Truck Camping Photo Thread

Amazing! I got to get up there. Thx!

Looks fantastic! Congrats on the flippac!

 

Nice set-up..... can you share more pics? What does the inside look like when opened up?

Jesse

 

I love this thread.

 

Took a trip through SW Colorado - Telluride, Mesa Verde NP, Durango, Silverton, Ouray...

Slept in the truck just off the interstate the first night - don't think I've posted a pic of that set up. Not a lot of headroom but plenty of storage underneath and to the right. I just barely fit in the 6' bed - on really cold nights my feet get cold from being up against the topper glass.

Had 3-4 inches of snow my first night in camp. Not too cold but the mud was thick and sticky. Nearly all of the snow was gone by the time I returned around dusk but I still had to deal with some mud and winds howling in from the 4 corners area.

 

I like the half bed

 

Morro bay trip with my girlfriend





Something awesome about the central coast!

 

Sorry, I don't have any inside pics opened up at the moment. But you can see a video from one of the dealers showing how the camper opens up and what it looks like inside on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTZ2-o5kmKE

I have another photo from the outside opened up:

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And this is a picture of the bed with my recently built raised floor and stuff stored above and below:

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I've still got a lot of mods and building out to do, but unfortunately all of that as well as any camping is going to have to wait until the end of the summer So that's all I've got to share at the moment!

 

From a few weeks ago on the mojave trail

 

That looks like Stave Lake off to the left and Allouette Lake to the right. How's the road leading up to that lookout?

I haven't been to Stave in years because of it's bad rep. I might have to take my bike out that way for a ride to see if I can get my DCLB Limo up to that spot.

 

Yeah your right about the spot. Stave gets really busy by the mud flats on weekends but this spot is around 20kms away. We only saw about 4 or 5 people drive up the whole weekend. The first 15k or so is mostly just a gravel road, probably slightly worse than average in terms or roughness. The last few kilometers gets fairly steep and rocky but its nothing to worry about if you have decent tires.

 

Can't wait to get my Yeti...

 

DVexile: solid set up.

 

Added 2 much needed pieces of equipment for back country camping/travel. My co-pilot giving them the good old sniff test of approval.



Do you guys think I should get a bigger Jump Starter Pack?

 

I'd honestly look into one of the lithium battery packs for jump starting. I have one that's the size of a paperback book (if that) and it started my 100% dead battery just fine. I replaced the bigger one you have for it. Cost was like 120 for the model I got but the space saving is worth it to me

 

This is what I'm thinking as well. The little lithium ones seem to be proving themselves so far and the space and weight savings is really impressive. They are so comically small it almost seems impossible that they should work - until you realize the amount of energy needed to start a car isn't really that much and that the trick is just delivering the energy fast enough. The SLA batteries in the standard heavy jump start packs are large primarily because of limitations in the cranking current an SLA of a given size can deliver rather than needing that many Ah of storage. The lithium packs just deliver a lot more peak current/power for a given amount of storage and thus end up smaller (well and lithium energy density is quite a bit better as well).

I don't have a fridge, lighting will be LED and minimally used. So I'm not going to go with a dual battery setup but I do want to have a backup jump starter in case I accidentally drain my main battery in camp somehow. And I'm leaning towards those little lithium packs right now.

 

I've heard lots of good things about the Lithium jump packs and will be getting one soon.

 

This is so epic ^^^^. Nice DarthTarmac

 

Thanks. Western KY doesn't have beautiful mountain top vistas, but at least we do have some nice lakes and rivers.

 

Here a few from the first camping trip with the new truck. And the first time pulling the teardrop.

Even though it is an established campground, it was a very nice setting. Once I get the lift and tires on, it's off the to backwoods I go!