I have a fair amount of gear and some of it, is at my son’s. I tell him when he looks at the gear he should get all tingly, thinking about the independence and adventure that it will bring, but he doesn’t feel it. He is moving to a place with less storage, so, he is sending the gear back to me.
Since you’re not supposed to store your sleeping bag compressed, sleeping bags take up a lot of room.
I read a mother Earth News article called, “The year round down bag.” and the accompanying diagrams, where the writer uses her down bags as a comforter and as bolster pillows when she is not backpacking.
I stuffed a sleeping bag in a pillow case and–viola!– a pillow. The big pillow in this picture is a body pillow case stuffed with a Feathered Friends Hummingbird and a Marmot Helium.
My sister made some bolster pillow covers for me. They are just open ended tubes with a contrasting color inside and a tie on either end. I tried stuffing my tents into them. In one bolster pillow cover, I stuffed my Lunar Solo and my Travel Tent ; it looked okay.
I sleep in my Marmot Helium every night, it’s easy to tidy up my cabin by just stuffing it in a pillow case and laying it on my couch.
