High Peak Alpine Pak Sleeping Bag

by Alpine

Product Features

• TALL 20 Deg. Mummy Fits Up to 6' 5"
• 2009-2010 Model COMES WITH DELUXE COMPRESSION BAG
• Two Bags will Zip Together

Product Description

Backpack-ready Hooded Mummy Bag, BIG BUCKS OFF! This Mummy Bag is a big 90" long to snuggle into against the cold, but packs down to about the size of a football! Speaking of small... my volume buy means a BIG bargain! Features: Micro-mixed polyester fiber and a high-tech synthetic filament provide the ultimate insulation; Anti-bacterial and anti-allergenic Hollofiber traps body heat; Full-fiber silicon treated to fight moisture; Fill weight is 1 3/5 lbs. of Dura Loft Micron... this is backpacker lightweight; 2-way zipper Zipper and shoulder baffles with drawcord barrel locks; Hood with drawstring; Measures 34 x 90 x 21", just 6 1/2 x 11" packed in its own compression sack; Tough nylon taffeta outer is Dark and Light Blue Hang tabs at feet for drying. Order yours ONLINE Today! High Peak Dura Loft Bag, Light Blue / Dark Blue

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• ASIN: B0008GN7HY
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,853 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, basic three-season bag, January 28, 2008

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Arthur Digbee (Indianapolis, IN, USA) - See all my reviews
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The first strength of this bag is that it packs really small--small enough so that I've actually packed two of them while playing Sherpa for the family. It's long enough for me (at 6'2"). It's also available at a very reasonable price, though that comes at some cost in performance.

This bag's first weakness is its foot box. For all four of us, this is the body part that gets cold first in winter use.

The bags also seem to be losing their loft after about four years of use. I haven't decided yet whether the bags are getting less effective as a result (yet).

There's also a feature issue. If you're inside the bag, the interior draft tube and chest collar is hard to use in conjunction with the main drawstring and velcro snaps. It's easy for me to help other people with it from the outside, so if it's cold, I can tuck the kids in just fine. But I can't get it to work right from the inside of my own bag.

Now, the big question for a bag: how warm is it? This is marketed as a three-season bag, and it's certainly that. Here in the Midwest, however, I use it in four seasons for temperatures into the teens. I've used it for overnight temperatures into the single digits, which is well below the manufacturer's specs. (The bag has a label along the zipper that says "41F for comfort, 32F for tolerance, and 20F for extreme.")

I've been using it for about four years, in a family with two warm sleepers, one cold sleeper, and one medium sleeper. The temperature rating is about right for the medium sleeper. I wouldn't use it below about 40F for the cold sleeper.

I only take it into the 20s or below for our two warm sleepers in the family, and here's what it takes to work. As pads, we use a closed-cell bag with an inflatable Thermarest on top. We're in an REI Half-Dome tent, which is ostensibly a three-season tent but one that keeps warmth in really well if you close the vents on the fly. We sleep clothed, with an extra pair of socks because of the weak foot box, with hat and sometimes gloves. We've also used this in a three-sided AT shelter with temps in the 20s, while wearing our fleece coat layers as well as clothes.

So, at least for us very warm sleepers, the "extreme" tolerance goes below 20F with good planning and good layers. Experiment in your backyard before relying on this, though.

In short, it's a good basic three-season bag with some weaknesses but available at a reasonable price.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Deal Ever, September 20, 2009

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Kyle A. Warner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Peak Alpine Pak Sleeping Bag (Misc.)

I purchased this to use for camping out on Colorado 14'ers (for those not well versed in mountaineering, these are mountains of elevation 14'000ft+) and have had no complaints. I spent the night out at 12,000ft last night and with the wind and 25 degree weather, I was warm in shorts and a t-shirt. This has got to be the best piece of equipment that I actually took a dip in price with (all my other gear is top notch). Combine this with a Thermarest mattress (which costs more than the bag, but well worth it) and you have yourself the perfect match!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Size and Weight, December 17, 2007

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Patrick (Arizona) - See all my reviews

I bought this bag for its' size (fits in the front of my back pack) and its' light weight. I have used it a number of times and can't say enough good about it. It is narrow at the legs, which I like, but for those who prefer lots of room, this would not be your bag. Because of the design, it has kept me plenty warm at night.