However, leaving it compressed in the same compression sack for a long time is bad. One very important thing you need to consider when packing your sleeping bag for backpacking is to always stuff the sleeping bag in the stuff sack.
By stuffing, your sleeping bag will recover easily when you unpack it. Rolling will overly compress the sleeping bag and can damage the fibers of the sleeping bag.
A sleeping bag whether it be down or synthetic should not be stored in a stuff sack. There is a proper way to store your sleeping bag at home. You should clean the sleeping bag and hang it in your closet.
You can also store your sleeping bag in a large breathable storage sack. Depending upon the nature of your hiking, backpacking, and traveling you can keep your sleeping bag compressed for a couple of days to a couple of weeks. But, you should be concerned about the sleeping bag once you reach your home or final destination. There is not a specific time period I can provide you to leave your sleeping bag compressed.
For example, I can not say that leave your sleeping bag compressed for 2 days or 2 weeks. What I can say is that a good practice is to keep your sleeping bag compressed as long as you need to. Down bags are more prone to damage by compression than synthetic bags. Pack your sleeping bag just before heading on the adventure. Compress it as much as you have space. Pack it loose. You should not store your sleeping bag compressed. Compression sacks are not made to store sleeping bags.
It won't be a problem at all. Like you I try to wait until the last minute to pack my quilt. But, a few days here or there is no big deal as long as it's stored properly the rest of the year. Dale Scott Newbie. Joined Sep 19, Messages 9.
My down is compress for two weeks at a time when I hunt the back country unless I am in it. Never a problem unless you store it that way. Joined Jul 2, Messages 5, Location Alaska. A few days. Joined Sep 23, Messages My HG stuff stays compressed for a couple of days at a time every time I take it out somewhere.
Never had an issue. Joined Dec 27, Messages 3, Location Colorado. My gear is always compressed. I just shake it out before I use it. Never really had a problem. KyleS Junior Member. Joined Aug 15, Messages A few days but I'm pretty anal even though I've read countless times it will be fine. I too like to wait until the last minute to pack my quilt. Compressed in a simple sac that can still be squished is one thing. I've left down like that for long periods of time months with no issues.
Put into a compression sac and sinched down so that it is rock hard is very different, and I wouldn't leave it like that for any real length of time. I am interested in this as well. Would you unpack and fluff while in the hotel room for that 12 hr period or would you just worry about it when you reach your final destination? It had been compressed in its little aqua green stuff sack since the early seventies--about ten or fifteen years.
I cleaned it and aired it out. I used his thermarest until it finally died the weekend before last. Stuff has a lot longer life span than we think it does It depends. However, it's perfectly clean. If you take a dirty sleeping bag full of body grease, cooties, spilled soup and whatever else and keep it stuffed with that stuff degrading the down inside, it will certainly affect it negatively.
In my experience, its not so much how long it's stored at any one time, it's how many times it has been compressed. Eventually, it simply begins to recover completely at a diminishing rate. Thanks for all the responses.
I think I'll be anal about my newer bag and coats I have a Wood Brothers Egyptian cotton shell - eider down bag circa I still use it occassionally in the summer. It was compressed in it's attached stuff sack for around 45 years when I pulled it from an inlaw's attic. Gave it a day and all the loft returned. True Goose down is incredible stuff. I keep it in a storage bag now.
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