Lisa, do you know the dangers of an air mattress in cold camping environments?
Maybe you’re well-versed in all this…but the ground in Telluride is COLD at night. If you put an air mattress on the ground and then sleep on it, it’s like sleeping on a very cold rock. It sucks the heat out of you.
If you don’t think about it, and pile more and more covers on yourself, you eventually keep in enough body heat that you’ll wake up to a wet bed when all the moisture condenses on the air mattress.
We just gave up on them after experiencing all of the above (and the middle of this night collapse, of course). Maybe someone with better experiences can give you good advice.
If you insulate yourself from the air mattress all will be well.
I always put two or three packing pads between the air mattress and my sleeping bag (which is a 20 degree bag) and have another one to put on top if it gets real cold. :flower
Jeff… Camp Evergreen… she’s been there and done that… and lives up there… but you’re sweet to bring the subject. I was wondering if you would like to start the annual “air mattress conversation” thread for the newbies? Oh, wait… you and T-Tom just did that… nevermind… :lol :lol :lol
So funny. We have a frame to put us up off the floor, then a foam pad between the mattress and us, and extra pumpage due to the severe changes in temps.
Yesterday, our cats decided to playfight on the full air mattress (which is 6 years old, BTW). Oops! 5 holes later, I ordered a new Aerobed camp mattress (gotta love Cabela’s). Should be set.
I just sleep on the ground when I camp. It’s easier, and I don’t have to have the dimensions of some skinny little space in the back of my mind as I sleep.
Seriously…We have so many awesome festivarians in camp, and we have so little time (and so much of my time is consumed either working or chasing kids), there are so many people I don’t know.
That’s okay. It’s tough to know who everyone is when names aren’t used and the profile pics are too small for our “ahem” older eyes. I’ll start. I went with my real name, and this is a bigger pic of me. We usually camp in TP, along the back trail at the base of the hill. Lat year, we were with friends in the primitive area, but this year, we’ll try to get back in our old spot.
HuckinFappy is not my real name :lol I’m Jeff, and I camp down on the river in Camp Billy with my wife Tessa, and the kiddos, jacy, jaco & joah. The potluck is in my frontyard every year, and I love it there
Don’t know if you guys were around for the goddess walkabout last year, but here’s a memory jog. I’m the one with the beer coming out of my head. Cool talent, huh?
Back on the subject of being green- please remember to leave as much wrapping,extra packaging,cardboard etc that you can at home…All the garbage that is generated at TBF, has to be trucked out of the valley.
