Thermarest Neoair Xlite

It looks like it’s available to me. https://www.rei.com/product/172126/therm-a-rest-neoair-xlite-sleeping-pad

the link in your OP is the old version, before they updated the valve.

Thank you guys!  Pad ordered! I must have gone down some sort of rabbit hole on the website.

I ordered (and received) the new valved Xlite from REI a couple weeks ago at a “non-dividend price”.  The new valve works fine but wouldn’t call it evolutionary.

Can you still blow it up with your mouth?

Seems so as it looks similar to the old valve with the “wing” device behind it, attaching it to the pad.  They’ve included a stuff-pump sack too, so I’ll use that.   Got the LW version and that would take a lot of breathes.

The pump sack keeps popping off but it’ll get the job done.

The pump sack keeps popping off but it’ll get the job done

I modified my Exped Schnozzel by opening up the I.D. of the port (part that attaches to the pad valve) a “wee bit” using a rolled-up piece of fine sandpaper. Now fits firmly on my Therm-a-rest XTherm valve as well as my Exped pads. I thought the Therm-a-rest pump sack sucked and the Schnozzel does double-duty as a pack liner.

After having a look at Therm-a-Rest’s new valve, it appears that using the Schnozzel may not be an option…but I could be wrong.

The new valve on the neo airs is marginally better than the old one. Hey, at least it has a one-way ability for inflation! But the Thermarest pump sack is pretty bad. We use our schnozzle bags from Exped instead, MUCH better. To do that I  (through trial and error) found some surgical rubber tubing that would fit around the outside of the new thermarest valve and  the schnozzle bag outlet (using a rubber band to keep it from falling off the schnozzle bag).

I kinda wish Thermarest would use a flat valve like Exped or Sea to Summit. That being said, the x-lite and x-therm are warmer, for a given weight, than anything else on the market, they pack small, and the oft-reported crinkly noises are not as bad as I feared.

@pula58,

Nice work-around with the rubber tubing. Maybe some enterprising person with a 3d printer here could make an adapter for the new valve(?). I purchased the x-therm the season before the new valve was introduced :( But the schnozzel works great with it. And its plenty big enough for stuffing the quilt and dry clothes in.

I bought my wife a new Xlite this year, but last years model @ 1/2 price.

We’re happy suffering with the old technology :)