Feathered Friends - Flicker Ultralight Quilt Sleeping Bag

If your budget permits, I can highly recommend a feathered friends quilt.

I live near Baker, and am always in the North Cascades (for context). I never use my 0 degree bag unless it is winter. I have always been using my feathered friends flicker, 30 degrees. I used it on Baker. Like others have said, the pad is crux. If I get cold I add layers. I'm not a warm sleeper either. AAI only rents high quality gear, and I always suggest renting from them if you aren't experienced enough to know what exactly you need.

I used a feathered friends 20f quilt and was amazed at how well it worked. I toss and turn a lot and was afraid I’d be woken from cold drafts. Not the case. Before this I had a mummy bag and never got a good nights sleep.

Agreed. Was responding more to the use of quilt vs bag. The quilt has the option of closing the “foot box” which I did use. I suspect I’d get a low temp rated quilt instead of a bag if winter camping

We’ve got two, a single from Feathered Friends and a double from Nunatak. Happy with both.

FF Flicker UL 20F owner here. They're all great. The inside is grey, so you can unzip it to "duvet style", point the grey to the sun, and have it dry faster. Get something hi-vis — blue, green, or orange, but not grey — since in an emergency, it's easier to spot non-natural colors from a helicopter 200ft in the sky than others. AMA you like; it was my quilt on trail, and 4 seasons later, it looks at good as on day 1. ————— — Pack a beanie. — Learn to use the TOP drawstrings to change how much warm air you keep inside vs. vent. — The warmest configuration (for me), was to "button up" with the zip "up". More down migrates to the side rather than the middle (which gets compressed under your back. It's just an fantastic bag. Zero issue recommending it. You'll figure out how to dial it in.

There are many full-zip quilts on the market. The Feathered Friends Flicker for example. The big advantage is temp range as you can use it as a blanket or a bag. But the big disadvantage is weight of that full zip -- and then you lose having a hood. So often quilts come with a short zip or just snaps at the foot, with a way to cinch up the bottom -- a nice compromise.

I wouldn't suggest getting a #3 on a full zip quilt, as those things are both really prone to snagging, as well as having a tendency of ripping off the track/getting damaged when encountering a little abuse. The Flickr for example uses a #5 which is... better. I guess it all adds up if you're optimizing. A Flickr 40F comfort is 541 grams with 238 grams of 950 fill. Not apples to oranges, but since it was mentioned, the Katabatic Flex 40 is 504 grams with 272 grams of 900 fill. So the Katabatic has more fill ( tho 900 v 950) and weighs a little less -- and is cheaper by *$150*. I guess is it worth it to you? Both are excellent sleep pieces, dunno if you'd go wrong with either.

I've had this exact bag in Orange since 2017, the color makes me smile and also is very visible when laid out on snow. I don't have a Durston but the orange has always popped in every pic I've taken of it FWIW. I went with 2 oz of overfill because I sleep cold, has done well down to about 25º for me. Lower than that I prefer true sleeping bags anyway, but I toss and turn a lot. [https://imgur.com/a/TapZOGv](https://imgur.com/a/TapZOGv)

I'm a restless sleeper and my Feathered Friends quilt was a gamechanger. However, I've never tried a *really nice* sleeping bag - the quilt I got was the first sleeping solution in that price range.

Fellow rotisserie sleeper here. Mostly camp in my hammock but also go to the ground when I have to, e.g. routes above treeline. I’ve done quilts and mummy bags on the ground, and I don’t like either in their traditional forms. A third viable alternative is what basically amounts to a hoodless “bag” of some sort: a false bottom bag (Timmermade Serpentes/Wren), a zipperless bag (Nunatak Sastrugi), or a fully zippered quilt (Feathered Friends UL Wide Flicker). You have the option to select from a variety of sizes to suit your needs especially with Nunatak and Timmermade, but be aware of the lead times and specific ordering windows that will require some patience and diligence on your part. I find I sleep less interrupted in these types of bags on the ground, while traditional top quilts do just fine in a hammock system with an underquilt.

Have you taken a look at the Flicker series from Feathered Friends? [https://featheredfriends.com/collections/flicker-series](https://featheredfriends.com/collections/flicker-series) They can be fully unzipped into a quilt, and two of them can be zipped together into one larger sleeping bag. Lightweight and packs small as well.

Yep, I recently struggled so much with a 20 degree UL Feathered Friends Flicker. I’m almost certain something about the build and materials stifled lifting ability.

Unsure, they still seem very good? The Flicker feels more inherent design issue

I have a FF quilt I could not be more satisfied with. FF for life.

I'm 191cm 190lb, have the feathered friends flicker long+wide and can definitely recommend it. You can definitely get away with the standard length version, but if you turn a lot the wide would be a good idea. I hate sleeping bags that constrict my legs too much but the flicker is great. It's a little heavier than some quilts but it's more versatile - can fully unzip for warmer weather, and completely shuts for colder weather, and everything in-between.

I’m always cold and a -20 feathered friends bag was more than enough. You can wear your puffy pants, down booties, puffy jacket + all of your other layers if you really need it

\+1 for Feathered Friends. Got one of theirs for our daughter to take to Pakistan