Just a heads up for anyone who was not already aware -- I am having my old reliable Northface down bag restuffed by Northface for about $25. Beats having to buy a new Sea to Summit Talus TSI for 335. If you call up Northface they will direct you to take your bag to your local Northface outlet, fill out a 1-page return form and they take care of shipping costs to their CA-store and back to your home.

If you don't have a local Northface, you can mail it out to CA directly. Just thought I'd share as I didn't want to get rid of my old sleeping bag that I bought in 1988 and spend a lot to replace.

Did something similar with my MSR whisperlites which MSR has upgraded to the shaker jet technology, twice, for the cost of shipping (< $5). Nice folks. Have a third one I'll send them this winter.

thanks for the tip.

I have an old NF down bag - a friend did me a "favor" by washing it in a top loader machine, which of course pretty much ruined it - I might go to the NF store and see if it could get restuffed and fixed for reasonable amount.  don't really need it since I have 10 or so bags, but this one is a 20 deg bag, which I only have one other of, so might be worth it.

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I routinley wash my goose down comforter in the top load washer on gentle cycle with a down soap.
I also dry it in the gas dryer on delicate.
I use 2 tennis balls with it to fluff it back up to original shape.
Kinda noisy, but it works so far.
Might give it a try if your so inclined.

The bags you guys are getting redone. Did they lose feathers in just the torso area. I've got an old Eddie Bauer bag from 1972 that's been great, except for the torso area now. It's sentimental tripping gear now, but thinking some new bags are nice, waterproof footboxes, treated down, lighter, etc.
I fluff the feathers around and they still end up to the sides during the night. Plus it was cut bigger and slightly heavier than the NF bags when I bought it and I'm not getting any younger. I've got to relook at everything and cut some weight from my outfit.

My bag had actually lost down all over. Most of the loss was in the torso area and I could really feel it on those nights where temps dipped below 50 or so. I would wear all my clothes and then lay awake more or less shivering or thinking "geez, am I cold!". I can't believe I didn't take care of this sooner but the thought of buying a brand new down bag (over 300 dollars or more) always prevented any action.

When I received my "restuffed" bag recently, I had a hard time compacting it so that I could get it back into it's original stuff sack! Therefore I'm pretty sure that I had lost a significant amount of down all over the bag.

I'm much toastier in the bag now