NEMO  Forte 35 Endless Promise Sleeping Bag - Men's

Really disappointed with this bag. The temperature control “gills” are a great idea in theory, but the zipper design completely ruins the experience. The zipper constantly catches the surrounding fabric to the point that it’s almost impossible to open or close smoothly. I encountered this issue immediately upon unpacking it, and the fabric even started to tear just from trying to use it normally. For a product at this price point, this is a major design flaw. A sleeping bag should be simple and reliable, not frustrating to use right out of the box

I bought this 3 months ago now and have used it dozens of times. I just last night spent the night in 38° and wind. The 35° marker on the bag is the extreme, so I was chilly in my tshirt and shorts, but I put some pants on and I warmed up nice. The bag compacts nice and small, and weighs like nothing. And I love it. Treat it nice and it’s amazing. The one flaw is the gill zippers are small which means they can snag. But it’s a light weight sleeping bag. The people complaining about the zippers are right about it snagging, but it’s their own incompetence in my opinion. But I’ve figured out how to zip it up quick without it snagging and can do it in the dark now.

2nd attempt with bag. Both brand new and never got to use because vent zipper got stuck on both. Won’t be making that mistake a 3rd time.

I read the other reviews about the issues with vent zippers, and thought that I would just close them and never use them. On opening I was able to close two without issue. The third took about five minutes, but I managed to get it closed eventually. After fifteen minutes attempting to close the fourth one I gave up. Have worked on a lot of zippers that hang up by grabbing materials in the zipper, but this one was a tiny enough zipper that it was concerning that it might break, so I eventually gave up. It’s a basic enough design flaw that you would think NEMO might have caught it before they started production. I’ll use the bag, as it’s the right temp rating and otherwise seems ok. It’s baffling how NEMO thought this would be a featured element of the bag, when I would guess most people would be afraid to use the vents after trying the zippers one time. How they could not know this before production should be a corporate concern in their QA/QC department.

I bought this model on two different orders hoping it was just a single flaw on the first one. Both times they hit the same failure point on the first zip. Terrible design.

Ventilation zipper didn't even make it one full zip before it impossibly snagged and tor a hole in the material, just happy it happened right away.

this is a great bag if you take care of it

Felt great trying it. Until I wanted to zip up the ventilation on the side. It’s near impossible to not get the zipper stuck on the ventilation material. It’s so loose that I had to stick a finger in there to keep it tight enough to not get caught. It still got caught. And on one side it got completely stuck and it messed up the sleeping bag.

Used this camping a few weekends ago here in Texas. We are on the Verge of summer so it only got down to about 58. Super comfortable bag!