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Why does nobody talk about testing your sleep pad at home first
I bought a Nemo Tensor last month and took it straight to Rocky Mountain National Park without ever inflating it at home. Froze my butt off at 9,000 feet because I never noticed the valve had a slow leak until 3am. Now I do a full night on the living room floor before any trip. Anyone else learn this the hard way or am I just slow?
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kevin_harris7811d ago
Testing at home is overrated. A leak might not even show up on your carpet because temps and humidity are totally different from a cold mountain night, so you get a false sense of security and skip the real check. You also waste a whole night on the floor when you could just fill the pad, let it sit a few hours, and look for any soft spots. Half the time the valve is fine and the problem was you not closing it all the way at 3am in the dark. Plus some pads only leak when they get cold and the material shrinks, which your living room will never copy. Learn how your gear actually fails in the field instead of babying it at home.
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