{"id":587,"date":"2007-08-23T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytomorocco.com\/2007\/08\/23\/sleeping-mat-number-crunching\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:33:20","slug":"sleeping-mat-number-crunching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/sleeping-mat-number-crunching\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping mat number crunching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well who’d have guessed it? There are loads of people out there who think that thermarests are pretty damn cool. I have to agree – they are… but I just wanted to do some basic number crunching comparing thermarest<\/a> with exped.<\/a><\/p>\n

So – we’ll take my Exped 7 DLX as the base and then compare that with a ‘comparable’ thermarest and then the smallest thermarest.<\/p>\n

Stats on the 7 DLX<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cost: \u00a3115
\nSize: 193×65 cm \/ 76×26\u201c
\nThickness: 7 cm \/ 2.8\u201c
\nWeight: 1170 g \/ 41 oz
\nPacked: 30×15 cm \/ 12×6\u201c<\/p>\n

The nearest thermarest I can find is the LuxuryCamp\u2122 XL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cost: \u00a3104.99
\nSize: 196×76 cm \/ 77×30″ (3cm longer, 11cm wider)
\nThickness: 6.3cm \/ 2.5″ (1cm thinner)
\nWeight: 2295 g \/ 5lbs 1 oz (a massive 1125g heavier)
\nPacked: 76×14 cm \/ 30×5.6″ (wow – this is the biggy – it’s 46cm wider but 1 cm thinner when packed)<\/p>\n

What I can’t quite work out is that if this mat is thinner when you’re lying on it where does the extra come from when it’s packed – ahh it’s because it’s 11cm wider – but that still doesn’t account for it being nearly .5m wider than the exped – that’ll be the down at work.<\/p>\n

In order to get a thermarest that packs to the same size as the exped you have to go for something like the ProLite 4\u2122 (large) which packed comes in at 13×5.1in. (33x13cm) but is only 3.8 cm deep… not that comfy.<\/p>\n

Obviously both brands have smaller and larger mats – but I just can’t get over the difference in the weight and pack size for a more comfortable mat that can also deal with a greater range of temperatures and comes with all the same bells and whistles like chair conversion kits and strap on pillows (from the pack cover).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well who’d have guessed it? There are loads of people out there who think that thermarests are pretty damn cool. I have to agree – they are… but I just wanted to do some basic number crunching comparing thermarest with exped. So – we’ll take my Exped 7 DLX as the base and then compare … Continue reading “Sleeping mat number crunching”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-kit","category-planning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}