Camping for Beginners | Sleeping Pads | Buyers Guide | Whats the Best Sleeping Pad for Wild Camping?

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A short video running through the good points and bad points of 4 popular camping air mats.
these sleeping pads vary in price and size, all are mine, I am not here to tell you which to buy. This is just a guide to help you make the choice for yourself.
I hope this video was helpful.
Dan
Featured Air Mats
Klymit Insulated Static V Luxe amzn.to/3iUdZG1
Exped Down Mat 9 amzn.to/2TKGY6Q
Trekology Aluft UL140 amzn.to/3BSB44z
Thermarest Neo Air Xlite amzn.to/2TKH12w
There are lots of mats out there, everybody will have an opinion on what the best Sleeping pad is.
These are my mats and this is purely my opinion on them.
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@CampLifeBushcraft 3 жыл бұрын

Whats your favourite mat? one of these or a different one? I'd be interested in your thoughts. I hope this video was helpful to some.

@bcamping1 Жыл бұрын

Xtherm Max might be the one if you only want one pad. I got downmat7LW, it's 100% for my comfort, but if I sit then I touch snow. And when I toss and turn, air circulates and I feel cold for a moment. Second pad I got is xtherm LW mummy. I can sit and not touch ground, air dosent circulate when I turn. Comfort level 80%. Like them both. Got them second hand, but new unused.

@jie8157 2 жыл бұрын

Very useful indeed and unbiased. My partner and I will use this to help decide what to sleep on for our motorcycle tour of NZ early next year!

@BurtonOutdoors 3 жыл бұрын

Nice review Mr CLB, 👌 enjoyed it, makes a change from some torch viddy 🤣🤣 Honest and informative as always dude xxx

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate xx

@1968Greybill 3 жыл бұрын

Great Channel totally enjoying it. The wife going camping is also neat. “Love, see if she can do it, so can you. Right.” “Love…did you hear me?” I’ll keep trying. Anyways, great discovery by me. Keep up the great job. The very best…Bill

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill 👍

@stuarthill7488 Жыл бұрын

Just back from a sleepout last night where I felt my kit was lacking, I was warm enough but it stressed my back when trying to turn. Made me think where I could get some good independent advice/opinion. Great video - gave me good food for thought.

@CampLifeBushcraft Жыл бұрын

Thanks Stuart. 👍

@billyaitken1713 3 жыл бұрын

Family Camp...Trekology, space is less important & you can use it as a li-lo on the water. Everything else 🤔, tricky..... ⛺️🇬🇧🎥 like wot Lee said, genuinely good comparison video😎👍

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate 😁😁

@WildCamper 3 жыл бұрын

An excellent round up there, as someone who has all these mats (thermorest slightly different one) I can agree with your thoughts.one for each variable camp Cheers Rob

@CampLifeBushcraft 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate, it was tricky putting this one together, a harder edit than a camping video : ) but I quite like the way it came out. tried to keep it short and sweet. appreciate the comment x

@terrym1065 3 жыл бұрын

No one mat for all situations, seems contrary to say that but true. Just too many variables to deal with. A good lot there Dan, at least you can pick and choose for the situation at hand. For me it's a total bust really, at 6'5''/250lb I just do without. Great video and details. Now go use one of those mats😉 See ya, enjoy!

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

The LW exped mat is my longest, that could be the one for you 👍

@bcamping1 Жыл бұрын

If you are looking for very long sleep pad then up Fjøl XL and Fjøl winter winterlight XL. 220cm 7ft2inch

@TressaZimmerman 3 жыл бұрын

Great review. Thanks.

@CampLifeBushcraft 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@zedddddful 2 жыл бұрын

Trekology is fine if you stick one of those foil mats below it they do however need to make it longer that is a issue.

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

Sticking stuff under it means you’ll be carrying more gear. It all depends on what you’re trip is.

@justvin7214 3 жыл бұрын

A nice vid comparing your mats Dan 👍 My favourite one is an old ME Helium 3.8 but I've always wanted an Exped, wish I'd bought one when they were under £100 but I couldn't justify it to myself then (damn, do I regret that now).

