£244.95 £269.95
Sleeping mats are brilliant until you roll off them at 3am and discover your tent floor has all the insulating properties of a damp flannel. Big Agnes' Rapide SL Insulated Tent Floor Pad solves this with one simple idea: cover the entire floor of your two-person tent with a single, tapered pad. The doublewide air chamber design fits perfectly into most backpacking tents, and at 9cm thick with an R-value of 4.8, it keeps you properly warm from early spring through to late autumn. The quilted sleeping surface means you're not bouncing around like you're on a lilo, and the included Pumphouse inflation sack saves your lungs for more important tasks like complaining about the weather. At 1.31kg it's not ultralight, but when you consider it replaces two separate pads and eliminates the dreaded pad gap, it's a genuine weight saver for couples who are tired of waking up in the cold demilitarised zone between their individual mats.
| Total Weight | 1.22kg |
| R-Value | 4.8 |
| Packed Size | 14 × 29cm |
| Dimensions (Tapered) | 127–101.6cm (W) × 198.1cm (L) |
Big Agnes is a small, independent US outdoor brand out of Steamboat Springs, Colorado – a small ski-town that we’ve never visited but which we like to imagine is full of mountain-loving, trail-hiking outdoorsy types. That would make sense, since the company makes some of the best ultralight backpacking gear around, including the award-winning Copper Spur, Tiger Wall and Fly Creek tents. It is kit that has clearly been designed by a gang of folks who love sleeping in the dirt just as much as we do here at WildBounds.
Oh, and if you’re still wondering where the heck that name Big Agnes comes from, we did try to find out. Depending on who you talk to, it’s either an affectionate tribute to a legendary truck drivin’ mountain mama, or a 12,000 foot peak in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness. We kinda like the first one better.