The Rudiments
The Therm-a-Rest Parsec 0F/ – 18C Camping bed is intended for quick and light pursuits. It is loaded down with 800-fill Nikwax Hydrophobic Down. Heat-planned zone protection joined with a boxed-perplex development streamline weight and warmth. Extensive hood and foot zone. Side-zippered pocket. Removable lashes to tie down the pack to a cushion.
Size: Normal
Weight: 2 lbs 6 oz
Cost: $530
Brand: Therm-a-Rest
Masters
Warm (like truly warm)
Face texture is delicate and velvety
Made with reused materials
Packs down to the size of a bread portion
Cons
Costly
Beginning Considerations
This very well could be the most pleasant hiking bed I’ve at any point tried. It’s simply such a great deal hotter than some other comparatively evaluated sacks I’ve utilized. Furthermore, given its low weight and the amount it packs down, it turns out perfect for any snow capped or backwoods attempt.
The Lowdown
Huge Yellow. That is the very thing I’ve taken to calling this hiking bed, Therm-a-Rest’s Parsec 0F/ – 18C Camping cot, which likewise could possibly be the most pleasant hiking bed I’ve at any point utilized. We should begin with the simple portrayals: warm, delicate, very feathery.
The Parsec was intended for quick and light undertakings. It is light, coming in at only 2 pounds 6 ounces. Decent, it packs down to the size of an enormous bread portion.
Loaded up with an exceptionally compressible 800-fill Nikwax Hydrophobic Down, the Parsec ingests 90% less water and dries multiple times quicker than untreated down. Time and again when it was coming down hard and the sheet material on the edge of my truck bed got wet, I remained warm and dry when my beau, in his lesser pack, didn’t. Where the Parsec got wet, it got dry rapidly.
I’m the kind of individual who wears puffy jeans in 60-degree climate; I never take off from the house without a coat; and I work close to warm spacers. You could say I run cold. Before possessing this sack, I used to joke that camping bed temperature proposals were exact — assuming you added around 30 degrees. Not so with the Parsec. Alright, so the coldest weather conditions I’ve dozed in this year was around 35 degrees, not 0, however I was hot and in shorts and a tank — with the pack half unfastened. I could undoubtedly see myself dozing in 0 degrees with this pack with a couple of added layers. It’s outright hotter than different packs I’ve possessed with comparative temperature proposals.
Therm-a-Rest’s boxed bewildering development forestalls cold spots. In like manner, the fill is conveyed to the places where intensity is bound to be lost: 60% on top and 40 percent underneath. Consolidated, these elements improve both warmth and weight.
I truly can’t exaggerate exactly the way that cushy this pack is. Inside, you’ll feel like you’re lying in the mists from My Little Horse. It might occur to on you that your blanket at home sucks. You might purchase new pads, as I did. Essentially, you will reexamine your meaning of delicate and cushy.
It might occur to on you that your blanket at home sucks. You might purchase new cushions, as I did.
Goodness, and the greatest aspect? All that puff is Capable Down Standard Confirmed, implying that the waterfowl were dealt with empathetically. The shell and liner, as well, are made with 100% reused textures — they have the Worldwide Reused Standard endorsement. It would be ideal for I to add, here, that the 20 denier nylon is delicate, luxurious, and calm. You don’t actually get that very irritating swash sound. The shell is intense, as well. I unintentionally got a portion of conduit tape adhered to the outside (like truly stuck) and was concerned the pack would rip as I pulled it off. I paused my breathing and pulled delicately. The pack remained untorn.
Could it be said that you are a side sleeper? I’m. Two arrangements of lightweight, stretchy lashes situated in the top and base parts of the pack safely fix it to your dozing cushion. Roll around all you’d like and this thing is waiting. On that note, the pack is genuinely spacious, particularly for being a standard mummy shape. You can keep layers on regardless have thrash around space. I disdain feeling contracted when I rest. In this sack, I won’t ever do.
The hood can be tightened down in the event that you need a more tight fit, and it’s so cushy you can crease it over itself to make a pad. Notwithstanding the open top, the lower part of the Parsec juts up to make a recognizably spacey foot pocket, or, as Therm-a-Rest calls it, a Toe-asis Foot Hotter Pocket. It’s warm down there, and I love that I never felt that odd lower leg pressure leveling thing that you get with less extensive plans.
The zipper has a substantial string connected to it, making it simple to see as in obscurity. Truly, I’ve inadvertently tightened it down on the shell a couple of times now, however never with any setbacks to the texture. There’s a side pocket on the upper piece of the pack for helpful capacity of little things. It would accommodate your telephone or a headlamp or an evening nibble.
The Parsec is likewise accessible as 20-degree and 32-degree hiking beds, however I’m happy I went with the zero, since it’s more adaptable and the long zipper makes it simple to vent. The Parsec 0F accompanies a heavy sticker price: $490 to $570, contingent upon length (it comes in little, customary, and enormous). In any case, I’ll even out with you, dear peruser: while I have little to no faith in gear surveys that don’t examine basically a couple of cons, the cost is the main that I can imagine. Truth be told, other camping cots with the 0° F suggestion fall in that ballpark also.
At the gamble of being excessively free, I leave you with this picture: My back was hurting, my fingers were fat and enlarged from climbing. My sweetheart and I left the truck in an unfilled, level glade, the perishing grass extending out from us in delicate waves. Somewhere far off, coyotes let out an ensemble of cries. Slithering into my truck bed and into the Parsec was really heavenly. It was precisely exact thing it ought to be: a thing to anticipate after all the other things.
