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  1. Mccaf

    Post your tents

    Probably overkill for us these days is this 4-season expedition tent, called a Katabatic by Eddie Bauer. Winner of Backpacker Magazine's 2012 Editor's Choice Snow Award and been to Everest and the worlds highest peaks. Not from me of course, but I can say here that at Great Sand Dunes NP the...
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    Mega Gear Sale

    Price on the table shipped to San Diego?
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    Engel vs ARB, battle of the frig

    Hey, thanks for the vote of confidence! Have a fall trip to Co where I’m hoping to get some sunlight in the days to recharge the fridge. I know the Dometic and Engle fridges consume less power but can’t change at this point.
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    Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Your Roof Top Tent

    Copy to all suggestions. Pipe insulation zip tied could work! IIRC there was someone on one of the 45 pages here who mentioned it.
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    Engel vs ARB, battle of the frig

    Arb63 I felt compelled to reply here this is a great thread much too old, so bump. I bought an ARB63 off Craig’s list July/2017 with the slider and the thermal wrap. It’s has been running in the garage ever since as a beer cooler. No Problems. It is always precooled for trips to the desert...
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    Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Your Roof Top Tent

    Any ideas on ladder padding for when you come down in bare feet? I usually keep flip-flops at the bottom for the 2am trips to the bucket but the rungs are killing me feet!
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    Cheap tricks and solutions - product modifications, DIY, or repurposed items- not on-sale items

    Built my own slide-out for my M8mule trailer. I needed to hold a bar sink, containers for kitchen and camping gear and a stove with counter space. Knock-off Metro shelves from HD, 500lb drawer slides, and some scrap wood. Still modifying as a work in progress. ~$200. Love this thread!
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    Gaia and problem with Death Valley

    I’ll be checking.. I can’t see in the .com site how to download a map... Hmmmm.... doing it from the app side is easy. I’ll be checking on that this week. Having another way to do it may come in handy. in the meantime I did find this tutorial on downloading google maps...
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    Gaia and problem with Death Valley

    It works on the app and the .com site for me. See images. On the the version I am using (pro) national forests do show up in the “public lands” layer in maps. You don’t have to “send it” , as it’s already a layer. Again not sure if this is in the non-pro version or Pro version only. I seem to...
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    Gaia and problem with Death Valley

    I’ll check on my device but I am on iOS
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    Gaia and problem with Death Valley

    Contact Gaia via the help. They are very responsive and have always had a solution to my most complicated issues.
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    In Gaia which maps do you like?

    When planning an adventure I start with one of the road maps as a base map, add a forest service map which I can toggle opacity and interchange with the topo map, then top it with a public lands layer, followed by the MVUM . You can add layers and delete, for instance just use the topo map as...
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    Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Your Roof Top Tent

    Depends. I live in desert area and have never had a problem because its very dry. Never needed one. In moister climates could be a different story as others have documented. depending where you live and use the RTT I would try it out first, second third...
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    What are you using for a coffee maker and coffee brand when camping/overlanding?

    Well, I haven’t settled on a coffee solution yet. Been using the Italian Espresso many mention on here, Medaglia-d’oro. Not bad but not up to my taste 100%. The big complaint I also would have is with cleaning the press out. And the amount of water/paper towels and so on required... I’m hoping...
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    Mil Spec M8A1 Ammo Mule New Build Tips to help other builders

    My M8A1 Mule build out: I met mulebuilder on another site and really liked what I saw in these ORTs. I ordered up an M8A1 mule with some customizing touches so I could build it out as an off road-off grid camping trailer. Cost as picked up was $4000 plus matching rims to my the tow rig that I...
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    Smittybilt Scout Trailer Reviews?

    Have a link to these water jug in the 5th pic? I wish I had your bugs LOL (attachment 4427218)
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    Fold-able, packable 100w solar panel recommendations?

    +1 for the Renogy 100w suitcase and Rover 20a MPPT.
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    National Luna Portable Powerpack + Solar?

    Sorry I misread your post in the other thread... Power pack Just took a look at that beast. Do I understand you want to use solar to charge a deep cycle battery inside the power Pack?
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    Lets see some full size pictures...

    No, just the ARB 63 as pictured, and not as efficient- powerwise -as the NL. So if you run a Renogy (standard MC4 solar connectors) to a Yetti be prepared to make a special connection or splice it into the Yetti cable, (I own a150 and thought about that) if you go all Goal Zero; the cost of...
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