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If you are planning now to get a new sleeping bag, we recommend you to purchase also a sleeping cot or insulation mat. The soil over you will erect your camps will likely be cold or damp, and in such conditions you will not sleep comfortably; it may even be frozen, a fact that represents a danger for campers, or - in the case of tropical regions - many small animals may be present at soil level. Some of these may be harmful and even deadly; if you are planning to go to the tropic or jungle, you should have a hammock with you to sleep in.

There are different kinds of products; some are good and some not so, especially because they break apart after some use, or because they get soaked in water. If this happens, all their insulation value is lost, so you will be carrying a dead weight.

We insist in simple solutions to equipment needs because simple things tend to work better during emergencies or survival situations. Mats made out of neoprene are simple and inexpensive; there are indeed better ones, but these can even be cut out to improve your winter clothes, if necessary.

A poncho may prove indispensable: it is quite inexpensive yet multi functional, both for cold and warm regions: you may use it as an insulation mat, a cover you're your sleeping bag, and even to improvise yourself a hammock for those trips into the jungle we were talking about. You could indeed buy a hammock, but good ones are expensive, heavy and bulky, while a poncho, if properly sued, can achieve the same result at a fraction of the cost and weight, and then even better.

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