-20°C below freezing test night - sleeping in snow | Taival Outdoors

The best way to learn and push the limits of yourself and your gear is to go out and test them overnight. Crisp -20°C (-4°F) winter weather provided me the opportunity to test if combining my two sleeping bags would be enough or not. The coldest I've ever slept has been twice in -29°C, but both times it was with different gear and happened years ago, so a test night was in order. I'm using pretty standard winter camping or winter backpacking equipment:
- 2GoSystems VELAR UL bivvy bag
- Marmot Never Summer Long down sleeping bag
- Rab Ascent 300 XL down sleeping bag
- Cocoon MummyLiner Silk
- Exped Synmat Winterlite LW inflatable sleeping mat
- Therm-a-Rest Z Lite SOL sleeping pad

Chapters:
0:00 Digging a snow trench and setting up sleeping pads
2:21 Cold weather sleeping bags and a bivvy bag
5:25 Temperature drops to -20°C and I got to sleep under the stars
6:52 Frosty morning and a wake up call by a beast!
7:39 Lessons learned
10:52 Gear failure
12:27 Summary

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Disclosures
At the time of this video, I was an ambassador and testing gear for the following companies:
5.11 Tactical Finland https://511tactical.fi/
Keli Clothing https://keliclothing.fi/

#wintercamping #testnight #winterbackpacking

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Taival Outdoors is a channel about the great outdoors, spending time in nature doing everything from day hikes and overnight adventures to bikepacking and multi-day wilderness backpacking. Trekking is close to my heart, but I’m not tied to any particular "genre" like ultralight or bushcraft – instead I do what I've found through my experience in the wild to work the best for me. I'm also making gear reviews and skill videos based on what I actually use and how I operate in nature. Thanks for watching!

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