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Weighing just 12.5 ounces in a size regular, the Sea-to-Summit Sleeping Pad is also seriously lightweight. Not that you should skimp on sleeping comfort to reduce your gear weight, but every little bit helps.The Sea-to-Summit Ultralight Sleeping Pad is quick to inflate and deflate, folds flat and compactly, and is covered with dimpled air cells that adapt to a sleeper’s curves like the mattress of their bed at home. Weighing just 12.5 ounces in a size regular, the Sea-to-Summit Ultralight Sleeping Pad is also seriously lightweight. Let’s take a closer look at this inflatable sleeping pad. I was quite surprised to discover how much of an improvement it is over a Therm-a-Rest NeoAir Xlite sleeping pad for warm weather camping.Air Sprung CellsThe first thing most people notice about the Sea-to-Summit Ultralight Sleeping Pad is its dimpled surface which has been designed to mimic the spring-like action of the mattress springs that you have in your bed at home. Called “air sprung cells”, the Ultralight Sleeping Pad has close to two hundred interconnected cells that conform to your body shape, regardless of whether you sleep on your back or on your side.
This provides a more form-fitting sleeping experience than baffled inflatable pads which tend to have a much stiffer or harder feel.The difference is immediately noticeable when you lie on the Sea-to-Summit Ultralight Sleeping Pad, which cradles your hips and shoulders. While the pad is thick enough, at 2.0 inches, to prevent you from feeling most irregularities on the ground, you’ll hit rock bottom if you put all your weight in one spot in the pad, like when you kneel on your knees or prop yourself up on an elbow. That part is not so comfortable.Inflation ValveThe Sea-to-Summit Ultralight Sleeping Pad has a flat two-way valve for inflation and rapid deflation. Flat valves like this, that are flush with the surface of the pad, tend to be far more durable than valves that stick out from a pad and are welded on along a side seam.The valve has two positions:When the outer cap is open you can blow air into the pad without it coming out. You can also press a small bladder in the middle of the valve to vent air and adjust pad firmness.
When the inner cap is opened, the pad deflates almost instantaneously, without the need to roll it up multiple times to force the air out.Those are both very desirable properties for an inflatable sleeping pad.Storage SizeThe Sea-to-Summit Ultralight sleeping pad rolls up really thin and tight when deflated, but then again it has no insulation inside, so you’d kind of expect that. Still, the pad is highly packable, which is a nice perk for a pad that adds so much comfort to your sleeping experience. When rolling up the pad, it’s best to fold it into thirds, long ways, before rolling the pad up. It’s plenty tough, so there’s no need to store it in a stuff sack in your backpack.Accessory PumpsSea-to-Summit sells the add-on Jet Stream Pump Sack, weighing 1.6 ounces, for inflating the Ultralight sleeping pad, which serves double duty as a small roll top stuff stack for your pad. But it’s so maddeningly slow to use, requiring 30-40 pumps to inflate the pad, that you’ll probably opt to inflate it by mouth in the end.
You can get away with this because the inside of the sleeping pad is coated with an anti-microbial agent that prevents mold and bacteria growth that can develop over time when you blow most air into an inflatable sleeping pad.Another option, which I discovered purely by chance, is to use an Exped Schnozzel Pumpbag, weighing 2.5 ounces, to inflate the Ultralight Sleeping pad because its valve adapter is perfectly compatible with the flat Sea-to-Summit inflation vale. The Schnozzel is a very lightweight 45 liter roll top pump sack that can double as a pack liner. It only takes one point five (1.5) bagfuls of air to completely inflate the Sea-to-Summit Ultralight sleeping pad with the Schnozzel, which can do also waterproof your gear and clothing.RecommendationThe Sea-to-Summit Ultralight Sleeping Pad is a real advance in inflatable sleeping pad comfort, providing fast deflation speed, compact storage size, and side sleeping comfort. My only concern with the Ultralight pad reviewed here is its R-value, which is quite low, at just 0.7.