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The engine's answer

Best down sleeping bag in mild summer nights, under €700

Katabatic Gear

Palisade 30

The quilt with the best draught-sealing system anyone has made.

  • Cord-and-clip attachment genuinely seals against the mat
  • 900 fill power at 540 g
  • Exceptional build quality
  • Expensive and hard to buy in Europe
  • No hood

Find it at Bergfreunde · Trekkinn · Decathlon · Alpinetrek · eBay (used)

Why it wins, in numbers

Katabatic Gear Palisade 30 is the sleeping bag the engine picked for this trip: €430 and 540 g, Comfort rating 1 °C, a 96% match on the questions asked. The kit around it comes to €650 of the €700 ceiling, leaving €50.

What the engine asked for: a sleeping bag rated to 6 °C or lower, a mat with an R-value of at least 1.5, a pack of at least 36 L, and €700 for all four; anything that falls short of these is flagged beside the item.

The kit it belongs to

Four items chosen together, not four separate winners. Swapping one moves the others.

3.62 kg on your back · €650 of a budget of €700

Tent
3F UL Gear Lanshan 2: €130, 1.10 kg, Season rating 3, 50% match.
Sleeping bag
Katabatic Gear Palisade 30: €430, 540 g, Comfort rating 1 °C, 96% match. Strongest on: Fill.
Sleeping mat
Forclaz MT500 Foam: €30, 480 g, R-value 2.0, 50% match.
Backpack
Forclaz MT100 Easyfit 50: €60, 1.50 kg, Capacity 50 L, 50% match.

What the runners-up gave up

Each of these still leaves a kit that closes — the budget holds and the pack shuts. This is where each one lost.

  • Therm-a-Rest Vesper 20F QuiltA quilt with a proper foot box and a mat attachment that works.Therm-a-Rest Vesper 20F Quilt — €450, 540 g — gives up Price: €450 against the winner's €430. It scores 96% to the winner's 96%.
  • Sea to Summit Spark SpIIHalf a kilo, for summer nights where every gram is argued over.Sea to Summit Spark SpII — €400, 480 g — gives up Comfort rating: 5 °C against the winner's 1 °C. It scores 95% to the winner's 96%.
  • Zpacks Classic 20A minimalist bag with no zip at all, because a zip is grams.Zpacks Classic 20 — €480, 560 g — gives up Price: €480 against the winner's €430. It scores 95% to the winner's 96%.

Questions this trip raises

How much does the whole kit cost?
€650 for all four items, €50 under the €700 ceiling. Prices are indicative euro list prices; the shops set their own.
How much does it weigh?
3.62 kg base weight — tent, sleeping bag, mat and pack together, before food, water and clothes. The pack is rated to carry 16 kg comfortably.
Is Katabatic Gear Palisade 30 warm enough for 8 °C nights?
Its comfort rating is 1 °C. For nights near 8 °C the engine requires a rating of 6 °C or lower, which it meets.

Change an assumption

This page answers one trip. Yours is not that trip — adjust the nights, the budget or the company and watch all four re-rank.

Build my kit

Specifications are manufacturers’ own published figures and prices are indicative, not live. Comfort ratings and R-values are comparable across brands but describe a standardised sleeper on standardised ground — neither is a promise about you on a particular night. Check the current spec and price with the retailer before buying.