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Either will work. It depends on how warm you need to be to sleep. If you have one or the other, you can save money by using it!Hello Pilgrims. I start my Camino April 29, 2020. I will be staying in albergues for the most part. I am not sure if I should use a liner or lightweight sleeping bag. I am starting in Astorga and walking to the ocean.
Thanks for your help.
Since I don't have either, I think I will take your advice as well as other pilgrims and buy a sleeping bag.Either will work. It depends on how warm you need to be to sleep. If you have one or the other, you can save money by using it!
I think I will take your advice as well as other pilgrims and buy a sleeping bag.
My advice? Take both. Helios makes a super small sleeping bag that is light to med warm. Very lightweight. So you’d be covered if no blankets. Liner important for bedbugs ( treat yours) I did this in Sept Oct last year. By mid October, nights were super chilly, as in seeing your breath chilly, suspect April May the same.Hello Pilgrims. I start my Camino April 29, 2020. I will be staying in albergues for the most part. I am not sure if I should use a liner or lightweight sleeping bag. I am starting in Astorga and walking to the ocean.
Thanks for your help.
I just use liner. All Alberges have blankets and or duvets! In unlikely event there are neither, put next days clothes on and sleep in liner. I’ve never had to do that.Hello Pilgrims. I start my Camino April 29, 2020. I will be staying in albergues for the most part. I am not sure if I should use a liner or lightweight sleeping bag. I am starting in Astorga and walking to the ocean.
Thanks for your help.
I walked rom St Jean in 2015, starting mid April By the time I got half way up Perdon, I was melting in an unseasonal heatwave. By the time I reached Logroño I could stick it no longer so sent home my coat and sleeping bag and bought a poncho and a liner. At the time it was a good decision and reduced the weight. Walking out of Carrion the temps dropped and it was freezing so dug out my gloves and wooly hat that I had thought was just for the Pyrenees. Weather got better and now in May sure it must just keep getting warmer. O Cebreiro it turned again and it was freezing again. That night in Hospital was the coldest night I ever experienced. I write all this by way of saying there is no way anyone can answer your question. I would suggest, but not a definitive answer, that you bring a liner. If its cold you can pick up a bag in St Jean, Pamplona or Logrono. GThat I am afraid is the best I can offer. At the end of the day, who knows with the weather. My daughter is on a cruise just now and with all the resources the Line has, it could not predict that they would be unable to get back to England and would have to extend the trip by three days. Weather is just one of those things that trips up the most intrepid of travellorsHello Pilgrims. I start my Camino April 29, 2020. I will be staying in albergues for the most part. I am not sure if I should use a liner or lightweight sleeping bag. I am starting in Astorga and walking to the ocean.
Thanks for your help.
Thank you for the nice response. I am really impressed with all of the responses from all of the Pilgrims. Now I just need to make a decision.I walked rom St Jean in 2015, starting mid April By the time I got half way up Perdon, I was melting in an unseasonal heatwave. By the time I reached Logroño I could stick it no longer so sent home my coat and sleeping bag and bought a poncho and a liner. At the time it was a good decision and reduced the weight. Walking out of Carrion the temps dropped and it was freezing so dug out my gloves and wooly hat that I had thought was just for the Pyrenees. Weather got better and now in May sure it must just keep getting warmer. O Cebreiro it turned again and it was freezing again. That night in Hospital was the coldest night I ever experienced. I write all this by way of saying there is no way anyone can answer your question. I would suggest, but not a definitive answer, that you bring a liner. If its cold you can pick up a bag in St Jean, Pamplona or Logrono. GThat I am afraid is the best I can offer. At the end of the day, who knows with the weather. My daughter is on a cruise just now and with all the resources the Line has, it could not predict that they would be unable to get back to England and would have to extend the trip by three days. Weather is just one of those things that trips up the most intrepid of travellors
You never know what the weather conditions will be outside, the temperature will be inside, nor how they will interact. I always walked the Camino during April and May and use a light sleeping bag. I have used a liner but was always cold.Hello Pilgrims. I start my Camino April 29, 2020. I will be staying in albergues for the most part. I am not sure if I should use a liner or lightweight sleeping bag. I am starting in Astorga and walking to the ocean.
Thanks for your help.
Yep, my experience is staying in the munnicipal at O'Cebreiro one Spring evening, with only a sleeping sheet and no available blankets. The combination of those factors and the altitude made for a chilly, broken sleep.If you want to walk with only the liner, you may want to avoid staying at municipal albergues, as they are moving towards not having blankets available.
I used a liner and took along a down throw that I had laying around. Started walking September 20. Both of these rolled up together nicely, weighed very little, and I put both, plus my sleep shirt, in a waterproof stuff sack which I hung from the bottom of my pack. The throw was smaller than a blanket but I'm short so it worked well. Someone taller should consider a larger blanket. The 2 items gave me options. Sometimes on the liner with the throw, sometimes in the liner, etc. While you can expect some cold nights (Pyrennes or Galacia), you can also expect some hot nights. Even if the temperature outside is fine, it you put 16 bodies in a room it's going to warm up quick. Even at the warmest, there always seemed to be someone who would close the window. I like to have something covering me, so the 2 options were perfect. FYI: there were often blankets available but I am personally a a little yucked by using blankets that may have covered dozens of bodies between washings. The sheets provided, however, always seemed clean.Hello Pilgrims. I start my Camino April 29, 2020. I will be staying in albergues for the most part. I am not sure if I should use a liner or lightweight sleeping bag. I am starting in Astorga and walking to the ocean.
Thanks for your help.
Hello Pilgrims. I start my Camino April 29, 2020. I will be staying in albergues for the most part. I am not sure if I should use a liner or lightweight sleeping bag. I am starting in Astorga and walking to the ocean.
Thanks for your help.
Can you share the name of your sleeping bag? Perhaps a link too?I use a 350 grams / 12.3459 ounce synthetic sleepingbag rated for 10 degrees celcius / 50 degrees fahrenheit ...and it is good all year.
Thanks for supplying the brand name. It can be useful for someone looking for a lightweight bag, as it can be difficult to sort through all the different sleeping bags.I'm using a Nordisk Oscar +10 ...you might be able to find other brands with similar features ...that's why I didn't write the brand name.
Cumulus,,,Magic Zip is another similar,,, but Down and slightly lighter,,,, I'm in mine right now in an Albergue on the Camino Norte,,I'm using a Nordisk Oscar +10 ...you might be able to find other brands with similar features ...that's why I didn't write the brand name.
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