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2015 Sea to Summit sleeping mats
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More information and some interesting discussion is here.
Nice to see more effort in sleeping pads.
These pads could be comfortable, although those cells are certainly not independent as S2S claims. Regardless of comfort, the R value means they're summer only pads. They also seem expensive for what they are.
@Dan, Yeah, it very much seems like they are going for comfort and cheap with these pads. Know of a few companies that were at 2014 OR that have decided to pick them up. How well they make it into the mainstream is going to be interesting. The price-point alone could cause them to move a fairly high volume and thus cause CD/TaR getting pushed to the edges of shelves at the local stores.
More information and some interesting discussion is here. “…ditch this 75D fabric, cut it down in size, keep it at 3″ of height, and make us a lighter weight, shorter, Static V Lux… and the market might actually have its first viable side sleeper sleeping pad!”
It’s been ~18 months since those suggestions in that conversation linked to above with Klymit about how to take the Static V Lux and trim it down to a good, not too heavy side sleeper pad… and no movement from Klymit on that I can see.
I’ve used the Static V Lux for car camping for several years now and it is fantastic for side sleeping. It’s only flaw (weight aside, not an issue for car camping) is the twisty valve instead of a flat valve.
I just don’t see that anyone else will do this if Kymit doesn’t. Â S2S & Thermarest and most others (than Exped of course) can’t even make a regular wide, so what hope is there they will do anything for side sleepers? Sure hope Klymit has something in the works, as what they do, they do well.
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