sleeping bag in june on camino Portuguese

faye bettencourt

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• Dec 21, 2015

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I am doing the Portuguese camino in June 2015. I would like to know if a light weight sleeping rate to 48 degrees will be warm enough while staying in the hostels. We will be waking from Porto. Are most heated if it turns cold?

 

LisaAnn

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• Dec 21, 2015

• #2

I biked the Portugues, Lisbon to SdC in October/November 2015 without a sleeping bag. I had a silk liner that I used every night with blankets that were available at the hostels and Albergue's.

 

faye bettencourt

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• Dec 21, 2015

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LisaAnn said:

I biked the Portugues, Lisbon to SdC in October/November 2015 without a sleeping bag. I had a silk liner that I used every night with blankets that were available at the hostels and Albergue's.

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Thank you.. I am glad to find out that the alberue's have blankets available if needed. How did you like the portugues route?

 

LisaAnn

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• Dec 21, 2015

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I absolutely loved it. We had a LOT of rain, but it was amazing. My blog is at http://www.skibikehike360.com/ whiny includes the day by day
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Buen Camino

 

Ekelund

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• Dec 21, 2015

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Hi Faye, I did use my sleepingbag while walking the CP in July 2014 since I'm not so comfortable using the blankets the albergues offer. The Portuguese people were saying the weather was not very good and it was not as warm as I expected. In the evenings it would cool down and I would wear long sleeves and pants and I remember starting my walk in the early mornings dressed like that.
Buen Camino to you

 

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• Dec 21, 2015

• #6

faye bettencourt said:

I am doing the Portuguese camino in June 2015. I would like to know if a light weight sleeping rate to 48 degrees will be warm enough while staying in the hostels. We will be waking from Porto. Are most heated if it turns cold?

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I hope you mean you will walk in 2016 ! Walking in June can be pretty warm. Are you staying in hostels or albergues ? That is a big difference. Hostals are kind of hotels with most of the time privat rooms. They cost you about 20 to 30 € per night.
Albergues are places with bunks. Some are donative or cost you about 5 € per night.
The municipal albergues in Spain are 6€ per night. The Spanish albergues can be busy in june due to lots of Spanish pilgrims start there to walk the last 100 kms to Santiago (From Tuí) and to obtain a Compostela certificate for that reason.
Anyway on the Portuguese caminho there is no need for a sleepingbag. Due to hygienic reasons a silk sleeping liner could be preferable.
Look at the subforum hostals, hotels albergues for all information.

 

Stephen Nicholls

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• Dec 21, 2015

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faye bettencourt said:

I am doing the Portuguese camino in June 2015. I would like to know if a light weight sleeping rate to 48 degrees will be warm enough while staying in the hostels. We will be waking from Porto. Are most heated if it turns cold?

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In June it can be VERY warm.
I would just take a liner as my friend Albertinho says - not a sleeping bag. Try to get a 'square cut' liner if you can so you're not too restricted round your legs/feet.
The Portuguese was my first camino. Be VERY careful about walking the camino - you may get the camino 'bug' and find yourself planning new ones every year .
My plan is to walk TWO caminos in 2016 - first one in February, second in May.
Full diary for the Portuguese and photo links are on my web site.
Buen camino!!

 

faye bettencourt

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• Dec 21, 2015

• #8

Thank you so much for the info and link to your website. I will look forward to reading and seeing the pictures.

 

Hugh Hertfordshire

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• Dec 21, 2015

• #9

I use a Cocoon silk/cotton coupler. 290 grammes. It's benefits are that its rectangular, so lots of room, it's zippered so easy to get in and out of. And easy to wash.
I have just being trying out an 'Alpkit, cloud cover' camping duvet 450 grammes. I have used a KAM popper to fix poppers to the linner. Tested in unheated rooms at 8c and it's brilliant combination. Practical, adaptable and easy to keep clean

 

annakappa

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• Dec 21, 2015

• #10

We walked from Porto this last June. The weather, most of the time was incredibly hot ( 35 deg.plus). That is no guarantee that it will be the same again next year!
However, due to the fact that we were walking ' into summer' and not as we usually do ' into Autumn', I decided to eliminate the sleeping bags and bought a couple of cheap fleece blankets, which I doubled over, sewed Velcro along the bottom and a bit up the side. In that way, they could be used either open or closed like a sleeping bag. I also cut up a microfiber sheet, to use underneath the blanket. It worked perfectly and we gained at least half kilo in weight, not to mention the volume on our packs. Personally, I have never liked to use the Albergue blankets. , I would certainly do this again use this blanket system again, if not in very cold weather.

 

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faye bettencourt

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• Dec 26, 2015

• #11

Peder Hjuler said:

I bought a silk-liner and expect it is warm enough in June month.

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Thank you...I think that I will go with the sick liner. I have bought a very lightweight compression sleeping bag, but will leave it home. I want to go with the smallest lightest necessary.

 

faye bettencourt

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• Dec 26, 2015

• #12

annakappa said:

We walked from Porto this last June. The weather, most of the time was incredibly hot ( 35 deg.plus). That is no guarantee that it will be the same again next year!
However, due to the fact that we were walking ' into summer' and not as we usually do ' into Autumn', I decided to eliminate the sleeping bags and bought a couple of cheap fleece blankets, which I doubled over, sewed Velcro along the bottom and a bit up the side. In that way, they could be used either open or closed like a sleeping bag. I also cut up a microfiber sheet, to use underneath the blanket. It worked perfectly and we gained at least half kilo in weight, not to mention the volume on our packs. Personally, I have never liked to use the Albergue blankets. , I would certainly do this again use this blanket system again, if not in very cold weather.

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faye bettencourt

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• Dec 26, 2015

• #13

Thank you very much for your info.