Originally Posted by
FishyFolk
Over the years I have developped a deep aversion against being wet and cold. Sleeping in a wool blanket is therefore out of the question, so is carrying a soggy pice of wool. Modern sleeping bags and bivvi bags where invented fro a reason...
And yes, tried wool blankets in the army as a recruit...the wettest, most miserable, cold existense I have ever experienced, and if I meet the bloody seargeant who ordered us to bring only wool blankets and leave the sleeping bags and tent tarps at the barrcacks again, there will be words....never,ever again...