Survival Hax Self Inflating Sleeping Pad Review
The fine folks at Survival Hax sent me this self-inflating sleeping pad for review. Although sleeping pads are not as cool as some other BOB items they are one of the most important.
When I began building my first Bug Out Bag many years ago a sleeping mat was one of the first things I ever bought. For a very important reason. That reason is maintaining core body temperature and staying alive.
If you sleep on the ground or in a hammock without insulation beneath you will rapidly lose heat. Conduction is the method you loose heat on the ground.
When you come into contact with another surface heat transfer will occur. Transfer to a solid object will occur much more effectively than in air.
So to achieve the first rule of survival we have to prevent this heat loss. Sleeping pads are an effective way to accomplish this.