Best Cold Weather Tips

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Bike rack is not on truck but here’s a photo. The rack will last longer than me. 12” extension from Harbor Freight.

Having the bikes on the back is not ideal, because they get coated with dust before reaching the trail head. If you’re as digital about your gear as I am, this is unacceptable. I’m considering a hitch mount underneath the front bumper, and trading bugs for dust. Anybody have experience with this?

 

 

Investigate bike covers....not 100% but if tight, close...

 

Up front you still get spray, dust, rocks from vehicles coming the other way or in front of you....reason why when I carry a winch in front  [frt/rear receivers] it has a neoprene cover....

https://www.amazon.c...1141_dev-c_ext-

 

We use a couple of these:  They are pretty well made, not too expensive, and cinch up pretty well.  Once cinched up I wrap them with bungees to keep them from flapping.  

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Bike rack is not on truck but here’s a photo. The rack will last longer than me. 12” extension from Harbor Freight.

Having the bikes on the back is not ideal, because they get coated with dust before reaching the trail head. If you’re as digital about your gear as I am, this is unacceptable. I’m considering a hitch mount underneath the front bumper, and trading bugs for dust. Anybody have experience with this?

I have the same rack. Love my 1up! I purchased two motorcycle nylon storage covers. I run a bungee around the frames (individually) so the cover doesn’t flap around. So far they’ve traveled several hundred miles this way and keep everything more or less dust-free. Not indoor-perfect, but close. If it’s going to be snowy/slushy on the drive from Denver to Moab I pop off the front wheels and put two bikes in the back of my crew-cab.

Adding my $0.02 here after 4 weekends in a row winter camping!

 

After waking up to a rainforest on the first go-around I've finally got a system that has all but eliminated my condensation issues. Spoiler alert, it's what everyone else has suggested. Here are my new rules to live by...

 

1. Reflictix on the windows. Im really shocked with that a difference this has made. So easy to cut and install. Very happy

2. If I'm in the camper, a window is cracked and the Fantastic fan is on low. No exceptions. 

3. When I go to sleep, the furnace gets turned off. I keep the Fantastic Fan on low and keep a window cracked. I sleep in a sleeping bag and under 2 comforters and I'm usually too warm, even when it was 25 degrees in the camper!

4. When I'm cooking anything, I crack a tie down access hatch, crack a window, and the Fantastic Fan goes to high. 

 

Following these rules has made my winter camping (every weekend here in the PNW) so much more enjoyable. If you're at the Upper Mt. Baker lot, come by for a beer!