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Originally Posted by strombad
BUY MEC BRAND.
Aquila -7, 575 down fill
>$220
You'll save yourself over $100 over the WM bag (which you don't need based on your situation) and the weight difference is 0.4KG.
You aren't likely at level where you need to be worrying about 0.4KG considering the price difference between the two.
I'm not sure if you're doing this, so correct me if I'm wrong and I'll apologise, but please don't get hung up on expensive brand names. Just because it's an expensive brand name (WM, Patagonia, Northface, Asprey, etc) does NOT mean it's better, and in many cases leads to a lot of wasted funds. You do not need top of the line name brand stuff for what you're doing.
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Thanks Strombad, that's exactly the kind of advice I was looking for. I'll go by MEC sometime in the next few days and check it out. It sounds very comparable to the North Face Furnace 20 (-7C rating), 550 down fill bag for $210 I was looking at at Atmosphere.