Alternatives to Silk Sleeping Bag liners for July/Aug

[Dringwa]

I'm getting ready to leave on my first Camino: Sant Jean to Santiago, and I got the silk sleeping bag liner. I tried sleeping in it at home and I don't like the 'confined' feel: I just got tangled up in it.
Would it be possible to simply bring a light top-sheet and sleep on that? Or do I want the sleeping bag liner for health/beg-bug prevention?
Also: everyone suggests permethrin-treated bag liners. How important is that?

 

[PANO]

I too am very sensitive to getting tangled; hate sleeping bags and could not stand silk liners....so I bought a merino liner and slept very well throughout the Camino. Used it in combination with an anti bug net (www.careplus.eu/en/anti-insect/impregnated-mosquitonets/)

 

[enfermera4]

I too am very sensitive to getting tangled; hate sleeping bags and could not stand silk liners....so I bought a merino liner and slept very well throughout the Camino. Used it in combination with an anti bug net (www.careplus.eu/en/anti-insect/impregnated-mosquitonets/)

Hi Pano
Where did you buy the merino liner?
It sounds like just what I need.
Thanks

 

[gittiharre]

I hate tangles, love double size silk liner no tangles! Soaked it in permethryn no bites.

 

[PANO]

Hi Pano
Where did you buy the merino liner?
It sounds like just what I need.
Thanks

Took me some investigation; I bought the merino liner in a specialised gear store near my place in Switzerland. It has a small label printed "Lestra" which I googled to land on a french site (French only), from where I was transferred to a "Lestra-Sports" in Germany:
www.lestra-sport.de/inlets/view/product/162/variation/7. (In German only....) The top-model of the liner has a zipper all-around and sells at 140.00 Euro, weighing 90 grams (superb quality), models w/o zipper at around 90 Euro. Merino is non-smelling, washable and most importantly (for me) does not get humid inside, like most other materials; I never sweated.
Lestra as a manufacturer does not sell directly, but they indicate a number of resellers, all of them located in Germany.
One of them, www.bergsport-welt.de/navi.php?suchausdruck=lestra+merino+&JTLSHOP=s3i3kd961ht8il4sb3biibl3v3 is quite reputed and trustworthy. They ship within Europe and additional shipping-cost appears when you order online; if you're outside Europe*, I suggest that you ask them by mail for guidance and cost-info (*Don't forget to ask them in this case to deduct the 19% VAT included in the price!).

 

[gittiharre]

Thank you Pano, just checked the link and the merino liner weighs 500 grams, not 80. It looks lovely, but is heavier than my down sleeping bag. I will stick with my double silk liner at 180 grams.

 

[xin loi]

I was generally too lazy to unroll my sleeping bag and just used a blanket if available. If blankets were not available, I used the sleeping bag except for one time it was warm enough from body heat in our room to just use a liner. We had lot of COLD nights and I would not do it again without a sleeping bag.