Therm-a-Rest Trekker Chair

You have to add this to your gear list. How many times after you have set up your tent and gotten settled, then you realize sitting down would be awesome, but there is no surface or place to sit? Well it happend to me one to many times and bought this chair and it is crucial gear now, would not go camping without it. It folds up very well to a skinny pole (also incredibly light) that you can slide inside your pack or attach on the outside. Either way it unfolds and snaps into position around your sleeping pad and is suprisingly comfortable and very strong. You can lean back and you don't have to worry about it collapsing, very sturdy comfy and overall very well designed. Trust me, when the time comes and you want to sit around the fire, take a load off, or contemplate existance overlooking the majestic mountains this chair will make the experience even better.

After a long day of trekkin around in the desert, it was great to come back to camp and set up the chair around the kitchen zone and start cooking dinner and making coffee drinks. My back was well supported and the butt was comfy sitting in this awesome chair. The straps and buckles are beefy enough to last, the material is tough enough to protect the sleeping pad. Yep, it adds a little weight but it is so worth it. I used to just sit on a log or the ground but no more, this is the way to go. The extra weight is not a big deal and it rolls up nicely to attach to the outside of my pack on the side easily. If you want a well rested back for the next day, get this gear!

What a great piece of gear. At 10.5 oz it's so light I can't even consider it non-essential. Just don't put too much pressure leaning back testing it or anything. I tested it and the seams on one of the nylon webs started to rip. That being said, with a tear in the support system it's still strong and I have no worries (hopefully I'm not proven wrong). I use it with a Trail LIte TR regular pad and it fits in the pad-specific stuff sack just fine either on the pad or rolled up in it. It has a little space left for a longer pad which kind of makes it a little bit of an odd fit but it's negligible. It's obvious what it looks like so here's a more interesting photo.

I absolutely love this item and I have the old version which is a little heavier. It is the one non essential item I carry that I really shouldn't be wasting ounces on, but at under a pound? I mean, I could stand to lose a few pounds of body weight before I start to complain about this. You could rest your back on a log or rock, but this thing is soo darn comfortable, I never hike without it, even on extended trips, totally worth it's carry weight. Rolls up to the size of collapsed trekking poles and stashes on the outside of my pack. Definitely recommended!

I like this chair, I do. I'm all for creature comforts when camping, but at 10.5oz (298g) the thing is just too heavy for anything but car camping or a heavily burdened weekend hike. It's cool for what it is, it stores really small and you can leave it on your pad, well, the top part if you have a regular length one. The comfort is great, and I know this isn't for long distance backpacking. I just wish it was lighter so then it could be.