How to Choose Sleeping Bags for Backpacking
Mountain Equipment Nova II Sleeping Bag - Women's Long
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The women's Mountain Equipment Nova II long-length sleeping bag is a light, spacious, comfortable bag that retains the low weight and compressibility required for backpacking while maximizing warmth.
Key Details
Fill
Polarloft synthetic fibers
Weight
2 lb. 9 oz.
Temperature Rating (F)
27 degrees (F)
- Polarloft® insulation helps maintain warmth even while wet
- HELIUM™ 20-denier outer shell is light and highly breathable
- Keystone shingle construction offers the greatest warmth for the minimum weight
- Offset layer construction underneath
- Women-specific Mountain Fit is both spacious and thermally efficient
- Anatomically shaped hood and footbox
- Integrated collar with Lode Lock™ closure
- Full-length zip baffle
- Includes a lightweight compression sack
- Mountain Equipment is a member of Fair Wear Foundation, a European initiative working to improve workplace conditions in the garment and textile industry
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Imported.
Temperature ratings are intended as a guideline to help you compare products, rather than a guarantee of warmth, since many different factors contribute to your comfort while you sleep. Backpacking bags are typically rated for temperature according to an independent testing protocol—currently International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 23537, though some older items followed European Norm (EN) 13537. Testing is based on a person wearing one base layer and a pair of socks, sleeping on an insulated surface with a minimum R-value of 5.38.
Each bag then gets 2 ratings: the Comfort rating is the lowest temperature at which the bag will keep the average "cold sleeper" comfortable, and the Lower Limit rating is the lowest temperature at which the bag will keep the average "warm sleeper" comfortable. Some brands determine their own temperature rating by aligning to the Comfort rating for women’s bags, to the Lower Limit rating for men’s bags, or somewhere in the middle for nongendered bags.
View all Mountain Equipment Backpacking Sleeping BagsEach bag then gets 2 ratings: the Comfort rating is the lowest temperature at which the bag will keep the average "cold sleeper" comfortable, and the Lower Limit rating is the lowest temperature at which the bag will keep the average "warm sleeper" comfortable. Some brands determine their own temperature rating by aligning to the Comfort rating for women’s bags, to the Lower Limit rating for men’s bags, or somewhere in the middle for nongendered bags.
| Best Use | Backpacking |
|---|---|
| Tested Lower Limit | 27 degrees (F) - ISO |
| Tested Comfort | 37 degrees (F) - ISO |
| Temperature Rating (F) | 27 degrees (F) |
| Temperature Rating (C) | -3 degrees (C) |
| Weight | 2 lb. 9 oz. |
| Shell | 20-denier Helium nylon |
| Zipper Location | Left |
| Insulation Type | Synthetic |
| Fill | Polarloft synthetic fibers |
| Sleeping Capacity | 1-person |
| Lining | 30-denier nylon |
| Sleeping Bag Shape | Mummy |
| Fits Up To (in.) | 73 inches |
| Shoulder Girth (in.) | 31 inches |
| Hip Girth (in.) | Unavailable |
| Stuff Sack Size | 11 x 9 x 7 inches |
| Gender | Women's |
