wally wrote on Mar 21^st, 2009 at 12:17pm:

Underwaer are overated anyway! No use for 'em while camping. Interesting...."back up for bag getting wet"?  Mine would be to "dry it".  I've never had a situation where the bag couldn't be dried.  Has that happened to anyone else here?  I guess I can imagine a few scenarios where I'd be looking at a wet bag at night.....yuck!  And if it got cold....could be disasterous.

Back in my group tripping days, 2 of the "boy's took a dumping and were drying their down bags near the evening fire. They decided to start the cocktail hour early and by sundown were feeling NO pain!
One of them thought it would be a good idea too throw the top of a downed pine tree into the fire. That resin laden top burst into a ball of flame, shooting far above the fire pit. They thought it was REALLY funny, until they realized their sleeping bags were still hanging close to fire :-?
 One bag was toast and they ended up having to sleep TOGETHER using the remaining bag as a quilt ;D
SO what we learn from this boy's and girls, is that fire,liquor and down bags should NEVER be mixed together :-[