Fizz wrote: Down Duvets are the best for warmth.
They are bulky but all you have to do is stuff them in a bag, sit on it to get the air out and you end up with a very small bundle
We use down blankets with duvet covers but we don't pack them away. Just seems like a lot of extra work for nothing. They just became the "bedspread" so the clean sheets go on, cotton blanket and the down blanket/duvet. I just bought a duvet in a solid color to coordinate with the interior colors in the trailer.
When it's hot, we just fold it down and use the cotton blanket, when it's cold it keeps us toasty warm - and we've camped in 28 degree weather keeping the thermostat set at the lowest it would go. we were toasty.
We don't dry camp, so if were in the mountains we install the electric blanket, and everything is fine. It doesn't take up much room. Course if your dry camping then you've got a different problem
We use a polyfiber filled comforter in cooler weather as my wife and I neither like sleeping with the furnace turned on at night. We bought a couple of the "as seen on TV" vacuum space bags. Here in Florida we stuff the comforter/blankets into it and vacuum it. It reduces the volume about 75%. This past summer we did that and when we got to the mountains of Colorado, we unpacked and used them as it got cool/cold most nights. Then when we were ready to leave Colorado, we re-stuffed everything in the space bags, stopped by a local car wash, deposited our quarters in their vacuum machine and again reduced the volume for on the way home. Excellent expenditure of about $20 to buy the space bags.
I guess that we are just different. In the summer time, we only have the sheets, and a very thin comforter on our bed. For the colder winter Dry-Camping/RV'ing trips, we have two Over-Sized, Extra-Tall Queen Size sleeping bags that I just zip together and put on top of the comforter. It gives us plenty of room inside. We mostly Dry-Camp most of the time anyways. Besides being warm down to any temps that we want, it sure makes for one comfortable bed to lay on. We have a Custom Built RV Mattress/Box Spring, all in one piece, (100 lbs ) As we also have a 2 inch Memory Foam Pad on our bed also. We also never use our 5er's furance. You would think by now, that the RV industry would be able to build a quite RV Furance. We use a Wave #6 heater, and if we need more heat than that, we also have a Mr Heater. Between the two heaters, its more than enought heat to keep us warm in any weather. Plus there is no battery drain, and these heaters sure are a lot cheaper on the Propane than any RV Furance. And we both enjoy the quiteness. And if we use a full hook-up site, we use a Twin Tower Ceramic Heater. It also will keep us warm down to just about any temps that we want. But we don't have a big 5er either, so ours is really easy to heat and keep warm. Good Luck. Happy Camping. Dan & Jill
1997 Ford F-250, H.D. Extended-Cab, Short Bed, 7.3 PSD, K&N Air Filter, 5000 lbs air bags w/on board compressor w/guage, SuperChips Tuner/Programer. 1996 Nash 24fter 5er, 15K "Lil" Rocker Hitch w/BedSaver, Twin EU2000i Gen's W/Kit. Nam-Vet, 33 Months.
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