How To Stay Warm in a Sleeping Bag.

Just because your sleeping bag goes down to 10 degrees doesn't mean you can just slide in at nighttime and be toasty all night. Follow these tips to keep your heat close. Use a quality sleeping mat: Get yourself away from the ground. Even putting a 1 inch layer of air between you and the ground (such as provided by a Thermarest) can make a huge difference.Don't lose your clothes: When its below freezing, the only...
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Just say ‘no’ to frozen lips.

Winter, among other things, is the time of frozen lips and facial hair frost. And forget the scarf wrap-around and the bank-robber mask. They simply don’t work to forestall these bothersome side effects of enjoying the great outdoors when the thermometer dips into single and negative digits. The Xchanger Face Mask, however, just might do the trick. According the Herrington Catalog, the mask ‘captures your own body heat as you exhale, then warms incoming cold...
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