- Hey, Snowys fam it's Lauren here
talking through 4WD and touring sleep systems
from Sea to Summit.
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A sleep system comprises of three very important components:
your pillow, a good quality and appropriate sleeping bag,
and a super comfy sleeping mat.
When you think of Sea to Summit,
you might not think of forward driving and touring.
And whilst I certainly don't market any of their gear
specifically for this category of campers,
there's a couple of key pieces in their sleep system range
which we think are perfect.
Especially if you're looking to either minimise your overall
pack size or drop on your vehicle total packed weight.
Now we've got a couple of different options here.
The first one is more of a much lighter,
smaller pack sleep system.
While this one here is a little bit chunkier.
Now in this particular sleep system we've chosen here,
we have the Aeros Down Premium Pillow.
So this particular pillow is air filled
so it packs up nice and small.
And it also has a valve here which allows you to easily
change the pressure inside of the pillow.
It also keeps you nice and warm.
The second one we've got is the Amplitude sleeping bag.
Now we've got the Basecamp over here.
They're essentially exactly the same sleeping bag.
One is down-filled and therefore a little bit warmer and the
other one is synthetic filled. So it can be interchangeable,
but the mat we've chosen is the Comfort Plus Self-inflating
Mat. Now this is our display mat,
which is the regular tapered version,
but it does come in a rectangular shape,
which is perfect to chuck into your swag or tent,
or even in the back of your four-wheel drive.
One thing I will mention though, on a tapered option,
is if you do have a touring tent similar to say, an RV5,
and you have to feed a family of four, five people in there,
having tapered mats can make that fit a little bit better
so it's a good option to bear in mind.
Now, moving on to our slightly larger pack,
a bit more luxurious sort of side of the range.
We've got a large FoamCore pillow.
This one rolls up like a fat sausage,
but it's going to be really similar to pillows that you use
at home and is ultra soft and comfortable.
Now, again, I mentioned this one before,
this is the Basecamp bag.
It is the synthetic version of the Amplitude.
There is absolutely no reason why you need to pick a 3, 4, 5
kilo sleeping bag when you're going forward driving or
touring. These particular sleeping bags
sit around about the one and a half kilo mark. They're super
wide and they have loads of room.
They also come in a double version.
And last but not least, we have our Comfort Deluxe,
which is their most comfortable premium mattress.
We've got 10 centimetres of thickness here, a nice soft top.
You don't need sheets or blankets or anything else
on top of that.
And we've also got some easy inflate valves where you can
either pump it up to be super hard
or reduce that to make it softer.
It's also a really excellent option for side sleepers.
So taking a look at the pack sizes now in this more sort of
compact lighter weight option,
we have our sleeping mat,
and our inflatable down pillow,
and our Explore sleeping bag or Amplitude,
I should say, sleeping bag.
Now in our slightly larger packing version,
we've got our FoamCore pillow,
our sleeping mat, and our sleeping bag,
which we only have one of these Basecamps in store at the
moment, but it packs up has a very similar size
to the Amplitude here.
So as you can see,
there is a bit of a difference in pack size,
but even the larger pack size option here is quite a lot
smaller, not only in size,
but in weight compared to some other more popular forward
drive or touring brands. And in my opinion,
you're getting a really great quality range of products with
Sea to Summit.
You can find all of this gear on snowys.com.au/.
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