jim65wagon
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Gnarly trails? No, but that's one reason for having the trailer. We can set up a base camp and thoroughly explore an areas roads and trails (driving and hiking). Like driving Elephant Hill Road, we left the teardrop on BLM land for a night with the cows while we drove over Elephant Hill and camped out in our backpacking tent, then drove out Bobby's Hole and back to the teardrop.
The teardrop does see some rough two tracks though. We camped in some amazing places that I would never take our 19 foot travel trailer.
Bluff Outside Theodore Roosevelt NP
Death Valley Eye of the Needle
Suislaw National Forest Oregon
As a matter of fact our first night boondocking with our 19 foot TT, we almost got it stuck in a spot the teardrop would've crawled over easily.
The teardrop allows us to get farther out than the TT, but it still has its limitations. We could realistically take it on tougher trails than we usually do but there's no reason to beat up the home we live in 6 months of the year.
It's best as a remote base camp, so we can further explore every area we visit.
Mojave National Preserve
We learned early on in our 12 years with this trailer to watch for turn around points everywhere you tow. Yes we've had to back out of a few places and that can be time consuming, but it's all part of teardrop life. I think the farthest I've backed is about a half of a mile.
Dunkle Hollow Road to Flagpole Knob, Virginia
*we did not have to back out of this but we did have to cut and winch a tree out of the road
One last thing I learned: when In n Out had their parking lot coned into a series of switchbacks for traffic flow, the teardrop can turn the corners better than the 3/4 ton Ford and Ram pickups that were in front of us in line....
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The teardrop does see some rough two tracks though. We camped in some amazing places that I would never take our 19 foot travel trailer.
Bluff Outside Theodore Roosevelt NP
Death Valley Eye of the Needle
Suislaw National Forest Oregon
As a matter of fact our first night boondocking with our 19 foot TT, we almost got it stuck in a spot the teardrop would've crawled over easily.
The teardrop allows us to get farther out than the TT, but it still has its limitations. We could realistically take it on tougher trails than we usually do but there's no reason to beat up the home we live in 6 months of the year.
It's best as a remote base camp, so we can further explore every area we visit.
Mojave National Preserve
We learned early on in our 12 years with this trailer to watch for turn around points everywhere you tow. Yes we've had to back out of a few places and that can be time consuming, but it's all part of teardrop life. I think the farthest I've backed is about a half of a mile.
Dunkle Hollow Road to Flagpole Knob, Virginia
*we did not have to back out of this but we did have to cut and winch a tree out of the road
One last thing I learned: when In n Out had their parking lot coned into a series of switchbacks for traffic flow, the teardrop can turn the corners better than the 3/4 ton Ford and Ram pickups that were in front of us in line....
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