Alternative Uses for Your Sleeping Bag Cover
Most serious campers realize that a sleeping bag cover (also known as a bivy) is often used for three purposes:
- Protect the bag from exterior damage such as cuts and dirt;
- Increase the water-resistance of the sleeping bag; &
- Increasing the warmth rating of the bag.
Although almost any water-proof material (plastics for instance) can be engineered to meet those requirements, any truly effective cover material needs to breathable (like Gore-Tex or Pertex) to allow perspiration to escape as well. When purchasing a bivy meeting all four points you have met the needs of most individuals.
But did you realize there is another highly practical purpose your sleeping bag cover can facilitate?
What the following video to see what I mean …
Now that’s a really cool “value added benefit” for your bivy!
So as you shop for your next sleeping bag cover, you may want look for a bivy that will hold more than just the bag; perhaps it should hold your sleeping pad as well!
some sleeping bags are waterproof and weatherproof too, they are nice for camping outside the house *~”