How We Tested Backpacking Chairs
To test our backpacking chairs , we remove them only about everywhere we get throughout the leap and summer . From backpacking excursions to days at the crag , from concerts at the park to chilling on car camp trip in the woods , we do a mass of ride to bring you a comprehensive review of the light chairs on the market . We gave them to our friends , household , and stranger to read , sunbathe , and drink beer in . We came up with four metrics to evaluate these portable thrones : comfort , size & weight , stability , and ease of habit .
Comfort
If a chairman act n’t build you more comfortable , what ‘s the detail ? For this metric , we seem at a broad range of quality , delving into the whys and hows of comfort . Ultimately , every person we asked to try out accord unanimously on the most comfortable one . The criteria include back positioning , fabric type , cushioning , width , and height . We ride in sand , dirt , grass , park lots , sharp rocky terrain , and anything else we could to push these portable chairs to their limit . Our testers could much live found with four chair adjust up at a time , hopping back and forth between them to identify the small detail that cause each production unique . After week of testing , we have our butts and spine speak for themselves to assign grudge for this metric .
Size and Weight
In all honesty , we were n’t originally betray on the idea of a “backpacking” chairman . And we remember that you , like us , might exist wondering why you ‘d lend something as apparently luxurious as a chairman to your already hard pack . This is where this metric test its importance . We live surprise to hear how much comfort could equal gained for an excess few ounce to a pound in the gang , and now we ‘re happy converts . We earn that some of you may exist counting ounces in order to justify such a comfort detail , hence for this metric , we seem at overall weight , compactness , and packability .
We invest each production on our own scale and inspected dimensions with a tape measure to confirm the manufacturer ‘s specs , and then wander and strapped each product onto our backpacks to find how they would fit us on long day in the mountains .
Stability
For chairman that perform well in the stability category , you might not yet have this metric a second opinion . But for chair that struggle , it ‘s always on your head . We measure a host of thing that make a chairman unstable : floor width , base shape , relief of adjustment , and pole flexibility and assembly . We pose on a wide range of surfaces , from gentle sand and mud to jagged volcanic stone to nice level pavement and granite . We leaned , attain , stretched , and twisted to regard how easily we could maintain our erect position in each example .
We had folks of all heights and weights hear out the chairman to influence which ones fit larger folk well and which ones might best be used by smaller body .
Ease of Use
While no chair we test require an modern point to use , some were easy than others to lay together . We try to set up each chairman without show any instructions , then tried again after meet what the manufacturer get to say . As any outside enthusiast knows , place your gear back in the bag it arrive from can equal the almost difficult region of the process , so we evaluate that as good . We try out to regard if they had to be set together in a specific succession or if portion could be attached in whatever society we wanted . We observe when some manufacturer included education or color-coded pieces and when no identify information was provided .
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- Comfort
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- Size and Weight
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- Stability
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- Ease of Use
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- Size and Weight
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- Rest of Use
