ALPS Mountaineering  Sahara Insulated Sleeping Pad

Worst experience of my life. Pad is brand new and brought it to Yosemite for a 5 day hike along some high alpine areas. I've had to re inflate the pad every 1 and a half hours for the last 4 nights. Just wasted 3 hours last morning trying to find a leak but there isn't. the problem is how the pad is made. never buy anything from this brand. Will return it as soon as I get back to San Diego. This pad ruined my trip.

The pad's ok, but it doesn't come with instructions. Deflating by rolling the air out while holding on the valve open, like customer support told me, takes about 10 minutes of balling the thing up while crushing it into a giant ball. Alps Mountaineering customer support said I should by the $50 pump to deflate it properly. No information on how to deflate the thing is made a available, just "you can buy a $50 pump, thank you". Hiding the the most time consuming, ungainly, inefficient part of using the product, then telling me to spend more money to make it work, feels intentionally misleading and kind of shady.

Can't find any reviews anywhere for this, but had it blown up for a week and didn't lose any air. Super comfy mostly quiet. Can't talk about if its actually a R8 rated pad though. But for the price its worth the risk even if it ends up just being a 4-5.

Didn't even last a full night of use. Deflated overnight the first time I used it, and I tested it again without sleeping on it, and it was still flat the next morning.

I’ve used several different sleeping pads and this one is the best! Was comfortable , quiet and easy to inflate with the storage bag. I would recommend to a friend.

I was very intrigued when I found this pad. For the price, it seemed to boast some of the best stats on the market (4” thick, R-value of 8, lightweight REI selling it for $119 on sale). My first night out with it was great. I was cold weather camping (around 25° F) and I was both comfortable and warm. I liked the innovative stuff sack/pump sack combined as one as I haven’t seen another like it. Deflating was definitely a pain as you have to manually hold the one-way valve down in order to deflate, which is awkward while in the tent. Either way, for the price I was pretty happy. However, happiness came to an end during my 3rd night out with it, as it wouldn’t stay inflated and I had to pump it back up multiple times during the night. I spent a while trying to locate the leak, but was unsuccessful. So, thinking it might just be a one-off, I returned it and ordered another one. Sadly, it only took two nights this time to experience the exact same issue of deflating. While I think it was worth trying out given the price, it seems clear there is either a design flaw, or a major durability issue with this product, and I would not recommend it, especially for multi-night trips. I also find it strange that there aren’t any YouTube reviews that I can find, nor does ALPS Mountaineering seem to even have it on their official website!