7 Best Sleeping Pads (2024): For Camping, Backpacking, and Travel

What are these sleeping pads you speak of? When I was young, all hiking was uphill both ways and everyone slept on the ground in sleeping bags with only a half-inch of thin closed-cell foam between us and every pebble. We also filtered our water with our teeth and ate mainly raw meat and foraged ramps. Kids these days.Still, I suppose there is something to be said for a comfy sleeping pad at…