- These are the common high peak camp mats.
An affordable 10 centimetre thick mattress
that's going to give you
a good night sleep when you go camping.
Let's check them out.
(upbeat music)
G'day folks, Ben from Snowys here today
with a Coleman high peak self inflating camp mat.
So, this is another contender
in the 10 centimetre high square sided mats here
that are giving really comfortable nights sleep
for campers all over the country.
Coleman have got this available in two sizes,
a single and a double,
with the single being about 200 centimetres long
and about 68 or 70 centimetres in width
and the double being also 200 centimetres long
and 130 centimetres in width there.
Weight wise, about 2.7 kilos and five kilos.
Now, the mat comes in a bag
that doubles as an inflation aide
which we'll tell you about shortly,
but the single packs up to about 75 centimetres in length
and roughly 25 centimetres in diameter,
depending on how tightly you roll it up.
It does fit back in this bag easily.
Same story with the double here.
It's about 70 centimetres in length when it's packed up
and about 40 centimetres in diameter.
Once again, also fits inside back inside the bag easily.
Each mat comes complete with some
Velcro straps here to secure it.
So, once you've rolled it up,
you can wrap these around there,
there's a little D loop there,
you can wrap these around there to secure it
and then slide it back in the bag.
Before we go onto the how to use these
and their valves on the end,
I'll talk about the materials.
Now, there's polyurethane foam inside it.
It is cord.
There are cords that run from one side to the other,
right through the back here,
about every 20 or so centimetres,
just to lighten the mat up a little bit.
They don't have an R value for the mat here,
but it is going to be a nice warm mat,
being 10 centimetres thick
and it's all full of open cell foam.
It's going to give you pretty good insulation
even for winter camping.
The material is polyester on the outside.
So, this top one, it's not a brush finish,
but it still feels kind of nice.
It's not sort of soft,
but it certainly doesn't have a plasticy feel to it.
The sides are just a little bit stretchy,
just to allow sort of a bit of movement in the mat here
and the bottom is a slightly...
It feels a little bit more plasticy
or slightly more durable fabric on the bottom there
for protection while it's lying on the tent floor.
Now I'll show you the valves
that come on the mat here.
So, looking at the end.
The single mat has got a single valve,
the double mat's got a double valve.
Now, these are two way valves.
If I open this up, I'll show you the inside here.
There's a valve that,
at the moment, is allowing air in but not out.
So, if I squeeze this mat there's no air coming out.
I can spin the little thing inside around
and you're going to hear air puff out.
(air releasing sound)
That's now allowing air out,
so full deflation mode.
And then if you spin that right around, that's,
well, they call this deflation mode,
but what that does is allow air out,
but it doesn't allow it to suck back in.
What that means is
as you're rolling the mat up,
you are pushing air out
and if you sort of pull your
weight off the mat a little bit,
it's not going to suck the air back in,
so you're constantly pushing air out of the mat.
It means you can roll it up twice.
So, do a quick roll up once, squeeze most of the air out,
unroll it, it's not going to inflate by itself,
roll the mat up again,
it's going to get smaller and smaller each time you do it.
Now, in terms of how to inflate the mat,
when you get them from new,
the foam has a memory of being really squashed down
and it'll sit flat like this
when you get it out of the box or out of it's bag.
We'd actually taken these out
of the bags from new this morning
and I used the inflation aid here to force air into it
and get that foam inside to expand up.
That's now just after probably less than eight hours,
allowed the foam to expand to the state
that you see here now by itself.
So, when you get them from new,
undo this valve, use the bag to inflate it,
which I'll show you shortly and leave it sit for a while
so that foam expands out.
From there on, when you set it up at camp,
if you unroll it from the bag,
undo the valve, it should be a few minutes for it
to get to the stage that this is at now where it's soft
and you can then use this bag
to add some extra pressure into it
to make it to your preference
of how tight you want it to sleep on.
So, to inflate this now,
we spin the little valve around inside there
so that air can go in, but not come back out again.
We grab our stuff sack.
We'll grab the single one.
Now this is just a roll top stuff bag here
and it's seam's sealed inside.
So, it's air tight.
We go to this end of the bag,
we've got this little port here.
That clips into this valve here.
From there, we just make sure this isn't twisted.
We open up this end of the bag
and puff some air in.
You can just sort of flap it around
or blow some air inside
to try and trap as much air as you can inside the bag
and then close this up.
(blowing sound)
So, that's about half a bag of air there now.
So, from here, if I gently just roll this up,
I'm now forcing the air from here
through the valve and into the mat here.
I can then squeeze as much air as I want in
to make this as firm as I would like it to.
So, we just keep going to make it quite firm there now
because I'm going to sit on it shortly
and show you how tight that is.
So, that feels pretty good to me now.
That's quite firm there.
Maybe too firm to sleep on.
I can now take this off of here
and because of the one way valve,
is allowing air in,
but the little yellow flap in there
is stopping the air from coming out.
I'm not losing air at the moment,
but I can do this up
just to make sure that that air stays in over night.
That's the mat pumped up.
I'll just have a bit of a sit on the mat
to show you how comfortable it is.
We'll put the double aside.
Now, once again, this is to be pumped up
to your own personal preference.
So, I probably prefer the mat
to be a bit softer than this when I sleep on it,
so I sink in it a little bit.
Some people like a firm mat.
So, if you go softer,
obviously there's more chance of you hitting the bottom,
but the benefit of having a 10 centimetre mat
is that you can play around with that firmness of the mat
so you've got a little bit of play
or a little bit of room to move
in terms of how far you can sink into the mat.
If I sit on this at the moment,
if I just put my weight straight down in one spot,
I'm not touching the bottom there now.
I'm not the heaviest of person,
I probably weigh about 70 kilos,
but even bouncing up and down,
I'm only just touching the bottom there.
So, quite comfortable.
You can adjust the pressure in the mat here
if we come up to the valve end here
while I'm on the mat.
If we just push, twist the valve around just a little bit,
just so you can hear the air just coming out,
it's going to slowly deflate the mat
until it suits my comfort.
So, I'm going to keep letting a bit more air out.
You can hear that hissing now.
I can feel myself sinking down into the mat.
I'll twist that valve around inside
to seal the air off again and do the end up.
That's now much more comfortable.
If I sit like this now, I can touch the bottom.
I'm not bottoming out really hard
because I've got all the foam underneath me,
but I am hitting the ground there,
but that will be much more comfortable to sleep on.
It's pretty much all the features of
the Coleman High Peak self inflating camp mat.
They're an affordable way to get a comfortable night sleep
no matter where you set up camp.
You can grab one online at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices every day.
Got any questions, let us know
down in the comments below.
Subscribe to our channel
for our latest information
or check out some other videos
like this one down here.
(upbeat music)