Use & Care

Breaking In Your New Bedroll

For best performance, the Thermarest™ self-inflating air mattress inside of your Oregon Bedroll needs to be broken in. Unroll the bedroll, open the valve, and let it ‘wick-up’ the air for about 30 minutes. Add a few breaths of air so that it’s over-inflated a bit, quickly close the valve and let it lie out flat overnight. Next day open the valve and find a place like under a bed where it can lay out flat with the valve open for a day or so. If you can store it laying flat with the valve open, you’ll get best inflation performance. If you prefer to store your bedroll rolled up, it’s inflation speed will benefit from a few days lying flat with the valve open.

Rolling up your bedroll

Open valve, fold from bottom into half, then half again up to the bottom of the pillow, kneel on bedroll let air escape for a couple of minutes. Then close valve and roll the folded mat onto the pillow, burp air again by opening valve while sitting or kneeling on it, close valve. Adjust and fasten straps, one more burp will get it as small as possible, and you’re done.

Clean Up

Clean with a damp/wet cloth with mild detergent. Do not dry clean. Be careful to not store your bedroll rolled up wet. The materials are mold/mildue resistant, but mold and or mildew are your bedroll’s worst enemies.

Having told you how to clean it, we recommend not cleaning it. Let the bottom, which makes the rolled-up outside cover, get dirty, beat and tired looking. Encourage that ‘been there, done that’ look. Much less likely somebody will steal it, most won’t want to touch it. Just our opinion. Someday, with our spare time, we’ll have a beat-up bedroll photo contest.

The Zip-On Drizzle Cover and Condensation

The Zip-On Drizzle cover is made from the most water resistant material we could find, and that means the material does not breath moisture and condensation out of the sleeping compartment.

We suggest venting the Drizzle Cover by leaving it unzipped a few feet to allow air circulation and venting of moisture from the inside, while providing light rain and drizzle protection from above.

Strap Replacement

Your Oregon Bedroll was designed to allow strap replacement for the eventual ‘heel of a boot’ taking out one of the acetal buckles. It’s a snap on the Bareknuckle Bedroll to change straps, but on the Oregon Bedroll, you’ve really got to work the buckles through the leather. I suggest doing one side at a time so you can keep the scientifically designed strap position the same. Some leather conditioner, or saddle soap will help the leather to allow the strap replacement. Unroll the bedroll, open the bottom zipper and getting a hand behind the patch may help.

Replacing Air Mattress

Therm-a-Rest mattresses are tough and don’t puncture easily, plus we’ve wrapped it in some pretty stout material, so replacing a bad air-mattress is unlikely, but it’s pretty easy.

Unzip the bottom zipper, turn the valve to full open and push it out of the valve patch and the mattress comes right out. Put the new mattress inside the bedroll, be sure to get the top of the mattress all the way to the top of the bedroll, get the mattress to lay flat,  then push the opened valve through the leather. Straighten the mattress inside nicely and zip the bottom up.