Therm-a-Rest are to sleeping pads as Leatherman are to multi-tools. They’re not the only brand that makes really good ones, but they played the biggest role in revolutionizing them.
If you were born in the last couple of decades, you may not know that camping used to be an exercise in extreme suffering. Everything was heavy and never dried once wet. No one could sit up inside a tent and we all slept on hard, closed cell foam mats that look like the ones you see at the gym today for doing your cool down stretches on.
