Attention Campers: Sleeping Gear

[alanmcorcoran]

I probably won't do it, but there's a possibility I might take a solo trip to Mid California and give camping one more try. I'm pretty sure I am too old for this, but I can always bail and hit a hotel if I change my mind. I'm interested in lightweight, compact sleeping gear, which I guess breaks down into at least three components:

1) Bag or blankets.
2) outdoor mattress/pad/cot/what have you. (Things that go between you, the bag and the ground.)
3) Tent or other rain/wind/bug deterrent.

It's going to be mid august and I would venture that the temperature will be somewhere between hot as hell during the day and not as hot at night.