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Brigade Quartermasters - Sleeping Bags

Sleeping bags offered by Brigade Quartermasters in different sizes, warming power, materials and models; many choices available, including products for children.

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A sleeping mat is a piece of neoprene or plastic, sometimes even inflatable, that is used to isolate the human body from the cold soil whenever a sleeping bag is used.

Within the context of all those outdoor activities where sleeping in a tent, shelter or under the sky, like during hiking, trekking and mountaineering expeditions, the sleeping mat has become almost indispensable, even during the summer and in seemingly warm regions because soil temperatures are seldom comfortable and the energy of the human body is dissipated quite rapidly whenever one lies to rest.

Even inside a shelter or cabin, if it does not have a wooden floor, sleeping there may be uncomfortable; doing that without any sort of isolation may become dangerous if temperatures are really low, even indoors.

Losing, breaking or destroying your mat could be then a problem; if the weather is not cold, then you will probably have a sleepless night, but if things get chilling, even your survival may be at stake. In the best case scenario, your performance during the next day will almost certainly be reduced, and remember that no sleeping bag can isolate you from the cold ground completely without the help of a mat.

So if you don't have one at hand, you should improvise some sort of isolation: you may use clothes that you are not wearing, a poncho, plastic bags or even dry leaves. The two things that you should strive to achieve are: waterproof isolation from the ground moisture and running water that may come from rain, snow melting, etc. and thermal isolation, which is achieved by putting something with interstitial spaces between layers because what isolates is the air contained within the mat.

Once inside your sleeping bag, try to reduce as much as possible the surface of your body which stays in contact with the ground. If it is really cold, you may attempt to sleep sitting on your backpack in order to gain better isolation.