Fast & Lightįor alpinists, ultralight backpackers, and those that need to minimize packed size for their backcountry pursuits. Meaning you can make more informed decisions regarding warmth when you purchase a sleeping pad. After all, staying warm at night, or at just the right temperature for your needs, is a core consideration of camping, right? With the new ASTM R-Value standard hitting the industry this year you can finally compare all pads on the same scale of insulation. Yet, we thought it would be helpful to rank our pads according by their R-value. Which is why we have a handy sleeping pad finder to assist you! Trying to compare pads across categories like weight, thickness, material, length, width and R-Value can be mind-numbing. We know that if you are trying to choose a sleeping pad there are a lot of considerations. Rather, the pads with the highest thermal resistance come first and those with the least come at the end of each category. The “best” sleeping pad is not at the top, and the “worst” sleeping pad is certainly not at the bottom. Scroll through to see all of our pads listed from highest R-Value to lowest based on their class. I also added some dots of seam seal on the bottom of the mat as I find it to be slippery on the floors of tents, especially in less than perfect camping spots.Welcome to our definitive, all-inclusive sleeping pad R-Value ranking. This is a highly recommended addition and as I said, can be used as a dry bag. Instead I just run the pump 3-4 times and I’m done (maybe a little top up with my lungs).
This pump is a little spoil but I really have no energy to blow the mat full at the end of the day, it just makes me dizzy. Mat type: Foam matType: Extra lightR-Value: 2.2. In addition to the Neoair, I have the Neoair Pump Sac by Therm-A-Rest and I use it as a dry bag for my sleeping bag and night clothes. The Therm-a-Rest Z-Lite Mat regular at .uk Outdoor specialists in the UK Buy online. Though this comes with a weight penalty of 800 g, it is worth the warmth and the comfort. The foam mat acts as an extra insurance in case of a problem. This coming winter I intend to continue using my Neoair, but pairing it with my Therm-A-Rest Z-Lite Sol to get a higher R-value (5.1) while keeping the comfort of an air mat. It was so refreshing to see a company that still believes in the honesty system that I had no problem paying for the repair, giving Cascade Designs an extra few points in my book. Four weeks after sending the mat to Ireland I received the Neoair back, fixed and clean, looking pretty much new, with instructions on where to send the £15 repair charge. I sent the mattress being fully aware that I might be charged for the repair and waited to hear from Therm-A-Rest about the verdict of my mat. The mat features vertical tubes with a reflective internal material that offer that great R-value along with a very low weight and extreme compactness, much lighter and smaller than any other mat on the market at the time. The Neoair was released in 2009 as one of the leading insulated air mattresses, being the lightest mattress and offering an R-value of 2.5. The Neoair is actually an older version of the latest lightweight air-mattress: the Neoair Xlite. Therm-A-Rest offer a range of sleeping products with the mattresses being the main selling product and are offered in 3 main categories: Fast & Light, Trek & Travel and Camp & Comfort. Therm-A-Rest started as a company that made a very specific product: self inflating air mattresses, and that is still the core of Therm-A-Rest’s product line with the Prolite line (comes in a variety of sizes, weights and R-values (defined a bit further down**)). Therm-A-Rest is a mat-only company and it is part of the Cascade Designs group – a Seattle, Washington based company.