Sleeping Bag or Thermal Liner

[Antonella78]

Hi all, I'm starting my Camino around 16th September 2015. I'm unsure about packing my sleeping bag or will I be warm enough to sleep in my sea to summit thermal liner and thermal pj's instead? Thanks for any advice you can share with me. Cheers, Antonella

 

[Anniesantiago]

It just depends on how hot or cold you sleep.
Personally, I wouldn't go without a sleeping bag in late September/early October.
But many people do and are fine with it.
If you only took your liner, and got cold, you could put on all the clothes in your pack and put your rain gear over you.
Rain gear is surprisingly warm.
I once slept very comfortably on a cold night in Roncesvalles with just my ALTUS poncho over me after giving another pilgrim my sleeping bag.

 

[Antonella78]

It just depends on how hot or cold you sleep.
Personally, I wouldn't go without a sleeping bag in late September/early October.
But many people do and are fine with it.
If you only took your liner, and got cold, you could put on all the clothes in your pack and put your rain gear over you.
Rain gear is surprisingly warm.
I once slept very comfortably on a cold night in Roncesvalles with just my ALTUS poncho over me after giving another pilgrim my sleeping bag.

Thanks so much for your advice Annie. I'll see how my packing goes closer to the time. If I can for it in comfortably I'll definitely take it. Thanks again

 

[Telelama]

Hello, we walked Sept last year and brought +40 down sleeping bag and it was way too much. I slept on top of it more than in it. This spring we brought the Sea2Summit +25 liner and it worked perfect for me and for my wife. She prefers a few more blankets than me, but she was warm too. On cool evenings we used an albergue blanket, when a blanket was not available, we simply wore another layer and/or put our thermal jackets on top of us. Worked great, wouldn't do it another way.

 

[Antonella78]

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Hello, we walked Sept last year and brought +40 down sleeping bag and it was way too much. I slept on top of it more than in it. This spring we brought the Sea2Summit +25 liner and it worked perfect for me and for my wife. She prefers a few more blankets than me, but she was warm too. On cool evenings we used an albergue blanket, when a blanket was not available, we simply wore another layer and/or put our thermal jackets on top of us. Worked great, wouldn't do it another way.

Thanks so much for your advice from your experience. Obviously don't want to take it if I don't have to. Thanks again

 

[rossmckay]

I'm looking forward to hearing about your experience when you return as it looks like this is when we'll get going next year