At the recent Jolly Green Giant
National Lightweight Backpacking Symposium and Convention, participants
reviewed the Gossamer
Gear Warm Sack ($14.95/(17g). All
participants, to include me, myself, and I, unanimously agreed by verbal attestation
and hand-raised oath, that the Gossamer Gear Warm
Sack was deserving of the highly prized Saved
A Few Grams Award.
The Gossamer
Gear Warm Sack is intended to replace heavier “cozy-style” pot/cup warmers
while offering a more flexible and dual-purpose option being that it doubles as a
bag. The bag, in unassuming yet enticing
black, works well to store cooking items and makes a wonderful CIA-style
interrogation head bag when the neighbor’s cat is the only source of
entertainment for a long evening and you have a lot of questions on your mind. The bag has insulation sewn on the inside to ensure your warm slop stays toasty.
The Gossamer
Gear Warm Sack is ideal for gram weenies and fashionistas alike, but note
that it only fits mugs/cups likely 700ml and below with greater comfort between
400-600ml. I tried it with several
options:
·
THUMBS
DOWN
o
Snow Peak 900
o
Evernew 700
·
THUMBS
UP:
o
MLD 450ml cup
o
LiteTrail Toak 500ml cup
o
Stoic 700ml cup
For me, the Gossamer
Gear Warm Sack will replace the absurdly heavy homemade Reflectix option
seen here tipping the scales at a gluttonous 24 grams. The svelte Gossamer Gear Warm
Sack comes in at a dainty 17 grams saving me an enormous 7 grams . This savings offers me the opportunity to carry a couple discarded black jelly beans, perhaps that fancy half toothbrush I had my eye on, or a rubberband so I can say I carried a rubberband.
Vigorous testing proved the Gossamer Gear Warm Sack worked just as well as Reflectix, or more accurately, proved to fall into the "good enough" category.
Happy trails.
(Disclaimer: No cats were harmed
during the testing of the Gossamer Gear Warm
Sack. The Gossamer Gear Warm Sack is not recommended to be used beyond the limits
for which it was intended.)