Hi,

I'm considering various options for a quilt/top bag and the MLD XP quilt is at the top of my list at the moment. One thing I was wondering about is the compressibility of the climashield XP insulation. Does anybody have any info on this?

In particular, based on the sizes on MLD's and climashield's sites, the regular 5oz/sq.yd quilt would have a uncompressed volume of around 3800ci (average width 42in by 74in x 1.2in thick) - does anybody know how small this will compress with a compression sack?

Cheers,
Stuart

Someone on Thru-Hiker's forum asked a similar question about a slightly larger quilt (20% larger) made with 1 layer of 5oz XP. Ayce estimated about 1 cubic foot (1728 cubic inches, 29 liters). But I don't think he was thinking compression sack.

Thanks for that. Thanks to your pointer, I did some more detailed googling at thru-hiker and found a bit more info. It seems somebody had compressed their 2.5oz/sqyd quilt to around 3 litres, but thought that was slightly overdoing it. So I suspect somewhere around 8-9 litres for the MLD design with 5oz/sqyd fairly heavily compressed could be about right.

Stuart,

I made a double quilt for summer with one layer of 2.5 Climashield XP and I use a compression sack to shrink it to 1/3 of its original volume. Personally, I would be afraid to go more than this without permanently affecting its loft. YMMV