Sleeping bag liners

[Steve H]

My boys will be camping out in January (scout camp), they currently have Snugpak Softie Autumn (three season) sleeping bags, and I'm wondering if its worth getting a sleeping bag liner to make it more comfortable should it get cold. Ive spotted silk liners HERE but at £23 each arent cheap (I will need two), they claim to add one season to the bag.
Does anyone have any experience of these (or similiar) and are they worth the money, also bearing in mind they seem to sleep with their walking boots on how durable are they ?

[Steffan]

Get the thermalon liner from snugpak, it hugs the body and is very warm - cheaper than they too.
Highly recommended
Steffan

[guest18]

Also if you can try to convince them to lose the boots and go down to maximum a t shirt and sweatshirt on the top half. There is little colder than sleeping in your jacket then getting up and having nothing extra to put on! Tightish boots are also cold...

[jules]

Viv uses a Mummy shape fleece liner and swears by it,she got it from the Mcarthur-glen retail park and paid a couple of pounds for it.
If you are cold and get into a cold bag you will be cold
i too have a fleece liner,but its oblong(more room for my feet)it kept me very warm at theTaurentreffen,i can highly recommend them

[trophydave]

I have a fleece bag liner,bought from Yeomans,I cannot remember the brand.The only problem with it is that it tends to end up in a knot down at the bottom of my sleeping bag.

[guest27]

Any liner is a good idea as it allows you to wash it and not the bag.  Fleece are great if you are staying in one place, but bulky if moving about, and can be used alone in the summer or on a mates floor.  If you are moving about or space is a premium silk is the business.  Packs small, warm, even when wet, dries easily etc, but expensive.  Can also be used in the summer and great if you get shot with an arrow whilst sleeping  .  Cotton is OK but is not as warm as silk, and more bulky.  very cold when wet and takes an age to dry.

You pays your money etc.

I have a fleece liner, if I could afford it I would have a good silk one.

R

[Richard]

Stefan speaks great truth.  But any liner will improve the performance of the bag.  Some sleeping bags can be doubled up as well.

RIchard

[Steve H]

Useful info

Cheers

Steve

[guest7]

If you want to save money, I've got a fleece liner here that one of 'em can borrow and a very thin Vango one season bag for the other one. Both have worked very well for me in the past inside various bags.

Not too bothered about the walking boots, but it's a pretty dumb way to spend the night (imho). My only concern about the liners would be that if they broke them then they'd have to replace them. Other than that, let me know if you want to borrow them and they're here waiting.

GC

[niblue]

I use a silk liner with my bag and while it's very nice I wouldn't want to sleep in it with my boots on.

[guest24]

Last time I slept with my boots on was inside the leaf shelter we had built. Inside the shelter we had a long log fire that burnt all night with top ups as and when necessary. All very scary stuff sleeping next to a fire on a bed of bracken and spruce inside a wooden-framed leaf-covered shelter...!  Reason for keeping the boots on - it was too cold without them! Kept all the clothes on too for the same reason.

In case you are wondering about this camping trip, sleeping bags were banned, as were tents etc... All brilliant stuff. 

[guest27]

On a night spent on the top of Llanberis (week before Christmas) with no sleeping bag or tent etc.  Found even boots did not keep my feet warm.

Coo it was cold.

[guest24]

The mind boggles why you were out camping without the necessary accoutrements, or even a fire, by the sound of things? Had you been playing strip poker in a muddy field late at night with only Jack Daniels for company...?

[guest27]

It was a climbing expedition that went interesting and ended in benightment in a little hollow on the ridge at the top...  was a about 10 paces to a drop off on both sides.  Knew the get down was close by but the dark had closed in and the clouds came over making it real dark, decided that a night freezing in a hollow was preferable to peeling off in the dark about 10 feet from the safe path.

We did have fun - could even see the car parked in the layby with our sleeping bags, food etc.  something like 18 hours on a Marsbar shared between the two of us.  At least I was with Jen so we could snuggle up, would not want to do that with a smelly man!



Only a Diff, but wonderfully exposed - shame it was blowing a gale when we did it and we could not hear eachother - or see each other as it goes round corners on the traverse.



R