HI,
odyssey camper here
Today I want to talk about the mattresses I've been using on my cot and on the bed that I built into the van.
It's about five degrees out. The wind is blowing at roughly 40 miles an hour. So it's not a good day to film outdoors
So I will do this one inside my office
with the shaky cam.
Alright, so the first mattress up is the one that originally came with the Coleman
cot and there's my Coleman Comfort Cot over in the corner there.
So this mattress has held up well, and it's actually quite comfortable on the cot.
But I wanted to upgrade it and if I give it a little squeeze I can see it's kind of really easy to squeeze.
It's thin and it's starting to show a little bit of wear in that when I lay down on it
I can feel some depressed areas.
So now I decided to upgrade that and I went with this
teton mattress which is designed to sleep on the ground and
the foam on it
It's a little bit thicker.
It's also a little bit denser.
And so it's more comfortable on the cot, but it's actually pretty comfortable on the built in bed that I made in the van.
So that's got a hard surface under it and
the Teton mattress is
really almost enough, but I wanted to go all out and build a really comfy system,
so I'll show you what I did. I use this now for the top layer of the bed.
Underneath it I
use a lightspeed mattress. Now, I'll put links down below if you want to check these out online.
I think each one of those mattresses was about 50 bucks
and if I were to spend the money on only one, I would spend it on the Lightspeed.
First of all, it's got an R rating on it of 3.0 which
when I used it this winter, I didn't notice I wasn't cold from below at all and you know sometimes
when you're laying on a cold surface that cold creeps in your back and whatnot and it did a pretty good job of
insulating me and it's a self-inflating mattress what that means is it's full of foam and when you open it...
You open this little valve and it unrolls and automatically inflates and then on top of it to get a little more support
you can blow into the valve. You can hear it a hiss here
and that'll, if you blow into it, that'll give you a little bit more support now
I'm able I weigh now, last time I checked like 250 pounds. I
can lay on top of this thing and it supports me on my side and you can see it's pretty dense.
It's not that thick and
because of I guess the way they compartmentalize the air in there
when you lay on your side you never bottome out. So I've been very happy with it.
It's actually got an extra raised padded area for where you would put your head.
I suppose you could get by without a pillow, but I used a pillow with it.
So with my bed system that I'm currently using the bottom layer is
Trex composite which is hard like wood and I put that air mattress on top of it.
I've actually put an intermediate foam layer using dense foam pads
But I only do that so that no damage occurs to the mattress, so it doesn't get torn or anything
So that's the bottom layer and also if the mattress ever went flat the foam layer on the bottom would provide some support.
So it goes Lightspeed mattress and then on top of it
this teton mattress and the two stay together pretty well with the sleeping bags on top.
I was warm and toasty all winter in my winter camping
It's very comfortable to lay on. I didn't have any problem sleeping didn't wake up with any stiff spots
which you guys over fifty years old, you know what I'm talking about. So I woke up and I was
still able to get out of bed. So,
yeah, I've been very happy with that. So those of you that have the coleman comfort cot
and you know, that was my recommendation. There's nothing wrong with it. I
think it works great.
But if you have that and you're looking for a little bit of an upgrade for a little bit money more I would go with
the Teton mattress. If you're looking for just one mattress to lay on a hard surface
It would be the Lightspeed I find using them together
you get some nice cushion on top.
It's almost like a foam topper on a mattress at home. And then your harder more supportive mattress underneath I find that's the best combination.
Plus there's sleeping bag and you're sleeping great
So hopefully that helps I jumped ahead a little bit on the bed build go into the mattress because I wanted
anybody that's building a bed currently then to know about that option and I kind of like the way the Tetons set up because
If it's summer or whatever you're sweating on and you spill something on it
you can remove the cover and wash it so that's a nice feature
All right. I hope this helps you out and
Soon when weather warms up a little bit the snow and ice melts
I will do a video about the complete van bed build. Talk to you soon!