7/25/2005

My Tokyo friend “Mulboyne”" turned me on to this item in the KazuoMoo blog: the Walking-enabled Sleeping Bag”
For all you sleeping bag fans, Japan has the better bag for you! It’s perfect for sleepwalking and bear escape.
The copy of the advertisement roughly reads, “The sleeping bag which is introduced here let’s you walk…. at night, if attacked by a bear, you can standing up and escape, isn’t that tremendous?”

Actually, extreme mountaineering, the inverse of this product has existed for more than 50 years in the form of down salopettes/trousers. For emergencies, some models of down trousers have a feature that allow zipping the legs together to form a half sleeping bag—–that’s add new meaning to the word “hot pants.” In combination with a extreme-conditions expedition down jacket, a stranded climber can survive a night without a sleeping bag or even a tent.