@CampLifeBushcraft 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they’re shockingly expensive these days. I paid £200 for mine last year. I’d have bitten their arm off for a £100 version!

@James-km7yz 3 жыл бұрын

I'm looking for a summer mat and when I found the UL140 I so wanted to like it - it's thick and wide. But I'm a 6-foot side sleeper and at 186cm long minus the space you lose from it's pillow I don't see this being long enough for me. So it looks like the narrow UL80 for me. Which considering the UL140 is 19 cm wide than the UL80 it's a ridiculous position to be in.

@James-km7yz 3 жыл бұрын

I've just ordered an Exped SynMat 7 LW. It's currently at £125 where I could still find it in stock. Hope it's as good as I've read. Had been considering budget options, but after doing a little more research I decided to upgrade a little.

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

Spending a bit more to get quality is probably a wise move. Hope you’re mat is what you want 👍

@mysterylovescompany2657 2 жыл бұрын

That Trekology does look lovely & deep! I have a 10cm Zoobelives horiz-baffle pad that I absolutely adore, but I rather fancy the look of those side-rails. With respect to the insulation issue, I find that simply spreading a mylar pocket-blanket beneath a cheap, uninsulated air-pad lets me take it from 2 season use to 3. 😁

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

That’s true, obviously that means more to carry. Depends on your trip.

@rialobran 3 жыл бұрын

Unless it can make me a coffee in the morning, I'm not risking anything going down on me in the night. A bit of foam 365 days a year, thicker in winter my only caveat to comfort.

@billyaitken1713 3 жыл бұрын

🤣👏👏👏.

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

Filthy! 😂😂

@ewengillies9826 3 жыл бұрын

It doesn't really mat..ter long as you're comfy sleeping on it Dan. A bottle or so and you'll sleep like a baby .. lol. Well put together mate thanks. Bushyboy Oz.

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bud 👍

@pantherkursk 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for the video, I bought a UL40 for a 4 night camp in June in Lake District, do you think is ok or shall I buy a sligtly better one?

@CampLifeBushcraft 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve had mine over a year with no issues. It’s pretty comfy. In Ju e it should be warm enough but if you’re concerned about the cold from under you pair it with a foil roll mat.

@Yorkshiremadmick 3 жыл бұрын

My current mat is a Nemo Astro 25L ultra Small pack size. Side ways baffles Easy to pack. I’m a side sleeper and love it. Not a great r value but with reflective foil. Fine. I paid in 2017 £125 having previously had two xped Down 7LW that failed. Will never buy an exped product again.

@CampLifeBushcraft 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting that you’ve had expeds that have failed. I guess it can happen to any mat, but it does put you off. I was gutted my big red failed. Never trusted it since.

@Yorkshiremadmick 3 жыл бұрын

Bought two as we were homeless for 22weeks living in a Tent Tipi Safir cp9. First one leaked after a week. Shop said I had punctured it. The second leaked sometime, later? A month.!! Experience is all No exped here.

@RESTLESSNATIVES-vg1pz 3 жыл бұрын

didn`t KLYMIT get in to BIG trouble for exaggerated the R - VALUE on their mats and not use the WORLD STANDARD TESTING METHOD like EXPED+THERMAREST use and went with their own thoughts on what it might be instead of what it actually is , and they had to change all their web details after they were found out when they were only half the R-VALUE of what they had stated on their website.

@CampLifeBushcraft 3 жыл бұрын

I can't speak to that, I have no idea.. however when I looked up all the stats there were 2 R-values on the Klymit website.. with different letters after there names. I used the lower of the 2 for this video.

@mgw6639 3 жыл бұрын

Yes you are right, they’ve had to alter the claims

@RESTLESSNATIVES-vg1pz 3 жыл бұрын

@@CampLifeBushcraft not wanting to tread on any ones toes but a few years back maybe 2019 they were , pardon the pun inflating their R-VALUE on their pads but now they had to use the industry ASTM R- Value standard as they were going to be sued for false claims in their products , another great video .

@summittaedae2323 2 жыл бұрын

I have that exped9down an exped7syn a sea to summit R-value about .8 😂 and some close cell foam pads. The exped9 is for by winter and the 7 is my all year pad. The sea to summit mummy style is useless