The Wen­zel Sun­ward 30 degree sleep­ing bag is a qual­ity sleep­ing bag that is avail­able at a bar­gain price com­pared to other bags of the same qual­ity. The Wen­zel sun­ward does an excel­lent job of keep­ing me warm on cold nights. Although I must admit, most of my camp­ing trips occur  in Texas, so my def­i­n­i­tion of cold might be a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from some­body from, say Wis­con­sin or Maine. Wen­zel says the bag is good for mild weather camp­ing. I’m sorry, but the thir­ties are cold in my book. My tol­er­ance for cold aside, I’ve slept in this bag in tem­per­a­tures as low as 40 degrees and felt cozy through­out the night. As comfy as I stayed at 40 degrees, I believe this bag would do well in the thirty degree range  that it is made for. This has been a mild win­ter so far in 2011–2012 for Texas, so if I get a chance to test these bags at thirty degrees, I will update this review.

 Wen­zel Sun­ward 30-Degree Sleep­ing Bag Comfort

The Sun­ward 30 degree sleep­ing bag is filled with four pounds of hypoal­ler­genic Insul-Therm poly­ester fiber­fill. So peo­ple with aller­gies to cer­tain fab­rics shouldn’t have issue with this bag. At four pounds this is not too heavy of a bag for the thirty degree class of bags. Wen­zel designed the sleep­ing bag with quilt through con­struc­tion to keep the fill­ing from get­ting bunched up, thus pre­vent­ing aggra­vat­ing cold spots and annoy­ing lumps that could inter­rupt your sleep­ing. The out­side of the sleep­ing bag is made of a durable poly­ester that should last for many camp­ing trips.

The Wen­zel Sun­ward thirty degree sleep­ing bag is equipped with two straps that make fold­ing up, stor­ing, and trav­el­ing with it a no has­sle expe­ri­ence. The self repair­ing zip­per is another fea­ture that I like about this bag as zip­pers are one of the lead­ing issues that cause campers to throw away a sleep­ing bag.

Immea­sur­able 77 inches in length the Sun­ward should hold peo­ple of above aver­age height. One of my friends is six feet and one inch tall and he fit  in the Sun­ward with­out any com­plaints. The inner liner is a com­fort­able poly­ester pongee, mak­ing the night a plea­sur­able expe­ri­ence. We used these bags with and with­out air mat­tresses under­neath. When we went with­out the  mat­tresses, these bags were still com­fort­able through-out the night. The Ther­marest Col­lapsi­ble Pil­low is a good com­pan­ion to this bag as they both are easy to store and carry.

Wen­zel Sun­ward 30-Degree Sleep­ing Bag Specs

• Tem­per­a­ture rat­ing: 30 degrees F
• Size: 77 by 33 inches
• Fill weight: 4 pounds
• Fill type: Hypoal­ler­genic Insul-Therm
• Outer: Poly­ester
• Liner: Soft poly­ester pongee
• Zip­per: Self-repairing
• Stor­age: 2 elas­tic straps

I have a cou­ple of these Sun­ward bags now and have been sat­is­fied with them. Wen­zel is a com­pany I’ve grown to like, hav­ing used sev­eral of their tents in the past sev­eral years. Grab a Wen­zel Sun­ward 30-Degree Sleep­ing Bag from Ama­zon right now!

So you’re get­ting the gear together for that week-long fam­ily camp­ing trip. You’ve got your brand new tent, your sleep­ing bags, cook­ing gear, cool­ers, food, light­ing, fur­ni­ture… Hey! Where are we going to put all this stuff? Where are the kids going to sit?

Well don’t have a tentrum. An easy way to solve your cargo conun­drum is with a Stow­Away Hitch Cargo Car­rier. An eas­ily acces­si­ble hitch mount cargo box, the Stow­Away is the ideal com­bi­na­tion of stor­age, secu­rity, reli­a­bil­ity and con­ve­nience. Slid­ing quickly and securely into the receiver hitch of nearly every make and model of SUV, mini­van, truck and RV, Stow­Aways have up to to 16 cubic feet of stor­age capac­ity and can carry loads of up to 200 lbs. That’s a lot of s’mores fixin’s!

Offer­ing easy ground-level access to all your gear, the Stow­Away makes it a snap for any fam­ily mem­ber to grab what they need at rest stops, and pro­vides easy access to your gear when you reach the camp­ground. Say so long to the incon­ve­nience and fuel inef­fi­ciency of a rooftop car­rier. A secure lock­ing mech­a­nism keeps your gear safe while you’re at din­ers, trail­heads and other road­side attrac­tions, and pro­tects your food from the wildlife while you’re out in the wild. Man­u­fac­tured in the USA, the ruggedly con­structed Stow­Away won’t sway or wob­ble as you’re head­ing down a rugged back-country road to your favorite remote camp­site. A weather tight seal keeps every­thing nice and dry should the weather turn wet, and there’s a well-placed drain plug for easy clean-up. Your gear will arrive safe and secure, and your pas­sen­gers comfortable.

Like to take the bikes along when you camp? No prob­lem. The Stow­Away Hitch Cargo Car­rier has been designed to be used simul­ta­ne­ously with the Stow­Away Hitch Bike Rack, a 4-bike and bike gear rack that can also be used sep­a­rately for non-camping excursions.

So grab your gear and head on out. With a Stow­Away Hitch Cargo Car­rier you’ll have plenty of space to haul all every­thing safely and securely to your next great out­door adventure.