Sleeping Bag Liners . . . .
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. . . What Are They and Do I Need One?
Sleeping Bag Liners are a great way to keep you extra snugly in your sleeping bag, whilst helping to keep the sleeping bag clean (remember, you might not have showered for a few days and your poor sleeping bag will get the worst of your backpacking or hiking grime), and, if you get too hot you can always fore go the sleeping bag altogether on your hiking trip and just sleep in the liner.
Sleeping Bag Liners can add up to 15 degrees of extra warmth, so it really does help to make your sleeping bag suitable for a wide range of temperatures . . . beats buying lots of different sleeping bags for different types of hiking and backpacking trips at different times of the year.
Sleeping Bag Liners are like the silk sheets which make your already comfortable bed even more attractive, especially after you’ve spent a good few hours hiking the trails.
That fleece one sure looks cozy, but I do like the feeling of sleeping on soft silk . . . that’s just me I guess! Remember that the fleece one will be more bulky and heavier in your back pack too!
Make sure that you get a sleeping bag liner which is the same shape as your sleeping bag. A mummy shaped sleeping bag liner would be pretty annoying if your normal sleeping bag has room to maneuver, but on the other hand, you really don’t want a rectangular liner crushed inside a mummy sleeping bag . . . it would make it all wrinkly . . . a wrinkly mummy, that’s a first!
