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Do you need a sleeping bag for your hiking, outing or camping? Did you know that different sleeping bags have different functions, and you need to choose the right sleeping bag for your purpose? As you know, a sleeping bag is a warmly lined bag for sleeping, especially outdoors. Therefore, the most important feature of the sleeping bag is the temperature rate. It should enable you to enjoy a comfortable sleep without excessive sweat or feeling cold.

If you want to enjoy the fun of these exciting activities, you may want to buy one or two sleeping bags which can meet your demands. Are you ready to choose the sleeping bags? Let's go and have a look at them. There are outdoor and indoor sleeping bags. The indoor sleeping bag can be made with common materials, and they are usually for children at home. What we will focus on here are outdoor sleeping bags, because they serve the purpose of the outdoors. The main types of the outdoor sleeping bags are synthetic and down. They have different features and characters. The following are the details of them:

* Materials

There are down and synthetic fiber fill in the sleeping bags. We call the sleeping bags with down fill down sleeping bags, and those with synthetic fiber fill synthetic sleeping bags. Down sleeping bags have duck down and goose down. Goose down has better expansion than the duck down. The fill power of them is difference. The fill power of goose down is greater than that of the duck down. Generally speaking, if the weight of the down is the same, the greater the fill power is, the warmer the sleeping bags are. The highest fill power of goose down is between 700 and 800, which is much better than that of duck down.

There are a variety of synthetic fill with different qualities. The fill densities vary, too: some are 260g per cubic meter, and some are 320g per cubic meter. Contrast to down fill, the synthetic fiber stuffing has lower degree of warmth. However, they are light in weight, and they are cheaper than the down fill. Also, they have water repellent properties, and the synthetic sleeping bags dry faster than the sleeping bags with down fill do. Usually, down sleeping bags can be used more than 10 years, while synthetic sleeping bags have a life span of three to four years.

The commonly used inner and outer materials are polyester or nylon, which have great strength and they are not easily torn. This feature of them makes the sleeping bags suitable for outdoor use. Between the materials of

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