Klymit sleeping mats

[ravenbait]

Does anyone have experience of these? I have yet to find a comfortable sleeping mat that doesn't leave me feeling like I've slept on a pile of rocks, and the 9cm thickness caught my eye (as well as the design to stop you falling off, which I have a habit of doing).

https://wildbounds.com/collections/camping-mats/products/static-v-luxe-sl-camping-mat-blue

Sam

[Goldcrank]

I have one. I find it quite comfortable.

I definitely didn't spend £100+ (I think it was about £50, but it could have been less)

I'm always wary of using it on rough ground - I fear it popping. 

[nikki]

I've not encountered one of those before, but I'm still using a one of these, which seems like it might be broadly analogous:
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=85374.0

I'm not slim, and also a side sleeper, and the 9cm woks for me and my hips. It's a bit of a balance between leaving enough squish in it and not bottoming out a hip and getting cold. For colder camping I have started putting a space blanket under the mat for a bit of extra insulation. Reflection. Whatever.

The Klymit mat cites a much lower R number. I don't know to what extent these things really translate between manufacturers, but with that big of a difference I'd be having a think about what sort of temperatures I'd be camping in and whether I feel the cold. You might be going for lightweight of course, so whatever your priority is etc etc

Does it come with an inflaty bag thing? Are you fine with huffing moisture into it?

I'm curious about its failure mode too - do they get a comedy massive bulge if a baffle goes?

The side rails on my Big Agnes are enough to cue me it to if I'm near an edge. If I want to find a comfy knee position, they're also small enough that I can put a dry bag or a jacket or something next to the mat and spread out onto that.

[ravenbait]

Thanks for that, Nikki. The same shop has that, too, and I hadn't even thought about the R number, so thank you for pointing that out. I just had to throw out my ancient thin thermarest, which got mouldy in storage and was never comfortable anyway. I haven't got any firm plans as yet; it's more of an itch to get away. My adventure options are somewhat curtailed by the floofy derpbeast, but I'm sure the other half could entertain her for a couple of nights if my claustrophobia were to get too bad.

Sam

[Kim]

Shirley the benchmark for comfortable sleep mats for side sleepers with shoulders and hips is the Exped Downmat/Synmat?

They're heavier than these lightweight mats, but you get a higher R value from the insulation.  You can also reasonably expect them to have a baffle or valve failure by the end of the warranty period