I am not Carol or Will... but I also will note that the first time I used the Clearview I also noticed a slight stickiness. On the plus side... I didn't have to apply silsealer to the bottom to prevent it from sliding off my ground cloth. I won't think the slight "stickiness" would bother someone using a sleeping bag. Quilt users like me have more exposure to the pad.

I did find the Clearview some what more unpleasant against the skin than the Insulated AirCore... but neither is an ideal next to skin material :-) With both, I want some sort of cloth between me and the pad. This is normally not a problem since I sleep in clothing. When I was wearing a short sleeve shirt to bed I wrapped the top of the pad with a clothing item so my bare arms didn't directly touch the pad which worked fine.

I was very surprised that the pad was warm enough in cooler temperatures. In the past I had used air mattresses that started to chill around 50-55F. I have used the Clearview down to 27F. When the pad was fully inflated I didn't notice any sense of chill until the temp was around 32F and had no problem sleeping at 27F. I did notice that when the pad is not fully inflated that I noticed a chill from the ground more quickly. When I let out a bit of air for maximum comfort, I noticed a chill through that pad somewhere between 35-40F.

--Mark