Eureka “casper” compact sleeping bag review

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The “Casper” 15 °F/-9°C Mummy Sleeping Bag is used for those who are looking for ultra-light weight, compact sleeping bag at great price. It’s double layer design helps to prevent the entering of cold air from the outside and escaping of the warm air from the inside. The filling of Rteq fiber (see below) provides excellent performance to it’s price.Rteq fiber: According to Eureka, the Rtec fiber is the “ultimate in thermal performance”. The Rteq fiber also recieves excellent marks for it’s compactness and durability. It’s up to 40% lighter than other fills (according to Eureka) and 20% more efficient at the fiber level. Rteq is Eureka’s choice for its line of ultra-light weight performance sleeping bags.

BASICS
  • Zipper Side: Right
  • Insulation: Rteq
  • Temp Rating: 15° F/-9°C
  • Size: 82″ x 32″ x 21″/208cm x 81cm x 53cm
  • Fill Weight: 1 lb. 12 oz. / 508 gr
  • Carry Weight: 2 lbs. 15 oz. / 975 gr
Warm
  • Double layer off-set multi-needle quilt construction
  • Fully adjustable contoured hood
  • Differential cut
  • Draft tube
Comfortable
  • 210T polyester taffeta liner
  • Inside “stash pocket” (MP3 player not included)
  • External pillow pocket
  • Trapezoidal foot box
Tough
  • 210T polyester diamond ripstop shell
  • #5, 2-way, self-repairing zipper
  • Compression stuff sack included
As I looked through many reviews about this sleeping bag on the internet, here is the summary of it (including all the minuses, it’s an absolutely objective review) :
Cons:
  • The 15° F/-9°C may be a little bit too optimistic
  • May be tight the shoulders for a bigger person (checked for 6′2 170 lbs / 77 kg guy was OK)

Pros:

  • Light weight and compact
  • Plenty of foot room
  • The bag itself feels very nice
  • May be a little bit too warm for 40° F/+4°C
  • People like the internal pocket

Even though there was a little bit complains about the temperature rating, the temperature feeling is a little bit subjective thing. There was also enough people who said that the temperature rating was good. I choose to write these reviews according to the main tendencies of this sleeping bag reviews. If you are more tolerant to cold, the Eureka “Casper” is perfect for you, if the opposite is true, may be you should think a little bit. In summary it’s a very good product for this price.

For bigger people there is also “Casper long” design with those specifications:
BASICS (Everything else said is the same)
  • Zipper Side: eft:
  • Insulation: Rteq
  • Temp Rating: 15° F/-9°C
  • Size: 87″ x 34″ x 22″/221cm x 86cm x 56cm
  • Fill Weight: 1 lb. 15 oz. / 522gr
  • Carry Weight: 3 lbs. 1 oz. / 1406 gr

 

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