- G'day, folks, Ben from Snowys.
Today, we're showing you
the Coleman Pilbara C-5 Cozyfoot sleeping bag.
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This is an affordable and warm sleeping bag
with a removable liner
that is perfect for winter camping adventures.
I've got the Pilbara laid out in front of me here.
This is the Pilbara packed up here.
Weighs a bit over three kilos, about 3.3 kilos.
Measures about 50 centimetres in length
and about 30 centimetres in diameter when it's packed up.
But it is a little bit of a struggle
to get it back in this bag if you try and roll it.
We'll show you that a little bit later.
They're machine-washable,
and they say comfort down to,
well, Coleman say minus five,
but Snowys would prefer to say about five degrees.
That's based on customer feedback.
Their rating isn't tested to any standard.
It's a bit of a guess.
So I'd say for a cold sleeper, five degrees.
If you're a warm sleeper,
you might creep down to about zero degrees on this bag here.
Now it measures about 200 centimetres.
Now that is a measurement
with the fabric sort of stretched out.
It doesn't have a hood on it,
so people over 200 centimetres
can allow sort of for head space at this end.
So anyone up to probably about two metres in height
is probably gonna fit this bag pretty comfortably.
And about a metre in width there as well.
But once again,
that's with the fabric sort of stretched out.
So in reality it's probably more like
about 90 centimetres in width.
The outer fabric is a cotton.
It's not a scrunchy or a crinkly sort of material,
and it's not noisy,
so there's a cotton material on the outside here.
And around the top here, the cuff is flannelette,
and flannelette lining inside.
And if I just zip this down here you'll see
that there's also this removable fleece liner here.
Now on the outside, before I go too much further,
there is a little pocket here
so you can keep keys or a phone or something
or a torch handy at night.
You know where it is all the time.
I'll unzip this 'cause the zipper actually zips
right around to the base here,
and around the bottom,
so it's a single zipper that goes all the way.
So if you unzip this all the way,
it becomes one big Doona,
and you can join two bags together
by laying one on top of the other.
So if you had another Coleman bag from a similar range
and you laid this out like this
and then lay another bag on top,
and do the zips up around the edge,
you've then got a double bag.
And the liner inside here can be removed completely.
I unzip this all the way.
You can now remove this and that's the zip on one side.
Fold this over and unzip the other side as well.
I can then zip this zip together,
and create a lightweight summer bag
with this fleece liner here.
Probably 10-15 degrees,
if you're looking for a temperature rating on that,
but that's a bit of a guess.
I'd use it primarily as a summer bag.
Inside, I haven't talked about the fill yet.
This is the foot section here.
So underneath the liner,
so the liner usually covers this up here.
I've unzipped that liner
and you can see you got that flannelette lining
here on the inside and then at the base,
you got a little bit more flannel or fleece lining
just at the foot section here,
so it offers a little bit of extra warmth
when you're not using the liner,
or even when you are using the liner,
there's just that little bit of extra insulation
in around your feet.
And there's a hollow fibre synthetic material inside here
to keep you warm.
And it's all kind of kept in place,
probably easier to see on this side here,
with this sort of zig-zag stitching
that goes around the bag here.
That's sewn through, so it's pinched through there,
so it's not, this isn't an overly technical bag
so it's not really gonna be an issue
'cause they're heavy fabrics anyway,
but that just stops the insulation
from moving around inside.
If I zip this back up again,
so there's two zips along here.
While I'm doing this, I might as well show you.
There's zip ploughs on the zipper as well
to make the moving or sliding the zipper really easy
so it doesn't get snagged.
I'll zip the liner up first.
(zipper zipping)
So this, get this back in
and I'm gonna show you how their roll system works.
(zipper zipping)
So that's the liner now zipped in there.
Second zip on the outside here
goes right around the outside,
and that's gonna zip the whole bag together.
Just line the zips up.
You can see the zip runs pretty smoothly.
I've never known any zip system that is perfect,
avoiding catching the fabrics,
but this system works pretty well from Coleman.
There we go.
And you can secure that closed there.
Now, their roll system here,
it's got these little red tabs here.
Now what that's designed to do
is if we fold this in half,
and I'll fold it towards the camera there,
there are red tabs on the other side.
If we do them up,
it then keeps the bag secure as we roll that.
There's one at the foot section here as well.
So this stops the two different sides
from sort of separating as you roll it
to get it back in the bag.
Now, I have got a bag here.
I'm gonna roll it, try and get it back in the bag.
Let's see if I can do that,
but I have a feeling the old "just stuff it in" method
is gonna be a better option here.
So I'll roll this up,
and you can see these just hold that in place
so it's not going skew-whiff there as I try and roll it.
Now, I actually don't like to roll my sleeping bags
for this particular reason here.
That it becomes tight to put it back in the bag.
You can see the diameter of the bag
and the diameter of the sleeping bag are different.
So with that,
I haven't tried very hard to roll that up,
you could squeeze that over if you wanted.
And yeah, so I could probably get that over,
but I'll personally have given up by now.
Pull this off,
don't worry about these little roll system things here.
They're there if you wanna do it or you wanna use it,
but leave them undone.
Put the bag in front of you and just stuff it in.
So if you're concerned about how easy it is
to get back in the bag,
this is the easiest way to do it.
So just push it right down the bottom,
keep compressing it in.
Never actually done it with this bag before,
so I'm hoping this is gonna work.
Put it between my feet.
And this is actually a little bit better
for the insulation inside as well,
because it creates a bit of irregularity
with the synthetic fill,
so that next time you go to use it,
it puffs up a bit more.
Now, bit of an ugly way to do it,
but that went in a whole lot easier than rolling it.
I'll do that up there now.
You've then got a compression panel
that goes over the top here.
I'll loosen them out.
Stuffing it in also allows this compression panel
to be a little more effective,
'cause it's not trying to compress flat panels of synthetic.
You could do these up if you want,
if you're trying to save space in your vehicle,
these are gonna help.
You can then squash that down.
And that is the Pilbara C-5 sleeping bag all packed up.
These are a really good bag for winter camping adventures
or for use inside a swag.
I didn't crawl inside this bag today.
I'm 185 centimetres tall.
I'm gonna fit right inside that bag there
so I would have plenty of room in there
with my head sticking out the top
and loads of shoulder space as well,
so good for tall users.
Doesn't have that hood,
so if you do wanna use it flat
with two bags zipped together,
you haven't got a hood on one side
that gets in the way,
and plenty of space for your pillow and stuff above there.
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