What do you sleep on?

[Archer]

For short trips, I don't mind just bringing a sleeping bag and maybe an extra blanket for padding and just sleeping on the floor of the tent - but usually I bring an air mattress and pray it doesn't leak while I sleep. I have friends who sleep on lounge chairs! What do you prefer?

 

[Lovefall]

If we tent camp we always have an air mattress and a back-up air mattress too! Are you kidding me... I don't want to be uncomfy even if it's 1 night! I'm too old to sleep on the ground.

 

[BigBackyard]

Yes, as a family we now take air mattresses. When it was just me I would just take a camping mat and mat do with it, but I get too many protests when I suggest that.

 

[GPER]

Air mattresses for everyone.

 

[jesse]

I use an ALPS sleeping pad & it works great! It doesn't need a pump, electricity or batteries to inflate! :tinysmile_twink_t2:

some pics of it:
ALPS Mountaineering Comfort Series Air Pad Review and Pictures

 

[Hilltopper]

I have to have an air matress to sleep on. One time I tried to do with out it, I didn't sleep well, and I could barely move the next morning. It took me until almost noon to work most of the kinks out.:tinysmile_hmm_t:

 

[The Scout]

Sleeping bag, blanket and foam pad, and I rest in the lap of luxury.

We usually try to pitch tents on a nice bed of Pine needles or some wild streamside grass. Don't care much for hard dirt or clay.

 

[hummingbird]

We bring cots AND foam pads. The cots are too hard for me so I bought everyone foam pads to go on them. I am NOT going to sleep on anything hard or on the ground. I can't get up and down that well so I go for the comfort.

 

[frank6160]

As age has caught up with me some I always use an air mattress. If not for them my camping would not be as enjoyable or as often.

 

[Longrunsolutions]

Age is what makes everyone a matress camper at some point. And the products are really great today even for extended backpacking trips. My wife and I have found that 2" thickness allows for sleeping on our side without the hip bone touching the ground. This means I sleep like a baby.....baby. Both Therma Rest and Big Agnes make great backpacking pads that weigh about 2 lbs.

 

[northernbushape]

We do a lot of camping around the 6000 foot + level so I use a sturdy air mattress to get me off the ground. The cold ground in the mountains can really suck the heat out of you so I prefer to have a few inches of air between my body and the ground. I stay much warmer by doing this. We also use pine needles for extra insulation under the tent in some places.

 

[The Scout]

Oh after a good day of fishing and hiking along with a few pulls off the jug during poker, I could sleep in a Tree.