Reading that tag right is a whole skill nobody teaches you. I used to swear by the limit number, figured the comfort rating was just marketing fluff for car campers. Then I spent a 25 degree night in a bag rated 20 and learned real quick that limit means you will live, not that you will sleep. Now I check the comfort number FIRST and I plan around that, not the flashy number on the front of the box. If a bag says comfort 32, I treat it as a 40 degree bag for me, because I sleep cold and I want to actually enjoy the trip. Two winters of buying gear to fix a problem that was just a misread label sounds about right, we have all been there.

Oven temp's probably off, scratch cakes are way less forgiving.

That 1997 pull date is wild. I found a similar copy at a sale in Topeka about five years back, $2 for a '58 printing with a stamp from some school in Emporia inside the front cover. I skipped the nicer dust jacket edition because I only had a ten on me, and I still kick myself a little. Those marked-up school copies have a story the pretty ones just don't, so I would have grabbed both if the wallet allowed.