Sentence examples for Nisley from high-quality English sources.

• Nisley has a dim view of the outdoor industry’s ability to self-regulate and to report accurate temperature ratings.

• As Nisley told us: “Everyone should be concerned that if they use a pad rated below about R = 5, their sleeping bag will not perform as advertised.”

• Nisley favors a universally accepted system like the EN sleeping-bag rating standards that would assign a temperature measurement to sleeping pads’ warmth.

• “If I have a pad with an R-value of 2 and I take another pad and put it on top of it that has an R-value of 1, I have a sleeping pad that has an R-value of 3,” Nisley explained.

• In addition to drawing on personal experience, we talked to experts such as Ryan Linn, backpacking instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School; long-trail hiker Andrew Skurka, author of National Geographic’s The Ultimate Hiker’s Gear Guide; Junaid Dawud, guide for Adventure Travel West and pioneer of the Colorado 14ers thru-hike; Paul Magnanti, guide and author of the outdoor blog PMags.com; and Richard Nisley, a former Apollo-mission engineer and lifelong outdoor adventurer who has dedicated his retirement years to solving gear-related physics puzzles in his home laboratory in Northern California, an expertise he shares as an influential voice in the Backpacking Light community.