NEW PRODUCT » Hammock Sleeping Bag System!

Introducing Wiggy's New Hammock Sleeping Bag System!

Cost: $350.00
Temperature Rating: +25° F
Colors: black, olive green, and coyote brown
Size: Long/Wide Body (34" torso & 90" length)
Weight of Bag: 4 lbs. 4 ounces
Weight of Ground Pad: 2 lbs. 2 ounces (20" wide x 84" long)

The HAMMOCK SLEEPING BAG SYSTEM corrects the biggest problem experienced by hammock campers, specifically when the temperature drops below 40°—a cold back. Obviously, the weight of your body crushes the insulation on the bottom of the sleeping bag. Cold air under the hammock is the reason for the cold back. This has caused people, including my company, to make an insulated layer to suspend under the hammock as close to the bottom side of the hammock as possible to give the person in the hammock protection from the cold air. These products have worked okay, except if the wind is blowing; now you have the problem of cold air getting between the protective insulated layer and the hammock bottom itself.

My initial thinking was to modify the Freedom Shelter bag so that the bag goes under the hammock itself, and that hammock-compatible sleeping bag is available. It certainly is better than having to attach an insulated panel under the hammock.

Having slept on a cot at hunting camp with temperatures as low as -30° F at an altitude of 12,000 feet with my ground pad on the cot I never had a cold back in 15 years of hunting in the Fossil Ridge Wilderness. I thought about putting a pad under the sleeping bag on the hammock only to find out what hammock campers already knew—it doesn’t work very well. However, if the pad is somehow incorporated within the bag itself that should, and does, solve the problem. All of the blowup pads do not work, but the densified fiberfill pads that I make do work. Once you are in the sleeping bag on the hammock with the pad in place under you it will curve around you. The sleeping bag is a center zippered design.

As you can see in the pictures, the ground pad rolls up to a diameter of about 5" and a width of 20". Then there is a picture of how the pad slides easily into one half of the bag first and the other half second. In this manner the pad is trapped and will not move away from your head or feet.

The sleeping bag is placed in a radial compression stuff sack: 20" long and 9" in diameter.

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As you can see I finally had the time to photograph the new hammock sleeping bag system.

If you'd like a bag that goes colder than 25° then call us and we can offer options to accomplish whatever temperature you'd like to camp in.