Ultralight Sleep Beyond The Bag: Brooks-Range Cloak 45

Leave the bottom of your sleeping bag at home with this ultralight sleep solution.

Written by Sean McCoy

5 MIN READ

April 7, 2014 1:29 p.m. EDT

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Brooks Range Cloak 45 compared with a Feathered Friends Swallow sleeping bag

Loft of the Cloak 45

Cloak 45 loosely packed in a 4-liter stuff sack

Pad pocket on the Brooks Range Cloak 45

Cloak compared with similar temperature sleeping bag

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Writer and editor Sean McCoy

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