Here we've got the big agnes women's roxy and 15 degree sleeping bag this is. A fully featured lightweight very. Innovative sleeping bag that is perfect for any backpacker or camper that's. Looking for an excellent sleep system something that's very comfortable and warm and gives just enough features without adding a lot of weight. The standout technology with this big. Agnes sleeping bag is the down tech. That's used to insulate the bag so you. Have 650 fill down and the important. Think about down tech is that each plume. Of down is coated with a water resistant. Finish so unlike traditional down if. This bag were to become wet it would dry. Our really fast it retains its thermal. Efficiency if it becomes wet or damp and. Ultimately it keeps you warmer in wet. Conditions the second thing that's really great is these baffles this has a vertical. Baffle design rather than your traditional horizontal baffles that go. This way this does a couple of things on it really transfers your heat up and. Down so the heat from your core can. Really flow back and forth down to your down to your feet keeps you a lot warmer when you're sleeping at night and in. Within these baffles you have little. Chambers so there's a lot of technology. There where you don't have unwanted shifting of down so you do have these really long baffles but the down isn't going to shift and create cold spots one. Think that we've come to know and love about big agnes is their sleep system so. It's not just your traditional sleeping bag you've got your sleeping bag that is. Integrated with a sleeping pad and i. Peel back the hood of the sleeping bag. Here you can see that i. A big agnes double z sleeping pad in. Here and it's integrated with the. Sleeping pad sleeve so unlike a. Traditional sleeping bag that has the. Some insulation on the top as it does on. The bottom with big agnes sleep system. Bags most of the bottom of the sleeping. Bag is completely uninsulated so you do. Need to use the roxy in sleeping bag. With a sleeping pad you need a sleeping. Pad that is at least 20 inches wide and. About 72 inches long it'll fit their in. That pad sleeve big agnes sleeping pads. Fit best inside those pad sleeves but. You can use other sleeping pads that are. The same length again there is a section. Of the sleeping bag here that is uninsulated so right here you just have. A really soft lightweight fabric starting right here at the stitch line. You've got nice baffled warm down. Insulation so this is going too really. Insulate you on the sides and up the. Side of the sleeping bag it really does trap in your heat you're not going to lose a lot of heat because you're. Sleeping on top of that insulation anyway so once you compress the. Insulation that you're sleeping on it doesn't really give a lot of thermal efficiency so big agnes found a way to. Just remove all of that insulation it lightens the sleeping bag and you're carrying all-in-all a lighter weight bag. And it packs down to be smaller as well. Again with the add sleeve this is sewn in so if i were. To peel this back you could see the. Pad sleeve runs the whole length of this. Sleeping bag if you toss and turn at. Night or if you roll from side to side you don't have to worry about your. Sleeping bag moving off of your sleeping pad and either ending up halfway on the. Ground or on the ground so it's just a. Really comfortable sleep system it feels. A lot more like your bed at home i do. Want to mention that the top portion where the hood is this is fully insulated so you have a nicely baffled. Hood and it's insulated all the way down. To here on the bag and also a nice foot. Box at the bottom so this foot box here. Is insulated as well so the features of. This bag from top to bottom starting. With the fully baffled hood really warm. If you need to cinch that down with this stretchy draw cord that goes above and. Below your head there's also this within. The pad sleeve but there's a stretchy area where you could stuff a pillow or. An extra layer or something like that to. Give you a little bit of a pillow there. You have a full length zipper goes all. The way to the bottom of the foot box. With this sleep system you do have a. Pretty wide foot box here so it's a semi. Rectangular shape it's not completely a. Mummy it's not completely rectangular but you do have a lot of room their in. The foot boxes so a little bit more sprawling comfort with this bag up at. The top with the zipper if you need to vent the bag from the top but you don't. Want to lose this in the middle of the. Night you can attach that so you still. Have you know everything cinched up around your head but you can vent a little bit if you need to same thing there's a double zipper so. You can vent from the bottom of the bag as well you can close that off so that. You don't have velcro if you have the. Bag open one thing inside you do have. These little loops there's there's four of them and if you need to attach a sleeping bag liner you can attach it there, so they don't get all bunched up in the middle of the night there's a nice draft tube behind the zipper so. That prevents unwanted cold spots and. Sometimes with this really lightweight nylon rip stop material your unzipping. And zipping your bag and it gets caught in a zipper so a big agnes has done is. Have they've kind of sewn in a really. Durable material right here behind the zipper and that prevents snags and if it does snag it's not gonna. Rip that lightweight fabric so that's a nice feature there's a little collar. Here that fits snug right around your. Head feels like a nice blanket at home. You can put that out you can tuck it in. It's nice a little feature there if i. Unzip the bag there's a nylon taffeta. Lining on the inside this is a really. Soft fabric and you know it definitely feels nice against your skin the bag. Does come with an included stuff sack. It's very lightweight small pack size. For a 15 degree bag with that 650 fill. Down so you can pack it down to be. Pretty small there it also comes with an. Included storage sack so when you're not. Using it storing it at home store it in an uncompressed state but while you're. Traveling with it while you're backpacking with it you can stuff it down to that small pack sighs all in all this is a really great. Sleep system you've got high quality. Materials you've got really good technology with the down tech and the in. So tucked flow baffles and just all in. All a great sleep system it's the big agnes roxy in 15 degree bags.

