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12/5/2014 at 12:35am
Location: Kent
Outfit: Bailey Senator 5 Carolina
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Do you usually sleep well whilst camping?
I'm approaching this problem from a different angle, as you say that you're usually the one to open the windows at work or turn the heating down.
You mention that you're a fidget in bed so could this be the cause?
Once you are settled into your three-duvet combo and snug as the proverbial bug, I wonder if your fidgeting creates air-pockets that allow fresh, cool air into your little personal nest. As the temperature is likely to be quite at odds with your the temperature you have created whilst asleep and keeping still, this change of temperature may well wake you up.
Once cold, it is difficult to warm the body's core again, so perhaps keeping a flask of hot soup by the bed in case of early morning unexpected wake-ups may help?
Getting up twice in the night to inflate the airbed did not help in maintaining your body temperature either - just highlighting to you just how cold you were. Then the battle is not just physical, its the mental aspect of fighting off the feelings of coldness. Being in the (pitch black?) in the middle of the night also compounds the feelings of coldness.
Would any herbal remedy assist with getting you off to a good, restless free nights sleep?
I believe that Mrs 'D' has used herbal or natural remedies to assist her get to sleep. (Lavender?) but I will ask her tomorrow to confirm. Otherwise, she says that she wears a jumper or two, socks, a hot water bottle and an electric blanket, often all at the same time! She also states that she has two, winter (13.5 tog) duvets over her; and this is indoors!
Not sure if any of this helps in any way
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13/5/2014 at 8:02pm
Location: East Sussex
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I find if I'm cold before bed, I'll never warm up, so I get into pj's (thermal ones) with fleece pj's over the top if necessary, well before bed. If it's nippy, I add tracky bottoms and a fleece on top of that. I look like Mrs Michelin, but I stay warm.
I use foam backed picnic mats under the air bed (they're silvery on the underside too, which may help), and a fleece blanket under a fitted sheet on the air bed. We then have 2 very warm kingsize sleeping bags zipped together, with an assortment of fleece blankets over the top, depending on how cold it is. If it's really cold, I pop 2 hot water bottles into the bed before bedtime, and wear a fleece snood thingy. Generally though, I find I peel off layers as I warm up and rarely wear more than just pj's.
Two small dogs to snuggle up to makes quite a difference, too.
I'd like to try a camp bed/SIM combination, but have yet to find a double folding camp bed that makes snuggling together comfortable. They all seem to have a bar down the middle.
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14/5/2014 at 9:13pm
Location: Herts & Essex borders
Outfit: Kalahari 8 and Horizon 4
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I think the key is that it's easier to stay warm than get warm so make sure you're not getting cold in the evening and keep the tent zipped up. If I'm reading this right you're a single person rattling around in an 8 man tent so it will be harder to stay warm than our family of four in our Kalahari 8. We have camped in Feb, March and April this year without EHU and been fine and I'm definitely someone who feels the cold. Thermals, fleece hooded onesie, fleece hat, fluffy socks, fleece sleeping bag liner and 4 season bag, on a fleece blanket on an airbed works for me. Make sure whatever you wear to bed is dry and clean, make sure you're not sweaty (wet wipe wash for the win!), don't breathe (moisture) into your sleeping bag - leave yourself an airhole, and have a hot drink before bed. Hat / hood and socks are most important as most heat is lost through head and feet.
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