Hello,
I did two simple bikepacking trips over this summer and one over the fall. I used a CloudUp3 tent, R3.3 rating pads from decathlon and some 13° celsius~ sleeping bags that I got used from my parents.
The second of the two trips were done in October in Slovenia, we were around the alps area and the temperature hit 5°C during night with those nights being foggy and humid as well and the sleeping bags we had weren't really sufficient for this.
I'm trying to find something in around 150-200€ range now that I could buy that will surely be good enough to cover Spring/Summer/Fall and I'm a bit at a loss of what to pick. I'd say that the most important thing is that the sleeping bag is really able to keep me warm at those 5~ deg nights as fall is too beautiful to not bikepack. Weight and size are good to keep down, but I managed to make it work with these old and big sleeping bags so it's not priority #1.
Here are some options I considered so far but I'm looking for more opinions:
- Big Agnes Greystone 20F
- they seem to be 60% off now which makes them fit into my category
- this is similar to the sleeping bags we have now
- from what i read these are just good quality sleeping bags
- Gram eXpert eLight APEX 200 (-1C)
- i worry about the pack-ability of something like this, considering it does not come with a compression bag by default
- I also watched a good review by an UL hiker where they highlight this
- I like that this is based in my home country and that its a small company, this would make any repairs easy which is a bit of a pain sometimes when living in a small country
- This being synthetic is nice as I noticed that on the damper night when camping some condensation built up in the tent
- i worry about the pack-ability of something like this, considering it does not come with a compression bag by default
- Naturehike CW400
- I started off with this before getting deep into a sleeping bag rabbit hole
- Seemed like a good value for money at the start, especially conisdering it seems to compress down well it being quilt
- Money wise this is obviously what is the best 🙂
by just_brin