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Spent the week before Easter in Somerset and had a couple of heavy frosts but did not feel a thing!

coleman Pillow top matress - unzip the pillow top and place a fleexe blanket ontop of the air bed, zip the pillow top back on

2 season double sleeping bag - put a fleece blanket inside it and have that ontop of us

Thermals for PJs - Tog 24s or Icebreaker Skin 200s

A thick fleece blanket from Dun Elm on top of the sleeping - covered in frost on the Thursday morning but nice a cosy insid the bag!

Other than that try not to get cold in the first place and as soon as you start to feel it take your clothes off!!!

and get into the bag

The solution is easy - good sleeping bags with baffles around the shoulders and drawstrings around the hood.

Just remember - the low temperature on the bag is for keeping you alive, not comfy. Clothes worn inside the bag can actually make you colder by retaining moisure

I take care to get myself nice & snug, & I've never had a cold night's sleep in a tent, even with ambient temp below freezing (no heaters reqd).

we camped last week for 3 nights. we took a heater but only actually used it on the last morning to take the chill out of the bedroom as it was a bitterly cold night.

we had foam camping mats, then the airbed, then a fleece blanket, then a sheet to hold that in place, then our sleeping bag, then a double duvet, and another single one. the duvets are very thin, but my husband was sweltering! he took all the duvets off until the last night because he was too hot. and we both slept in pjs. i only wore a vest on top & i wasnt cold at all. it was insanely warm. i thought it would be freezing.

Quote: Originally posted by brianc on 17/4/2007

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We didn't bother with the heater overnight when we camped at easter and the thermometer said that it was 0c at 7am so it was probably a bit below freezing overnight.

All we had was decent three season sleeping bags (lower comfort of -5c), a coolmax liner for the inside of the sleeping bag (meant to stop the sleeping bags from being washed so often) and a foil reflective mat to go on top of the air beds. We was warm, I wouldn't say toasty warm but more than warm enough considering we didn't have hats on (they make a big difference IMO even with the hood of the sleeping bag pulled tight) or wearing anything other than normal pjs.

However we are switching to camping mats for our next trip, I feel these will be warmer still compared to airbeds.

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Hi Brian, we were away at Easter too and I had a thermarest mat plus warm sleeping bag (Vango Astral 450 ) with cotton liner, ordinary pjs and a hat. Fan heater on for about twenty minutes between getting in from the pub and going to bed only.  I was loads warm enough and NB I am a little old woman who feels the cold eg I had the gas fire on at home last night!

I am so glad that we have the thermarests and good sleepingbags as it must be a nightmare having to take and sort out the mountains of bedding people seem to need otherwise.

Also, we were in a canvas tent with sloping bedrooms and I am pretty confident that that added on several degrees of comfort above the nylon tents with full height bedrooms we have Easter-camped in before eg Montana 6. MT

Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 17/4/2007

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....Have some emergency back up as well, even if it`s just using the dog`s blanket out the car!

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Quote: Originally posted by Merry Terrier on 17/4/2007

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Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 17/4/2007

Or even just using the dog! Excellent 24/7 source of heat with the advantage that it moves closer to you by itself as the temperature drops. MT

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