Best Sleeping Bags of 2015
To conduct our 2015 sleeping bag test, test director Dan Nelson recruited multiple seasoned testers who used these bags extensively in a variety of camp locations and conditions, including riverside camps during rafting adventures in Oregon and Idaho, late autumn camps in the rainy valleys of Olympic National Park, and wilderness backpacking camps in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon. The team compared them side by side rating them on our six main criteria—compressibility, warmth-to-weight ratio, features, comfort, durability, and value. The Gear Institute Rating is the combined score across all categories, representing the highest overall level of performance.
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The Big Agnes Lost Ranger offers a load of interior space, making it ideal for active sleepers.
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The Kelty Dualist 20 pairs water-resistant down with a thin, quilted layer of synthetic closer to the body, to provide some of the loft of down in an affordable synthetic bag.
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Mountain Hardwear HyperLamina Flame
The Mountain Hardwear HyperLamina Flame 20 proved highly suitable for fast-and-light hikers who want a synthetic bag.
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The Montane Minimus may be the best sleeping bag in our test, but it can also be the hardest to find. The British brand lacks the broad distribution of bigger, better known US brands, but the Minimu…
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The REI Lumen provided a very comfortable night’s sleep in most temperatures, but the bag excelled in the cool, damp conditions.
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The Sea to Summit Spark III earned raves from the ‘light-and-fast’ packers on my test team, thanks to its great warmth-to-weight ratio and it compact nature in the pack.
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For general 3-season backcountry use, The North Face Furnace 20 stands tall. The Furnace 20 offers lots of room to move and fidget at night without being drafty, and the 550-fill down insulation kee…
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