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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael2 View Post
    Don't get an airbed, they act as a giant heatsink and keep you cold all night long.
    All depends .... I have an Exped Downmat 9 Pump Deluxe.

    Its a Air Mattress - So its super comfy. Way, way better than a self inflator
    Built in Pump - 1 Min to inflate by hand, if that.
    Very small pack size - About the size of a football
    Down Filled - Rated to -38c - That's three times lower than the best self inflator

    Only draw back - Price - $280

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    We recently spent 10 weeks touring around with a single pole tent and genuine Thermarests ( the thicker touring kind ) plus Mont down sleeping bags. Quite exxy per person for sleeping kit but it is worth it. The Thermarests are very comfy and warm. Never tried any of the copies but there may be cheaper ones of an equivalent quality around. Putting one of those foil backed picnic blankets under helps even more. The only problem is it's a long way to get up off the ground for an old bloke !
    We'll probably graduate straight to a caravan after the tent.

    Those Exped Downmats look interesting though - about the same price as a Thermarest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by waynep View Post
    We recently spent 10 weeks touring around with a single pole tent and genuine Thermarests ( the thicker touring kind ) plus Mont down sleeping bags. Quite exxy per person for sleeping kit but it is worth it. The Thermarests are very comfy and warm. Never tried any of the copies but there may be cheaper ones of an equivalent quality around. Putting one of those foil backed picnic blankets under helps even more. The only problem is it's a long way to get up off the ground for an old bloke !
    We'll probably graduate straight to a caravan after the tent.

    Those Exped Downmats look interesting though - about the same price as a Thermarest.
    I do smile when you say such and such sleeping gear is expensive. In the early/mid 1970's I did a lot of snow skiing, skiing almost every week end, plus for a few weeks during TAFE holidays, living in a tunnel tent at Perisher Valley on top of the snow, near the top of the center valley T-bars, sleeping in a very warm mummy super down sleeping bag, with a closed cell foam mat under me to insulate me from the cold snow.
    Hopped on a T-bar lift one day, and the other guy on that lift and I had a bit of a talk. He asked where I was staying and I told him. He said "arent you cold" so I also told him how expensive my sleeping bag was, and its temperature rating. He said "I am paying $5000 for 2 weeks accomidation. Your sleeping bag is not that expensive. That is the way to do it." So perhaps all this expensive sleeping gear is not all that expensive after all if you look at it this way.

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    Buy a stretcher, make sure its the big one, they are fantastic, wish I bought one years ago, they will handle the weight, although no horseplay

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    Quote Originally Posted by rovercare View Post
    ...they will handle the weight, although no horseplay
    Tell us what happens when you try

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    Quote Originally Posted by rovercare View Post
    Buy a stretcher, make sure its the big one, they are fantastic, wish I bought one years ago, they will handle the weight, although no horseplay
    If that's what he decides on in the end I have three large, used once, stretchers here needing to find a home. Myself, I just couldn't get comfy on one, even with a Thermarest (Basecamp - so it's pretty thick) on top of it.

    Horses for courses, but IMO if you can afford it go the Exped

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    I have one of those Oz Trail fold up stretchers, nice and light and compact when folded for when I go camping in the tent. I take the mattress out of my swag and lay it on top and it makes a great bed and you are up off the ground so when you get old it's not so hard to get up, Regards Frank.

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    nice $50 stretcher so you dont have to bend down to far :P, black wolf deluxe airbed, bikie oil skin swag and a 5deg sleeping bag inside a 0deg swag bag....

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    Over the years I have slept on airbeds, stretchers, portable concrete and thermarests.

    Airbeds are cold, noisy and lumpy (unless you get these new-fangled down filled ones I guess) and they were relegated to canyoning status as soon as other options became available, after some uncomfortably deflated sleeps.

    Stretchers were quite comfortable, I have used two types, one with spring steel 1 piece legs the other heavy box section legs with tensionable coil springs. Both were good, the heavy legged sort died during a deluge on Fraser Island when the tents stopped working, the sprung leg one got wet too-this distorted the canvas/material and made for a rhombic shaped stretcher that was too taught for us young teenagers to set up. We used an army disposal blanket between sleeping bag and stretcher to insulate better.

    Portable concrete refers to the foam camping mats from Kmart and the likes, they are a good source of insulation under anything else, but they earned that nickname through hard work.

    Self inflating mattresses aka Thermarests, well, for a family of four we have 8 of them varying in thickness and width and weight for hiking or vehicle based camping (the different widths to suit a new, narrower tent). They are by far the best I have used and when combined with my Roman feather sleeping bag, I don't think a cold night is possible
    Well thats my 2 cents worth
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    Mark

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    swag + Roman SwagBag = awesomeness

    A swagbag is like a sleeping bag designed especialy for swags. Its outer material is cotton not that slippery stuff so it 'sticks' to the inside of the swag to stop it moving all over the place when you are sleeping. The inside is a flannellet (sp) material. Best invention ever

    My mattress is getting a bit worn out though, thinking about making a visit to Clarke Rubber to find something to replace it.

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