- Ben from Snowys here, folks.
Today with a Sea to Summit Tanami Tm2 comforter.
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This is a lightweight, down-filled comforter or quilt,
that brings hiking technology into the camping world,
so you can make for a lightweight camping setup.
So, this comforter is just a big square quilt,
if you like, or a doona.
It's filled with down.
It's a perfect, lightweight replacement
to, say, a bulky sleeping bag,
or, say, a synthetic doona that you might use
in a swag, or a rooftop tent.
Adding one of these to the swag or rooftop tent's
gonna make rolling it up so much easier,
'cause this will pack down smaller,
and it's also gonna make closing your rooftop tent easier
because you're not getting the resistance of all the fabric
in a bulky sleeping bag.
Really versatile product. Got multiple uses.
We're gonna run through all of that with you today.
When you buy your Tanami Two,
you get the product here,
and that comes loosely packed in this storage bank here,
which is a great product to use to store it in,
loosely packed, when you're not using it.
This measures about 48 by 33 by 20,
just a zipper top on that one.
You get a little guide on dimensions,
temperature ratings, et cetera, et cetera,
and you also get the down certificate,
which is the actual certificate that came
to show the tests of the down that's inside the bag.
So it's seven 50 loft down in here.
Certificate inside most likely says a much higher loft
than the seven 50 rated here,
just to show that there's a good quality down inside.
Now, it doesn't come with a compression sack,
because it's not designed for hiking.
It's more car camping.
It goes inside a swag, or loosely packed inside a car,
but you can fit it inside
a small C to Summit compression sack,
if you like, 10 litre compression sack there.
So, if you did wanna pack it down smaller,
grab one of those.
It's an extra accessory.
Now, construction of the bag is cool, synthetic material,
so the outside here is a 30 denier DWI treated nylon.
It's gonna resist a little bit of water,
and also stains and that sort of thing.
On the inside, a 20 denier soft touch nylon.
This is a really nice feeling fabric.
Doesn't have a really cold feel about it,
and it has got a nice soft feel
to go against your skin,
and sandwich in between that,
is seven 50 plus premium ultra dry down.
This is a really good quality down
with an ultra dry treatment that
if it does get a bit of moisture on it
it's still gonna maintain some loft down.
Previously, if it got wet,
just lost all its insulation properties,
but this has a treatment to minimise that.
And the construction of the bag,
is with these horizontal baffles,
so, if we spread it out a bit like this,
we can see we've got these baffles that run across
the bag this way, with these stitching lines here,
and it's what's called a box wall construction,
which means, this inner layer here,
and this outer layer here, don't actually meet,
where this stitching point is here,
and this stitching point is here,
there's a little layer of fabric there,
so that each of these channels is its own tube,
and it never actually meets top to bottom.
So, you've got tubes like this, full of down,
and what that allows the down to do,
is loft up to an even height, right across your entire body,
so you get an entire layer of warmth.
Bags that aren't as warm as this
will have little pinch points in it,
so, each of these are sown top to bottom like this,
which means you do get a cold spot in there,
so it's not so much for really cold weather camping.
Now, they give this bag a two degree rating.
You can't test these bags to the same EN standard
that a sleeping bag that actually zips closed
on each side will test to,
because it doesn't close up,
it can't be tested to the same standard,
but that two degree rating is based
on Sea to Summit's experience
and history in the sleeping bag industry.
They know that roughly this amount of down fill,
and this sort of construction,
is gonna provide warmth at about this temperature,
assuming you're sleeping on a warm mat.
We'll share a bit more on mats shortly.
Running through the features of the bag,
I'll spread it out, I've got it laid on top
of a few different products under here
that I wanna show you that it's compatible with.
Now, 210 centimetres in length
and 205 centimetres in height, this way.
We start with the features on the bottom of the bag here.
We can see we've got a draw string here.
This sits in the middle
and these strings go either side of the bag here,
and are anchored just around the corner here,
and what's that designed, that's designed to do, sorry,
is to create a bit of a corner.
We tighten this up.
This creates a pocket that allows us
to tuck it over the top of a mat,
which I'll show you a little bit more on shortly.
We'll just keep running around the bag
with all the features first.
Coming around this side, same thing.
We've got that same cord running around here.
Half way up the bag, you've got a little loop here.
Now, these loops can be used to hang the comforter.
If you wanna hang it in your cupboard or something,
to allow the down to sort of store lofted.
Otherwise you can use this,
and the straps don't come included,
but you can use this to join this loop
with a similar loop on the other side of the bag here,
to actually wrap around a mat.
So, you'd need to get a bit of shock cord
or something yourself.
They don't have straps that are made for this.
Tie it off to this side here,
loop it under your mat,
and over the other side,
and it's gonna wrap it around the mat,
'cause this is actually designed to sit
over the top of a mat.
So, it doesn't have an underside.
It sits over the top of the mat.
