Gear

 i have just bought the pacific outdoor equipment peak oyl  aero mountain sleeping mat  .  allthough i think the multimat adventure superlight is  great and a good price i wanted something for winter that i could sleep on and be warm & comfortable and if so use all year round. allthough it is about 304 grams heavier than the multimat  it is an inch thicker and has aero gel (something to with space suits and insulation 10 to 15 %  more  efficient than ordinary foam mats so they say) in the torso area is good and the inflating rails seem a good idea at keeping low drafts maybe   ,but getting the mat back into the supplied bag has driven me really crazy . i havent tested it out yet other than lying on it on the floor in the house and it does seem comfortable but my elbows hang over over the edges of the mat.

i want to know if anyone else has any experience of this mat that would great .

I have one of these. The stuff sack ripped pretty quick and I now keep it in another sack left over from an old mat. I just binned the original sack. I've used the mat in winter conditions at altitude and found it pretty warm.

When I deflate the mat I open the valve and roll all the air out, then seal the valve, unroll it and roll it up again (with the valve still closed) then open valve and squeeze out remaining air before closing again. If necessary I repeat the last step one more time. Only takes a couple of minutes.

Seems like a good mat but a rubbish stuff sack. 

Cheers.

Regarding the packing of your mat. I dont use the stuff sacks provided with them. I tend to do one of two things..

1. deflate the mat and then insert it into the bag, let it unroll and pack all my stuff inside the tube formed inside my bag.

Or

2. I use an old strap from my trangia and use that to hold it rolled up.

In my experience self inflating mats that use die cut foam to reduce weight don't inflate themselves as well as heavier mats using non die cut foam. I store my mats un-rolled with the valve open in the possibly mistaken belief that it makes them re-inflate themselves a bit better.

I also roll my mats the way Paddywhacker does, but tend to fold them into a flat package and place them on top of my sleeping bag, haven't troed the loose roll/tube method although thats how I pack a CCF mat.

I had a couple of POE mats, Peak Oyl Lite and Ether Thermo 6, both fine but heavier than suggested, never had difficulty getting them into their stuff sacks, in fact the stuff sacks seemed too big IMO. I was able to pack them back in the original plastic packaging.

I ended up selling them and buying a Multimat Adventure Superlight 25 full length as I found I wasn't comfortable on the Air mat and the self inflate was too heavy although it was warm and comfortable and the air tubes up each side meant I didn't move off the mat.

Ether Thermo 6 Long

Peak Oyl Lite Regular