How do people camp out of a double cab short box ?

Do you have dimensions on how to build this or more photos?

 

Post number two here and some additional photos here

 

Link to the $15 Amazon memory foam?

 

Quite easily - although I will say I don't call it "camping". When I'm sleeping in my bed, I do it because I want to be highly mobile and not have to deal with setting up/taking down "camp". I can get all the sleeping & cooking gear I need back there for a comfortable experience. I use this setup for fishing trips mostly.

If my primary objective is camping, then out comes the tent, traditional camping gear, etc.

 

Sick truck bud! Sorry but it sold a while ago. You can get one online for fairly cheap. The brand is Ridgeline and it's their SUV tent

 

I am 6 foot and thats what i use during bow season is a canopy tent works great even in the rain

 

That is a pretty nice little setup.

 

Buy a long bed...

 

This thread, and boredom, inspired me to finally build a sleeping platform in my bed.

Total cost came to around $110 Canadian
Time invested: approximately 6 hours
Beers consumed midway through construction: 2

I think for next time I should probably consume more beers...

 

Diagonal on a platform with a 4" thick memory foam mattress pad topper.

 

false sense of security.
Seen so many videos online of people saying its safer.

In bear country would almost think it could be even more dangerous. Given many use their truck as a sort of kitchen as well you're sleeping above all your cooking stuff where you cooked as well. Main place a bear will probably want to go check out and then the tent being right above will smell like the food even more so.

The only place I can see a RTT being safer is in the desert so you're off the ground away from scorpions and spiders. But given I'm no where near a desert bears are the issue for me and I do not see a RTT being safer.

Besides the cost they're also extremely heavy and a pain in the ass to take on and off. Add in the added drag while driving killing your MPG.

If it rains you have to make sure to dry it out later so it doesn't get mildewy, sure yo uhave to do that with a normal tent as well but its a lot easier to set up the tent and let it dry out and be able to still go drive around.

truck has to be level which I feel finding a spot to level the truck can be a lot harder than a ground tent.
I honestly think its just a new hype and in a few more years it will be done and the only people still using them will be the people that already have them.

 

If there isn't going to be any rain I just flip the tailgate down and use the air mattress in the bed of the truck. If there is the possibility of rain I'll have the ground tent and cot. Cheap and easy

Also gives me the ability to take the truck and go have fun without having to break anything down and put back up.

 

Don’t. Bring an instant tent. Your bed isn’t going to protect you from anything

 

Here is a thought along the same line of thinking you have. Why do people even bother the leave the comfort of their home to sleep in the woods, when its easier to just stay home and watch others do it via YouTube?

Each person that travels away from home to explore nature does it their own way and there isn't any reason you or I should question what they choose to use. We can ask how or why they choose it and learn something rather than assume or judge.

Some folks travel into fairly rocky areas where a ground tent just isn't going to work maybe due to surface irregularities, or just no area physically available to pitch it. Or they go where there isn't any trees to hang a hammock from. In the case of the RTT, if the truck can make it then the tent can make it. Leveling a truck enough to sleep comfortably in a RTT really isn't that hard with a hole dug here and a rock placed there.

As for the security aspect, its less about bears and cougars, and more about wet ground, crawling bugs, slithering snakes, scorpions and such. The RTT does allow the user to pack differently than those with ground tents in that the sleeping bags, and pillows are all stowed together in the closed tent above the rig and don't need to be rolled up and moved to and from the truck. That aspect alone could be the selling point to the user. Or not even a factor for the next guy.

 

Me too! Here is an early iteration of my stand.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.campmor.com/b/s/brands/dac-inc-vehicle-tents

 

I had no problem packing light when I camped at a younger age but now I have a wife and two sons to think about. It is nice to be able to store all the other stuff she keeps handing me that we "need" at the site and not take up any bed space with a tent . I bought my rtt used and have camped all over the east / west . Is it perfect ? No . If I was single I wouldn't want it . It does fit our needs right now though . I just count myself lucky she enjoys camping .

On another side of the coin I have never seen a style of tent bashed more . I dont see any pop tent guys bashing hammocks or vise versa .. Who cares? I'm not prairie dogging someone else's technique.

 

It very much is comparable. You feel that the RTT is too much work to deal with, and overly expensive. My point being, why stop there? Staying home is cheaper than buying all the ground tent or hammock gear amd there is nothing to setup.

You generalized RTT ownership your own view on it. You did not specifically ask a person or persons how they came to the realization that a RTT was a good choice to them. The lack of "pros" and obvious "cons" regarding the RTT "fad" is again your opinion and completely one sided.

As cool as your setup is, and I really mean that, it looks like a perfectly flat spot that any form of ground tent, RTT, and hammock would be super easy to set up.

Not all areas of the world are as nice as that one. I personally would not feel comfortable sleeping in that hammock setup in a dusty, wind ridden location. Nore would I prefer to set that up in something like a Walmart parking lot for a quick overnight stop.

You have to respect that not everyone that travels, goes to a location and sets up for a few days or a week at a time. A RTT allows the user to setup their sleeping quarters pretty much anywhere the vehicle can park. You might think of a RTT as a very very simplified version of a motorhome.

I personally don't have my RTT mounted on my truck, rather a purpose built trailer due to how I use it. I can leave it behind at camp, I can setup in a Walmart for a quick overnighter when passing through, I let my son or daughter sleep in it if I tow the trailer behind my 1 ton truck camper combo to give them their own space.

Options.....people have options and do with what is in their budget.
I have 2 hammocks, 3 ground tents, 3 QuikShades, 1 Coleman screened cazebo thingy, 3 sturdy but light weight tarps with poles, the RTT on my trailer, and my truck camper setup. Right now I am in the process of setting up my '17 DCSB with a sleeping platform under my Softopper for yet more options in my outtings.

Each to their own, right?

 

Well said.