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Old 11-24-12 | 06:27 PM
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I bought an EMS Solstice 20º for $75.00 last year. I am so beyond enthralled, I have to suggest it. Read on:

I have slept in it comfortably to 0º with a liner. It weighs about 1lb more than a $400.00 sleeping bag (it's like 3lbs 1 oz). I've used it for 3 months out of the last 12, extensive use, and it has not worn in a single area. It has not lost any loft. It has not begun to smell even slightly.

I have been warm at 20º while soaking wet. I have laid it down directly on rock and slept warmly and soundly. I have beaten it to death shoveling it in compression sacks and sliding around on hardwood floors, but it hasn't so much as loosened a thread.

It compresses down to about 12" x 8" in a compression sack, and comes out wrinkly but still lofty. The zipper never snags with careful use, but even if it does from careless zipping, which I have done probably 100+ times, the material easily pulls free from the oversized zipper with no damage. None.

My friend has a $200.00 Marmot and the quality is on-par in every regard. My other friend has a ghostly-lightweight sleeping bag in the $400.00 price range, and mine's slightly warmer.

So, +1000 for the EMS Solstice 20. Beautiful bag, it'll last you years I suspect.
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