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Air mattress help!

Mon 03 Jul, 2017 8:22 am

Hey

Everytime I am on my neo air xlite I am waking up off of it!

I try to find flat ground but it is like trying to sleep on prison soap!

I am guessing I might toss and turn more than I thought.

Does anyone else have this problem?


Time to go back to a CCF?
Moondog55
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Re: Air mattress help!

Mon 03 Jul, 2017 8:32 am

I haven't needed to myself but perhaps some non slip stripes of silicon?
I don't have a NeoAir tho somy comment may not be pertinent
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Re: Air mattress help!

Mon 03 Jul, 2017 2:13 pm

Some sleeping bag fabrics and mat fabrics don't play nicely together unfortunately. What kind of bag do you have?

Echoing what Moondog said, sticking a few dabs of silicon on the mat will work for sure.

best thing about a quilts is the lack of slipping in my opinion. Something worth thinking about :)
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Re: Air mattress help!

Tue 04 Jul, 2017 12:52 pm

That's one thing I like about Exped mats. The sides are raised and I always felt that I'm being snugged on it. Maybe worth a try than going backwards to CCF.
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Re: Air mattress help!

Wed 05 Jul, 2017 7:32 am

GPSGuided wrote:That's one thing I like about Exped mats. The sides are raised...

Raised sides are such a good feature. I wish I'd known about the Expeds before I bought my NeoAir Xlite. The NeoAir is wonderful in every other way: it's compact, it's light, and it's supremely comfortable, but I slip off it.

I completely solved the problem by buying a Thermarest Compressible Pillow (the small-sized one is perfect). It compresses nicely in the middle under the weight of my head, and the less-compressed bits at the side stay raised up just enough to stop me losing my place on the mat.

I've never had such a comfortable sleeping setup. I'm just sad that I've now been spoiled by this pillow - it's going to be hard to ever leave behind that 240 grams :(
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Re: Air mattress help!

Wed 05 Jul, 2017 9:19 am

It's the one big failing of the Neoair series - the horizontal baffles have very soft shoulders making the useable width of the mat much less than it should be.
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Re: Air mattress help!

Wed 05 Jul, 2017 9:03 pm

You could buy a Thermarest fitted top sheet for it. They make them.
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