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slippery sleeping bags with mat on slopes

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welfulloutdoors Lee · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2015 · Points: 0

We sleep with therma rest mats and our sleeping bags constantly slide because the camp site we stay at is always slightly on an incline. How can we stop from sliding all night long?

Greg Miller · · Westminster, CO · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 30

I've found that thin lines of aquaseal across the width of the pad work pretty well. Apply sparingly, too much and it can become annoying, you can always add more later.

Bill Kirby · · Keene New York · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 480

If I pitch my tent or sack somewhere uneven I lay down whatever way makes my head higher than my feet. I find I don't slide down off the thermorests.

Matthew Williams 1 · · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Joined Nov 2014 · Points: 85

I've had good luck buying some of those non-slip adhesive rubber things that are made for the floor of your bathtub. Sure, I take some ribbing from friends when they see flowers and butterflies on my thermarest, but it keeps me on the pad!

One other way you can go is to acquire a Big Agnes sleeping bag. They all have a nice sleeping pad sleeve sewn onto the back of the bag which will keep you from sliding around on your pad, even on an incline. It's a fantastic design that I wish was available on more bags.

flynn · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2002 · Points: 25

What Matthew said. Big Agnes is dynamite!

Try shoving extra clothing, etc. under the foot of your pad-and-bag to level things out.

Marc801 C · · Sandy, Utah · Joined Feb 2014 · Points: 65
welfulloutdoors wrote:We sleep with therma rest mats and our sleeping bags constantly slide because the camp site we stay at is always slightly on an incline. How can we stop from sliding all night long?
Find a different site?

Why does this feel like an Elanor troll post?
FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276
Marc801 wrote: Find a different site? Why does this feel like an Elanor troll post?
Thanks for saying the obvious, which no one else suggested. I was going to suggest that finding a fairly level site isn't that hard, but it seemed too easy!
Rwwon ru · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 35

Did a two week backpacking trip through the Tetons and ended up just putting my thermarest inside my sleeping bag. Didn't move after that and the warmth and wear on my bag was the same.

Steven Groetken · · Durango, CO · Joined Sep 2012 · Points: 390

And here I thought Elena got scared off of MP. To my delight and attraction she has returned. Guess the taco wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Welcome back my lovely!

As far as your inquiry goes, I usually take field surveying gear with me. It only weighs about 60 pounds, including picks, come-a-longs and shovels. I only backpack ultralight. For a 30 square foot patch of land, I can usually get it level within an hour or two with a crew that I hire for such occasions. I'm a dirtbag, so I only pay them $15/hour. In the morning, I then call a bunch of landscapers to come replant all the plant life that was dug up the day before. I'm an LNT kind of guy!

FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276
Steven Groetken wrote: As far as your inquiry goes, I usually take field surveying gear with me. It only weighs about 60 pounds, including picks, come-a-longs and shovels. I only backpack ultralight. For a 30 square foot patch of land, I can usually get it level within an hour or two with a crew that I hire for such occasions. I'm a dirtbag, so I only pay them $15/hour. In the morning, I then call a bunch of landscapers to come replant all the plant life that was dug up the day before. I'm an LNT kind of guy!
Sheer genius! Why didn't I think of that? Steven, you are a thinking-man's man.
Steven Groetken · · Durango, CO · Joined Sep 2012 · Points: 390
FrankPS wrote: Sheer genius! Why didn't I think of that? Steven, you are a thinking-man's man.
It's all about efficiency brah. K.I.S.S. is a great mentality to live by in your future
endeavors.
Jonathan Cunha · · Bolinas, CA · Joined May 2014 · Points: 62

^ are you hiring people at this time?

Steven Groetken · · Durango, CO · Joined Sep 2012 · Points: 390

^ yes, but I do drug screenings. I splurge on hair follicle tests. Never can be too careful in this day and age with so much riff raff hanging around.

FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276
Steven Groetken wrote:^ yes, but I do drug screenings. I splurge on hair follicle tests. Never can be too careful in this day and age with so much riff raff hanging around.
Do you also screen for HGH and PED's? These rock climbers will resort to anything to improve their performance.
Steven Groetken · · Durango, CO · Joined Sep 2012 · Points: 390

Of course. I even screen for vitamin C supplementation. Gotta keep it fair.

Mark E Dixon · · Possunt, nec posse videntur · Joined Nov 2007 · Points: 974
Steven Groetken wrote:Of course. I even screen for vitamin C supplementation. Gotta keep it fair.
Just make sure you screen your would-be girlfriends for zyprexa
FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276

And check to make sure they're in the country legally. Important screening.

Chris Rice · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jan 2013 · Points: 55

I don't know what it's called but they sell it for putting under rugs to keep them from sliding around. It's a sort of rubber mesh type stuff (kind of looks like the screen from a screen door?) that looks like it would work and not weigh much to throw in. I've never used it for a sleeping pad/mat thing but it might be worth checking out anyway - works great on the rug in front of my door..

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