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Bob Ward's Sports - Sleeping Bags

Bob Ward's Sports offers sleeping bags for all weather conditions and temperatures.

With almost a century in business, you can bet this is a trustworthy provider. Something that it is seldom mentioned whenever people are purchasing sleeping bags is the compression bag that comes with each one of them; this is the bag in which we laboriously put our sleeping bag each morning in a camp before loading the whole thing in a backpack. No one seems to pay much attention to these bags but they are important too.

The main reason to have such a bag is to protect your 'bed' from the aggression of the environment, which comes in the form of dust, sharp objects, needles, moisture and so on.

Sleeping bags have an uncanny ability to absorb water, so it is very often to find them after a long march wet or too cold. Whenever you get into your sleeping bag and cannot warm it up enough, moisture should be considered as a suspect because if that is the case, your metabolism is what acts like a stove to dry it up. Hence, you are losing heat and thus feel cold.

Under pretty normal circumstances this would just be an inconvenience; however, in extreme weather conditions a moistened sleeping bag could be hazardous for your health and even your survival due to hypothermia risk.

Thus, if you are about to purchase a sleeping bag, don't forget to get a good compression bag too, made out of thick and resistant, waterproof fabric.

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