Feathered Friends - Petrel 10 YF Women's Sleeping Bag

I use a -10F bag in PNW. I slept it in in temps hovering around 25-30F, and it was comfortable - although I ended up sticking my head out of the bag hood. This is a bag known to easily take -10F (Feathered Friends), so what I basically go out of that in sub-freezing conditions you can have much too warm of a bag and be totally fine. It seems to be mostly when we get in warmer temps that this can be an issue.

There isn’t really an absolute best, but I like Katabatic for a quilt and western mountaineering or feathered friends for a bag. I prefer quilts down to around the low 20s, bags below that. Having a pocket in your quilt for a sleeping pad seems silly to me.

For sleeping bags I do Feathered Friends. PHENOMENAL products. Carefully selected down feathers and they don’t have to kill the animals to get them. I’ve got 3 different Feathered Friends sleeping bags for different temperatures, including an ultra thick one that I’ve used alone sleeping in no-tent self-dug snow trenches in the middle of Yellowstone in January. The outer layer of the sleeping bags is synthetic, but the primary ingredient is natural feathers. I also have one of their down packable jackets, but it’s too hot, even in -20F. Last time I camped in deep snow for a week, alone, on cross country skis, pulling all my gear on a Fairbanks siglin pulk sled behind me, I found I didn’t need much during the day, because I was working so hard I was always hot. At night I would dig a trench, lay a tarp across the top, supported by my ski poles, and sleep in my FF down bag on top of a thermarest. I’d keep my boots in the bottom of the sleeping bag so they didn’t freeze overnight. Wool socks, wool long underwear, wool sweater, synthetic wind-and-snow protecting pants and jacket. Wool hat, neck gaiter, and gloves. Synthetic outer-layer for gloves to keep my fingers drier. Smartwool makes merino wool boxer briefs. You need less than you think. (Except calories, holy f— do you need a lot of those.)

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

Another vote for Feathered Friends or Western Mountaineering bags. They’re supposed to last for a decade or more and are very warm. I have a FF petrel and love it so much.