- Hey folks, we're got the Marmot Sawtooth sleeping bag
here today, it's a thermally efficient bag
with a technical design and it's great for all your camping
and hiking adventures.
I'm gonna tell you all about it.
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Hey there folks, Ben here from Snowys here today
with the Marmot Sawtooth sleeping bag.
Now this is a down-filled bag,
still quite affordable and it's got
a thermally efficient design which makes it light enough
for your hiking adventures,
and it's got some pretty cool features in it
and a bit of room to make it comfortable
for your camping outings as well.
Now the temperature rating for the Sawtooth bag,
they have been EN tested,
and they started at -6.4 degrees comfort,
and it'll take you through to a limit of comfort
of -13.3 degrees.
The weight in the bags, (zipper does up)
the regular that I've got in front of me here
about 1.15 kilos.
There is a long available which we don't have
at Snowys at the moment so I can't confirm the weight,
but it takes you through to about 1.3 kilos.
And when you buy your Sawtooth bag
you get two sacks with it.
One of them's this big mesh sack here which is
for storage, to allow the,
allow you to store your down bag lofted,
to maintain the performance of the down.
And you do get just a basic stuff sack here as well.
Now the bags are available in a few different sizes,
we've only got the regular here at Sonwys
at the time of shooting this video,
which suits users up to 183cm.
Now Marmot do say that they make a long
and a long wide bag as well.
Don't have those details here right now,
but if we get them, keep an eye on our website,
we'll make sure it's all posted on there.
What I can tell you though, is what the bag's made of.
Now the top of the bag here is 20 denier,
mini ripstop nylon.
The base of the back, a 30 denier nylon,
and inside the lining (zipper undoes)
of the bag, also a 20 denier nylon.
Sandwiched in between all of that
is a 650+ loft of duck down with what Marmot call
their Down Defender treatment,
which a treatment to the down that gives it
a water-resistant, waterproof property,
so if it does get wet that down doesn't collapse down,
it still has some performance in the damp,
and it also dries out a lot quicker.
Now while we're inside the bag here I'll just show you
(zipper undoes) the features in there.
Now, this zipper down the side here
does have an anti-snag tape along here,
and the zipper itself also has, kind of,
a zipper protector cover on it
which helps the fabric from getting caught in the zipper.
There is a draught tube here that runs right along the zipper
down the side, and a neck muff inside the bag
that runs around the front of the bag,
around the front of your neck to stop the draught
from coming up and out the bag.
And an oversize collar around the hood here
on the top and the bottom,
all to help try and retain that warmth.
And just inside the bag here (zipper undoes)
you do also have just a little accessory pocket
to keep your mobile phone, keys, or lip balm,
whatever handy at night. (zipper does up)
Looking at the general construction
(zipper does up) of the bag
it's got horizontal baffles throughout,
from top through to bottom,
and it's a box baffle construction which means
this outer fabric and the inner fabric
never actually pinch together,
there's always a little baffle of fabric
that runs along here to keep them separate
which makes it really efficient.
The general shape of the bag is, kind of a,
roomy mummy shape, I suppose.
It does taper down at the foot here
but there's still a bit of shape around the shoulders.
And the foot section here is a three dimensional
foot section, so you've got plenty of room for your feet
to stay warm inside the bag.
Now there's one main zipper to the Sawtooth bag
which runs down the side here,
it's got zipper pulls on both ends
so you can ventilate from the bottom if you like,
but there's no zip that runs around the foot section.
There is a second zip though on the other side of the bag,
at the top here, that finishes just at this point here.
What that allows you to do is to just fold
the top portion of the bag (zipper undoes)
down like a quilt. (zipper undoes)
So that you can allow, I don't know,
sitting up inside the bag,
or allow a bit more shoulder space if the weather's warm.
Zip it right up to keep you really warm in the cold weather.
Now they will pair together
with left and right handed zipper bags,
but it doesn't work really well with this type of shaped zip
but you can do it, you can put left and right zips together.
If you get a long bag and a short bag
the zips are gonna finish at slightly different points,
but it can be done.
Last thing I wanna do for you here today
is crawl inside the bag. (zipper undoes)
Now you can see this second zip on the side here
allows me to fold the bag down
if I'm sitting down to have something to eat
or reading a book or something.
I can fold this down and out the way.
And zipping it right up
allows the bag to come right up close
(zipper does up) over the top of my neck
when I'm in the bag.
Now, I'm 185cm, so technically I'm a little bit tall
for this bag but I'll crawl in and see how comfortable I am.
(bag rustling) (zipper does up)
Now, I actually feel
like I've got plenty of room in this bag,
with the three dimensional foot section there
I've got plenty of room for my feet.
And if I pull the hood over my head
I still don't feel cramped lengthwise in the bag.
And there's two pulls on this side here
to tighten the hood up around my head if I like,
so I can really trap the warmth in.
And pull that right up around me,
I could tighten that up even more if I liked,
but I feel pretty warm in here,
and I actually feel like I've got plenty of space.
If I put my arms down to the side, I've got,
I've still got room to wiggle on the sides there.
I'd say at 185cm I'm actually
a pretty good size for this bag.
(zipper undoes) And the last thing
I wanna do for you (zipper undoes)
is pack the bag away in the stuff sack
(zipper does up) and show you how small
we can get it. (bag rustling)
When you pack your sleeping bag,
your down back in particular,
don't try and fold it, it's difficult to get back in the bag
and it's actually better for the bag just to stuff it.
What you do wanna do it just stuff it in carefully,
you don't wanna tear any of the fabrics or internal baffles.
Now that went back in the stuff sack pretty easy,
now it's just a stuff sack that you get
with the Sawtooth bag, not a compression sack
so if you had a compression sack
you could probably get that down another,
sort of, 30, 40% I reckon.
But just for comparison, that's what it packs up to,
compared to your average Nalgene bottle,
but yeah, if I put some weight on that
I can certainly squash it down a whole lot further there.
So, you could make it much smaller.
That is the Marmot Sawtooth sleeping bag.
It's an affordable all-round down bag
for hiking and camping adventures,
balances weight and durability really well.
You can check these out at snowys.com.au
where you'll find them at our lowest prices every day.
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