Hey everyone this is david woman and today I'm going to do a review of this mountain hardwear torch lamina z. Sleeping bag and it's a five-degree bag. And it's about 70 up so I'm a little. Warm right now mo toasty a little ready. To get out Oh. All right so in case you missed it this. Is the mountain hardwear torch lam ZEE which is the men's version of their five. Degree Fahrenheit sleeping bag overall i want to say i really like this bag and i would keep it. Except for one factor which I'll talk about later and but it's been I've had. It for almost a year now it's been across the u.s. with me japan in snow storms it's been in summer. It's been in a living room lots of aluminum and i can fairly accurately. Attest that it's a great sleeping bag i put it through the wringer for sure I'm going to start with a few things that i do like about it first of. All i do like the brand mountain hardwear and i do like the color. Important i do also like one thing i liked about. It is the welded pam construction now if. You know anything about baffle construction in these kind of products is anywhere that is if you don't well. Depending on the kind of construction typically if it's sewn then you're going to have this spot where the two fabrics meet together for the zone and it's a spot where he can easily escape. Because there's very few barriers by doing the welded you end up having loft all the way through the bag which is really nice less heat escapes that way i. Do like the zippers have been very good it's a large ykk zipper. And the air guard on the zipper does. Occasionally get stuck but I'm not going to call it a complaint because it's pretty minor it's got one strap that. Goes from the outside and then swings towards the inside so you can access it. From either side it is a double zipper so if you tend to get hot feet at night. You can unzip this and stick your feet out the bottom or for airing it out or. However you want to use that and it is a. Double zipper the velcro around the neck. I haven't had any issues with some people typically complain about that on. Sleeping bags that use velcro i haven't had an issue with that granted i don't use it a ton typically i just zip it up. But i haven't issues with it some things i don't really like about this pag and take this. With a grain of salt because they're not huge issues to me like i said i have the. Only reason I'm not going to keep it is for one reason and it's not one of these so i don't really like the fit of it now. That's something that i should have looked into more when i got this bag and it's something that i just didn't know at the time or thing to consider but just because something is a mummy bag does not mean it's going to fit you exactly the same every manufacturer has. A different fit and sizing chart and this bag in particular is quite broad. And has a lots of space in it which is great if you want to move around and twist a lot but for me I'm typically. Looking for something that is compressible small and holds in my. Warmth really well so i need to look more carefully next time at a bag fits me really well this one just has a lot. Of space around the shoulders and even the head when we cinch it up I've still got a bunch of dead air space next to my head and it's just unnecessary energy. Being wasted and heat being wasted so. That's that's my fault not necessarily the bags thing just something to know it seems to be a little bit wider than other bags to things that don't really like about this bag the drawstring the. Drawstring is difficult in my opinion it. Is a elastic shock cord which isn't. Necessarily a bad thing but the actual mechanism itself is a very stiff spring which is hard to open especially when. You're tired but also i think more. Importantly i don't like the angle of it some bags put it on the inside so that. You can easily access it but if you're all zipped up they're nice and cozy and snuggly for the night it's really. Difficult to kind of reach out through the neck and tighten things it's just. It's just difficult and it's stiff i don't know I'm not a big fan of the draw cord i wish it was on the inside and i wish it was a little easier to adjust that's just me also they have this. Zipper on the outside a very small. Little pouch good for like a cell phone. I use it for well use it i would use it. For a camera or like camera batteries. Sorry not a full camera a camera batteries or by phone to keep it warm at. Night so that the batteries don't end up going kaput well that would be great except that. They put it on the outside of the bag on the outside of the insulation which means your body heat doesn't keep it warm and there's nothing from the outside keeping it warm so basically anything you put in this bag is going to. Be freezing by morning and so that doesn't do me any good for me personally i would prefer it was on me inside then. It might have some use that's pretty. Much it oh the one thing dun-dun-dun the one. Reason I'm not going to keep this bag for too much longer is compressibility and that's not necessarily the bags fault it's just because of what i do a lot of backpacking and hiking and