Crap in the sense of weight and bulk--$79 is not much money for a sleeping bag-good reason for that. Clothing, sleeping bags and tent I would not go cheap on. I have been fortunate to use and have a seemingly endless amount of top notch clothing, tents and bags for many years and have become accustomed to why companies like ibex, arctetyx, Patagonia, western mountaineering, etc get top dollar. With that I do have a cold WX military sleeping bag with an integrated bivy compressed at the bottom of my work survival bag--but my intentions are not to travel with it--just survive-and I am highly confident in my skills if found in a true survival moment not to die because my bag is not of the highest quality. Meanwhile my many other quality sleeping bags are nicely kept in storage sacks so they don't lose loft and they get used on trips specific to the WX.
I'm sure they will keep you warm though in a survival situation but if you plan on building a collection of bags for a variety of reasons/trips I would stick with quality. Having a quiver of bags is nice specific to the seasons and WX.
Even our arctic sustainment package designed for polar mass causality scenarios, we have high quality civilian made bags-as users of high quality made bags we too want the best chance for those that we are treating.
And when it comes to survival as I've mentioned before--if people are asking specific questions about certain things I will always recommend higher quality---I say that due to an assumption of lack of experience on their part otherwise they probably wouldn't ask--I say that while reading a one dimensional thread on some internet site from someone I don't know, so don't take it personal---just my experience.
IMHO
I'm sure they will keep you warm though in a survival situation but if you plan on building a collection of bags for a variety of reasons/trips I would stick with quality. Having a quiver of bags is nice specific to the seasons and WX.
Even our arctic sustainment package designed for polar mass causality scenarios, we have high quality civilian made bags-as users of high quality made bags we too want the best chance for those that we are treating.
And when it comes to survival as I've mentioned before--if people are asking specific questions about certain things I will always recommend higher quality---I say that due to an assumption of lack of experience on their part otherwise they probably wouldn't ask--I say that while reading a one dimensional thread on some internet site from someone I don't know, so don't take it personal---just my experience.
IMHO