Hello everyone!
I’m planning a bicycle trip from Florianópolis (Brazil) to Ushuaia (Argentina). Part of the route will go through Chile, and I’ll cross the Andes at one of the road passes. The total distance will be around 7,000 km. I expect the trip to take about 100–120 days, depending on how things go.
I plan to start in November. At the beginning the temperatures will likely be around +25 to +30 °C, and by the end of the trip they may drop to around 0 °C.
All my life I’ve traveled with synthetic sleeping bags — hitchhiking across Russia, hiking in tundra regions, and during a two-week cycling trip in Brazil and Uruguay.
But now I’m considering buying a down quilt-style sleeping bag. The option that fits my budget and is available in Brazil is the Naturehike CW295:
https://www.naturehike.com/products/cw295-down-ultralight-sleeping-bag
The problem is that in Brazil it costs almost $200! And it can get damp. My old synthetic sleeping bag (comfort limit around +5 °C) weighs about 1050 g, but I already have it, and I don’t have to worry much about moisture.
On the other hand, the down bag packs much smaller — about three times smaller in volume. Roughly 2 L vs about 6 L for the synthetic one.
What do you think?
For what it’s worth, I’m not particularly sensitive to cold.
by SergTili