What do people use as pillows whilst on the hill. As a person who can sleep anywhere my only problem is where to rest my sleepy head.
Up to now I have filled the stuff sack with spare clothing but that is rarely satisfactory.
Is there a nice plump, soft but compact and light solution out there?
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 extended car camping - take one from home!
summer wild camping - cope with bundle of clothes
winter wild camping - down or duvet jacket :)
The duvet jacket is the best solution in terms of a balance of comfort, space, versatility and weight :)
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 Nice blow up travel pillow, takes up very little space when packed away.
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 Use to use a fleece, then a small camping pillow that sqishes down to virtually nothing, but lately been using the wife...
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 They do some great down pillows. I did see one with down on the top, then you have a little pouch to stuff some clothes in underneath to offer a layer of more support.
Still, I just use fleece or down jacket.
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my fleece smock, the most comfortable pillow ever or my rucksac in the summer but that can give me neck ache
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 Everybody needs a bossom for a pillow - everybody needs a bossom.
Andrew T has got the right idea!
But, not having anyone with bosoms willing to let me use them in a tent for this purpose I have tried those packable pillows and they were too small and didn't work. Ever since I have never really got the right combination with the stuffsack-with-clothes. I keep trying!
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I've used stuff sacks, clothing, boots, rucksacks, but the best night's sleep I got outside was using a rifle under my roll-mat. Probably not a convenient thing to have with you, but putting my pillow under the mat really does help for me. Travel pillows all seem too small, and likely to end up 5m away from your head when you wake up, so I think a stuff sack is the best idea running.
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 Just put your boots under your thermarest/mattress - works fine esp if you are wearing most of your spare clothes.
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Yeah good point Jamma. I used my machete once and it was quite superb, but I have to admit the most comfortable pillow was the wild deer I had slain with it the previous night. Lovely and warm - and provided breakfast too, although the blood seepage on the tent took some cleaning. Ever since then I have left deer and machete outside. So rifles are good then? Killing and pillowing? :-)
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Down vest and Buffalo shirt in stuffsac (the one that my Alpkit Airic normally lives in) seem to be an effective combination. I've looked at a few of those compressible pillows etc and they all seem too small.
Alex
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P.S. Rifles are ok with something soft on them, but kevlars are too high. But how else to keep people from liberating them?
Fortunately, no longer a concern of mine...
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I take a pillow case, and stuff it with any dry clothes I have. Better than a sleeping bag stuff sack, you dont wake up sucking on the compression strap plastic tightening thingummies.
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Hi and thankyou all for your interesting, enlightening and entertaining ideas. I have tried the rifle idea but I found the dribble rusted the working parts plus I would wake up with '7.62' indelibly pressed into my cheek, 7.62! yes I am that old.
Looks like the stuff sack is to stay.
Stay safe. DM
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 Have you ever tried these http://www.greenmanbushcraft.co.uk/shelter-sleep/fjallraven-puffy-travel-pillow.htm Soft, comfortable, and pack down really small and weight just about nothing. They fold in on themselves. Really cheap two. I got one for the kids and the wife, and of course myself  I use my one when im fishing a lot. I used to use the rolled up fleece method, but that always gave me neck pains.
28 x 15cm packed down will take up a lot of pack space though.
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They are smaller than that with a good squeezee.
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 You could try getting used to a very thin pillow at home, like me. Then it's not such a big deal when you do without when camping. I don't usually have any spare clothing, especially in the colder months, but if I can be bothered I use my walking trousers in a dry bag (I always have Ron Hill tracksters for the tent).
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I use the 2-litre coke bottle in which I carry water. I have cut off the foot from a 12-inch section of the leg of an old pair of my wife's tights. At night, I wrap my waterproofs around the bottle and stuff the resulting bundle into the tube of nylon. This comfortable pillow is so light as not to be worth weighing.
It matters not whether the bottle is full or empty so long as the cap is screwed on tightly.
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