| Show New Sleeping Bag A new lightweight sleeping bag with synthetic filler is being to challenge the dominance of the highly regarded goose-down-filled reports an article in the current issue of Field and Stream THE GOOSE-down bags have long been considered the epitome of utility and comfort in the affording the greatest warmth per pound of fill and compressing to the smallest sue for Down also insulates comfortably through a wide range of body moisture ana bounces back to its original thickness even after being squashed thousands of the reasons that design consultants are hard at work on a substitute for the goose says Field and are its relative the fact that it's not washable and loses its insulating qualities when and the fact that some people are allergic to it or to the dust it The new sleeping bag now under development with tie greatest potential for ing the goose-down bag is a bag with the same nylon but with a polyester THE according to Field and is less machine washable and much less expensive than the goose th ugh it essential warmth of the goose down bag and can probably be utilized only to 40 |
