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on the cold and sweaty thing. as 7Up says could be your bivvy? also if that whole dry bag is your sleeping bag then i'm guessing it's synthetic. you could try a down sleeping bag, they've got a much larger comfortable temperature range.
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Hello,
I use an Alpkit bivvy bag, so I'm going to assume that's not the issue. The sleeping bag however, might be the problem... It is a Berghaus Flare 850, which seems to be synthetic... I'll see if I can replace it and assess the situation.
The other, possibly more likely scenario, is that the issue is physical. I stopped to sleep when I was really tired, thogh was part way up a hill and wonder if the combination of being cold, though also quite hot from raising my heart rate up, to then trying to sleep, threw my body into a state of confusion...
I guess the only option is to go away again and see if it happens the second time...
Yossarian
I'm just back from another brief bikepacking trip, this time in the Harz Mountains, Germany...
The Harz Montains are amazing, and pretty close to Berlin. Dense woodland with a single strip of tarmac rising up out of the forests and into the sky towards the summit of the Brocken Mountain. I descended down single track into the valley below and scaled several smaller mountain ridges using single track before darkness approached and I slept somewhere or other in the woods. The next day I returned to the summit of the Brocken Mountain then made the lengthy decent back down to Berlin...
Lessons learnt: need wider tyres, taking spare batteries is sensible, taking flat batteries isn't... need smaller dry bag for sleeping bag that doesn't sag and rotate around the front of the bike during descents... must work out why I was both cold and sweaty during the night...
Here is the route I took:
Day 1: https://www.strava.com/activities/304671768
Day 2: https://www.strava.com/activities/304673221