pathetic piss kitten (@kitten)

in retrospect maybe I could have perfectly done with a thinner simpler sleeping mat. although this is without knowing how less thermal isolation would that provide in comparison

on the other hand, maybe I could have done with a bigger tent

@kitten I'm very happy with my hybrid inflatable foam mat that weighs very little ^^

@kitten I have one of seatosummit.eu/products/camp-plus-self-inflating-sleeping-pad?variant=41699506421910

Not the smallest but it goes in or hangs off my backpack

@erincandescent @kitten notably, decathlon makes their stuff out of the thickest, cheapest material available - that sleeping pad weighs as much as our entire 4-person tent (5.5kg vs 1.3kg for the S2S one), which entirely by accident gives it a ridiculous R-value (8.6), but you really don't need the number to go that high; ~4.5 is enough even for winter camping

and in an interesting first, the decathlon one is actually €50 more expensive than the Sea to Summit one, normally their one redeeming feature is being the cheap, minimum viable option o_O

(I have this one, which is manually inflated and way overpriced, but weighs 0.48kg and rolls up smaller than my water bottle, but this is me optimising for "I want to do back to back festivals for a month, while being nearly 2m tall and having EDS, so I need to be very nice to my joints") cascadedesigns.com/en-eu/products/neoair-xlite-nxt-sleeping-pad?variant=41317184700550

@embr @kitten to be fair to the Decathlon one here, it is twice as wide

@embr @erincandescent yeah, true... I tried to ensure I'd get something comfy, but I probably could have gone for something else... :neocat_sad: