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Reviews > Sleep Gear > Accessories > Kelty Camp Pillow > Owner Review by Chad G Poindexter
KELTY CAMP PILLOW
TESTER INFORMATION
I started backpacking this year and have hiked a section of the Appalachian Trail in north Georgia and at a few state parks in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama. As a new backpacker I have obtained mostly heavy gear, but dream of going light. I sleep in a tent and like a warm drink in the morning, as well as a warm meal at night. Since I'm still new my distance is around 10 mi (16 km) or less per day, depending on terrain. I usually hike with my fiancé or my son but wouldn't mind a solo hike. PRODUCT INFORMATION
PRODUCT DETAILS
The pillow also comes with a stuff sack for easy and convenient storage and weighs 1 oz (28 g). The stuff sack is made of the same polyester double ripstop material as the pillow and has the same "Kelty" logo screen-printed on the side with "CAMP PILLOW" printed beneath it. There is another consumer tag sewn into the side of the stuff sack closer to the bottom as well. The stuff sack is closed by cinching the gray, round, nylon cord, and locking it with the cord lock. FIELD DATA
NORTH GEORGIA, APPALACHIAN TRAIL. My fiancé and I were out for 5 nights on this backpacking trip. Temperatures were as high as 85 F (29 C) during the days and reached as low as 61 F (16 C) during the nights. I used The North Face Aleutian sleeping bag and an REI Lite Core 1.5 self-inflated air mattress with the pillow to make up my sleep system. The ground where we made camp consisted of hard, dirt ground to sandy / rocky ground. Elevations varied nightly, from 1,770 ft (539 m) on the first night out, to 4,450 ft (1,356 m) on our last night out. I have also used the pillow on about 15 nights while just camping out at various campgrounds near my hometown. Elevations typically range between 400 ft (122 m) and 500 ft (152 m). The temperatures have been as low as 50 F (10 C), sometimes with rainy nights, and sometimes clear beautiful nights. The grounds where we made camp had varied from grassy fields (see picture below), to soft ground with downed leaves, to gravel and hard packed dirt. On the first few nights I had used a simple blue closed cell foam pad, but then upgraded to a REI Lite Core 1.5 self-inflated air mattress and a Therm-a-rest ProLite 4 self-inflated air mattress. I also used The North Face Aleutian sleeping bag as well as the Kelty Camp Pillow.
SUMMARY
I purchased two of these pillows, one in a Blood Red and one in a Nite Sky. As soon as I got them home I removed the consumer tags from both the pillows, and the stuff sacks. They were just too big and in the way, flopping around and such. I of course played with the pillows, and came to find out real quick that it was way easier to stuff them if I rolled them up with the ripstop material facing out on the pillow, it just made it slide in the stuff sacks so much easier. THE GOOD
1. It gives my head a cushy place to rest at the end of the day. THE BAD 1. The fill tends to clump up. SIGNATURE Chad Poindexter "Stick" This report was created with the BackpackGearTest.org Report Writer Version 1. Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.Read more reviews of Kelty gear Read more gear reviews by Chad G Poindexter Reviews > Sleep Gear > Accessories > Kelty Camp Pillow > Owner Review by Chad G Poindexter |