How are the bags with moisture? Is it a major concern? Anything special you have to do besides setting up your tent and going to sleep?
My biggest concern with hunting multiple days out of a small tent is moisture in my clothing. My baselayers are usually soaked in sweat and my pants are usually frozen with snow by the end of the day. How you do you deal with this? Just put on frozen pants the next day? haha
Unless you are in a down pour the fabric repels water very well. In fact, I don’t think external water would ever penetrate the fabric. It could go into the stitching, so if you want water proof from the outside you’d need a bivy bag. I run an OR bivy and don’t have any moisture issues most of the time, inside or outside.
I never have water come from the outside, but every once in awhile the foot of my bag will be slightly damp when I take my bag out of the bivy. Dampness and wet with down is over blown in my experience, you will worry far more than you need too about it. It has never been an issue. A bivy with an opening foot vent would probably eliminate any dampness that I experience, but the amount of dampness and frequency haven’t compelled me to change my bivy. I use an Aurora most of the time, which most would consider overkill with a tarp, but I also use it to protect my pad, so it stays in my setup most of the time.
I don’t think you’ll be drying off in your wet clothes inside your bag like the guys with Wiggy bags do, so if that’s your goal skip the WM bag. I can’t say if your pants would be dry or not in the morning as I’ve never done that in my bag. I put on frozen pants in the morning and let them dry in the sun. If there is no sun then dry them by a fire.
I’m 6’, 32 inch waist and 185 pounds and the Versalite has plenty of room. The great thing about the Versalite is it has a full length zipper so you can use it like a quilt or a bag depending on what you want.
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