Expert Camping Gear Reviews & Guides
There’s a particular kind of camping argument that has nothing to do with tent pegs or who forgot the bottle opener. It happens at about 11pm, when two adults are trying to arrange themselves on mismatched sleeping mats that keep sliding apart in the middle of the night, leaving a canvas-cold gap right where a … Read more
Somewhere around the third night of a wet Cairngorms trip, most backpackers have the same 3am realisation: the sleeping bag was never the problem. The cold, hard, lumpy ground underneath it was. A lightweight self-inflating mat for backpacking solves that problem in a way few other pieces of kit can, because it does two jobs … Read more
There’s a very specific kind of misery reserved for 3am in a tent, when the ground has somehow found every single one of your pressure points and turned itself into a geological grudge against your spine. A self-inflating sleeping mat exists to solve exactly that problem, and it’s one of the few bits of camping … Read more