Pathfinder Club

All equipment for mountaineering extra care and maintenance. The Sleeping Bags are no exception. A good sleeping bag brand, brings a certain label information for cleaning, care and storage. If not, here are some general tips that curiously does not include sleeping wash as often.

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How a Sleeping Bag.
The technical Sleeping Bags, which protect against low temperatures, seeking more than keep out the cold, keep the heat emitting body and at the same time, eliminate dampness. To achieve this effect, sleeping bags are filled with two materials or feathers (in various grades, sizes or quantities) or synthetic fibers (a higher quality than others, as a whole). Many combinations are currently available: fiber sleepings occupying minimal space in your backpack and protect against very low temperatures or bags are not intended to protect against the cold but very light and fresh, designed for warm climates or camp light.

Storage.
The most critical and most influential for a Sleeping Bag keeps you well protected from the cold for many years, is curiously storage. To have a long life, just pay special attention when not in use.

Do not keep it in your bag compressor if you're staying in camp soon. If you keep saving, fill, either fiber or feather, will be redeployed and tighten so that when you expand it again, will have become spaces Unfilled that will allow your body generates heat that is escaping through the liner.

The best way to store it is extended, either hanging from a hook in the closet or out on a flat surface. It must be given some space to keep its shape, circulate fresh air and not be locked up odors or excessive moisture.

Clean.
If the plane touches wash your sleeping bag, we recommend:

Many people bring their sleeping bags to dry cleaners for a thorough cleaning. Extreme solution though effective, has several points to consider: detergents weaken the lining and padding, and sometimes are subjected to washing with very high temperatures, which also affects materials (high temperature & humidity). Positive point: the cleaner you're going to deliver perfectly clean and dry. If you've decided on a dry cleaner asks the most basic and primitive service offering for the covers: no special washes, fabric softeners with extraordinary scents or tissues to unless the label of your sleeping request.

You can wash the sleeping at home, as long as the washer with you to do, preferably not have a wash in the middle cylinder. They are better machines with the circular driveway in front of the machine. There are washing machines with top lid no longer using the central cylinder, these also work. The middle cylinder can rip the nylon that protects the refill. Use as little detergent as possible. All chemicals hurt all tissues, but especially to technical textiles. A little soap, zero-nothing-not-a-drop of softening. Nowadays detergents are available based on oxygen bubbles (or something) that can be used. Preferably using warm or cold water.

If you have a dryer in your home lottery!. It is best to redistribute the filling is better. Put it in the dryer along with a tennis ball and the air warm (not hot) will redistribute the feathers or fibers to fill in empty gaps that might exist.

It is very important that your sleeping becomes dry. If you wash at home, carefully exponlo a little sun and verifies that it is really dry before storing so that the pen will not rot or smell spoiled the fiber.

Maintenance.
This is easier. When properly stored, most important has been covered. We can only recommend you review the closures, lace, the fabric is not torn. Check the general hygiene. The truth is that during an exit can not be paying special attention to the care of the sleeping, but at home and occasionally we can give a general review.

Finally, Sleepings Bags are made from highly flammable materials. Be careful with campfires and stoves.