Can you breathe inside a sleeping bag? With down or synthetic fill the honest answer is no—you will wake up humid and colder. With a wool sleeping bag the answer changes, and that change is one of the biggest wool sleeping bag benefits in cold weather: you can pull the bag over your head, breathe
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How much does a wool sleeping bag weigh? Ours run from 4 lb to 15 lb depending on the bag, the size and the loft. The one you would carry — the Rewilder in Standard 2″ loft, field rated 20°F — is 4 lb / 1.8 kg, which is about three times the weight of
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Canvas tent care comes down to air and patience: let the canvas dry every time it gets wet, keep it off damp ground, and give it wax when the rain stops beading. Beeswax organic canvas has no coating to peel and no membrane to fail, so a Lucky Sheep® canvas tipi that is dried, aired
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Waxed canvas is the one piece of outdoor gear you can bring back to new at your kitchen table. When rain stops beading on a jacket, pack, tarp or tent, the fix is a bar of wax, an iron or a hair dryer and half an hour. This is how to rewax waxed canvas the
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Sleeping outside without a tent is how I have spent most of my nights in the woods, and it is how I would tell almost anyone to start. A tarp open at both ends keeps the rain off and lets the night air move through, so you wake up in fresh air instead of your
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A sleeping bag liner is a thin sleep sack you slip inside your bag — or sleep in on its own on a warm night. Made of merino wool it adds about 10°F to any bag, keeps sweat and skin oil out of the insulation, and is the one part of a sleep system that
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The funny thing about my search for non-toxic camping gear is that it started at home. After a decade of living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities I had gone organic with my clothing, bedding and cleaners — and my outdoor gear, which was supposed to get me closer to nature, was still the most toxic, unnatural
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Tent condensation is the water you wake up in: droplets hanging from the shelter, dew on the gear, moisture in the air around you after a cool, damp night. The conventional solution is to fight it. At Lucky Sheep® we take a different approach—invite the weather in, and use natural materials that know what to
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A wool bedroll is the oldest sleep system there is: something that sheds weather on the outside, wool on the inside, rolled up and tied in the morning. The cowboys had it right, and so did the old-timers I learned from. The Lucky Sheep® wool felt bedroll is the updated version, 4 lb of dense
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Summer Nights Call for a Lighter Sleep System There’s something special about sleeping outside on a warm summer evening. The air is soft, the stars stay out late, and you don’t need bulky winter gear to enjoy a comfortable night’s sleep. One of the greatest advantages of wool is that it naturally regulates body temperature.
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