Field Notes · No. 002

Three Nights, One Layer

One blanket, seventy-two hours, three very different bedrooms.

A long weekend, loosely documented. The blanket never left the truck. Neither did we, mostly.

Night One

The campfire

Temperature dropped faster than anyone planned for. The fire handled the front half; the woobie handled the back. A stray ember landed on it around ten — brushed it off, no drama. Rip-stop earns its name the boring way: nothing happens.

02 — Night Two

The truck bed

Rain rolled in at midnight and quit by two. The DWR shrugged off what the tailgate didn’t, and by sunrise the blanket was dry before the coffee was done. Try that with cotton.

Woobie gear out in the field on night two

Summer field note: when the layer comes off, the Silkies go on. Four-way stretch, built-in liner, $25 — the warm-weather issue →

03 — Night Three

The porch couch

Home by dinner. Should’ve gone inside. Didn’t. The same blanket that took an ember and a rainstorm spent night three under a porch light and a sleeping dog. That’s the whole point of the thing: it doesn’t care where the night happens.

Rip-stop nylon shell · 100% poly active insulation · DWR finish

And if the night gets serious: the Woobie Blanket 2.0 adds a zipper that turns it into full sleeping-bag mode. Blanket by the fire, sleep system by midnight.

ONE LAYER, EVERYWHERE

Next dispatch — Field Notes 003: Pattern lore

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