Sleep system for both the Fish River Canyon and Drakensberg trips in 2026.

- Bandit quilt from UGW
- Nemo Fillo Elite pillow
- Sleeping bag liner from Naturhike
- Nemo Tensor Extreme sleeping pad
- E-Vent Sil compression dry bag from Sea to Summit

For the desert I could have gone with a normal Nemo Tensor and a lighter quilt, bur since I only want to fly with one combination I opted for taking the warmer set.

I have also now worked out a way to keep the pillow strapped to the pad at the expense of about 10g.

Although the sleeping bag liner is depicted with its own stuff sack, Ieave that behind. Instead the pillow, quilt and pillow are all compressed into the dry bag. The sleeping pad still travels in its own stuff bag. For bag end up at the bottom of the backpack when hiking.

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From my PoV, I just pulled off a nice hack to get my Nemo Fillo Elite pillow to stay on my Nemo Tensor pad.

When I ordered my UGQ quilt, I included an extra lightweight cord with it. Now this has come in handy. There is a name tag on the one side of the pillow and a small loop on the other side. These can be used to attach the elastic UGQ cord.

If one sets one end of the cord with the sown-in name tag and pull it under the sleeping pad, the other end of the cord can locked into the open loop on rhe orher side. Then pull it tight enough using the cord lock and balance the cords. Now all one has to unlock and lock the open loop during setup and tear down.

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