It's in!

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I have been looking for a modular sleeping bag system for... since before I moved here, here, here.  Back in Iowa, maybe before I moved out from my last?  I tried snugpak, went with just their smallest part, to see if it would work.  Yeah, not so much.  Can't even zip it shut on myself.  It fits like a long legless tube top.  Not... really my thing, or what I wanted.  Back then I wasn't healthy enough to return it in time, so...  Hmm... now I might find someone who could use it, but only if they would use it.  It is a very quality, and expensive, summer bag, and of ultra-light notions before such things were truly considered all that much.  It simply isn't size appropriate.  If it was heavier, and longer, I'd use it as the base for an hammock underquilt.  But if it was big enough for that, it would have fit.  Meh.

Anyway, what I ordered arrived.  I had heard good things about it.  But at 6'5 1/2", and 280... last I checked anyway, could still be growing... they just... I'm pushing what is available.  Oddly, I have no difficulty with clothing now.  Other than tall, I'm two to three sizes down from typical size availability.  My inseam is considered in the normal range, at the last peg of it albeit.  Though my chest measurement suggests I should be double or triple extra large, a simple extra large fits, sometimes a little looser or tighter, though usually about exactly right... independent of brand.  Some larges would do, save for my shoulders.

I had ordered it a while ago, and it took a while, plus the Amazon has changed how it indicates shipping so I just couldn't tell when it was arriving, and lost track.  I saw the UPS truck pull up, and take a pack to the back door, but couldn't fathom what it was.  When I went back and got the package, it looked like a basketball had been stuffed into a box... couldn't figure it out, until half way to the living room.  I was so excited, but nervous too.  At least, this time, if it didn't fit, I could send it back.  I've gotten much better.  Heck, I doubt if I even had enough going to try the first, too small, bag out before the return time.  Just didn't have it going back then.

I ripped in, opened it up.  A stuff sack, a bigger one.  I opened that, then pulled out... the waterproof surround bivy, then another stuff sack, but there was another bigger stuff sack which I left in.  That is the winter bag, for alone or with the rest of the system, but bigger than the little sack in the smaller stuff bag.  I opened the smallest bag.  That is the one that would either fit and make it a system, or not.  Excited but nervous.  Open, spread and down, unzipped, and... Yes!  It fits easily.  I can roll, inside, onto my side, I can curl up a bit on my side, and there is even more length than I have height.  Neither girth nor length were an issue!  If I had the bread, I might buy another for backup.  As is, it will have to do.  But it will do.  I posted a review on Amazon right away.  There are a lot of big guys out there, looking for decent equipment.  It's difficult to find.

Oh, and you can, if geared for it, use a hammock in rather cold weather.  This guy cracks me up.  Perhaps slightly different in form, but another loon.  The right kind, at least in these applications, as I see things.  Skip to the end to see the coldest part, or enjoy a loon song ceremony. 

I started in on a bit of work, just, this stole me away for a bit.  Thought I'd share my success.