How have your trailers held up camping in the mountains?

Francesca Knowles wrote:
We camp almost exclusively in the kind of conditions you describe.

Other than "Sierra pinstripes", my trailer hasn't sustained any damage from mountain/rough roads camping. If you can call that damage...some folks, myself included, think of them more as badges of honor. Positive proof that we've been down roads literally narrower than the trailer...now, THAT is what I call "campin'!

That is why we have the rapid growth of the Off Road Caravan in Australia. More and More people are going to previously inaccessible places in Australia without destroying their RV.

I use those things that look like giant twist ties to keep my cabinets shut on the road: http://www.griptwist.com/

It always interesting to open the door.

Why don't they make a fridge door with good latch? If you put a piece of carpet in front of the pantry, when it spills , it doesn't damage the floor. BTW, door latches are top of the honey-do list. chuckle

5MPH ?? I did highway speeds on gravel highways in the NWT. good gravel roads, though, got to get a grass skirt for the truck

Backroads Trailer 3, is an Outdoor RV Creekside, it seems to be standing up well .Heavy frame, shocks,

We installed latches on all of our cabinets to prevent stuff from falling out on rough roads -- we get more bouncing on California freeways at 60 mph than we do on forest roads at 5 mph!

To handle rocky roads and steep driveways, we had our axle flipped and installed heavy duty shocks and axle.

Huntindog wrote:
That is the way we have always camped. Screws do back out, and staples loosen up. I fix it in such a way that it won't happen again.
At some point I like have done most everything in the way of repairs... A hint: Loctite is your friend. The Harbor Freight brand works well and is affordable enough. Never reinstall a screw with using it.

Which "color"/strength Loctite do you use? In general, I use the blue stuff (removable by hand tools), but some swear by the purple (the weakest of them all), and others use red (removable by heating to 300-400 degrees.)

With my previous TT, I occasionally found loose screws (not counting the ones in my head). The worst was one of the drawers loosened and came all the way extended on the track, and then the vibration broke one of the tracks loose from the cabinet, then the track bent and the drawer ended up on the floor. It took a while to repair that issue.

The worst is driving over speed bumps either going through small towns, or even in the CGs themselves. I have not taken the new TT over any of the dirt/gravel CG entrance roads with washboard effect. Those conditions are usually worse in the off-peak season. Some of those entrance roads can be a mile or two long!

Francesca Knowles wrote:

rfryer wrote:

Once in Utah I came into an area just before dawn and missed seeing a huge pothole. I was moving slow but it was one h__ of an impact. It tore the door off my frig and sent food all over the TT. But I was lucky, I was able to repair the hinge easily and go on.

In my opinion, you have to have had at least one refrigerator-blown-open-by-pothole incident in order to qualify for the "I RV on Rough Roads Club". And since you managed to tear your fridge door completely off, I hereby appoint you President!:B

Thank you so much, Francesca, I'm truly honored. But--- does that mean I'm the king of klutzes?:@

ReferDog wrote:
Interstates worst than back rds. I-90 over the Cascades will though most stuff on the floor, worst than I-5 though the SJ valley

:h

I use I-90 a lot, and find it to be very well maintained. Certainly the section near the summit that they're working on right now is a bit rough, but in my mind that's to be expected during construction.

That said:
If you prefer Forest Service roads to I-90, there's an avoid-the-construction bypass that's right up your alley: just get off I-90 at Hyak and take FS 4832.
Full description/directions at this link

Have fun!

Interstates worst than back rds. I-90 over the Cascades will though most stuff on the floor, worst than I-5 though the SJ valley

Lowsuv wrote:
Oregon is dry camping heaven

lol

I hope you typed that up intentionally as it was funny. Just moved back to CO a year ago from near Astoria, 9 years there. :)