i. Need something more compressible because this guy even at its smallest point with. Me sitting on it and squeezing the life. Out of it doesn't really fit into my 70 liter backpack very well and so it's. Just not a good fit for me if you're. Doing a lot of car camping this may still be a great bag and I'd recommend it but if your goal is ultra light and small i would not recommend this bag all. Things considering i suppose that being. A synthetic 5 degree bags it compresses. Pretty well but i know it's a little big. For me it does come with its own compression sack which is great and its own storage bag closet storage bag the. Compression sack i will say is well fitted to the bag i do like that is if. You buy another one you're actually not going to get it any smaller they pretty much made the compression sack to be at. Its smallest point which i do like a lot so a well-fitted compression sack and a. Nice storage bag those come with it i do like that i do like the bag i would. Recommend someone else i won't be keeping it for much longer because I'm going to get a nice down one and that. Will compress a little bit more and be better suited for my adventures but. Overall this is a great bag you can find. More info about it on mountain hardwear's website or like rei website as far as actual weight and. Fill weight and it is a synthetic now. Down i don't know if i mentioned that and it's a good bag it's a good bag i. Would definitely recommend us if you guys have questions feel free as always. To drop a comment below i typically respond to those within a couple days and sometimes even post a follow-up video if i feel the need and so please. Do that and subscribe for more reviews and adventure vlogs that will be coming and photo shoot stuffs and etc yada. Yada and now I'm rambling so until next. Time has a good one get outside and. I'll see you then.

On this week's episode of tech review tuesday we're going to take a look at. The north faces aleutian synthetic. Sleeping bags for men and women what's up journey airs welcome to our channel if you are new. Make sure you hit the subscribe button down below and make sure you hit the notification bell so you don't miss out on any awesome videos we have coming up if you are new to our tech review. Tuesdays welcome we are so glad to have. You here if you haven't checked out some of our other videos we'll put them on the screen somewhere for you to check it out we are so excited about this travel series because we want to showcase some of the products that we use on our travel videos so that you can make the. Best decisions when you go to travel or. Itself if you're interested in getting. Any of our gear that we feature on our tech review tuesday please check out our amazon affiliate link which is going to be located in the description box below part of the proceeds will go to help us. So one of the most important items in. Camping gear that you need is your. Sleeping bag absolutely let me tell you. What i know what it's like to be miserable without one what do we mean by that well let's take a look morning yes he slept for an hour today. Good morning kelsey i didn't pay more. Than two hours of sleep i think i didn't. Miss a little bit it's about 3 a.m. and. I'm, and she's what do you want me to do. Just we're gonna spoon. 20 minutes later i finally stop stirring, but she was chu shivering dude, so we were both like really rough night. For us it was pretty terrible first time. In yellowstone camping my first 70s gone camping and i was absolutely miserable so let me tell you what when. This sleeping bag came around the next year i was happy. Yeah i think it was a little bit different it was a entirely so these. Sleeping bags retail for about 100 to 180 and i know that may seem a little. Pricey for a sleeping bag but it is a hundred and twenty-seven percent worth it and I've had mine for going on three. Years now, and we use them a lot obviously they come in immense, and they. Come in a women's the men's i have a 35. They also have a 20 degree and the. Women's is a 35, and they also have a 20. Degree the men's the 20 degree comes in. A nice blue and i think it's like a great spy rubber quickly and the women's. Is more of what you say kind of look good turquoise like a darker blue yeah. It's like a darker blue also a gray. And obviously these are orange women's. Actually has a updated one called the. Women's north face cat's meow which is. Literally pretty much the newer version of the aleutian for the women's side the guy still does the men's solution i think the cat's meow sounds a little bit better to them than solution exactly. The same features as this sleeping bags different color just different color and a different this is all personal preference depending on what degree you want some people like higher degrees some people like lower i should like the higher degree because i get extremely hot really fast i personally like. Lower degree as in the 20 because i get. Cooled very easily so the 20 degree is perfect for me because i don't have to freeze yeah and the only difference pretty much is how thick it's gonna be alright guys, so we're