Carinthia Tropen sleeping bag

The perfect summertime sleeping bag, the Tropen is designed for comfort in warm temperatures; it's highly breathable, very lightweight, and equipped with a mosquito net! Top of the line military quality for heavy use!

• Perfect for summer with comfort rating as low as 5.1°C / 41.1°F
• Can be used in colder climate with a bivvy
• Weight just a bit over one kilogram, depending on the size
• Military grade materials
• Built-in insect net

Unlike Carinthia's Defence series of sleeping bags, the Tropen is not waterproof, which makes it very, very breathable, which is a key point in keeping you comfortable when sleeping out in warm weather. The breathability also makes Tropen the perfect liner bag - stuff this into another bag (Carinthias Defence 4 for example) and you have a very, very warm combo that keeps you warm in extreme temperatures. The Tropen and Defence 4 can be packed into the latter's compression sack, and the zippers are positioned differently to minimize heat loss. Overall a very nice combo!

Comes with a compression bag, which packs both height- and lengthwise.

Bag model and features

The mummy shape: Here, the criteria of stuff size, weight, and warmth are most important. The tapered foot section reduces weight and stuff size. However, the main advantage is that there is increasingly less internal volume to keep warm from the knee downwards. The foot section should not be so small that the feet cause insulation layers to poke out. A trapezoidal foot section has proven to be ideal. A wedge shape, declining evenly in width from top to bottom, does not fit the body's true proportions.

Two-way zipper: All Carinthia military sleeping bags are equipped with a two-way zipper. The glider on the top does not lock, allowing a quick step out if necessary (in case of alarm, for example). The bottom glider does lock and can be opened for ventilation.

Trapezoidal foot section: Experience has shown that the trapezoidal cut provides the ultimate foot space. In a normal sleeping position, the feet do not poke the insulation outward, avoiding cold spots. There is also enough room to store a shoe bag or extra clothing.

The outer shell fits loosely over the bag innards, providing an extra insulating layer of air. That also eliminates heat loss due to seams combining the shell with the fillings. Overall this feature enhances the bag's performance considerably!

Materials

• Shelltrans outer shell and lining - a soft to the skin ripstop reinforced, highly breathable polyamide with excellent moisture-wicking capabilities.
• Thermoflect, a very thin, very lightweight aluminum material that reflects body heat. Thermoflect raises the sleeping bag's heat-retaining capacity by about 11 %.
• G-Loft filling - Carinthia's own, in-house "hollow-fiber", made in Austria. Highly compressible, excellent weight-insulation ratio and also moisture resistant, meaning that it will work even under long-term use in damp conditions.
• Tropen uses single layered, lightweight G-Loft filling. In this lightweight design, the outer shell is loosely attached to the bag. The G-LOFT Plus filling is quilted to an insulating scrim. As a result, an additional air pocket is formed between the quilted insulation layer and the shell, yet no cold seams can occur.

Carinthia sleeping bags are not entirely PFC-free, but do have the Oeko-Tex certificate, Standard 100.

Measurements

Temperature specifications

Comfort represents enjoyable-to-sleep temperature while Extreme is the rating where an average-sized male will survive through the night, so go for Comfort when choosing a suitable sleeping bag.

• Comfort: 9.4° C to 5.1° C / 48.9° F to 41.1° F
• Extreme: -7.9° C / 46.2° F

Size and weight

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Imperial

Made by Carinthia

Carinthia is a well-known sleeping bag and existence gear manufacturer. Outside of their homeland Austria they have equipped many European countries, including Scandinavia and our very own Finnish Defence Forces too! Carinthia manufactures its products in Moldova.