| Description: | Down Sleeping Bags vs Synthetic Sleeping Bags
What Matters Most in Sleeping Bags? When it comes to sleeping bags, the fill is what matters most. The filling must be able to hold or trap as much air as possible. Air is a poor conductor and hence a good insulator of heat.
The air acts as an insulant between the warmed inner and cold outer air. For backpacking and hiking purposes, the best material is that which does this job most efficiently for the least weight.
What I mean by compactibility is the ability of the sleeping bag to be compacted or made less bulky when packed. Fluff ability means that the sleeping bag must be able to quickly expand to its normal air trapping shape when unpacked.
In general, down sleeping bags are still considered superior to synthetic sleeping bags. But synthetic filled sleeping bags continue to make technical advances and will soon catch up.
Though some high quality sleeping bag manufactures still stick exclusively with down even when most |
