Pitching a Tent in a Lake is Still Crazy, but…
I am sure we’ve all been there. There’s some heavy rain and the tent or ground sheet is leaking. If you are anything like me you can guarantee it’s your sleeping bag that is in the wrong place at the wrong time and it’ll get soaked. In my case it usually happens at night. There is not much worse than waking up in a wet sleeping bag feeling wet and getting wetter.
Now the problem may be a thing of the past.
Check out this article on a sleeping bag so water proof it floats.
World’s First Floating Sleeping Bag
No, your eyes don’t deceive you, that really is a man floating along a river in a sleeping bag filled with Nikwax’s Hydrophobic Down. No Photoshopping or optical illusions, we saw it with our own eye - honest, guv…
Top water-proofing and fabric care giant Nikwax, produces the fluorocarbon-free, water-resistant Hydrophobic Down now used in various outdoor brand’s down-filled clothing and equipment and it rolled out the floating sleeping bag to demonstrate just how effective the treatment is.
Of course no-one’s suggesting you use your sleeping bag as a stand-in life raft…
You can read the rest of this article and checkout their review on Water Resistant Sleeping Bags over at //www.outdoorsmagic.com/thoughts-from-the-outdoors/worlds-first-floating-sleeping-bag/13548.html
