Less is less, don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. This is especially true when you’re carrying everything you need to live for a week on your back, which brings us to the backpacking quilt: It’s a sleeping bag, but less. In many cases, a backpacking quilt is all you need, and I’ve come to like them better than sleeping bags for all but the coldest of trips.
These quilts are not like the ones your grandmother gave you. Backpacking quilts are made of nylon and filled with down like a traditional sleeping bag, but they lie over you like a quilt, rather than wrapping you up the way a sleeping bag would. The benefit is twofold: A quilt is lighter, meaning less weight to carry in your pack, and in the right conditions, you just might sleep better too.
- For Ultralight Summer Trips: Enlightened Equipment Revelation Quilt (40 degree)
- The Best Sleep System: Zenbivy Light Quilt
- The Best Budget Quilt: REI Magma Trail 30
- Best Quilt for the Long Haul: Feathered Friends Flicker UL
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