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Big Agnes Pumphouse Pad Pump

Big Agnes Pumphouse Pad Pump description

The Big Agnes Pumphouse Pad Pump performs quadruple-duty in the backcountry. Use the Pumphouse as a pump to inflate your sleeping mat, as a waterproof bag to keep your gear dry, as a pillow, and as a stuff sack. To inflate your sleeping pad, fit the Big Agnes Pumphouse's rubber nozzle over the inflater valve of your pad and compress the Pumphouse bagvoil, you're set for a cozy night in camp. When you need to keep your gear dry, push the nozzle back inside the Pumphouse, and you've got a bomber drysack. Other uses? How about water carrier and backcountry shower? Go for it.

Bottom Line: Keep your gear dry, your sleeping mats firm, your head cushioned, and your gear stored with the Pumphouse Pad Pump.

First opinion: hokey... couldn't possibly pump up a pad. Then I tried it.. Still hokey, but it works! It takes me an average of 12 'full bag' pumps to fill up a normal length pad. The process is: 1) attach end of bag to pad, 2) fluff open end of bag, 3) seal/roll bag until bag is 'firm', 4) press as much air out as you can, 5) roll again until firm, 6) press out rest of air, 7) unroll and repeat. I bought/compared this against the Exped pillow pump. The pillow pump gives you more of a feeling of pumping, but its more work. When you're tired after a long day hiking/paddeling (we used these in the BWCA), the BA bag/pump was 10% overall less work than the pillow/foam Exped pump.

I have really had time believing any one could use this sack as a pump. Opening it every time to get air into it then sealling and compressing it is just a waist of time. Easier to just blow, cuz this thing doesn't.