Mateable bags

“I may be really naive, but never owning a mateable sleeping bag, I don't know the answer to this....

If I were to get a regular length mateable bag, would it still be able to mate with a long length one?”

“If the bags don’t mate the relationship is doomed.”

“he speaks.

yo, colostomy bag man, come on the OLD hike aug 28th-29th.”

“OLD = OLP (musta been a freudian slip)”

“Oh the OLP trip, I thought you were just being mean.”

“I'm doing a family thing that weekend, but just recently I was looking at the OLP map and thinking about an overnighter there in the fall.”

“I’ve never tried to put two bags together, but if the connection starts at the bottom of the bags I would think that it would work.”

“if the bags have hoods, then someone is gonna be sleeping with one over their face.
other than that, just make sure the zips are the same 'tooth' size.
why dontchya get matching bags to go with the matching packs and jackets?”

“all these people got jokes.”

“If you're starting from scratch, get two long bags. Trust me on this one.”

“Didn't I read awhile ago the batman luke thing was done??? WTF??!!”

“scorch - Big Agnes bags allow you to do that according to their site.”

“batman luke thing done..what do you mean?”

“Scorchy...it depends. Some makers put the same length zipper in their regular and long bags so that they remain mateable. Also, if one of you buys a left zip bag, and the other buys a right zip bag, then the hood-in-the-face problem is also solved.”

“lol, batman luke. We got jokes and we got crap on this board. heehehe... That one was the "crap" part. :-)”

“ill never understand you folks. but im gonna try”

“I haven't really noticed that it matters the size of the bag. The zippers are centered on both bags. As mentioned above just make sure one is left hand zip and the other right. However, the wife and I have always had the same brand/make bag (different size) not that I think this really matters, just makes it easier because you know the teeth on the zippers are the same size.”

“After the bags mate, how long do you have to wait until you get the cute little baby bags ?”

“and I'd be glad to try and mate with you.”

“I think they can mate but the offsprings would be sterile.”

“Manuka, you beat me to it...”

“It all depends upon the manufacterer. Take a look at this long and regular length Moonstone Bags mated:

”

“Hey, keep that sleeping bag porn off the website!”

“My pants are shrinking!”

“Am I the only one who sees this thread title and mistakes it for saying, "Meatable Bags"? Even after I know what it says I still keep chuckling when I skim passed it.

OK, maybe it is just me...please pray for me....”

“Is that a Mr Furious reference? If so I love that movie ;)”

“I love Mystery Men! But I think the first character to use that phrase was the photographers brother on Just Shoot Me - where he pretended to have brain damage?

"Green Quarter"!”

“David Cross. He said, "My pants are tight!". Everytime my wife and I see him on TV we both say at the same time, "Green quarter!". LOL! Yeah, we're both losers.”

“We've been praying for you Nigal, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.”

“LMAO! That's a great episode!

"Donnie says vacuum"”

“And for Mr. Furious:

Don't mess with the volcano my man, 'cause I will go Pompeii on your... butt”

“luke and i have used our mateable bags about 3 times now and there seems to be one problem we keep having: our thermarests don't stay together and i always winding up sleeping between them in that crack and lemme tell ya, it gets cold on the tent floor!

any suggestions? is there any time of contraption to keep the thermarests together that is sold? i'm thinking of rigging them together somehow, but i figured it'd be a lot easier to buy something that's sold for that purpose.”

“duct tape?”

“Hmmmm, it seems the mateable bag thing ain't all it's cracked up to be.”

“Mating inside your bag ain't so bad though ;)”

“If your in the crack does that mean...........is it cold and wet there?”

“Bit beat me to it.”

“go to wal mart and get some one inch wide velcro at the craft section - that and a hot glue gun should solve the problem.”

“Yea, Lindsey and I have the "couple's kit" for the thermarest and they work well. The only problem with the mateable bags is we seem to 1. kick each other a lot more and 2. She gets colder because of more space and I get hotter because of two people. We tend to mate the bags only at certain times then. But for you scorch, the couples kit will work great (they also can be used for a great sling shot)”

““go to wal mart and get some one inch wide velcro at the craft section - that and a hot glue gun should solve the problem.”

that might work because he's got the wide thermarest and i got the smaller one so the couples kit might not stretch across both?


scorchfire
last edited: 1/17/05 4:23:45 PM”

“Argh.”

“yeah bit, but my solution will cost about 3 dollars.”

“What's your idea Roam? Run a strip of velcro down the edges of the pads, hooks on one of them and loops on the other?

You could probably make a custom couple kit with some 1" webbing, a couple of ladderlocks, and a couple of triglides too.”

“Thanks, these couples really needed the help.”

“you got it bit.”

“Hmmm... I wonder if velcro would work....

;~)”

“I'll vouch for the thermarest pad coupler thingy that Bit posted. Kamper & I had the same problem until we got one.”