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REI's Cyber Week sale is rolling on with big discounts on tons of outdoor and adventure gear from Garmin, The North Face, Nemo, and more. The sale also presents an excellent opportunity to score a cold-weather sleeping bag—one REI personally gave an Editor's Choice Award—and it's down to less than $100.
Kelty’s Cosmic 20 Sleeping Bag is on sale for $96, which is 40% off the retail price of $160 for the regular size (the long size comes in at $108 and the rarely seen short is only $90). This 20-degree sleeping bag gets solid ratings from fans on REI, with an average of 4.3 stars given by satisfied reviewers who liked that the bag is “compact” and uses “high quality” materials. It's a fine three-season choice and is best when paired with a sleeping pad to increase your comfort and warmth like this Big Agnes pad that’s also 40% off.
A warm and comfortable sleeping bag should be on your list of outdoor essentials to upgrade this season if you haven’t already. And there’s nothing like a good down sleeping bag like this one to make a cold night’s sleep cozy and restful. The bag is constructed with a soft but tough 20-denier recycled nylon shell fabric that’s insulated with 550-fill-power down, which is stuffed into special trapezoidal baffles to increase warmth. Highlights include a small zippered pouch on the inside for storing late-night essentials, an anti-snag zipper design to make getting in and out of the bag easier, a full draft tube for more warmth, and a large foot box for maximum comfort for tired feet. The regular-size bag weighs 2 pounds, 7 ounces, making it a solid choice for backpacking and car campers alike.
Happy shoppers are most stoked about the sleeping bag being “very warm and comfortable.” One customer said, “I tested it at high elevations in the Adirondacks, upstate New York, during the spring season and never experienced any cold.” Another agreed, stating that “I tried it on top of a mountain bald, totally exposed over a clear sky night—the winds gusted about 15 to 20 mph pretty consistently, but this bag kept me comfortable.”
Other satisfied customers appreciated that the sleeping bag packed a lot of value for a good price, even before this blowout sale. “You’re not going to find a better value in a sleeping bag," said one shopper. Other customers said that it is “very warm for the price,” and the “best value for the money.”
It also packs up small, other shoppers noted. “It is very light and packable—with a compression sack it gets to the size of a cantaloupe.”
Sleeping bags should be upgraded every few years as they wear out and lose some of their insulating properties, plus it’s just nice to slip into a fresh, warm bag like this one from Kelty. It’s from a well-known outdoor brand, uses high-quality components in its construction, and is fairly light and packs down small—that makes it a great buy at over $60 off of the regular price. This one will go fast, like most of REI’s generous sale items, so make sure to add it to your cart before the sale ends on Dec. 9.
