How to sleep well during winter camping? Sleeping warmly? A warm sleeping bag is really enough! You may finally buy the first sleeping bag in your life. In addition to excitement, you can also start to learn the correct concept of sleeping bags to keep warm. As long as you keep these tips in mind when using sleeping bags, you will be able to give full play to the effectiveness of your sleeping bags!
There are three concepts you must know about how to use sleeping bags to keep warm:
1. Prevent the main cause of body temperature loss first
The main function of a sleeping bag is actually to maintain and preserve the body heat radiated by your body. By heating the air between your body and the sleeping bag to keep you warm, you must use any means to reduce the loss of your body temperature. Such as using the inside of a sleeping bag, a good insulated sleeping pad, shelter from a tent, or a correct camping location. As long as these key factors can be mastered, you will not be too far away from perfect warmth.
2. Avoid other small mistakes that may cause body temperature loss
After dealing with the main causes of body temperature loss, we must start with other small details. The concept remains the same, that is, trying to maintain body temperature and that layer of hot air. For example: put on a fur hat to sleep, put on dry and comfortable clothes, go to the toilet before going to bed and avoid getting up in the middle of the night.
3. Find a way to increase the maintenance of body heat
Drink a bowl of hot soup or high-calorie food before going to bed, do some small exercises to warm up your body, if you are going camping with the other half, go to sleep together! Two people can effectively share body heat and raise the temperature.
Then we will analyze and explore why the above methods can effectively maintain your body temperature and thus achieve the effect of keeping warm.
1. The human body itself heats up/dissipates heat
The human body is like a furnace that keeps burning. This mechanism makes the body feel warm. However, if there is no good way to properly preserve and maintain the heat emitted by the body, causing loss, people will feel cold. Using a sleeping bag with the correct amount of down filling can help retain heat. A better way is to consider using the inside of the sleeping bag. If the inside of the sleeping bag is used correctly, theoretically the temperature should increase by 2-5 degrees Celsius.
2. Heat conduction/choose the right sleeping mat and floor mat to isolate
If you lie directly on the ground in contact with the ground, the heat of your body will be absorbed by the earth. This is a very simple physical phenomenon of heat conduction. The partial transfer of heat energy from high temperature to low temperature leads to loss of body temperature. At this time, it is very important to choose a good, effective and correct sleeping mat or floor mat. It can effectively block the phenomenon of heat conduction and prevent the body from transferring too much heat to the ground.
3. Use a tent/choose the right place to camp
The flow of cold air will also cause the loss of body heat, even in the state of wind blowing for a long time, even if it is a breeze. At this time, it is very important to use a tent or choose the right camp. You should try to sleep in a relatively closed environment, where the wind cannot blow, to avoid loss of temperature.
Know what can cause you to lose temperature and not keep your body warm. We especially add some little secrets to keep warm, and use sleeping bags to keep you warm in the cold and cold currents!
1. Please change into dry and comfortable clothes
When climbing or raining, you have a high chance of falling asleep wearing wet clothes. Humidity will take away body heat, so it’s best to put on dry clothes to get a good night’s sleep.
2. Cover all parts exposed to cold air
Human body heat is not only lost from the head, but actually flows out from various parts of the body that are exposed to cold air. So if you are using a human-shaped sleeping bag, you can wear a sleeping bag hat to keep it warm, if you don't have a hat, wear a fur hat! (Research shows that the lower the temperature, the higher the heat dissipation from the head. The temperature is 15 degrees, about 30% of the heat is dissipated, and as low as 4 degrees, it will be 60%.)
3. Go to the toilet before going to bed to avoid getting up in the middle of the night
The body needs to use a lot of energy to maintain body temperature at a certain temperature, which means that heat energy must also be used to maintain the temperature of your urine. Therefore, a good plan for going to the toilet before going to bed can effectively reduce heat waste. At the same time, if you get up at night, it is easy to cause the warm air to run away.
4. Finally, match a few methods that can actively increase body heat
You can choose to drink a bowl of hot soup or eat some high-calorie things before going to bed to supplement and maintain the heat energy you will consume at night. If this journey is with your partner, you can hug and share body temperature in the same bed at night. Finally, you can also choose to do some light exercises before going to bed, but you don't need to exercise too much to cause sweating, as long as you can raise your core temperature.
Finally, I want to remind everyone that the above tips are just right, not too much to cause too much heat or sweat at night. You may get a cold or sweat from kicking the quilt and get your clothes wet, so it's a pity that you bought a good sleeping bag.
Post time: Aug-09-2021