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Tricot knit lining acts like Velcro trapping scratchy plant debris
Have slept in many different kinds of sleeping bags over the years; many of them Coleman with fleece lining. They were great. This bag I bought via Amazon a year ago for $40 and have used it 3 times while camping in the Pacific NW forests. My only complaint is that the "tricot knit lining" acts like Velcro when coming into contact with many plant materials, ie moss, small ferns, lichen, etc. Then this debris easily come loose from your clothing and get embedded in this tricot knit lining. Then you have literally hundreds of pieces of scratchy embedded debris that is very very uncomfortable to sleep against. Then what compounds this issues is that each piece of plant material has to be painstakingly plucked, one at a time, and the piece of plant material usually breaks apart requiring multiple plucks to remove. I'd rather sleep in a bag my 9 year old consumed a box of crackers in. It took literally an hour and a half of plucking and couldn't remove all fragments without damaging the liner. Tried to run through the washing machine and that made no improvement in removing this scratchy debris left within the lining. This bag seem adequate in all other areas of design and comfort and would work out great if not used in a forest setting. I'm not sure what the engineers were thinking when using tricot knit lining and they certainly didn't do field tests within the Pacific NW. There may be a reason that Amazon has discounted the bag and sells this same bag for $20. Totally useless to me.
June 2018 · Sports and Outdoors · verified purchase
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