Thermarest Base Camp 2″

We chose the best mattress for the finest bedroll on the planet, the Original Oregon Bedroll, Thermarest’s Made in USA 2″ Base Camp self-inflating mattress.

If you aren’t familiar with self-inflating mattresses, it’s a whole new ballgame from old 4″ inflatable mattresses.

Open the valve, and the compressed foam inside wants to soak up air like a sponge, and return the mattress to it’s natural state, fully inflated with the valve open. Most people add a breath or two to dial-in the best comfort, a few report adding no breaths with a well broken-in mattress. When you lie on it, remember there is a huge sponge in addition to the air, we show off how well they work on our bed of rocks we call our test drive station.

To roll it up, you’ve got to fold it, sit on it and ‘crush’ the air out and quickly close the valve. It’s a bit of effort, only  takes a couple of minutes, it’s the price you pay for the cool self-inflating feature.

These mattresses like to be ‘broke-in’, check the use and care section for details.

The technology came from Therm-a-Rest(tm) and I believe they are widely recognized as the quality leader in self-inflating mattresses. Made in Washington State, they were the clear choice for the finest bedroll on the planet, and enabled our product to wear the Made in USA label.

As of Dec 09, we are shipping all bedrolls with the new, redesigned Basecamp 2″ mattress. Same comfort, negligible price increase, but most importantly it rolls up thinner. Very close to the 1.5″ Therm-a-Rest we used to offer. We were able to eliminate the 1.5″ mattress because of this great redesign of our favorite mattress.

The photo is the old Basecamp, only visual difference is a lighter color blue. We’ll get a pic up soon.

12/26/09