Recent content by foxintheforest

Hey all, Looking at holiday gift ideas and I thought my spouse would enjoy a little portable weather station. We’ve got an arkto G12 and it might be fun to have a weather station at base camp. Is this even a thing? If so do you have any recommendations? I’d prefer if we didn’t have to mount...

Oh ya - Arkto can handle all of that. Turning around is always a concern. We usually peep roads on Google Earth beforehand and do a risk analysis when we are there on the ground. But we haven’t run into any issues at all - this is our third trailer though (we bought and modified cheap stuff out...

I know you didn’t ask me, but I’m an avid backpacker and love being in remote spots. I’ve also got a toddler (we do take her backpacking and overlanding without our camper too). We primarily camp off-grid/dispersed in the Colorado Rockies and the Am. SW. My Arkto will go on mild, rougher...

I’ve got an overland trailer and have been on both of those trails. First, you cannot take almost any trailer on the white rim - there is a vehicle (including your trailer) length limit. You might be able to take a jeep and a little cargo trailer but that’s about it. This is due to turning...

I see what you’re saying here but nearly all the camping in Europe are ‘campgrounds’ that are basically just fields where people park as close as humanly possible to one another. Legitimately, you will park in the corner of an empty campground field and the next person who shows up will pull up...

So here’s my camper math on this. And I was a bit nervous to buy a new camper cuz the saver in me was screaming my head off lol. Assuming by off-grid you’re doing some more rugged roads, you’ll beat up anything cheap that you buy. The Arkto is our 3rd camper. We went cheaper with our first...

Anyone else check the Arkto insta daily to see if they dropped the new design yet? Just me? lol. I've got a G12 so I'm not even in the market for a trailer, but I'm so excited to see what they can do with a Wrangler's towing capacity - I've gotta few curious friends with jeeps that I need to...

I'm excited too! So exciting to see them expand.

Wanted to put a few adds/thoughts on reviewing the G12. We had a pop-up Flagstaff Mac that we did a leafover on and upgraded the batteries. Of course, the Arkto is an upgrade, but I had worries about a few inevitable changes. Significant decrease in interior space Lack of indoor cooking...

Interesting - the one we just saw had insulated canvas in similar conditions and I thought it was so effing hot in there lol. Coming from a pop up though, the airflow is just different in a hard-sided and in all fairness we didn't have the fan on. Thanks for all of your help!

I really never thought of the sound thing...that's a GREAT point!

For those of you with 360-pop-tops (maybe 1-2ft of canvas) do you think insulated canvas is necessary or a nice to have? We DO NOT winter camp, but do our fair share of shoulder season action in the American SW, CO, WY. Temps can dip below freezing overnight. We’ve camped in a variety of...

Thanks! I think my hangup is what battery options we want - trying to balance weight, budget, and need. Definitely want some solar suitcases so we can bring them along for bigger trips. Thanks for the lighting input - I believe I read your comments on how you handled it higher up in this thread...

Thanks for all of this! Awesome advice. Love the magnetic carabiner hack! And good to know about the USBs - I'll ask! Looks like we are looking at similar upgrades, except I think I'll go for just the suitcase solar panels (take 'em when I need 'em, leave 'em when I don't) instead of roof solar...

We are soooo near our decision and it's pretty much Arkto for us! We've seen one and were just at the overland expo seeing if we missed anything that might be an option for us (nothing came close given our random constraints with garage size, towing, etc). But this thread is SO HELPFUL, so thank...