Long time ago, I spent 10 days deep in the U.N. Wilderness in Northern Utah. I was there with

my brother and two buddies during the Archeryiel Kunt in September.

And it was the rainiest September I can ever remember in Utah.

We averaged it out for the 10 days that we were there.

It rained 20 hours per day.

It was a good old wet time.

We had a lot of encounters. We didn't get any elk, but we had a good time. One of the most vivid memories that I have about hunt was, oh I think it was the second morning. Peaking out the tent at dawn and looking to where my buddy

Joe was sleeping under just a blue tarp that we'd pitched A-frame style. And it'd been raining all night.

And it'd been raining all night.

And I remember being shocked to see that there was at least two inches of water pooled underneath that a-frame tarp.

Clearly we'd picked a bad spot for it, right? We thought it was a good spot, but

uh, water was pooling there.

And in it lay Joe, sound asleep,

in his sopping wet sleeping bag.

He looked like he was laying in a puddle,

because, well, he was laying in a puddle because well he was laying in a puddle. I woke him up, actually worried that maybe

he was so hypothermic that he was almost comatose, but he was cheerful, he bounced right up and said,

man, I'm wet, let's go hunting.

He had a synthetic sleeping bag and I remember thinking at the time that if that had happened to me, I'd have been in real trouble

because I had a down sleeping back. Now, it wasn't that cold on that hunt, and that made a huge difference but it really did make an impression on me.

To this day I'm a fan of down sleeping bags more than synthetics, mostly just because of the weight and

partly just because I like the natural fiber better than a synthetic fiber. We had a discussion in our most recent episode,

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