Stuff sacks, breathable or non-breathable

[Winnie]

Do you prefer to make your stuff sacks for hammock, tarp, quilts in breathable or non- breathable fabric and why?

[Wanderlost]

For hammocks and quilts, if you're going to use stuff sacks, non-breathable. The purpose of it is to protect from getting wet. Soggy hammocks suck and quilts are useless wet. For tarps, I don't use stuff sacks. I use a mesh tarp sleeve.

[xrayit]

Top Quilt and Under quilt gets stuffed into bottom of my pack inside a large waterproof cuben fiber dry sack, this allows for the items to stay dry but enough room to let them conform to the space inside the pack. Hammock gets stashed in a bishop bag and tarp gets skins and stashed into outer pack pocket regardless if wet or dry.

[AdventureMyk]

If it is wet and the fabric breathes there is the potential to get other things in the pack wet. (save those for outside pockets like many do with their tarp). Big thing? Remember to take the items out and let them breathe, dry, fluff, etc. when you are home or setting up a new site. I would never store my gear in a sealed bag but that may just be me.

[Mobius_trip]

I swear by the Sea to Summit Event compression dry sack. It is breathable and waterproof. I have had my sleeping bag literally float a couple hundred yards down the Buffalo river after capsizing and still slept dry that night.

[apsilon]

I swear by the Sea to Summit Event compression dry sack.

I use these as well and recommend them. However I only use them for things I definitely want to keep dry ie my sleep clothes and quilts. Everything else are in stuff sacks. I prefer breathable as you can squish them more easily if you need to and as mentioned everything that must be dry are in dry bags, not stuff sacks which IMO are water resistant at best no matter what they're made from. Things that are likely to be wet even if it's just from morning dew, such as a tarp, are outside my pack in a pocket and generally in cuben fibre stuff sacks so while they're not water proof (due to draw string closure) it's virtually impossible that they're going to get anything else wet.

[SilvrSurfr]

I use cuben fiber stuff sacks for tarp, quilts, hammocks and clothes. If the tarp is wet, I'd rather it stay wet by itself. I would prefer that quilts, hammocks and clothes stay dry.

[kitsapcowboy]

I swear by the Sea to Summit Event compression dry sack. It is breathable and waterproof. I have had my sleeping bag literally float a couple hundred yards down the Buffalo river after capsizing and still slept dry that night.

+1 on eVent. They are overpriced but amazing.

(They are also kind of ugly; for that kind of money, they should license Multicam!)

[Mobius_trip]

+1 on eVent. They are overpriced but amazing.

(They are also kind of ugly; for that kind of money, they should license Multicam!)

I find the Event to be quite stylish myself.