has the removable fleece liner thing in it.

you need to look very close at details of these bags because some look alike. these are canvas bags.

https://www.amazon.com/TETON-Sports...omfortable/dp/B00E9SUXXS?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1

 

[Mountain trapper]

Looks like a nice sleeping bag. I used to have one similar. I like the canvas bags with fleece lining. No plastic bags for me.
I don't care to ever see -35 again.

 

[elkhound]

The coldest i slept out in was -10f...in a tent...it was awful...way back when i was young.

This bag will be center piece for senior survival going forward...couple it with my thread about one room...if you are old or injured or struggling to get wood etc. for heat...you can crawl in this bag and not die over night.

Or in my cabin where i hope to build and have a sleeping nook with an insulated draw curtain and be enclosed to hold all body heat inside sleeping nook.

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/one-room.18998/

 

[randyt]

I have it in my amazon cart. I was always going to do a wiggys but the price

 

[Peanut]

I have the teton -25 bag. Never had to use it, knock on wood. I keep it in my truck during winter in case I break down or get stranded. If it ever gets to -25 in the deep south I'll have bigger problems than the cold.

 

[dademoss]

I kept all my high altitude cold weather gear, I REALLY hope never have to use it again.

Mostly North Face from the 70's and 80's

 

[randyt]

I have a USGI MSS bag

 

[elkhound]

I have it in my amazon cart. I was always going to do a wiggys but the price

I got a very bad report on a wiggys....and like you said...price....bad report was -60f bag too.(edit...at one time years ago the bag i looked at was like 6 or 8 hundred i think)

do all your own homework....i am not responsible for your decision....lol...this is new bag to me and untested...but @Sourdough sleeps in them in Alaska without heat.....!!

 

[randyt]

133 dollars not a bad risk

 

[Mountain trapper]

The coldest temps that I ever had the pleasure of sleeping outside was -65 in Antarctica. The company issued us mummy bags. I get clostaphobic in those things so I'd dig a little depression in the snow and lay down, the howling wind would blow over the top of me. It wasn't very comfortable sleeping but I survived without a sleeping bag.

 

[elkhound]

133 dollars not a bad risk

pay back for reading book thread.....lol

 

[Sourdough]

133 dollars not a bad risk

This is what @elkhound ordered: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E9SUXXS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

The $199.99 is the same bag but is the "LEFT" side zipper. Some look and sound the same but there are substantial differences. You want "Canvas" on the shell, the other shells you just slide around, they are very slippery. I get roughly 24 to 30 "months" of constant use of the bag I noted. I have never had sheets or blankets the last 26 years. I have a twin size bed that is 38" wide. The bag I mentioned is 40" wide and 92" long.

 

[elkhound]

This is what @elkhound ordered: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E9SUXXS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

The $199.99 is the same bag but is the "LEFT" side zipper. Some look and sound the same but there are substantial differences. You want "Canvas" on the shell, the other shells you just slide around, they are very slippery. I get roughly 24 to 30 "months" of constant use of the bag I noted. I have never had sheets or blankets the last 26 years. I have a twin size bed that is 38" wide. The bag I mentioned is 40" wide and 92" long.

i have a super heavy duty wool blanket that came from Istanbul in 1951...they used it....my grandmother used it...i have used it daily for about 15 years now...the sewn edge just started unraveling a bit and had to be repaired....i dont know why it wasnt made better.....lol...its super warm !

 

[Sourdough]

I ordered the same bag that @elkhound ordered about 7 hours before him. When is gets here I will have (3) THREE of those exact same bags still new in the box. I ha about (4) FOUR more of the same bags in various use of super well used to totally falling apart after two and half years of constant use. There are another two (maybe three) that are so used up that I use them for insulating concrete pours in late fall.

If I was just a little younger, I would buy one or two more at the $133.99 price. This is hard core survival prepping mentality at work, fully exposed. It is "Real" physical useful things that I value. Some people hoard cash, I hoard the physical things I can see and touch and use daily.

 

[Sourdough]

Some years back I went to a bunch of dumpsters, the huge ones, and found six military wool blankets that someone left lying near the dumpsters. One had some moth holes; others were as new. My Dad was WW-II Navy and in the 40's and 50's post WW-II all we had was piles of "WHITE" Navy wool blankets. I somehow think they cost Fifty Cents each.

 

[elkhound]

If a guy put on long handled underwear and crawled in this bag it be even more colder rating too.

 

[Sourdough]

Many would reply; Dude, I live in Texas or southern California. OK......I understand, you are saying there is zero possibility the grid could go down for several years, and it rarely gets below freezing in Texas. That be fair. But it could change. Volcanic eruption 6,000 miles away could block out the sun for months or years. POINT is: A super ultra-high quality sleeping bag is pointless prudent investment today.

Preppers don't prep for today.........Preppers, serious preppers prep. What for, you ask. They prep. that seems bewildering, baffling & confusing. It is that simple, they prep. They don't obsess about any specific possibility; they just keep prepping. They consider (quietly) those who prep for what they vote to be higher probability events to be silly and foolish.

My point is $133.99 to hedge one possible risk is not foolish. Actually having, even in Texas for $133.99 seems fairly prudent.


Note: I simply have used this exact sleeping bag for decades (likely 20 to 26 years) I think itis an insane deal at $133.99 delivered. And they are good concrete blankets.

 

[elkhound]

recall a couple or three years ago when texas grid failed and everything froze solid busting pipes and more and several deaths from various ways?....i do....the coldest it ever got here recorded temp was -35f in mid 80's.....that means it could get even colder with an event of global or local proportions.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

That very same bag on Amazon, for me, costs $283.00. I have a stock pile of quilts made in the distant past that meet the requirements of keeping things toasty.

 

[Cabin Fever]

I have my Dad's Wood's Arctic sleeping bag. He used it while helping build the Alcan Highway. Canvas outer shell, wool flannel inner shell, and filled with eider down.

 

[randyt]

Showed up today. Looks like a nice bag. I'm anxious to see how it does in subzero Temps. Looking forward to the extra room compared to a mummy bag. If I use this for winter camping I may make a canvas bag akin to a bivy bag to give it a little extra protection. I usually sleep in my sled

 

[randyt]

I didn't weigh it but the teton and the mss feel about same weight. The mss is compressible. Not sure about the teton. That's not a issue but just comparing

 

[elkhound]

the 'duffel' its in is pretty nice. i believe theres enough room to roll bag up with insulated underwear and socks inside it. also to put a ground cloth wrapped on outside of bag or folded up and stuck in one end of duffel and still get bag in duffel easy enough. make it a type of 'system' you can just grab and go if need be.