have you ever been really excited to go camping or backpacking crawl in your tent for the night from a long day only to get no sleep all night long maybe your back hurt or maybe you paid a ton of money for the best sleeping bag and instead froze all night my name is dan in this video i've got seven tips for the new camper hiker or backpacker to hopefully help them discover what maybe mistakes they make when they're putting together their sleep system one of the biggest mistakes that i see out there for new hikers campers whatever is that they don't realize that their sleeping pad or their sleeping matter whatever you call it is actually half of the warmth of their entire sleeping system so they'll go out and buy a bag that's really really warm i mean just a monster warm sleeping bag like this one this is a negative NUMBER_TOKEN degree fahrenheit sleeping bag as it's rated but then it's on a sleeping pad that's really only about a two season sleeping pad so this is probably good like late spring summer early fall that kind of stuff so if i decided out here and it is NUMBER_TOKEN degrees outside fahrenheit to sleep out here for the night i would absolutely be miserable in this setup even though this sleeping bag is rated for NUMBER_TOKEN degrees below zero the big reason is because when i'm laying on top of this sleeping bag all of that insulation underneath me is compressed so it's almost completely useless and then i'm relying solely on a sleeping pad that's only two season so while i may be warm on top underneath me i'm absolutely gonna freeze another one is that people actually believe the temperature ratings that are printed on uh their sleeping bags or sleeping pads we'll talk about sleeping bags real quick so what many people don't realize is that sleeping bag manufacturers um can put any temperature rating that they want on sleeping bags and there's really three ratings that they're going for they're looking for a survival they're looking for a risk and they're looking for a comfort rating and they can pick any one of those numbers to put on the bag but there is a standard that's out there called an en rating and companies can use it if they want to and they don't have to if they don't want to many do the good ones and some don't so what you want to do is look for a company that's been en rating it's just a standard to keep these manufacturers honest and even though it's been en rated and this particular bag says NUMBER_TOKEN degrees fahrenheit or negative six degrees celsius on here that just means according to this manufacturer even though it's been ian rated that the comfort rating is NUMBER_TOKEN degrees fahrenheit the transition range so probably we're going to start to feel cold is NUMBER_TOKEN degrees fahrenheit and the risk range in other words the hey i'm not going to die or i'm about to die rating is negative nine degrees fahrenheit so you really don't know what you're buying until you dig into the website or you dig into the ratings what if i've never used google before how do i find the en rating what if you've never used google before okay well actually that's interesting because you can actually go over to URL_TOKEN who's the sponsor of this video by the way and talk to one of their gear heads
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