Advantages: Reasonable Price Disadvantages: Rather large if backpacking
Last summer I embarked on a 100 mile highland hike, carrying my equipment in a 75ltre capacity rucksack. We aimed to complete the expedition in 5 days. I felt that my current carry-mat was unsuitable as it was farily large and made from foam. I was recommended a thermarest by my friends, and tried theres before purchasing my own.
I was impressed by the thermarest brand. They make really good quality equipment. I was faced with the choice of whether to go for the "ProLite" mattress from the "fast and light series" or the "Expedition" from "the trek and travel" series. I decided, that as I was on a student budet to go for the "Expedition".
I bought the full length version as I am around 6ft. Perhaps going for regular would have been more advantageuous but if you really want to save on weight and size- chose "Prolite ...
Advantages: Cheap Thermarest Mat, Very Comfortable Disadvantages: Size
be used in any situation for an affordable price. I paid about £50 online for this from snow and rock. Now i am able to have an excellent nights sleep without worrying about carrying something too big the next day.
"The Explorer is the perfect mattress for beginning backpackers and those on a budget. With a foam core 1.5 inches thick, it provides the ideal combination of comfort and minimal weight. Available in full-length and 3/4 sizes."
The mat uses the open cell foam such as the classic thermarestmats so your basically getting a normal thermarestmat for £30 cheaper, although the Explorer is slightly bigger.
Like with all thermarestmats the explorer has a self inflating valve, making the mat easy to inflate and deflate and also giving it the ability to be rolled up really small into the provided stuff sac.
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Advantages: Looks great (different to other mats), Responsive, Durable, Less sliding, Comfortable, Cheaper than arcades in long-run, Play at home, Practice Disadvantages: Requires space to play, More difficult to store, Less of an arcade feel
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This is a review of the Logic3PRO dance mat, a better and ?meaner? version of the Logic3 dance mat. A dance mat is a video game controller made specifically for dance games such as Dancing Stage (UK version of Dance Dance Revolution), although they can be used with regular games. Dance games can be found for the PC, XBox, Playstation, PS2, some connect directly to the TV, and maybe some for some other games consoles, but the Logic3Promat I am reviewing is for the Playstation (PSX) or Playstation 2 (PS2). I?ve only got a PSX so have used the mat on that. You can use a regular joypad/joystick with dance games but that would be no fun. You can also use the dance mat as the controller for regular games, which would probably make them quite interesting and a lot more challenging. Would be a bit ...
