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25.11.2013

I bought the Snugpak Softie 10 Harrier after a recent wild camping trip in late October pushed my 2 season bag (which I'd only previously used in warmer months) past its comfort limits. Myself and some friends are into wild camping on access land lately, and I always choose to use a hammock for this. They are perfect for almost any terrain, you just need to find a couple of trees 8 to 10 feet apart!The downside to hammocks is that you have open air all around you, including the underside of the hammock. They are lighter to carry about than a tent, faster to put up and take down, always comfier, but always colder. Also it is a giant faff getting in and out of a hammock in wet weather.When you have to take your boots off and the forest floor is wet, something always gets wet getting in and out. This bag seemed perfect. Waterproof, breathable, comfy down to -7 and re-enforced foot-box so I could keep my boots on!I have just come back from a weekend at the end of November in the Derbyshire Peaks. Very cold. There was no cloud cover at all overnight. When I went to bed down for the night, there was a heavy frost forming and Met Office said it was about -3⁰C. Puddles were icing over. Our main camp area was about 150m from my hammock, so I had to walk through some pretty dense woodland with only an LED head torch to find where I'd rigged my hammock during daylight, well away from the footpaths so I wouldn't be disturbed by randy druids. It was a god-send to just be able to take my coat off, and climb into the sleeping bag without messing about taking my boots off, and without worrying about the bottom of the bag getting wet. Anyone who has camped in a hammock knows that you must get into your sleeping bag before getting in the hammock! It is nigh-on impossible and exhausting the other way around.After taking about 15 minutes for my body to heat the lining up, I was toasty warm. I was wearing thick jogger bottoms, boots & thick socks, a thin cotton top with a fleece jumper, and a balaclava. I slept soundly without once waking up due to cold or discomfort. What woke me up was a cow a few fields away mooing like wanno (possibly due to a randy druid) but importantly I awoke warm and well rested.Being able to then just unzip the bag and mosquito net on the hammock, then swing my still booted feet out was another large bonus. Normally this would have involved me chucking out a plastic bag onto the floor, hoping the wind didn't blow it immediately away, and hopping out onto this to find my boots. (With wild camping it's a good idea to hide them out of site, or suffer the annoyance of having them rattle about in the hammock with you.) I'd then spending a couple of minutes hopping about putting those cold, damp boots on.Instead I was able to immediately go for a wee, then start breaking camp with warm dry feet. The bag had suffered no ill effects from the extra wear from my boots, save for a bit of dry mud which brushed off. Had this bag not been breathable, that mud would have still been wet. It also goes back into its compression sack without needing to break the laws of physics to get it to fit.There were only a few minor negatives: Snugpak's website does make out it packs down into dimensions 23cm x 23cm. No way is this accurate. It is more like a standard 45cm x 30cm. You might get better with a different compression sack, but the one it comes with definitely isn't this small. Maybe a copy/paste error on their website? Ignore that picture you see of it sitting in the palm of someone's hand like a Gore-Tex kitten! The other thing is the "snag-proof" zip insulation still snags in the zip quite easily. Also if the zip comes completely off the bottom of the zip, it is not easy getting it to zip back up. The quality of finish on the bottom of the zip is not what I'd expect from a £100+ bag. I have since solved this with a small safety pin across the zip, a few inches from the end to stop it coming all the way off.I'm not taking a star off for these quibbles though, as I am so pleased with its warmth and convenience. Even though it does not pack as small as advertised, it is still not larger than my summer bag so still fits the bottom compartment of my rucksack. Time will tell if it is made to last, but for now I know I have a warm, comfy bag, capable of dealing with the coldest type of camping, in weather about as cold as camping gets in England. Very pleased with it.