

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
Science, it appears, has hatched a way to make goose down, the most prized insulator in outdoor gear, resistant to its greatest nemesis—moisture. Sierra Designs is the first gear-maker to bring water-resistant down in sleeping bags to market. Its first collection arrives in June: 3 men's Zissou bags, rated 6°F (3 lbs. 1 oz., regular length, as are the other men's weights shown here), 18°F (2 lbs. 11 oz.) and 27°F (2 lbs. 1 oz.), and 2 women's Eleanor bags, rated 19°F (3 lbs.) and 29°F (2 lbs. 9 ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on April 27, 2012 12:59 PM & Tagged DriDown, Sierra Designs, down, goose down and sleeping bags | permalink | Comments
The much-anticipated Marmot Plasma sleeping bag series, featuring a +15 degree bag that weighs less than 2 pounds, arrived in selected REI stores this week. Plasma bags -- constructed with 900-fill-power down, the highest grade of down found in any sleeping bag at REI -- are also available REI.com. Plasma bags, at +15 degrees and +30 degrees (in regular and long unisex lengths), are available exclusively at REI through mid-January. Marmot tech rep Ryan Spivey was at REI Seattle Friday (Nov. 19) ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on November 24, 2010 3:57 PM & Tagged Marmot, Plasma, exclusive, rei and sleeping bags | permalink | Comments
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