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06/9/2007 at 1:13pm
Location: South London
Outfit: Cabanon Aruba Force 10 Crux Storm
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Whether to take a duvet or a sleeping bag? Well it all depends......
If you're backpacking or carrying your kit on a bicycle or a horse, then it has to be a sleeping bag.
Again, if you're doing a family trip and space in the car is limited, then it has to be a sleeping bag. (The kids can take a duvet of course because they wrap themselves up in them in the car so they don't take up much extra space!)
For trips in the late autumn and early winter I take both because as I go on my own with a car I can fit both in. In fact I use the duvet with the sleeping bag unzipped as an under blanket.
Would have thought double sleeping bags are a seriously bad idea for those beyond the romantic phase: when one person moves, the other does too!
Good advise from someone earlier to pack your bedding up during the day because of mists (which seem to penetrate anything, even plastic!) and dew.
As regards condensation, well get a cotton tent to sleep in rather than sleeping in a plastic bag: sorted!
Take care
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06/9/2007 at 1:22pm
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I'm going to chirp in with another "it all depends".
Rectangular sleeping bags tend not to be as warm as tulip chaped "mummy" bags. The reason is simple, less space around the body is less space to heat. So if you took two bags, one tulip and one rectangular, both made with identical materials, the tulip bag would always be warmer.
Tulip bags still give you the freedom to curl up and usually have double zips, so you can poke your feet out. Obvioulsy they do stop you sleeping legs akimbo.
Rectangular bags can be zipped together to form a double bag, this can't be done with tulips. My OH hates this though. I sleep on my side,and the bag is too small to plug the gap between our shoulders.
So, reluctantly I have to take a duvet. It's not as warm as good a tulip bag, but it's close.
If you're planning on taking a duvet and pillows, get a vacuum bag - big enough to take a double duvet,four pillows and some blankets,it has an airtight zip lock and a valve. You're supposed to attach a vacuum cleaner and suck all the air out, but sitting on the bag works just as well. This will halve the size of your packed bedding. We got ours from Argos (pah! pah! pah!) don't know if they still sell 'em.
Up to you what you use. Do not expect the same solution to work year round, and use something thick between you and your airbed. Flock on PVC is not nice, and the airbed will be cold.
HTH
Mike Veal.
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Cant think of anything that would have improved the situation as it was cold wet fog. Spent the night under the duvet trying to warm the air with my breath and praying for morning to come. It hasnt put me off camping though 
