Most comfortable sleeping pad

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How much extra weight?

The Exped Downmats are nice and should do fine at the temprature. However, they do weight a bit more than a foam pad.

The neoair will probably not be warm enough at 15 degrees. But it's very light weight. Might want to consider using this with a foam pad for insulation.

For either of these pads, I don;t recoomened sleeping on the bare ground with them as they both could puncture. Always best to use a groundcloth of some sort with either.

Kokabay is another option. They can also custom make down sleeping mats as well. The Koka bay mat should be lighter than the Exped, but heavier than the Neoair. However, the DAM will have insulating properties you need.

given the 15-60 temp range I would recommend either the BA insulated air core or the pacific outdoors insulated air mattress. 15F is pushing the edge but it would be ok. 10-15F I was able to sleep, but I could tell the group below me was sucking some of my heat. There was nothing else between the group and me other than the BA insulated air core an featherweight base because I was using a quilt and wearing no other clothing.

If you sleep cold the I would recommend one of the Exped, Kooka Bay, or Warmlite down pads.

–Mark

The NeoAir and Expad were the ones I was looking at. How does the Neoair inflate?I don't see a built in pump like the Expad,so I assume you have to blow it up yourself? Looks like it might take a fair bit of air to fill it up,no? I have heard that the thermarests are considerably more durable than the Exped,anyone had any issue's with them? I'm going to look into some of the others mentioned here and in the other thread, although I'm not sure I can find them locally.

If you fear that the Neoair will be too cold and the Downmat too heavy, you may consider the new Exped Synmat basic 7.5 (not he Synmat Pump). Temperature rating is in between the Neoair and the Downmat at something like 12F, and so is the weight at 660 gram. It is dead cheap.
Willem

That pad actually looks just about right. I'll see if I can find it close by so I can check it out in person. Thanks for the info.

I switched from a thermarest to the PAC Insulmat when I realized I could be sleeping on 2.5" instead of 1" and still save weight. When it is cold I use a BA insulated mat because it is definitly warmer (and is rated that way). I was very excited about the Neo Air but cannot stand sleeping on it (guess my back prefers the longer tubes that cradle it over the short tubes that rock it)