Just a follow up note to something that happened on the GREAT PIROGUE EXPEDITION. By being careless I managed to pry my sleeping bag out of the stern of my pirogue, right into the water. It is a good down bag in a standard nylon stuff sack. It floated like a cork and really didn't soak up much water, mostly just the sack got wet.
Now the rest of the story......I was packing out to leave the campsite. Had taken my paddles, both, out of the pirogue to let me wash some of the tracked in mud out of the boat. I left the paddles leaned up on a tree. I set my pirogue seat down in the boat, put my sleeping pad behind it, and tossed the sleeping bag on top. No problem.....till i slid the seat back a little. The bag popped out into the water, of course on the opposite side of the boat. The wind wanted to carry it away pretty fast. So, i stepped into the boat, and moved back to where I should have been able to reach it......nope......so, i grabbed thke gunwales and gave a tug, floating me out to where the bag was. Yup, caught it......and the paddles were still up against the tree. Well, Joey appeared with a load of stuff for his boat and was kind enough to toss me his canoe paddle. Just to keep it interesting he tossed it about five feet too short to reach me. I never did reach the paddle or get to shore......I'm still out there paddling around with my hands in that snakey/gator infested water.......
Man, we had a good time.
But, I thought I'd just share the fact that sleeping bags don't soak up water like a BOUNTY BRAND paper towel. I was surprised.
piper
Now the rest of the story......I was packing out to leave the campsite. Had taken my paddles, both, out of the pirogue to let me wash some of the tracked in mud out of the boat. I left the paddles leaned up on a tree. I set my pirogue seat down in the boat, put my sleeping pad behind it, and tossed the sleeping bag on top. No problem.....till i slid the seat back a little. The bag popped out into the water, of course on the opposite side of the boat. The wind wanted to carry it away pretty fast. So, i stepped into the boat, and moved back to where I should have been able to reach it......nope......so, i grabbed thke gunwales and gave a tug, floating me out to where the bag was. Yup, caught it......and the paddles were still up against the tree. Well, Joey appeared with a load of stuff for his boat and was kind enough to toss me his canoe paddle. Just to keep it interesting he tossed it about five feet too short to reach me. I never did reach the paddle or get to shore......I'm still out there paddling around with my hands in that snakey/gator infested water.......
Man, we had a good time.
But, I thought I'd just share the fact that sleeping bags don't soak up water like a BOUNTY BRAND paper towel. I was surprised.
piper