My "Therm-A-Rest" is almost 30 years old!
When I hiked to Mt.
Whitney, I saw many people put a folding pad or rolled pad outside of their
backpack. It seemed that they use the
pad when they sleep in their tent. I think
they are really popular in general. I
have been using “Therm-A-Rest” for almost thirty years including winter
climbing. It is really good and I really
recommend everybody to try it.
I also used a
similar type of sleeping pads when I started hiking / climbing. They were okay, but it was not really
comfortable especially in winter. Also,
it is get damaged and the life time was not very good. Only good thing was that it is lower
cost. Just thinking about the cost of
such low cost pad, it might be hard to buy Therm-A-Rest which would be much
more expensive, it might be ten times expensive. However, it is getting really compact and
light weight. Also, I have had any
problem for almost thirty years. So I
would really think it is worth to invest some extra money for a comfortable
sleeping in outdoor.
Short length which can cover half of my body
If you go to an
outdoor gear store, you might find different length. In my personal opinion, shorter length which
cover half of your body would be all right.
You might be able to combine your backpack under your feet / legs when
you sleeping, then you will have full coverage. The full length pad might be a bit bulky in
my opinion. The price is something
around USD $100, depending on what you pick.
Therm-A-Rest is a bland and there are some similar products from
different vendor as well. You might want
to check what the packing size looks like as well as putting air in to see what
the pad really looks like. It might be
improved comparing with what I have.
No comments:
Post a Comment