Zpacks
Medium Pillow
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Manufacturer list price (MSRP)
$54.95
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Overview
Zpacks Offers the Best Lightweight Backpacking Gear: The Ultralight Medium-Plus Pillow is Identical in size to the Medium-Plus Dry Bag but features soft micro fleece sewn to one half of the interior. Simply flip the dry bag inside out and fill it with your spare clothes and gear to use as a pillow!
Specs
- Brand
- Zpacks
- Weight
- 41 g · 1.4 oz
- Type
- not published by the manufacturer
- Product Type — Source: manufacturer · checked 2026-08-23
Weight vs. category
63% lighter than the category average.
How it measures up
Against every one of the camp pillows in the RidgeNote register with a published figure. Manufacturer-listed; sources and dates are on this page.
- Weight
- 1.4 oz (41 g)
- Lighter than 88% of 16 weighed · #2 lightest
- -48% vs the median 2.8 oz
- Price
- $54.95
- Cheaper than 36% of 14 priced · #8 cheapest
- +5% vs the median $52.45 · $38.00/oz (median $21.24/oz)
The lightest of the camp pillows on record is Zpacks Zpacks Inflatable Pillow at 1.4 oz — 1 g less.
The cheapest is Zpacks Comfy Camp Pillow at $34.95 — $20.00 less and 51 g heavier.
RidgeNote verdict
Similar — lighter or cheaper
Compared with
Side by side on weight, list price and cost per ounce.
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Manufacturer list price (MSRP)
$54.95