Exped Extremely 5R Sleeping Pad Evaluation

The Exped Extremely 5R Air Mattress is a light-weight inflatable sleeping pad that’s three inches thick and has an R-value of 4.8. It comprises artificial insulation, as an alternative of reflective movies, which makes it very quiet to sleep on, and is roofed with a sturdy 20d polyester non-slip cloth. The pad has a pair of flat stemless valves for inflation and deflation and vertical baffles which might be designed to maintain you from rolling off the pad at night time. The Extremely 5R is offered in three mummy and three rectangular sizes together with an everyday width, a large width, and a protracted and extensive pad. All six sizes are priced identically so you may choose the dimensions you need with out having to sweat the next value level. The Extremely 5R can be bundled with a big 45L inflation sack/dry bag known as a Schnozzel (a $40 worth, additionally obtainable individually), which can be utilized as a water-proof pack liner.

Specs at a Look

• Kind: Air mattress
• R-Worth: 4.8 (4-season succesful or 3-season for chilly sleepers)
• Measurement Examined: Rectangular, Medium
• Weight: 20.3 oz (20.3 ozactual) plus 0.6 ozfor stuff sack
• Baffles: Vertical
• Cowl cloth: 20d polyester constituted of 100% post-consumer recycled plastic
• Valves: 2, flat
• Inflation sack: Sure, doubles as waterproof pack liner, weighs an additional 2.0 oz (precise)
• Out there shapes: Mummy, Rectangular
• Out there dimensions: Lengthy Huge (77.6 x 25.6 x 3″), Medium: (72 x 20.5 x 3″),
  Medium Huge: (72 x 25.6 x 3″)
• Packed measurement: 12.2 x 5.1″

Dimensions

The Exped Extremely 5R air mattress is 3″ thick and is luxuriously comfy to sleep on. This can be a good thickness to masks uneven floor, together with smalls rocks and roots if you need to lie on high of them. The pad has vertical baffles which might be barely larger alongside the perimeters to maintain you within the middle of the pad at night time with out being obtrusive. I examined an oblong medium-width pad which is 72″ x 20.5″, however the air mattress can be obtainable in six variations, as listed under.

The one factor lacking from the Extremely 5R is a method to join a pillow to the pad so it stays in place at night time, just like the velcro-based system supplied with Sea-to-Summit air mattresses together with the S2S Etherlight XT pad. That will be an amazing enhancement if supplied with the Exped pillow line. It actually makes distinction in consolation and sleep high quality (take it from somebody who slept with a bunched-up down jacket as a pillow for years.)

Insulation

The Extremely 5R has artificial insulation laminated to each the highest and backside of every baffle to stop chilly spots. This makes the Ultra5 a really quiet pad to sleep on, not like Thermarest’s NeoAir Pads, which may sound like your sleeping on a bag of potato chips to your tent or shelter companions in the event you transfer round at night time.

The Extremely’s artificial insulation is laminated to the baffles in a approach that makes it impervious to micro organism and moisture out of your breath must you decide to inflate the pad by blowing into it. However the pad can be inflated with an included 45L waterproof stuff sack, known as a Schnozzel, which may serve double obligation as a water-proof pack liner. I’ve used a Schnozzel as a pack liner/stuff sack fairly extensively (See Comparability of 5 Ultralight Backpack Liners) and it’s additionally appropriate with the flat valves of different air mattress distributors, together with Sea-to-Summit.

The Extremely 5R has an R-value of 4.8 which is sweet for winter use right down to zero levels Fahrenheit (-18C) making it a viable selection for 4-season use or 3-season use in the event you sleep chilly. It ought to be famous that Exped helped spearhead the adoption of the brand new sleeping pad R-value normal that lets customers evaluate the heat of sleeping pads from totally different producers utilizing a typical scale, so that is an R-value you may really belief, relatively than a quantity pulled out of the air by some advertising or gross sales man. We additionally publish an inventory of the entire sleeping pads obtainable in the present day which might be rated with the brand new R-value normal in our 2022 Sleeping Pad R-Worth Listing.

Inflating the Extremely 5R with the Schnozzel could be very fast and solely requires a number of bagfuls of air. For those who do determine to blow it up by mouth, the consumption valve seals after every breadth so that you don’t lose air whereas inflating it. Deflation can be straightforward as a result of the pad has a devoted OUT valve and many of the air rushes out as quickly as you open it. Each valves are flat and stemless, which improves sturdiness as a result of there’s nothing protruding to interrupt. Packing the pad away is equally straightforward. You merely pack fold it as soon as lengthwise, roll it up with the Schnozzel and pack it within the included stuff sack. It’s a comfortable match nevertheless it’s not onerous to pack.

The oblong medium pad I evaluation right here weighs in at 20.3 oz, the Schnozzel weighs 2.0 oz, and the stuff sack weighs one other 0.6 oz. I’ve listed the weights of the entire Extremely 5R pad sizes above for comparability. As talked about beforehand, these are all priced identically no matter measurement or kind, which I believe is a spectacular profit for customers.

Whereas this 20.3 ozpad isn’t the lightest weight backpack air mattress obtainable with this R-Worth, I believe it’s a fairly compelling measurement and worth if you’d like a thicker 3″ pad. Pad thickness is a big think about air mattress consolation, and its onerous to clarify the consolation distinction between a 3″ or 4″ pad and one which’s thinner. Consolation is tightly related to sleep high quality and to not be sacrificed frivolously within the title of weight financial savings. Reside and study.

If minimal weight is necessary to you you can even get the Extremely 5R in mummy measurement that’s 15.7 ozwith the identical 4.8 R-value. It’s value noting that the mum Extremely 5R pad can be considerably cheaper than the NEMO Tensor Alpine Air Pad, which is its closest competitor by way of weight and R-value.

Simplified Product Naming Scheme

Exped simplified their sleeping pad product line naming scheme this 12 months to make it extra comprehensible to customers. They now supply three sequence of backpacking pads:

• Mannequin: Extremely (ultralight), Versa (versatile), and Dura (sturdy).
• In two shapes: Mummy and Rectangular
• In a number of R-values (it varies by mannequin – for instance 1R, 3R, 5R, and 8R)
• Three dimensions: Medium: (72 x 20.5 x 3″), Medium Huge: (72 x 25.6 x 3″), Lengthy Huge (77.6 x 25.6 x 3″)

Exped’s Ultralight line of pads is really useful when weight and pack measurement are necessary; the Versa line gives worth and ease of use, whereas the Dura line is really useful when sturdiness is important. Being Exped, there are a LOT of various variations  (SKUs) obtainable and also you may need to hunt round to discover a retailer that carries the one your need since few will carry all of them.

Advice

Exped has all the time made glorious insulated air mattresses which might be heat and bombproof by way of sturdiness and this new Extremely 5R air mattress is totally per that custom. The Extremely 5R is thick sufficient to guard you from roots and rocks if you need to camp on a poor campsite whereas offering heat in chilly climate. It’s coated with a sturdy polyester cloth constituted of recycled plastic and rolls up compactly. I believe Exped’s new pricing mannequin could be very favorable to customers and that the Extremely 5R is an efficient worth, particularly if you’d like one pad you need to use year-round.

Disclosure: Exped donated this pad for evaluation.

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