How do you inflate your xtherm?

[HooKooDooKu]

Thought I was the only sorry dad!! I use the neoair and my kid has a zlite....

Kids are lighter weight and therefore don't need the thickness of the NeoAir...
However, because they have problems rolling up the ProLites tight enough, I wish they had NeoAirs... but they are just too expensive to buy them for multiple kids.

[CarlZ993]

I use the Thermarest Pump Sack. Adds about 3 oz to your pack weight. Inflates your pad really fast w/o adding moisture inside it.

[cmoulder]

Not available on the website right now, but I like <a href=http://flyweightdesigns.com/product/the-instaflator/>The Instaflator</a>, which I'm pretty sure has been mentioned previously on WB.

[cmoulder]

I sent an email to the manufacturer and was advised that the Instaflator is no longer being made.

Glad I bought 2 of 'em.

[Just Bill]

Beans and methane.
Feel free to borrow my pad.

[atmilkman]

Do you store them fully inflated?
When I get home, I open the valves of the prolites (my kids use them while I'm on my NeoAir) and let them sit for a few days. Then puff them fully inflated and close the valve for storage.

If you store them rolled up, like a stuffed sleeping bag will lose its loft, the foam will lose some of it rebound.

Store fully inflated. Carry rolled up. After hiking all day, (in the cold) unroll, lay flat, open valve, and hour later still flat.

[brian2o0o]

The Thermarest Instaflator was just a rebranded Camptek Microburst. You can still buy the Microburst here: https://www.camp-tek.com/buy/index.html

[brian2o0o]

Disregard my last post, I was thinking that the Instaflator was the Thermarest mini pump...

[kf1wv]

Instaflator. The bag was overly long, so I shortened it a few feet.

[saltysack]

What's the trick using a compactor bag to fill xtherm...seem to take forever to fill my large...


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[swisscross]

I use an umbrella bag from the grocery store.
Carry two and use them on my feet instead of bread bags.

[Malto]

I assume you fill bag then attach w rubber band?


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No, I just close end around nozzle with hand. Like I said, worked surprising well and uses something I already carry.

[saltysack]

I use an umbrella bag from the grocery store.
Carry two and use them on my feet instead of bread bags.

Funny I was in grocery store yesterday and thought they would work instead of bread bags for p shoes....also used them as rain mitts...


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[squeezebox]

Beans and methane.
Feel free to borrow my pad.

When does the video showing you doing this come out?

[squeezebox]

Can the inflatables be stored rolled up?

[saltysack]

Only self inflating need to be stored partially blown up...neoair=no


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[JimmyTheSaint]

I took the nozzle off the bag that came with it and put it on a regular kitchen trash bag... I've used it probably a hundred times or so and haven't had to replace the bag yet. It takes about 7 bag fulls of air and then a breath or two to top off.

[poolskaterx]

I have alwys used the inflation bag that came with my xtherm until the last trip... I blew it up by mouth and was inflated in less than a minute! 1/3 of the time it normally takes. My buddy just purchased the thermarest inflator and it took forever for his xtherm but it worked and was certainly not very loud as I had expected. Hope I didn't hurt my xtherm with my moist breath, pretty sure I didn't.

[Scotch65]

I use a schnozzel (exped) works great and then store my sleeping bag in it the rest of the time. 2oz / double duty as a stuff sack.

[Harrison Bergeron]

I struggled every night with my xtherm pumpsack on my AT section hike last Spring. It worked OK, I guess, but my hiking buddy had one of these: http://www.campsaver.com/thermarest-neoair-mini-pump. 1.5oz vs 2.3oz. In a world where battery powered pumps only weigh 8 ounces more than a stuff sack, why do they make pumpsacks? And why doesn't REI carry these things?