gonna tell you a little bit about the different features of the sleeping bag so first feature is. These are mummy style sleeping bags what. Does that mean they do exactly that. That your head the whole purpose of it is to have as little exposure for air to come in to freeze you out, so we as well. Have these little things that actually tighten around your head yes right by your head if you tighten so it's nice. And close but this keeps it in a nice cocoon shape so you feel all good and snuggly this is a 30% down synthetic and. They call it the heat seeker eco. Synthetic pretty much what that means is it's gonna stay lightweight but it's gonna keep you warm all the sleeping bags have double zipper on each side one. Into one that's on the men's and women's but there is a difference there is a. Short zipper which is on the left side for me and then a long zipper which is on the right side for me and that's just your preference you can get the different zippers you get opposite basically the purpose of the zippers on both side is to give you that feel that you're at home in bed so basically you. Could zip it up all the way keep all the heat in or you could unzip it to about to this point where it goes about like right underneath there and then zip it on zip. It down on the other side and then you can fold it down so it kind of gives you that like you're under the covers kind of feel so that's the purpose of that and it's really nice to have just kind. Of feel like you can breathe a little bit more too but sometimes a little too snug absolutely depending on what season these are a three season sleeping bag. That is another feature these are not meant for deep winter you know like. Mount everest you're not gonna stay warm in those okay these are meant for spring summer fall you can pretty much get away with any trip that you go on we have done these in 10,000 feet in 20 degrees and stayed completely warm oh these zipper goes all the way around too almost. Basically the other side of the sleeping bag so what's great about the foot section is that it kinda has this square. Shape at the bottom so that it lays flat so you don't have like just yeah you. Don't have access room for it flop all over the place when you're sleeping it's gonna stay completely center so what's great is you can unzip it and give yourself so a little bit of breathing room for your feet and that is a great feature that's a great feature for summer camping when you still want to feel snugly but you kind of feel like. You're getting in a hotbox usually just pop the feet open and you're good other. Think you can zip it like we said all the way and just lay it flats and you can. Literally have it as a blanket we have done that multiple times so one of my. The Biggest dislikes for my bag is i know. Exactly it is so warm and that's not the. Dislike the dislike is because it's the. Lower temperature sleeping bag so the. 20-degree one it's thicker so it does. Not compact easy and that is the biggest. Think i do not like about this thinking value i have to stuff it stuffs. That it takes two people with mine yes and you've got it with one to start. Weight where i grow good on my own but it is that i mean i love this sleeping. Bag but i hate that part am i just like I'm just limited on how cold i can put. Myself back country situations so be it only. Being 35 degrees i do get warm a lot but i can only go so far before i get fruits for me just realizing that it is limited in that. Since that i can't push the boundaries all the way to really do some winter camping that that will really so if you're looking for some car camping or just some local camping i would totally recommend this big sleeping bag is great. For if you want to go to yellowstone and. You just stay at a campsite and you pull your car right up tetons she's done some. Backcountry with it just know because it's bigger it's gonna take up a little bit more room in your back yeah i would totally recommend this one for that but if you're looking for back country camping i would recommend a smaller one. But the problem is you're going deep. Into the mountain your argument just depends on the time of year like this you can get away with probably about sixty seventy percent of a year but if. You're getting into higher elevation it's gonna be cold 35 degrees they can cut it for you so you got to go to 20 thank you guys so much for checking out. Our page and coming along another tech review tuesday with us we had a blast. Featuring the north face men's and. Women's aleutian sleeping bag remember the women's now it's called big cats yeah guys if you want to purchase one of. These sleeping bags the link is below make sure you hit our link helps us out. So we can continue doing more videos like this please subscribe to our channel so you don't miss out on anymore awesome videos we are coming give us a big like and tell us what your favorite sleeping bag is in the comment below also another. Shameless plug we have merchandise that is also in a. Link in the description below coffee mugs bees hats t-shirts long sleeves can't go. 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