- G'day folks.
Ben from Snowys
here today with the Coleman Pilbara C0
Cosy Foot Sleeping Bag.
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This is a big, roomy, warm sleeping bag
for all-season comfort,
has heaps of space for tall users,
ideal for camping and in your swag.
So this is how the Coleman Pilbara C0 Sleeping Bag
looks packed up.
This is from the factory,
a little bit tighter to get in the bag
after you've unrolled it,
We'll show you a bit more on that later.
But it's about 45 centimetres in length
and about 25 centimetres in diameter,
weighs about 2.2 kilos.
And when you've got it set up,
lays out as a square tog bag like this,
about 200 centimetres in length
and about a metre across this way,
when it's stretched out,
so a little bit less on the inside,
and they rate it at 0 degrees,
but by Snowys' standards
and our customer feedback,
we'd say it's more like sort of 5 to 10 degrees comfort
for this bag here.
Now construction is of a cotton outer here,
so it's not a scrunchy material,
it's a soft cotton outer,
that's both back and front of the outer,
and then you've got a flannelette lining on the inside here.
(Velcro ripping)
But at the feet section (zip rasping)
of this bag,
this is where the cosy foot label comes into it,
you've got a fleece lining,
so a little bit warmer at the foot section there.
And sandwiched in between all of that,
you've got a hollow fibre fill inside
to keep you nice and warm.
Now, as I mentioned before, it is a square construction,
so there's no hood on this bag here.
It is just square,
uses up to easily 200 centimetres in height.
I'm gonna crawl in it later and show you how I fit.
But heaps of width and height in this bag here.
The stitching is a sewn-through construction,
so the stitching that you see on the top here
is the same stitching that you see on the bottom,
which means it pinches the fabric together
at this point here,
which given it's a general camping bag,
not really an issue with cold spots,
there's only a few bits of stitching
and it's nice and thick anyway,
but that stitching is there
to hold all of that insulation in place,
so you don't get any cold spots.
On the outside here
you've got a little pocket (Velcro ripping)
to store your phone,
your keys or whatever overnight
so you don't lose 'em.
And overall, the construction is machine washable,
so you can, if you've got a machine big enough,
chuck it in a washing machine to keep it nice and clean.
The zipper is one continuous zipper on this bag here,
so I unzipped it down this side here,
(zip rasping)
while we've got it here
I'll just show you the zip-plow feature
that they mentioned,
it's this little plastic device here
on the front of the zipper pull,
it just spreads the fabric as you zip it up,
(zip rasping),
so it doesn't catch while you your zip the zip
right up to the top there.
And then that can be secured
with this little flap here,
so it doesn't undo overnight.
(Velcro ripping)
This goes all the way around the foot section,
(zipper rasping)
so if I unzip this,
it'll come all the way around here,
zips right around the foot section
so it's one continuous zipper right to the end
and then you can undo this
and use it as a quilt if you like,
the whole thing will open up as a quilt.
So if it's a really warm night
and you just need something over the top of you,
you can throw that one over you,
instead of crawling inside the bag.
(zip rasping)
Now, if you wanna zip two of these bags together,
you're best off sticking with two bags from the same series,
so two Pilbara bags,
whether that's the same race
it doesn't matter,
you just want two Pilbara bags,
and they actually zip together
by putting one on top of the other.
So you lay this one out as a quilt,
you lay another one on top,
the other way around,
so you've got the flannelette lining
facing in towards each other,
and then one zip will go around one side of the bag,
the other zip will go around the other side,
and you essentially create a double bag
that two people can crawl into.
I'm gonna zip this up now
(zip rasping)
and crawl inside though,
to show you how much space there is.
There was one other feature that's commonly mentioned,
that's the comfort cuff,
that's just referenced to this flannelette lining
around the top here.
Just a nice, comfortable bit of fabric
that sits against your skin.
So I'm gonna crawl inside,
now I'm 185 centimetres,
so I'm reasonably tall,
but I'm gonna have loads of space inside this bag here.
So it's not a box foot section,
it does tapper down to just the zipper at the end there,
so there's not heaps of space this way,
but given the length of the bag,
you've got heaps of room for your feet
in the end there anyway.
So I'll just lay down so you can see I've got,
if I push my feet right to the end there,
this comes right up over my face.
So I've got heaps and heaps of room.
My feet don't go right to the end,
I've got loads of space for my feet.
They don't feel tight against the end there.
I've got reasonably broad shoulders
but I can put my arms right out to each side here.
So I've got tonnes of room inside this bag.
I could almost sleep in here with a child
if I needed to keep them warm as well.
So lots of room inside the Pilbara C0 Sleeping Bag.
Now packing the bag,
Coleman have integrated what they call
their roll control feature, which are these little red tabs
on the sides here.
So this one here lines up
with the loop on the other side here.
And there's another one at the foot section here.
So this loop and this one here.
So we loop these together.
Now this is how they recommend it.
It's not how I recommend you pack it.
So I'll show you my recommended way after this.
And there's a second one here, a little fray.
This is a display model
but there's just two of those tabs on the bag.
And then at the top end here, we just lay it
on top of itself like that, and start rolling from this end.
So what that does is as we roll that
it holds this end of the bag in place.
So it doesn't end up going skew if
and we end up with a longer sleeping bag
then we ideally wanted to start with,
because if this went off to one side,
we'd end up with kind of a heap of fabric
sticking up the top here.
Now this is their role control.
So we'll try and get this back in the bag
but I reckon it's gonna be a little bit tight
and there's actually a preferred way I have
of packing this.
So I can tell straight away that I'm gonna have to roll
that a whole lot tighter to get that in the bag.
So scrap the roll control feature.
Unroll this, don't even use these red tabs here.
I'm gonna take these out.
And what we're gonna do is just stuff the bag,
stuff the sleeping bag into the compression sack.
So start at the end with the zipper, the foot end
push it into the bottom of the bag.
Let's get it down the bottom.
Just put it between your feet like this
and just start pushing it in the bag like this.
This has been a life saver for many.
It'll be a life saver for you too.
And it's gonna make packing your bag so much easier.
It doesn't do anything bad
for the sleeping bag or the fill inside the sleeping bag.
In fact, it's potentially better for the fill
'cause it stops it from being stored
in a flat sort of compressed manner,
instead there's a bit of a regularity to it.
So it lofts up a little bit more when you go to
use the bag again,
but that went in a whole lot easier.
It's a little bit long at the moment
but we have a compression bag here
that we can slide over the top.
We'll do up these straps
and we'll be able to squash it down.
And because we have stuffed it, the irregular nature
of the fabric inside allows you to squash it
down a whole lot easier.
(fabric squelching)
So that is how I recommend you pack away
pretty much any sleeping bag, but that is the common
Pilbara C0 Sleeping Bag.
They're great all around it for camping,
for swag use or even for sleepovers at home.
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