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re: cold sweat... breathable bivvy?
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Yossarian, is that an Ortlieb saddle pack? If so, do you rate it? Been looking at one reently.
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on the cold and sweaty thing. as 7Up says could be your bivvy? also if that whole dry bag is your sleeping bag then i'm guessing it's synthetic. you could try a down sleeping bag, they've got a much larger comfortable temperature range.
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I'm just back from another brief bikepacking trip, this time in the Harz Mountains, Germany...
The Harz Montains are amazing, and pretty close to Berlin. Dense woodland with a single strip of tarmac rising up out of the forests and into the sky towards the summit of the Brocken Mountain. I descended down single track into the valley below and scaled several smaller mountain ridges using single track before darkness approached and I slept somewhere or other in the woods. The next day I returned to the summit of the Brocken Mountain then made the lengthy decent back down to Berlin...
Lessons learnt: need wider tyres, taking spare batteries is sensible, taking flat batteries isn't... need smaller dry bag for sleeping bag that doesn't sag and rotate around the front of the bike during descents... must work out why I was both cold and sweaty during the night...
Here is the route I took:
Day 1: https://www.strava.com/activities/304671768
Day 2: https://www.strava.com/activities/304673221
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