Horizon Hound Down Camping Blanket - Outdoor Lightweight Packable Down Blanket Compact Waterproof and Warm for Camping Hiking Travel - 650 Fill Power

I love this down blanket. It's lightweight and very warm. It has handy clips which makes it easy to wrap around yourself. Love them so much I got two!

Die Decke ist echt praktisch. Klein, passt in jeden Rucksack.

I have tried out the Get Out Gear, 3M iClimb, and Rumpl blankets as well and I believe the Horizon Hound (HH) to be the best bang for the buck. We own two of them. I would also like to try the Wise Owl, 4Monster, and KingCamp brands. If I ever do I will update this review. The Get Out Gear is $2-3 more than this blanket right now and didn't feel quite as nice. I had an orange one and lifted it up to bright filtered sunlight in my living room. The material is quite thin—the sunlight easily penetrated the material and I could easily see the silhouette of the filling within. The filling was dispersed unevenly throughout the blanket. There were a few squares within the quilting that had very little to hardly any filling at all. More than a handful had much more than others. I have lifted both of my HH blankets to direct sunlight outdoors. You cannot see through the material at all. Some light peaks through in tiny holes within the stitching but none through the blanket material. The HH feels and looks like better quality material than the Get Out Gear blanket. Since I could not see the silhouette of the filling in the HH blankets I cannot speak to the evenness of the filling but just by looking at it completely aired out and unfolded it looks even enough. The Rumpl blankets are nice—curved quilting patterns and pop art designs but VERY overpriced. I think all of the blankets mentioned are overpriced including the HH. I have seen some grumps say all these blankets are nothing but overpriced unzipped sleeping bags and I see where they are coming from. However, these blankets are not sleeping bags. They are lightweight warm blankets that are easy to hike/backpack with, pack down quickly and do not take up a lot of storage space so easy to keep in the car or clip to a bag. Also the best feature is to be able to easily wear the blanket like a poncho. Most sleeping bags are much too bulky for all that. The 3M is not quite like the other blankets mentioned above. It is almost half the price of the Horizon Hound but has thinner filling. The one I received has much lower quality stitching as well. However, I kept it because it has some nice features the others, including the HH, do not: metal buttons, packs into itself, has buttons on both sides and a draw string to use as a light sleeping bag, the nylon is slippery but buttery soft, and I love the color. As for the Horizon Hound itself... Again, I think it is overpriced but not by that much. Especially compared to the Rumpl blankets. I think $50 is more reasonable for a simple lightweight blanket like this. The material and stitching is good quality. There are a few minor stitching flaws and for $67+ it shouldn’t have any. However, I will say that I have seen as much or worse in all of the other brands. It is not as buttery soft as some of the others but is still quite soft, warm, and comfortable. I felt warm wearing it with as poncho and wrapped around my body with a t-shirt and thin sweatpants on a cloudy 50 degree windy morning in the Puget Sound area. It feels just a bit thicker than the other blankets. For reference for the photos I posted I am a 5’5” medium build woman. As a poncho the blanket is the perfect length covering almost the entire length of my body without touching the ground. I wish there were more size options because my husband is broad shoulder and lean 6’3” and loves this blanket but obviously doesn’t get the same length coverage as me. However, like me, the blanket wraps around his body with plenty of coverage. I like the large heavyweight finger slot/handles. Much sturdier than any other brands. I also like the position of the handles. The buttons are plastic and feel sturdy enough for now but I do wonder how long they will last. Perhaps metal buttons would feel nicer? We like that you can snap two blankets together. A feature I would love to see is buttons on opposite sides of the blanket with a draw string at the bottom to turn it into a complete blanket wrap/light sleeping bag (a feature I like about the 3M iClimb blanket). I would love to see more colors. I don't care for extra bright patterns like some of the Rumpl designs but I think the overall market is lacking prettier color options. I think adding more variety in colors (pastels and muted bright tones for an example) with the current quality of material, finish work, and price would make it a 5 star product. Then add an extra feature or two like I mentioned before and it would make it an undeniable 5-star product. The advice is free, Horizon Hound, but you can always get into contact with me to send a check or I would love to be a guinea pig for blankets with new colors and features one day. Overall this blanket is the best bang for the buck with a little room for improvement. I have the green color as well and it is consistent with the blue one in overall quality. I recommend this product to anyone looking for a good quality camp blanket.

So I have mixed feelings about this blanket, mostly because this is the 5th down blanket I have purchased so I have other ones to compare it to. Positives. 1st. Lets start with the price. I know of no other quality down blanket that is sub $100. For what you get, this will keep you warm and at the time I only paid $65. 2. The compression sack it comes with is great. High quality and rolls up like a dry bag. If you have a carabiner it will clip on nicely to your pack. 3. The sewn through baffles are nice. This will keep your down from sliding around. Negatives. 1. I keep going back to my other down quilts and blankets I own. I can't help but think for an extra $35 you could have a way nicer and superior quilt from Mass Drop called the Pine Down Quilt. With that you can use it as either an underquilt on a hammock or as a top quilt because it includes shock cord and buttons on 1 end to create a foot box. 2. The loft on this blanket compared to my other ones is the thinnest. I have no doubt it would keep you warm down to 40f but again - For an extra $35 you could have one that would easily keep you warm down to 20f-30f or a little cooler. I guess it depends where you live. Overall I like the blanket. An extra $35 is more to some people than others so you need to decide if the extra cost is worth it. If you are starting to get into backpacking and not sure you will like it ~ This is a great blanket to start with. It is light, compact and will definately keep you warm on cooler nights. I will end up making a modification to it with shock cord and sewing on some buttons so I can create a foot box in my hammock. I would highly recommend this product if you want to spend under a $100 on a quality down quilt. If you have a little more room in your budget there are better blankets out there you can buy without having to modify depending on your needs.

I bought the Horizon Hound down camping blanket for my college-aged daughter. She travels with friends on the weekends and I thought this would be a great lightweight blanket to keep her warm overnight. She never brought it on a road trip, but she loved using it every day in her chilly dorm room! Fast forward 6 months and she is packing to leave for a study abroad in France this summer. I simply threw the blanket in the washer on delicate/low and then into the dryer on low. It was easy to wash and dried super fast! I tried two different ways to get it back into its original nylon bag/container. Both ways worked without any difficulty. First, I just started with a corner and kept stuffing the blanket into the bag until it fit. It was lumpy, a little bulky, and temporarily wrinkly after I pulled it out, but no problem fitting. Next, I did the mom fold. I folded it in 1/2 lengthwise (twice), measured to make sure it would fit in the nylon bag, and then neatly rolled the blanket from bottom to top. It fit in the bag perfectly with room to spare. It was smooth in appearance and had significantly fewer wrinkles when I pulled it out. So, whether you need to stuff and go or have the time to fold and roll, this blanket is a great travel companion and easily fits back into its original sack for your next trip. Note: I don't think this blanket is enough to keep you warm at 50 degrees. You would definitely be more comfortable closer to 60 degrees.