- This is the Marmot Hydrogen Sleeping Bag.
It's the perfect bag for lightweight adventures
in cold climates.
I'm gonna tell you all about it.
Let's check it out.
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Hey folks, Ben from Snowys here today
with the Marmot Hydrogen Sleeping Bag in front of me.
This guy's made with high-end materials
and it's got a thermally efficient design
that makes it really lightweight
for cold weather adventures.
It's also got some features in here
that make it pretty comfortable to sleep in.
So I'm gonna run you through all these features today.
Let's start with the temperature range.
The Hydrogen Bag will take you from a comfort
of 0.9 degrees through to a lower limit of -4.8 degrees.
Now, weight-wise, the Regular is in front of me here,
665 grammes, and the Long, which we don't
actually have in Snowys at the moment,
I haven't confirmed the weight,
but it's up around 770 grammes.
Though, when you buy your Hydrogen Bag,
it comes with a storage sack, this mesh storage sack here.
That's what you want to store it in at home
to keep that down nice and lofted
and you do get just a basic little stuff sack here as well.
Now, the Hydrogen is available in two lengths.
We've only got the Regular at Snowys here
at the time of shooting this video,
which is suitable for uses up to 193 centimetres.
There is a Long version as well.
If that comes in, we'll confirm the user length for that
and it'll be posted on our website.
Now the outside of the Marmot Hydrogen Bag here
is a 20 denier Pertex Quantum fabric.
It's a beautifully soft-feeling fabric
that has water and wind resistant properties
and it's also super lightweight and really packable.
The inside of the bag is a 30 denier nylon
and sandwiched in between that
in all these baffles is a 800+ loft goose down
with what Marmot called a Down Defender treatment,
which is a water resistant treatment
to the actual down itself.
Gives it better performance in the wet
and also helps it to dry a lot quicker.
Now moving inside the bag, we can get the features.
On the side of the zip here is an anti-snag type
on each side of the zip there and there's a zip guard,
sorta plastic cover over the zip
which all of those work together to help
stop the fabric from getting caught up in the zip.
Running along the side of the zip here
is a draught tube that runs right along the side of the zip.
And around the top of the collar
there is an inflated, kind of, muff I suppose
to really help retain the warmth inside the bag.
And the last feature inside here
is this little storage pocket.
It is a zippered storage pocket.
Just enough room to hold your basic necessities,
mobile phone or just lip balm or casing at night.
Let's have a look at the general construction of the bag.
It is a mummy shape, so it tapers down at the foot there.
It's got curved, horizontal baffles.
They've all kind of got this shape to it,
and it's box baffle construction
so at no point does this outer fabric
and the inner fabric pinch together,
there's a little baffle between each of those
to keep a nice and continuous
barrier of warmth around your body.
Moving to the bottom of the bag,
there is a three dimensional foot section here,
so it allows your feet to sit in there
without squashing any of the down at all.
It doesn't have a a second zip around the foot section here,
there's just a single zip
that runs along the side here
and that is zip compatible
for left and right handed zippers.
So coming back up to the top of the bag,
there's one other cool feature I'll show you
about this sleeping bag and that's this second zip here.
It only runs down to this point on the bag,
but what it allows you to do is fold this section
that folds right over the top of your body down a little bit
so you can sit up in the bag and it also
makes getting in and out of the bag a bit easier.
Now, last thing I wanna do is hop in the bag
and show you how comfortable it is.
Now you can see this feature with the second zip here
with this folded down allows me to sit up
in the bag quite comfortably without this sort of
pulling up behind me and I can sit here
and read a book or have my breakfast or whatever
without being caught up in the bag.
Now, I'm gonna slide right down in.
Now I'm a 185 centimetres, so I'm technically
a little bit tall for this bag
but we'll see how comfortably I fit.
See, this zip comes right around close to here.
There's only a small hole for your head to get through,
but lying in this bag where I am now,
I've actually got plenty of foot space
so I think 185 centimetres,
I'm actually fitting in this bag pretty comfortably.
If I pull the hood over my head here,
I do feel very encapsulated in this bag
and I still have plenty of space.
I've got room at the top of my head,
I've got room at my feet
and this is certainly covering my head here.
Now there is one draw cord that goes around
the top of the hood here to tighten that up if you want,
if you like and that's now got me pretty secure
and I feel pretty warm in here at the moment
and I've got plenty of space.
Arms by my side, I've got room, a little bit of room
to wiggle there so yeah, 185 centimetres I'd say
Regular is still a pretty good size for me.
Last thing I wanna do with the Hydrogen Bag
is pack it away this sort of stuff sack
and I'll show you how small it gets.
Now because this is water or, in particular,
wind resistant fabric on the outside of this bag,
it's gonna resist the air escaping
as you stuff it inside your stuff sack
a little more than your regular nylon.
So, it's much easier to turn the whole bag inside-out
before you put it in your stuff sack.
Now when you're packing it away,
you just want to gently stuff it in.
Don't try and roll it or fold it.
It's gonna be too hard and it's not good for the down.
So just gently stuffing the bag inside the stuff sack.
Now that went inside the stuff sack pretty easy.
Now this isn't a compression sack,
so if you were to get a compression sack
you'd be able to squash that down a little further
but just for reference's sake,
that's the comparison to your regular Nalgene bottle.
Now you can get all the information about
these Hydrogen Bags on our website at snowys.com.au
and you'll also find them
at our lowest prices everyday.
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