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outdooryuri
2
Sep 25, 2018
so 5 nights now on mine, in 2 backpacks, 3 nights in Sierras with night temps just below 32F, 2 nights in Los Padres with night temps in high 30's/low 40's. About what I expected... Pad needs more inflation during night, BUT I'm not sure if this is slow leakage or just much lower night temps, lowering the air pressure in the pad. If I inflate during early evening 60F-ish temp, by midnight I have to add - but it's in the 30's, so maybe sig. lower temps make a diff. on the relative air pressure of what is a low volume of air anyway... Otherwise I do bottom out when I side sleep - can't get the pressure high enough to NOT bottom. ON the back, I'm ok - but, I'm mostly a side sleeper... bummer... and I feel the cold through my hip. I'm constantly sliding... only ONE side has anti-slide on it, so either the pad slides (if I put the antislide side up to keep me on the pad) or I slid off and the pad stays in place... BOTH SIDES NEED ANTI-SLIDE! Otherwise, I also have a Klymit X pillow - What a Mismatch!!! awful. The pillow and the pad are a mismatch to the patterns and so the pillow is CONSTANTLY sliding off the pad - 10 - 12x or more a night, not a restful sleep !!! Two HIGHEST ESSENTIALS - Enough water and restful sleep! I mean ALMOST EVERY pad in the company has the same air channel pattern... a pillow pattern, possibly, to mate better to this common pad pattern might be a good design ??? Bueller ??? not particularly happy with the combo - one will have to go, or both...
bpchristensen
172
Dec 3, 2018
outdooryuriI think the whole idea of backpacking pillows is a hollow sales pitch - I've tried them all, and never found one that actually worked as well as a rolled up fleece stuffed into the hood of my sleeping bag (and then I just sleep on top of the hood portion of the bag while wearing a beanie or balaclava, depending on how cold it is. The best use I've found for an inflatable pillow is to shove UNDER the head portion of my Klymit pad so as to elevate my head a little (especially if I set everything up on one of those ever-so-slightly-head-downhill type spots)