- Hey folks, it's Lauren from Snowys here
with the Exped SynMat 9 LW sleeping mat.
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It's an insulated mat, nine centimetres thickness.
It's an awesome option for compact comfort
and it has an integrated pump.
So your mat will come in this little stuff sack here.
It weighs just over a kilo
and packed up its about 27 centimetres long
by round about 16 centimetres in diameter.
When we open up the sack here, we'll pull the mattress out.
It will come with, oh it's nice and tight in here.
It will come with some instructions
and care information here.
And the thing I like about this particular stuff stack
is it's got a little storage pouch here for your repair kit,
so you don't need to worry about actually losing that all.
We'll roll the mattress out.
And I'll swing it around this way.
And I'll show you how to inflate it.
So on the back of the mattress here you'll see
we've got a couple of little caps.
I'll flip this one over properly
and lay it out nice and flat.
So this cap here is our deflate cap,
which I'll show you more on that one later.
And our second cap over here
is part of our nifty little integrated pump.
Now, this little baffle section here is filled with a foam
and it's a self-inflating foam.
And over in this end here, I'm not sure if you can see
with the outline there of my fingers,
there's like a hard little nozzle
which is the value running into the rest of the mat.
When I pull this cap off,
you will see the self-inflating foam doing its work,
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which inflates this baffle.
Now now that's that baffle is full of air
I'm going to cover the hole with the heel of my hand
and put my other hand in place
and as I press down on that blocking the air
from coming out of the top,
it gets pushed through this little valve
and into the rest of the mat.
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Now I've got a little timer on my watch
and I'm gonna set that one now,
whilst we pump up the mat and see how long it's gonna take.
Right so let's have a look here.
That is one minute and 21 seconds there,
that it took for this mattress to be pumped up.
Now I've also pumped this up really firmly.
One thing about the mattress here
is some other alternatives mats,
in the deflate they have a valve
which allows you to fine-tune the thickness.
It's not in this particular Exped mat.
So you'd need to just keep a really good eye
on your mattress as you're pumping
and check the tension in it
and that way you'll be able to fine tune
whether you want your mattress to be really firm
or really soft, just through the pumping stage.
So now this one's all pumped up
I am going to put the cap back on here
to seal off that baffle and we'll flip it over.
So the mattress itself measures round about
197 centimetres long and about 65 centimetres wide.
It also sits at around about nine centimetres thick.
Now the mat itself has these L-beam constructions
which means we've got a weld-point in the fabric
that runs right through to the underside here.
And sitting in between each of these baffles
is a strip of insulation which Exped call there Texpedloft
which is microfiber insulation,
it's 200 grammes per square metre.
Now that runs really neatly up against
each of the L-baffle welds I guess you could say,
and it's also laminated to the top and the bottom fabric
so as the mattress is inflating
it's lifting up that insulation
and creating a lot of airflow and loft in it
which means you're getting
really affected insulative properties on this mat.
It's got 150 denier polyester on the top here
and on the underside, it has 75 denier polyester.
So the next step is the comfort test.
So I've actually pumped this one up quite firm.
So just have a lay down here.
So it is quite comfortable,
I probably could have gotten away
with a couple of pumps less
to make it a little bit softer.
But when I was getting on to it
and I obviously had one pressure point
through my hips there I could feel the ground.
But now my whole body's laying on the mattress
and my weight's distributed evenly
it's very very comfortable.
If I turn on my side, being a side-sleeper,
yep, also comfortable on the side here.
I can't feel my hips, my knees, my feet, my elbow,
anything through the mattress here as well.
So I think it would be an awesome choice
if you're a side-sleeper as well.
So that's it for the SynMat 9 comfort test.
I'd be pretty stoked to have this in my kit.
It has an R-Value of six as well,
which I forgot to mention before,
which means it will protect you
from any radiant heat in summer
or the cold ground in winter as well.
Now I'm gonna show you how easy and quick it is to pack up.
So the first thing that we're gonna do
is flip the mattress over
and I'm gonna wanna have the deflated value
facing away from me.
But before I do that, I'm going to pull the cap off
and we'll hear the air just instantly rush out.
All righty, so I'm gonna flip the valve
towards the opposite end
and I like to just do a first quick little fold
to try and push out as much of the air as possible.
Because it is not a self-inflating mat
you don't need to worry about the mattress trying to inflate
itself as you're deflating it
which can often be the case.
So I've pushed most of the air out now.
And we're gonna keep that deflate valve open
and on the opposite end.
And the mattress to get back into it's storage bag
will need to be folded into thirds.
So fold it over,
go once, and then twice.
So from here, we're going to start scrunching out the end
and rolling it up nice and tight.
Now, as you can see even though I squished as much air
out of it as possible before,
there is still a bit left in the mat.
So that's why it's important to keep that valve
on the end open, so as we're rolling we can push
as much of the air out easily.
Last little bit.
Just put the cap on and we'll pop it in the storage bag.
Now getting it into the bag can be a little bit tricky,
it is a bit of a tight fit.
So we'll just get those ends of the bag in over the mattress
and there we have it for the Exped SynMat 9 LW sleeping mat.
It wasn't a challenge to pack it up and roll it away at all.
Bit of a funny one to get back in the bag
but I think if you put a little bit more time
and effort into rolling it up a bit more carefully
and tighter you shouldn't have any troubles as all.
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