Coming further around to the top of the bag here,
we've got, we'll start with the drawstrings.
So, there's two drawstrings on the top,
and they're actually anchored in the middle,
so, 'cause it's a double bag,
it means each person has
their own drawstring tension ability here.
So, you can tighten this side up to sit
over the shoulders of the person on this side,
and then there's another drawstring
on this side here as well.
So you can also tighten that up
to sit over the shoulders of the person on that side.
Now, across the top there's a few other things
that I wanna show you.
Firstly, on the very corners,
you've got more of these loops,
and then you've got another one a little further in.
Once again, you can use these to hang the bag,
if you like, for storage.
They also work to be compatible with C to Summit
sleeping bags and potentially other sleeping bags,
if they match up.
I'll show you a bit more on that shortly,
but you can actually add this as another layer
over the top of an existing double sleeping bag like this.
One last feature is these little studs in here.
Can't tell you much information about this yet,
but all I do know is that C to Summit makes sleep systems,
so everything they make is usually designed to
work with something else.
This is more than likely going to be compatible
with another product they've got coming out
in the future that will probably
allow you to clip something on the inside,
or underneath here, or something,
so, watch this space.
That will be compatible with something
in, probably, the not-too-distant future.
So, I'll show you the few ways that you can use this bag,
and, firstly, you can use it just as a blanket.
So, wrap this around your shoulders,
throw it over the top of your existing sleep setup,
if you like, however you want,
you can just use it as a loose and lightweight blanket,
but the built in features allow you
to actually attach it to a mat
and also to other sleeping bags,
and we'll start with the mat at this foot end here.
So, this is a C to Summit mat here.
This mat measures about 128 centimetres in width,
and about 183 centimetres in length.
So, we can actually loop this over the end of the mat here
by tightening this drawstring in the middle.
So, if we pull this, just so that those ends
start to bunch up,
creates this pocket in the corner here,
and we just loop that over the corner of the mat like that.
Do the same thing on the other side,
and that then creates a bit like a fitted sheet,
I suppose, we tighten that a little bit more,
so that then fits over the top of that double mat.
Now, it will fit over a queen mat,
which I've got underneath here.
I'll show you that shortly,
but I just wanna show you
that it fits on the double mat quite comfortably, first.
Now, if we move up with the bag here,
now up the the comforter, sorry,
we could just use this as it is there,
but what I wanna show you first is,
how you can use it over the top
of two other C to Summit bags here.
Now, these are two compatible bags, zipped side by side,
so we've got a double sleeping bag here.
I'm gonna tuck these in underneath,
and there's enough volume at the foot end here
for that to stay lofted up,
and if we come up to the top here,
we can use these little loops to actually attach,
you don't have to attach it, if you don't want to,
but you can use this loop to tuck this rope through
and just tie this off on the toggle.
There's a couple of toggles here.
There's one around the neck, and one around the hood there.
If you just loop that over there,
you can leave it sit like that if you like,
but I find it's better to
just give it a bit of a tie off, like that.
It's gonna stay in place.
Do the same thing on the other side here,
and you've actually attached the comforter
to the top of these sleeping bags.
So, you've extended the comfort range
of these sleeping bags.
Now, you're not gonna get an exact temperature rating
for these two bags, for all of this joined together,
but you've added another 700 grammes to your down setup here,
or to your sleep setup here.
So, that then gives you this nice,
these sleeping bags are already nice and warm.
You've got this whole layer on the top here.
These loops on the side,
I haven't tested all the combinations,
but it's more than likely this will line up with
perhaps some larger bags sitting side by side,
or, if you did kind of want this to sit a bit looser,
you could probably just loop this on here, if you like,
but then you kind of get that cold spot on the side there.
So, I'm gonna crawl in here,
and I'll crawl on the men's side here,
just to show you how much foot space you've got
down there on the end.
So, this feels super cosy.
I've got so much down on top of me here.
It's about this thick sitting on top of me here,
so, heaps of down.
Come right down in the bag.
I don't actually know what size this sleeping bag is here,
but you can see this will go over my head here,
and I have got heaps of space.
There's heaps are down sitting
over the top of my feet here still,
so, this being attached to the mat
down the bottom here, is still giving me plenty of volume
up above, in order for my feet to not get cold.
So, a nice warm setup in this respect.
Second person lying next to me here,
and that just sits loose over the top,
and you might be concerned about how strong these are,
but there is a little bit of play in this,
so it doesn't sit tight,
so if you're moving around inside the bag,
rather than the bag rolling with you,
this is a really, really warm setup here.
So that's one way you can use the comforter.
The other way, is if you've just got,
well, this would be a winter setup here.
The other way is just use it for cool weather camping,
or not in the midst of summer,
but take this off and remove the sleeping bags altogether,
and you can actually just crawl in
under the comforter by itself.
