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I definitely agree with you on preferring the Yoho layout over the Olympic and for cold weather use I think you made a great choice vs the FWC. In terms of truck, you can put the Yoho on pretty much anything, although you might need to build a little basement to get it to clear the cab on a...

@svinyard That's awesome, glad you finally were able to get it! Are you keeping the tailgate on or removing it? We have the stock Dometic fridge and it is just strapped to some hooks screwed into the camper, nothing fancy.

Glad someone finally picked up on the Edward Abbey reference :-). I had the RTT closed the whole trip and haven't actually camped with it open in cold weather. Crawling around on a snowy/icy roof to close it and tuck in the fabric is a little disconcerting. I think the mattress in the RTT is...

@Fen CO sure thing, I'm glad the write-up helped. Sounds like your truck will be a nice match for the camper! I camped out on Rabbit Ears pass outside of Steamboat Springs the weekend before last. It was about 10F that night with about 6" of new snow. The heater was able to keep the camper...

What was the diesel situation, were you able to find ULSD easily?

Absolutely, I've been very impressed with their response. I hope you get yours soon! Sounds like the solution for the jacks is sorted out so I don't imagine it will be much longer.

Quick update on the Kenai: I had a great call with Scout today, they were very responsive to my concerns and got a number of people involved from the their customer service and engineering teams. They shared a lot about how they manufacture the composites and were really open about issues...

I'm not a composite expert so I don't really know if it's the gel coat, composite delamination, or something else. You can sort of see the trouble spots in the first picture of my previous post. There's a roughly 2" diameter bubble left of the window and some rippling around the Scout logo on...

We've been enjoying our Kenai for about a month now and took it on a multi-week trip around UT and AZ in early March. We're still thrilled with the camper and think it was the best choice for us given what was on the market. Some observations from that trip: Heating: The coldest night we had...

One consideration is to make sure you can still get to your spare tire with the tailgate down. I'm not as familiar with how it works on Fords, but on our Ram when the tailgate is down it blocks the access port where the crank goes to lower the spare.

Yup, it's a 12v for the RinseKit shower thing. Nice of them to include the wiring even though we didn't order that option.

That's great to hear, I'm looking forward to seeing your campers!

I think the Scout Kenai could serve you really well. We just took delivery of ours and the wet weight with jacks removed is 1750#. If you're not toting along a family and kids, you could skip the rooftop tent and save another couple hundreds pounds. I think of the Scout as a mass-produced...

1) Yup, the toilet area should drain into the shower pan. The seams for the shower pan aren't perfect and there's some ugly caulking in a few places, but for muddy or snowy boots/kids/dogs it should work great. I'm not sure I would actually shower in there, mostly for fear of getting all the...

Ok, I snagged some more pictures. First, roof penetrations for @Victorian Most of the 'cabinets' appear to be attached to the wall with pocket screws and plug sort of like what you'd find at IKEA The cabinet holding the water jug has a reinforcing bracket: I was wrong earlier, the...

No one will disagree with you that Chrysler products certainly were pretty awful back in the 90s and early 2000s but Ram trucks since the 2014 interior redesign are a completely different story. We're all loyal to our favorite brands and that's fine, but after 70,000 hard miles on my Ram 2500...

@hdhp We have a 2016 Ram 2500 with diesel and ran a ~1600 pound Northstar TC650 popup on it for for 4 years. The truck has been great, but I think the rear coil suspension on the Ram 2500's is a really bad match for a slide-in camper. The coils are mounted inboard of the frame rails causing a...

Ram bed is 6' 4", Ford is 6' 9". It can make a difference when fitting a slide-in camper.

The Ram 2500/3500 crew cab short bed wheelbase is 149", essentially the same as the Ford Supercab 148" wheelbase, but you get real doors that open independently and a B pillar. The Supercab doors can squeak offroad because there's no rigid pillar where the doors meet...

I think the mudroom will be great for skiing which is a big use case for us. There's a plastic insert in the metal shower pan that feels a little flimsy but I could see replacing it with something wooden down the line. It's not quite a trip hazard but you do notice the floor is a little higher...