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My inflatable sleeping pad lost half its insulation after 6 nights. Here's the before and after.
Bought this Exped pad in March. First 3 nights were great, warm as hell. Then I loaned it to my brother for a rainy trip up in the Sierras. He brought it back and said it was fine but I noticed it didn't feel as firm. Took it out last weekend in 40 degree weather. Woke up freezing my ass off. Checked the R-value tag and compared it to my buddy's same model. Mine was clearly less. I think moisture got into the synthetic fill from his trip and never dried out right. Anyone else had this happen with a puffy pad?
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sammartinez20d ago
feeling my way through a cold night" is usually a metaphor but for me it was real... that sucks though, moisture wrecking the fill is a total buzzkill. I had an old sleeping bag do the same thing after a buddy borrowed it for a rainy scout trip, guess I'm the bad luck charm for borrowed gear.
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murray.robert20d ago
I gotta push back on this a little. "total buzzkill"? I mean, your buddy came back from a scout trip, the bag got wet, fill got wrecked. Yeah, that stinks, but it's not like the bag spontaneously combusted or something. It's a sleeping bag, not a family heirloom. You can get a decent one for like forty bucks at a surplus store. And "feeling your way through a cold night" being "real" really just means you were a bit chilly, not hypothermia level stuff. I've had buddies borrow my truck and bring it back with a dent and a dead battery. That's a buzzkill. A damp sleeping bag is just a Tuesday.
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felixhenderson20d ago
Oh come ON, murray.robert is making way too big a deal out of this. "Total buzzkill" is pretty mild for having your gear wrecked by a friend's carelessness. It's not like @sammartinez called for the guy's head on a platter or something. And comparing a wet sleeping bag to a dented truck is kind of apples and oranges. A dented truck still works, a wrecked sleeping bag is USELESS. If you're out camping and the bag is soaked, that's not just "a bit chilly" that's a miserable night trying to sleep in damp clothes without any insulation. I get that some things are bigger deals, but calling this a buzzkill seems totally reasonable to me.
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