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Backpacking Sleep Setup You NEED to See – Atepa Sleeping Bag & Pad Review
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Apr 29, 2025
In this video, I put the Atepa sleeping bag and sleeping pad to the test to see if they’re worth your money. Whether you're a backpacker, camper, or just love the outdoors, comfort and packability matter — so how does Atepa stack up? I’ll cover: ✅ Build quality & materials ✅ Warmth & comfort levels ✅ Weight & pack size ✅ Real-world performance Stay tuned for pros, cons, and whether these Atepa products are a solid pick for your next adventure. Viewers will get a 20% discount when they place an order through these links: Sleeping Bag: https://tinyurl.com/Backpacking-Sleeping-Bag Sleeping Pad: https://tinyurl.com/High-R-Value-Sleeping-Pad 🔔 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more honest outdoor gear reviews!
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what is going on
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YouTubers i'm here to show you my new
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favorite sleep system that I just
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discovered i've had this thing out in
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the field i've tested it and I want to
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share it with you because oh man I am so
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happy I found this thing so stick around
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it's going to be a good video
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[Music]
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so I wanted to do something a little
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different today i wanted to share with
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you this sleep system that I found for
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camping backpacking
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uh you know getting out in the woods but
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um it's kind of difficult to show this
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stuff out in the field so I've had this
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out in um the woods and I tested it did
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an overnight with it and it performed
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the way I wanted it to so now I feel
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confident to show it to you but I
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thought it'd be a lot easier just to
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kind of lay this out on the table do
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this indoors and I can talk you through
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the features of this thing and then I'm
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I'm going to cut in some video of me
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actually using this stuff so you can see
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it um how it looks out in the field and
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how I was utilizing it and um then we'll
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wrap up and I'll tell you what I think
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about it what we're looking at today is
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a sleeping bag from
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APA and a sleeping pad from APA
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now I've had probably all the major
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brands for sleeping pads and sleeping
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bags Therm Moest and uh Climate and all
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those and um you know they have served
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me well and then I kind of got out of
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using that stuff and went to a hammock
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um but recently within the last year
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I've been having a lot of problems with
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my lower back i've got some uh
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compressed uh spine back there and I'm
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having an issue with my hip i've got a
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torn labum so sleeping in a hammock has
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not really worked out the last few times
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I've done it because it's unsupported
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you know you're hanging and I need more
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support for my back i need something
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that's a little bit more rigid so I
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recently went to the ground got back
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into that and I quickly realized that
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the pads that I had um were very
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inadequate not very comfortable so we're
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going to be looking at today is the
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Atipa uh this is the Packite H9 it's
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their sleeping pad this does have
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insulation built into it so there is an
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RF factor to it and um it's it's kind of
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a a very different sleeping pad from
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what I'm used
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to and I'm going to show you here in a
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minute now one thing I'm going to say
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right out the right out of the gate is
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that with this sleeping
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pad you absolutely have to use a
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um pump uh you don't want to use you
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don't want to blow it up with your
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breath and I say that because when I
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took this out the first time I forgot
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the pump and I was stuck so and I wanted
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to get it blown up quickly because I it
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was getting cold it's like 3540°
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something like that so I blew it up with
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my mouth
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and worked fine um but when I got home
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and I was taking it out of my bag I
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noticed that there I could you can
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actually see into this pretty well there
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it's semi-t translansucent i could see
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little water droplets
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so now the bag itself does have a
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builtin pump system but from experience
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with these kinds of things it's going to
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take you a while to do that so it's not
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ideal to uh pump
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up your pad that way uh I would I would
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consider that more of an
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emergency that's going to pump it up
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quickly and it's not going to put any
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moisture or warm air into the
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pad okay so here's the pad all blown up
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as you can
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tell there is um a grid system little
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individual cells and in the sunlight you
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can actually see into this thing a
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little bit and there is a reflective
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reflectex type material inside of it
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that is helps reflect your heat up and
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like I said when I camped with this it
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was you know mid30s low 40s at night um
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and it was cold and I slept so warm and
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comfortable on this pad so the sleeping
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bag is the Atipa Peak Vent 520 and let
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me get my glasses here and I'll try to
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read you some
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specs so it is
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78.7 by 33 1/2 in
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it is has an outer fabric of
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20D 400T
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nylon it has a lining of 20D 400T T
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nylon and the filling is coldmaster
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down
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360 G top and then the bottom is
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polyester 160G bottom weight uh for this
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sleeping bag is 3.4 lb extreme comfort
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level of about 10.4
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uh
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Fahrenheit and up to 44.5 Fahrenheit so
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that's kind of the range you know uh 10°
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may
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be maybe a little uh pushing it um for
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temperature rating
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but we'll find out as more um as I use
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this thing
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bag is a little bit different than other
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sleeping bags because it has all the
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insulation on the top and the bottom
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actually has this what I would call kind
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of like a bikini that wraps around and
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hugs the pad so the pad becomes
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integrated with your sleeping bag and
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then you can crawl into it um and you're
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not going to be rolling off your pad in
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the middle of night which when I used to
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sleep in tents that was always such a
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big deal i always hated that you know
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you'd wake up and you'd be off of your
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pad in the corner of your tent and it
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was like "This is ridiculous um I wish
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somebody would solve this problem." Well
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someone has
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so what you do is it has cutout
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corners you're going to wrap those
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around and it does have straps on the
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bottom as well so you
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can pull those through probably the best
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way to do this is was would be actually
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to to to thread this all the way through
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and then blow up your pad so that way
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when it blows up it's um it's conforming
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to the bag already and you don't have to
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try to slip it in and as you can see
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this is more of a rectangular sleeping
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bag it is not a a true mummy bag which
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gives you more room more leg room more
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room to roll but all your insulation is
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on the top so now that this is joined
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with the pad you're able to unzip this
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from either side left or right
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and crawl into this
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thing and there's your sleeping bag and
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another cool feature is it has this hood
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but the hood is not a traditional hood
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like in a mummy bag where you put it
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around your head and around your neck
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and your face sticks out this um is more
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square like the bag
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itself but you can cinch this up a
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little bit
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but what I found this was perfect for is
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my pillow went in there and I didn't
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lose my pillow because that is the other
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issue with sleeping in sleeping bags and
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in
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tents and then a few more features this
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does actually have zippers on the bottom
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which is kind of
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unusual but if you don't want um to have
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your feet confined some people don't
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like that or maybe for whatever reason
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you you want to sleep with your shoes on
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I don't know i mean you've got that
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option but yes you can undo the bottom
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right here unzip it and your feet can um
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pop out the bottom
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very comfortable super soft on the
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inside i like the material it doesn't
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feel clammy or hot uh the
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pad has done really well because I don't
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feel like I have any kind of uh aches or
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pains in the morning when I wake up
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usually I would get like some kind of
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spots on my hip or my
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shoulders and I didn't have it with this
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and then of course the pad is so warm um
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that was awesome just having a nice warm
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pad i didn't have I didn't feel the cold
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of the ground coming through on my tent
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and I slept like a baby in this thing it
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was It was awesome i'm so happy I found
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it so if you guys like this video do me
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a favor um consider subscribing and if
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you haven't leave a comment down below
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tell me what you think if you got
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questions let me know i will have links
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to these items in my Amazon store you
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can check out the specs there and as
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always thanks for watching and we'll see
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you next time on the Prepared Wanderer
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