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T’waife has expressed disgruntlement at the sleeping bag I provided her with for a recent night away claiming it was too cold and too short. Said wife is 6’4” and sleeping bag was a Helium solo.
Before I jump on a Mountain Equipment Helium 250XL I’d be happy to hear of others thoughts. It will also be used by me as an intermediate bag between Helium Solo and Titan 425.
Ideally ethical down filling and sub £200
Alpkit make mine still I think. It is one of the pipedreams and they do a longer version with, sadly, a left hand zip.
It's light, but not superlight, decent fill, warm and packs down quite small. It's also not super expensive.
Many reputable companies do long or XL bags.
I have. One from north face and one from alpkit.
I'm 6ft 3
PHD custom.
Mountain Equipment, Mountain Hardwear, Marmot, AlpKit, Rab, Big Agnes all do longer lengths.
Most quality brands do nowadays. Lightweight bags tend to be shorter but can be had in XL length
2m tall, mountain hardware (though not down works well, and long enough)
Do tall people sleep standing up? Shouldn't it be long people.
I'm also 6'4" and have a helium long, it fits perfectly!!
Summiteer have a long 5deg. Down bag for £130. Bought a mountain equipment hyper laminar from rock and run last week for me. £100.
Bought a 3 season mummy from decathlon for 60 notes, used it on a selection weekend where it’s rating was properly tested.
im 6’5” and it was fine in length foot box was snug.
I'm 6'5" and sleep fully straight and have never found a sleeping bag too short, I think she shouldn't have any issues with most manufacturers standard sizes.
Generally that is true to Basecamp spec bags but anything designed to be minimalist/expedvbut warm will be sized small to keep weight down as people like light bags plus a correctly sized bag is more efficient to heat.
Alpkit regular bags are tiny.
My marmot bag I used prior to realising that XL bags existed was short and I would just curl up a bit.
I've a gelert kozitec synthetic -20 bag and it's huge. I can be straight in it and my head's not even in the hood.
My wife's -20 Nordisk Victor. My shoulders don't even get in the bag of I'm straight.
Thanks for the replies so far. Narrowing it down to 3 different options
I'm 6'3. No problem finding things the right size. I have 5 sleeping bags and a quilt, all size long, all fit no problem.
(I realise 5 sounds like quite a lot, 3 are fancy and for me only, 2 are synthetic and used by/with the kids and if anyone ever needs to borrow one)
At 6'4" surely most small hiking tents are getting a bit annoying in terms of not having your feet pressed hard against the inner and wetting out onto the outer. I'm not even 6' and my MSR hubba is only just long enough.
My problem is breadth. Very wide shoulders and chest and sleeping bags sometimes struggle with me. I can get in them but they become so stretched they don't loft and become cold. And getting my arms up to unzip the damn things can make me feel I'm in a straight jacket.
Plumped for a long Summiteer bag.
Have no problems with tent size in either the Golite SL3 or the Aztec Camara (yes, really) 😄
Went for the GloWorm 400 long as it was wider than the other bags and t’waIfe is of a womanly shape so width helps. The Alpkit bags also had a short sleeping length even in the long version, with the extra length made up in the hood and neck area.
The M-H HyperLamina was second in line but the tight shape wouldn’t sit well with lady shapes.