- Hey folks, Ben from Snowy's here today
with the Sea to Summit trek sleeping bags.
These have always been a popular and affordable option
and I'm gonna tell you all about them.
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Ben from Snowy's here guys
and in front of me here is the Sea to Summit trek
TK2 sleeping bag.
Now there's three different types of trek bags.
The TK1, TK2, and the TK3.
Which one you choose depends on how warm you want it to be.
Temperature range goes from 5 degrees comfort
for the TK1 through to -6 degrees comfort for the TK3
and that TK3 will go right through to a limit of comfort
of -12 which is where generally the standard man
will sleep comfortably.
In terms of weight, the TK1, the coolest of them all,
weighs 760 grammes,
and the warmest bag is 1.31 kilogrammes.
With your bag you get a storage sack
which is this one here.
It's what you'll store it in in the cupboard at home.
Don't store it compressed.
You get a compression sack that you can use
for your trekking and camping trips,
and you get a down compliance certificate
which actually tells you what the down
that was independently tested rates to in terms of loft.
There's a 650 loft duck down inside here.
Most of the time, it actually rates much higher than that.
Check the down certificate you've got inside your bag
because you're probably getting good value.
In terms of the sizes that the bags come in,
this is the regular here.
They also come in a regular wide
which gives you tonnes of extra width.
There's also a long which gives you extra length
and little bit of extra width as the regular.
Not quite as much as the regular wide.
The only exception there is that the TK3 doesn't come
in a regular wide size.
Only the regular and long.
Now a regular size gives room for a user
up to 183 centimetres, whereas the long
will suit a user up to about 198 centimetres.
If you look at the fabrics that the bag's made of,
the outside here is 30 denier nylon,
same as on the bottom, 30 denier nylon.
Inside is a 650 loft duck down.
It's an ultra dry duck down and it resists moisture
much better than down has in the past.
Inside the bag here is a soft duck touch 20 denier fabric
which feels really nice, it'd be nice to sleep against.
While I'm inside the bag here, I want to talk about
the anti snag feature on the side.
Sea to Summit incorporated two, slightly different panels
on either side of the zip here,
and it does a really good job at keeping the fabric
out of the zip.
You can zip this up and down as much as you like
and it doesn't get caught.
The days of getting fabric caught in the zipper are gone.
On the side of the zipper here,
there is a draught chute that runs down to seal the zipper up
so you don't get draught in and out of the zipper.
You'll also notice that there's no neck baffle around here.
On the TK1 and the TK2 that doesn't feature
but the TK3 does have a baffle around there
to go around your shoulders and stop hot air
from escaping up and out of the bag.
While I'm talking about the zipper here,
I just want to mention the zip coupling system
that Sea to Summit has incorporated
into all their new bags.
This side zipper is the same length as any zipper
in any series of bags that is marked as compatible
with a zip coupling system
so you can put a left and a right bed together.
That means you can grab a long one
and a sort one if you like
if they're marked as zip coupling compatible,
it's as if it's the same length
and the top and the bottom of this zipper lines up perfectly
so you don't get zippers undoing during the night.
Move down to the foot section of the bag here,
there is a second zipper on the trek bag here.
I just backed this zipper pull off a little bit
we can actually open up the foot section if we like
stick our feet out, or open the bag completely up
as a duner if the weather was quite warm.
While we're at the foot section here
I want to just mention that it's not
a big three dimensional foot section on the trek bag.
It does taper down to a narrow section here.
You want to make sure you get a little bit of foot space
or give yourself a bit of room in these bags
because you don't want your feet crammed up in here.
It's not a three dimensional space like some bags have.
I want to talk about the general construction of the bag.
The baffles are horizontal baffles
from midway through the bag here down to the foot.
The down runs in baffles across this way
and there's actually a little baffle in here
to stop the down from moving from the top section
to the bottom.
And then at the top here we've got vertical baffles
over the top of the torso.
That keeps the down up nice and high
over the top of your torso, keep you warm.
In terms of how the bag is put together,
it's not what we call sewn through construction.
This seam here
isn't actually sewn directly to the same inside.
There's a small baffle of fabric in between
to allow the outer layer and the inner layer
to continually be separated.
At no point is that pinched together
to create a cold spot where the seams are.
So it's a nice, warm and efficient bag.
I'm 6'1".
I want to crawl in the bag to give you
some sort of reference as to how it might suit you.
This is the regular which I said suits users
up to 183 centimetres.
I'm going to crawl inside this bag here
and see how comfortable I am inside.
Nice and warm in here today.
Put my feet right into the end.
Those anti-snag zippers make this really easy to do up,
there's no messing around.
You do this right up to the top here.
Then I'll crawl right in side the bag.
Though I fit in this, I don't have
my arms are against the sides
so it's nice and efficient,
I don't have lots of wiggle room.
The hood just fits over my head, my feet are at the end.
I think I'd sleep warmly in this.
Once you want to sew the bag up you do this to stop the zip
from undoing at night.
And I can pull the zipper, or the hood sorry,
with this draw cord here.
You tighten it up over the top of my head
and I honestly feel really warm here right now.
Not a lot of room to move, but it would certainly
be nice and warm.
My feet are just against the end
so at 6'1", that's probably the limit for this bag.
If you're any taller, I'd go with the large one.
I'm gonna get out of here because I'm getting warm.
The last thing I want to show you
inside these bags is a little accessory pocket.
Trying to get out quickly.
The feature's just here.
You can probably store a mobile phone or your keys in.
Pretty comfortably fit a mobile phone in there.
So you got it at hand over night.
Last thing I'm going to do is back it away
in the stuff sack to show you how small it is
when it goes in your pack.
When you're packing your down bags,
just stuff it into the bag.
You're not going to hurt it, just be gentle
when you do it, you don't want to be putting stress
on any of the fabric.
So if any air gets caught inside, just ease it in slowly,
push it down as far as you can.
Then just find the draw cord on the side there.
Now that's uncompressed.
We can pull a cap over the top here
and pack it down even further.
So just for reference sake,
here's a Nalgene bottle and that's the bag uncompressed.
If I was to now squash this down a little further
with these compression straps on the side of the bag here,
you'd probably get a bit more out of that.
It's about the height of a Nalgene bottle
and about twice the width.
So nice and compact.
These trek bags have long been popular
for trekkers, travellers, campers, hikers.
They're really versatile and they're affordable
for a down bag and these new range
bring a lot of technical features in
to what is a very affordable bag.
You can grab them online at snowys.com.au.
Lowest prices, everyday.
Hope that was useful, see you next time.
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