Sleeping Bags
There will be no need of bed or cot where the camper prefers a sleeping bag. This may be laid down on the tent floor, or even placed out in the open.
There are sleeping bags which are designed to be used in the open and which supply their own protection of the head from the inclemencies of the [[146]]weather. When the weather is fair many prefer sleeping with no covering below the stars.
The “Kenwood Sleeping Bag and Tent in One” has 4½, 5½ or 6½-pound inner bags of soft, warm, new wool. For very cold weather these bags can be arranged to nest one within the other so that the camper sleeping out may add or remove the thicknesses of his covering as the temperature may change. There are special double flaps over chest and shoulders, and no rest-breaking buckles, snaps, buttons or lacings. A 5½-pound waterproof canvas cover with extra long fly gives complete outdoor protection. This sleeping bag is generously roomy. It is 7 feet long by 5 feet 8 inches around. The canvas fly is propped up, forming a dog tent above the head of the sleeper.
Types of bed equipment. At the top the Yankee cot which folds into 32 × 4 × 6 inches; beneath it the Kenwood sleeping bag with tent covering for head. The two lower illustrations have pneumatic mattress, the upper of the two being the Perfection sleeping bag and the lower the Airtube camp mattress combined with a shelter tent.