The North Face Blue Kazoo Sleeping Bag: 20 Degree Down Description:
| The North Face Blue Kazoo is a 600+ fill goose down bag that plays a toasty tune down to 20ºF. Extremely compressible & durable, the Blue Kazoo makes an excellent all around backpacker’s bag. The North Face Blue Kazoo is a 600+ fill goose down bag that plays a toasty tune down to 20ºF. Extremely compressible & durable, the Blue Kazoo makes an excellent all around backpacker’s bag. As usual, The North Face has constructed this bag with the utmost detail. Listing all of the Blue Kazoo’s technical features is enough to put you asleep itself, so we’ll cut to the chase. Its silken lining feels wonderfully soft on your skin (just like that safety blanket you hide when guests come over), and it’s breathable so your funk doesn’t fester inside your bag all night. Heat traps and draft tubes minimize heat loss throughout. The Blue Kazoo is so comfy, you’ll say to hell with seeing the sun rise over Lone Peak, and instead choose to sleep in. But just in case, The North Face has integrated a ear-level watch pocket so you’re up in time. When you go to rest your weary head, stuff the Blue Kazoo’s external pillow pocket with your down or fleece jacket and voilà! instant pillow. One-hand color coded pull cords make adjusting the five chamber hood easy as pie. Store your Blue Kazoo in its nylon/mesh storage bag so the down doesn’t lose its loft; pack it in its stuffsack when you’re on the go in the backcountry. |
Bottom Line: Stay toasty in the 20's. |
Reviews: The North Face Blue Kazoo Sleeping Bag: 20 Degree Down
Blue Kazoo on JMT
The bag worked excellent. I tend to sleep on the cold side, but I hiked the John Muir Trail in August / September using a Mountain Hardwear PCT2 and a 3/4 length Ridgerest pad and was not once cold in the night, not even my feet. The bag is light and compacts well, but lofts quickly, with a stuff sack which packs it into a diameter of about a bead roll, with 1/2 or 1/3 the length. The one thing that I would recommend however is the purchase of a Cocoon sleeping bad liner. Mine is of the "cool max" material. It adds 5 or so degrees to the bad, but most of all it keeps it clean and smelling like new, even when you don't!
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