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After having hiked over the mountain path for nearly the better part of the day, one is just looking for the right place to settle down. The welcome site of the camping tent beckons you. It is time to unpack and have the packed dinner. One is looking forward to sliding into the comfortable and cozy sleeping bag that is rolled up. It gives you a satisfied feeling that there is the sleeping bag for you to slide in, zip in and drift away with the cool wind all around and millions of stars in the sky watching over you.

When you go camping or trekking or mountaineering or whatever, and far away from civilization, it is just not possible to reckon of carrying a bed howsoever attractive the thought seems to be. But then nearly equally useful camping equipment that you can easily carry around is the sleeping bag. It nearly serves the same purpose as the bed. It is really a blanket with the sides closed with a zipper, and having soft cushioning or soft padding inside for giving the feel of a bed. The sleeping bag gives you warmth with its thermal insulations. Sleeping bags comes in two types. The normal ones are the ones that look like a blanket which can be folded and then rolled, tied with straps or cords and carried inside a backpack. Then there are the ones that remind us of the Egyptian mummies, and aptly these sleeping bags are called mummy bags. These have a larger opening at one end as compared to the leg side. It tapers down to the leg side. It cannot be easily folded or rolled. But it is better stuffed into a compression or stuff pack to be carried in the backpack.

There are different sleeping bags in the market which have different capacities to withstand water and come with different insulation capacities. The Marmot Hydrogen sleeping bag keeps you warm down to about 30 Fahrenheit.

The sleeping bags have different capacities in its water absorption capacity, insulation capacity and heat retention capacity. The insulation is quicker with the synthetic fill sleeping bag and it is warm even when the bag is wet. Its disadvantage is that it is not easily compressed and so takes up more space in the backpack. The lighter down fill bag though having lesser insulation capacity is able to retain more heat.

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