Monday Kit Tip - Pillow Talk
Bed down in comfort with our outdoors pillow improvisation inspiration.
Posted: 8 March 2010
by Jon
This week's Monday Kit
Tip is another sleeping related one, how to pillow up for camping comfort.
There are plenty of ready-made options out there - Ajungilak produced
an inflatable camp pillow with a thin fleece outer, which works
decently, but has a hint of crisp-packety acoustics that doesn't always
make for sweet dreams.
Meanwhile, Therm-a-Rest has its urethane foam-filled
Compressible Pillow in three sizes with weights from 198 grammes to 340
grammes and Exped boasts a self-inflating Comfort Foam Pillow - above
- which packs small and weighs in at just 170 grammes.
They all work, but with a little ingenuity, you can construct a
comfortable pillow from the kit you have with you already. No fixed
rules, but here are some options that might work for you. You could
take the stuff sac from your sleeping bag and fill it with spare
clothing - fleece works well - and use that. You an even carry a
lightweight stuff sac just to use as an improvised pillow case.
Or, for ultimate luxury in winter, fill the stuff sack with a down or
Primaloft jacket. Or for even more comfort and a soft feel against your
face, use a microfleece as the pillow case and fill with down clothing.
Or more fleece. Or spare kit.
Finally, if you're feeling spartan, boots - or in winter - plastic boot
inners, supplemented with spare clothing, can be surprisingly
effective.
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I've never used anything other than a stuff sack filled with clothes and wrapped in a fleece. Always works for me.
Posted: 08/03/2010 at 11:36
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