spike camp
WKR
Boxers, t shirt and clean socks
I Need clean feet every night.
I’m too claustrophobic to sleep with clothes.
I Need clean feet every night.
I’m too claustrophobic to sleep with clothes.
Same here. I will try to put on clean socks every night before getting into the bag (liner).I use a lightweight bag liner on backcountry hunts to help keep my bag cleaner (at least in my mind). socks, usually no pants and long sleeve top as I often will sleep with arms outside bag if not really cold. Layer up if necessary outside of that.
OP, there will be differing opinions here, so try to focus on the why behind what people say they do. I've taught winter alpine survival and have slept in my share of snow caves, along with non-winter woods and high-desert stuff. Here's my what and why:
1) Never, ever wear exterior clothes into a sleeping bag - that's a great way to get ticks or poison oak into that bag, along with extra moisture.
2) Do not sleep in the clothes you intend to wear the next day - you sweat at night, and wearing lightly sweaty clothes is a sure way to catch a chill or worse when you step outside, and keep you colder throughout the day. This also unnecessarily burns energy by sapping body heat - the colder the temps the worse this effect is across the day. You want those clothes bone dry. Warm damp is not as warm as warm dry.
3) Especially in frigid temps, place your clean folded clothes for the next day in the bottom of the bag to warm them overnight, but not get them sweaty. You can fully dress inside your bag if determined (minus boots), exiting the bag in toasty warm, dry clothes.
4) It's okay to wear clothes to bed, but you must treat them as part of your sleep system - they need to air out during the day to dry. Your bag does too - including opening up your bag to air it out and dry it, hanging it on a line in the breeze if necessary. This is a bit of lost knowledge with modern bags, but was an absolute necessity in pre-synthetic fiber days, with cotton mummy bags filled with down. Frigid temps will still allow evaporation, especially in the sun. I've had old style bags like that be wet from snowcave melt, and be reasonably dry after a day hanging in the breeze under the sun.
1) I pretty much always wear exterior clothes into my sleeping bag and have never suffered from any of these maladies?
2) If your clothes aren't dry in the morning, or very, very shortly after getting out of your fart sack, you are wearing the wrong clothes, sleeping in the wrong bag, or perhaps laying in a puddle.
3) The foot of your sleeping bag is the worst place to dry things out and the very best place to get them super stinky. Anything you want to dry that you aren't wearing should be placed on your chest. The heat generated by your core will move up and through the wet item carrying moisture with it and out of your bag.
If time and energy conservation are of concern, getting dressed inside your sleeping bag is a waste of time and energy, but great comic relief for anyone sharing your tent, as long as it's big enough for them to watch from afar without getting annoyed at your thrashing about. Have fun with that.
4) Again if your clothes aren't dry or very close to it when yo wake up, they should be shortly thereafter. If they aren't, you are wearing the wrong clothes.