Snorkel For In A Mummy Bag


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hmmmmmm

anybody ever do this?

I'd like my perspiration to go out of the bag, without having the opening of the bag damp/frost....
 
Interesting concept, but how uncomfortable would that be? Plus.....how do you keep from breathing through your nose?
 
haha not sure! I slept for 8 hours but had a damp area around where the perspiration went out and a cold nose (which woke me up), which lead to slight shivers. The dampness quickly turned to frost once I got out of the bag.
 
Um......no. I'm sure that your mouth would relax and the snorkel would come out
 
"Hey, I know that guy!"

Hiwdy Scottman - I'm the first one to thank you!

Instead of a snorkel (which could mess up one's gums, long term), you could use a medical nebulizer/oxygen mask + tube :dblthumb:
 
To control condensation on your bag opening, the best solution I have seen is from Sean Emery (Shug). He made a kind of bib from a piece of fleece, that goes over his head. It is about 2' long and collects the moisture that you breathe out, freezing it to the bib and not your bag. I use a shemagh for the same purpose, plus it is a multi-purpose item.
 
Not sure if this will help with perspiration but when I was in the Marines I had a Plt Commander that would wear his gas mask when we racked out at night. He would cinch the sleeping bag up tight around the filter and I guess he didn't move much at night. He said it was to keep the mosquitos away.
 
If I was camping and one of my buddies was using a snorkel to sleep, I would fill it with hot sauce.....or worse. :38:
 
A quick mummy bag story.
I was in the Army and we were over in Germany for a couple of months for training. There was about 3 feet of snow on the ground and we were sleeping in GP mediums on cots and our sleeping bags. When we went to bed one night it was so cold, despite the deisel heater, that I had drawn the face opening of my bag really tight so there was just a tiny little opening remaining. Well, sometime in the night I must have rolled in the bag and the zipper and opening were not where they started.
I woke up needing to take a leak. I started to look for the face opening but couldn't find it. Besides not being in front of my face it was also pitch black in the tent so even if I was looking through the opening I wouldn't know it. The urge to go gets a little stronger. The search for an opening gets a little more frantic. I can't find a zipper. I start bouncing in my cot trying to wiggle around and find some way out. At this point I'm starting to panic and the bouncing becomes thrashing. I'm full blown claustrophobic at this point and am convinced I will never get out of that dang bag. Finally, one of my buddies stops laughing at me long enough to come over and help me. We don't need snorkels. We need emergency exit signs! :-)
 
For the past two weeks I have been using a "tube" made out of fleece. It doesn't seem to get too damp, but the bag got pretty damp last night...... today was bad waking up 10 degrees.

I might just snag an o2 mask- thanks Alukban!
 
Faol said:
To control condensation on your bag opening, the best solution I have seen is from Sean Emery (Shug). He made a kind of bib from a piece of fleece, that goes over his head. It is about 2' long and collects the moisture that you breathe out, freezing it to the bib and not your bag. I use a shemagh for the same purpose, plus it is a multi-purpose item.
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do you have a link to that?
 
You are going to get moisture in your bag anyways. Humans off-gas moisture constantly through the skin...as much as a liter an hour in the hot, but we still give off water vapor in the cold too.

Adding a wool blanket as mentioned can help as it will absorb water vapor without compromising insulation.

Personally, I can't sleep if my face is covered, so it's not a big deal for me.

I do like the fleece ideas.


One Legged Josh said:
If I was camping and one of my buddies was using a snorkel to sleep, I would fill it with hot sauce.....or worse. :38:
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Remind me NOT to camp around youse guys!
 
I wear an arctic grade balaclava on my head when I'm camping and pull it down over my eyes but leave my mouth uncovered, and I tighten up my mummy bag around my neck and around my head with the hood portion but don't cover my face with my sleeping bag. The balaclava helps me not to lose heat, and my breath vents outside the bag that way so I don't get my bag wet. I've slept in the dead of an Alaskan winter like that just fine many times. I also take a hot water bottle into my sack with me which helps keep me warm all night.
 
that I had drawn the face opening of my bag really tight so there was just a tiny little opening remaining. Well, sometime in the night I must have rolled in the bag and the zipper and opening were not where they started.
I woke up needing to take a leak. I started to look for the face opening but couldn't find it. Besides not being in front of my face it was also pitch black in the tent so even if I was looking through the opening I wouldn't know it. The urge to go gets a little stronger. The search for an opening gets a little more frantic. I can't find a zipper. I start bouncing in my cot trying to wiggle around and find some way out. At this point I'm starting to panic and the bouncing becomes thrashing. I'm full blown claustrophobic at this point and am convinced I will never get out of that dang bag. Finally, one of my buddies stops laughing at me long enough to come over and help me. We don't need snorkels. We need emergency exit signs! :-)[/QUOTE]

:18::18::18: That one really made me laugh,you brought back some memorys because it happened to me too,so beleive me,i laughed for a good 5minutes hahaha...
 
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