The pillow thread

[vanderpooch]

Curious what everyone uses for their pillow?

I have been camping mostly solo for years both car and back and always just got by. Now that I have finished my Syncro and am ready to get out on the trail with my family I am looking for something different than clothes in a stuff sack and my jacket for a pillow. I am trying to find something packable but still big enough to prop my head up. I use three big pillows at home and am having a hard time sleeping without.

 

[kai38]

I have found the key to a good nights sleep away from home either camping or traveling & staying in a hotel is to bring my own pillow from my bed. Get a good stuff sack and put it inside for transporting it.

 

[cnynrat]

I have found the key to a good nights sleep away from home either camping or traveling & staying in a hotel is to bring my own pillow from my bed. Get a good stuff sack and put it inside for transporting it.

We've reached the same conclusion - we always bring our pillows from home when camping. We have some large sacks that we use to store our sleeping bags in uncompressed at home - I usually just put the pillows in those. They aren't compressed at all, but I usually can find a place in the rig to stuff them.

 

[Christophe Noel]

I'm a buyer for a large backcountry travel store. Our huge hitter is the Big Agnes Sleeping Giant pillow that has an inflatable core with a memory foam pad. It packs down really small. More of a backcountry luxury. The Thermarest pillow in the biggest size is my favorite car camping pillow. It's a touch soft, but big.

I think the real winner here is the Nemo Fillow. It's a great pillow with little bungees on the back so you can fold a jacket or some other "lifter" under it and not have that filler slip away mid dream. That is my hands down winner. I loooove the Nemo Fillow.

 

[mountainpete]

I'm a buyer for a large backcountry travel store. Our huge hitter is the Big Agnes Sleeping Giant pillow that has an inflatable core with a memory foam pad. It packs down really small. More of a backcountry luxury. The Thermarest pillow in the biggest size is my favorite car camping pillow. It's a touch soft, but big.

I think the real winner here is the Nemo Fillow. It's a great pillow with little bungees on the back so you can fold a jacket or some other "lifter" under it and not have that filler slip away mid dream. That is my hands down winner. I loooove the Nemo Fillow.

That Nemo Fillow is pretty cool! First time I have ever seen it. More here: http://www.nemoequipment.com/nemo09-filo-pillow

I use a Thermarest pillow myself and I find it a bit too small - might try the Nemo!

Pete

 

[Curmudgeon]

Curious what everyone uses for their pillow?

The same pillow I use when not camping.

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[Brian McVickers]

Take a look at

Sea To Summit

or

Nemo

 

[paulj]

I use two small ones. A thin 'kids' thermafoam for when I'm on my belly or back, a much thicker block of foam for when I'm on my side. The block is from a 'foam shop', and is just big enough to fit my head. For home use, and car camping I use ordinary pillowcases.

 

[7wt]

I have a small Thermarest pillow that works pretty well. It has a fish print on it so it's cool. The Nemo pillow looks pretty neat too.

 

[beerhiker]

I think I have tried every camp pillow made (except Nemo) with no luck. The start of this season I went to Target and bought their $2.50 bed pillow and a pair of covers for $2. Its perfect! Folds up fairly small and its cheap replace if it were to get ruined. Its been all over the Rockies and even Aalska this year.

 

[Nullifier]

All the compressable camp pillow suck. I use a temperpedic. It goes in my Storm case on top of my clothes. MMMM just the thought of it makes me want to go camping but it's to hot here in Fl still. A few more months for my camp temperpedic.

 

[Geronimo]

I use this one from Cabelas. Bought it on a whim and it is one the best things I have bought.

 

[targa88]

I have found the key to a good nights sleep away from home either camping or traveling & staying in a hotel is to bring my own pillow from my bed. Get a good stuff sack and put it inside for transporting it.

After a lengthy search: compressible camp pillows were really inadequate. Bought a second identical memory foam pillow for camping.