Kelty Trailogic Sb 41 Sleeping Bag- Womens Reviews

The Kelty TraiLogic Drove is smart, attentively idea through and lives upward to its TraiLogic moniker. It's what a Vulcan would take camping ground. The collection includes a backpack, tent, sleeping bag and air pad. But they're not just the backpacking nuts jumbled together. They're designed to fit with each other, making TraiLogic both the perfect starter kit for a newbie on the trail, and an ideal upgrade for the veteran who needs to replace some old, worn-out gear.

Kelty'southward assembly is an outdoor example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. But the best way to review and empathise the offering is to await at each piece separately.

The PK l Backpack

The hub of the collection is a 50-liter haversack available in two torso lengths for men, plus a women-specific design. The main body of the pack features a pouch specifically designed for the tent and some other for the sleeping bag. This still leaves 35 liters of storage meant for cooking supplies and heavier items y'all'll want to go on closer to your centre of gravity. An additional 15-liter pack meant for clothing attaches to the main compartment and can be removed to bring essentials into your tent or to lighten your load if you desire to use the pack for a quick day hike.

The entire pack is zipperless. Every main compartment is sealed with stiff-lipped rollover flaps that give the pack greater compression. Rollover flaps also mean you'll never become stuck with a jammed zipper on the trail. There are too a lot of pockets— from pouches on the waist belt for iPhones and energy bars to interior storage compartments—  it'southward piece of cake to imagine owning this kit for months and yet discovering new ones. A matching pelting cover is stored in the base of the pack and tin be deployed easily.

The pack weighs 3 pounds, 2 ounces and retails at $199.95, which is a fair toll for a 50L pack, and a great toll for a 50L pack designed this well.

The TN Tent

Honestly, this is the easiest tent I've e'er assembled. (Okay, truthfully my 12- and 8-year-olds assembled it earlier I was finished reading the directions.) Two poles form an arced cross that the tent roof snaps to via Kelty's intuitive snap-clip technology. A third, shorter pole keeps the roof taut and separates the rain fly from the tent fabric.

At that place are zipper openings on each side of the tent so you won't disturb your sleeping mate when you become upward to get to the bathroom in the heart of the night. And Kelty's Stargazing Fly(TM) is designed to fold back part way so you lot can view the cosmos on a clear night. And, if you lot fall asleep stargazing and wake upward to a rainstorm, you can pull back and secure the total rain wing without fifty-fifty leaving your sleeping bag.

The tent is most vii-feet in length and is bachelor in two-person and three-person models. The two-person version (TN two) retails at $249.95 and three person (TN 3) at $299.95.

The SB Handbag

This is a very comfortable mummy sleeping bag with 800 fill DriDown(TM) insulation that keeps out wet. Men's and women'southward bags are available in 20-degree and 35-degree, which gives you lot a practiced range for at least three seasons. (If you're a newbie at sleeping purse shopping, a +35° and higher is skilful for summertime and a +10° and above is adept for cold – merely not necessarily winter – conditions.)

Men's and women'due south 35-degree (warmer weather) bags retail $249.95, and 20-degree bags retail at $299.95.

The PDa and PDsi Air Pads

There are 2 versions of pads to choose from. I used the less expensive PDa ($69.95) which features a single, meandering air chamber that inflates with just a few breaths. It'southward six-feet long, and at vi'1", I slept soundly on information technology. In fact, it made me feel a fiddling stupid for packing my inexpensive, beefy, curl-up foam rectangle for the last five years. It was like trading in a rusty VW van for a new Mini.

For an extra ten bucks, you can upgrade to the PDsi which is cocky-inflating pad and insulated with polyurethane cream. Repair kits are included with both.

Total Toll (based on high-cease models)

Backpack:                   $199.95

Tent (3-person):         $299.95

Sleeping Bag (20°):    $299.95

Pad (self-inflating):      $79.95

Total:                           $879.80

Lesser Line

I took the Kelty TraiLogic collection out at a dinner party to show it off. I've never paraded backpacking gear to dinner guests before. Only I like information technology that much. And frankly, it'due south that much of a conversation piece.

Later viewing the pack and tent, one friend remarked, "When I see people with [make proper name withheld] gear, I remember posers. But when I see Kelty I think This guy knows what he 's doing." Information technology'south a expert testimonial for Kelty's brand. And the TraiLogic collection can just solidify that image.

The only tiny knit I tin pick is that I wish the PK 50 pack had more storage space. I've used a 70-liter REI pack for the final several years, and I appreciate the extra 20 liters information technology provided. True, I've had to carry a bulkier tent with the aforementioned stupid foam curl-up mat dangling from the dorsum and my sleeping purse crammed in somewhere. But if Kelty came out with a PK lxx for longer, backcountry hikes it would be unbeatable.

But taking price, design and Kelty'south reputation for durability into account, it's easier to list the reasons why not to buy the TraiLogic drove. So far, I've only come up up with two:

1. You lot merely bought a pack, bag, tent and mat separately. Even if the quality of mismatched brands is high, they certainly won't fit together as seamlessly as Kelty has designed their's to.
2. You work for one of Kelty'south competitors.

For purchase and detailed data, visit Kelty.com

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Source: https://seattlebackpackersmagazine.com/kelty-trailogic-collection-review/

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