Kingfisher wrote on Aug 15^th, 2010 at 2:05pm:

Our 5 year old mattress has failed. It developed multiple seepage type leaks all on one end.

I have had some limited experience with using the pad now. The comments KF had made about failure were in the back of my mind as I went about utilizing arguably one of the most important pieces of camping equipment I own. I would be interested to learn at which end the failures developed.

While rolling this bag for storage air is trapped and released rather slowly through the valve as compared to a therm-a-rest, especially near the very end of the rolling/storage process. I noticed considerable pressure develop and if one wasn't a tad patient in allowing the air to escape I can envision some potential for "blow-out".

Just thinkin......what say you?