Trimming an Inflatable Pad

Trimming Neoair and using a steam iron to seal them back up was a major craze a few years ago. Searching for trimmed Neoair will get you too it.

This:

So cutting a NeoAir shorter is an established deal, but has anyone cut one down in width/ I'm thinking of making a tapered pad, so I get the width I want at the elbows but then it tapers so I don't have unneeded width lower down.

Isn't the Gossamer Gear Air Beam Sleeper XL about what you want ?

http://gossamergear.com/sleeping/air-beam-sleepers.html

Wide, Tapered and not too long.

I used one in New Mexico on the CDT this spring for about 140 miles.

Larry

Thanks everyone!

The problem, for me, with the GG pad is the lack of insulation. What temps did you use it in?

del

Hello Kelly,
I don't know for sure how low the temperature got but for
2 nights on the Gila river at around 6500-7000ft my wet
shoes were frozen solid but my water bottle was not.
So I'd assume somewhere in the high 20's ?
It was getting chilly but I made it ok in my 20° ZPacks sleeping
bag with a light down jacket for the hood.
The Zpacks bag doesn't have a hood but it zips up the bottom so
I guess that makes it a "sorta" quilt.
I tried the pad in my back yard this last winter in the mid teens
and it definitely wasn't warm enough. I had to come inside and
get a 1/2" foam pad to use over it.

Larry S