drthornton
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Went to REI at lunch today. Thought for sure I was coming home with The North Face Snow Shoe Long.
Bag was nice, looked and felt to be a quality bag. Thought about Smalls' compression comments so I decided to grab a compression bag off the shelf and see how small I could get it. First tried a 16L bag....could not even get it in. Then I tried a 22L bag and it fit. Compressed it as small as I could without sitting on it. Stepped back and thought "Holy crap, that's gonna take up a third to half my pack"! It was easily the size of an oblong basketball, probably more.
So I grabbed a Marmot Sawtooth Long and stuffed it in the 16L sack. It compressed to the size of a rugby ball...easily half the size of the Snow Shoe.
I didn't have time to try any others. By the way REI is awesome....they encouraged me to try out everything. I had bags strown out everywhere.
Wish I had time to see if I could have gotten one of the +25 synthetic bags in that 16L compression sack.
I think the SnowShoe is a good bag but I just can't see hauling that thing 3miles+ back.
I have heard but can't confirm yet, that the Lamalite Wiggy's uses compresses close to the size of down. At this point I am more concerned about volume than weight.
Looks like I'll be plugging out the scratch for a Down bag.
Bag was nice, looked and felt to be a quality bag. Thought about Smalls' compression comments so I decided to grab a compression bag off the shelf and see how small I could get it. First tried a 16L bag....could not even get it in. Then I tried a 22L bag and it fit. Compressed it as small as I could without sitting on it. Stepped back and thought "Holy crap, that's gonna take up a third to half my pack"! It was easily the size of an oblong basketball, probably more.
So I grabbed a Marmot Sawtooth Long and stuffed it in the 16L sack. It compressed to the size of a rugby ball...easily half the size of the Snow Shoe.
I didn't have time to try any others. By the way REI is awesome....they encouraged me to try out everything. I had bags strown out everywhere.
Wish I had time to see if I could have gotten one of the +25 synthetic bags in that 16L compression sack.
I think the SnowShoe is a good bag but I just can't see hauling that thing 3miles+ back.
I have heard but can't confirm yet, that the Lamalite Wiggy's uses compresses close to the size of down. At this point I am more concerned about volume than weight.
Looks like I'll be plugging out the scratch for a Down bag.