So, if I jump in here now,
and just make sure we've got this looped
over the end, still, which it is,
so that stays attached quite well,
even though I've moved it around a lot there,
if I crawl in here, pull this over the top of me,
you can see it's open on the side here now,
but with the double mat, we've got 15, 20 odd centimetres
of overlap on each side here.
So, if there's a second person here, lifting this up,
you've got that overlap to sort of trap
the warm air in there,
and if I lie down, once again,
to give you an idea of how much foot space you've got,
my feet feel like they've got tonnes and tonnes
of room in there.
Heaps of room to move around.
That's with my feet straight up
and the down still lofted above my toes there.
In this sort of setup, if you added a liner,
which I've conveniently placed at reach here,
so, I've got a double cotton liner here.
Use one of those inside here, crawl in the liner,
this over the top,
and you've got a really good
cool weather camp setup.
Now, the last, or I haven't actually
showed you this feature here yet,
which is not so relevant when you're using it
with sleeping bags underneath,
but when you're sleeping on this
without the sleeping bags,
tighten these up, and it just creates
a bit more of a pocket to wrap around your shoulder,
particularly on this side,
so you can wrap this over your shoulder,
just to hold it up around your head there.
So, the other person could do that on the other side,
and then you don't have this cold spot here.
It tucks under your body a little bit,
so, that's the benefit of that drawcord on the top,
but, to be honest, I think it would be quite warm
just sitting over you like this.
It's just like you doing when you've got at home.
Last thing I wanna do is show how it fits over a queen mat,
'cause they do class this as a queen size comforter,
does fit over this,
but you don't get quite as much space for your feet.
Now, you can also use the Tanami
as somewhat of a single bag as well, if you like.
So, if you come to the foot section here
and tighten this up, so that you create two pockets
on each side here, and fold it in half,
so that you're lying on one side, and then crawl in,
so, as an individual, you've got the sleeping bag.
So, look, it's not ideal,
I'm not saying this is ideal,
but tighten that right up,
so you get a bit of a foot pocket there,
fold this in half, like this,
and you've now got somewhat
of a single sleeping bag to lie in.
So, heaps of length,
even though, it comes right up above my head here.
You do have this gap. You can't seal this up.
I'm not hiding that fact,
but, if it's just cool weather camping,
you can lie down on this,
like this feels quite good now,
sort of tuck this in and seal it off,
and you've got yourself
a lightweight, individual bag here as well.
Last thing is to show you how to fit it on a queen mat.
So, it does fit.
This is a queen comforter,
but I find it fits best on,
got this hooked over my foot here,
I find it fits best on a double mat.
So, if I lay this all out,
you can see it's gonna fit on this mat.
Now, this mat is 150 centimetres in width,
and 200 centimetres in length.
So, if I tighten this up a little bit, again,
loop it over the corner here,
come to the other side,
and loop it over this corner as well,
got plenty of width in terms of securing it there.
So, I'll tighten this up a little bit more,
and that's now attached on the queen mat here,
but we can see you haven't got quite the same volume
at the foot end here.
So, I'll crawl inside
and show you how it feels as a queen mat.
So, the length is pretty good.
This mat's 10 centimetres in width.
So, this mat comes, once again, up to my shoulders here,
but what I find is that the foot section here,
is just a little bit tighter,
so, I'm 183 centimetres,
so my feet are right at the end.
So, I can feel it just firmly over the top of my feet,
but I still still do have some down
above my toes there,
and I wouldn't necessarily sleep
with 'em straight up anyway,
so, that's the only downside, I find,
with having it on a queen mat,
but it does work.
Not quite the same overlap on each side here,
you do get little bit still,
so, bit of room for each person to have this hanging
over the side of the mat to trap the warmth,
but, it does fit on a queen mat,
and the reason I show you this,
is people will wanna use a queen mat like this
on top of a double stretcher, like what I've got it on here
at the moment.
A double size mat doesn't work as well
on a stretcher like this,
'cause it kind of slopes like this
with a bar in the middle,
and you end up rolling off the mat.
So, you kind of need a queen
to come back up this side here.
So, this is still gonna work
for a lightweight setup, if you liked,
to have 150 wide mat on top of a double stretcher.
As with all C to Summit sleep products,
they like to make sleep systems
rather than just individual products,
which means they're trying to get people to understand
that how warm you sleep
doesn't just depend
on what you sleep under or what you sleep on,
it's a combination of everything.
So, if you team this up with
either the sleeping bags underneath,
or just by itself,
depending on the temperature that you're on,
put it on a nice warm mat, like these guys here,
that's gonna insulate from the ground up,
and then team it up with some liners
like the double cotton liner here,
and there's also a heap of pillows
in the C to Summit range as well.
Use all that together,
and you get a good sleep system,
and using this in your system,
or a comforter like this, in your camp system,
adds a heap of flexibility to how it's all set up as well,
so, you're comfortable in a whole range of temperatures.
That is the Tanami TM Two from Sea to Summit.
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