Selecting a truck camper-help please
My wife and I are long time campers and have owned a number of travel trailers and 5th wheels, so we are not new to the camping experience, but have never been around any truck campers. Most all of ou...
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Bleugoat wrote:
Your post brings back memories. I went through almost the same thought process as you when I retired and planned a trip to Alaska in 2005. I too had a lot of experience with travel trailer camping but decided a truck camper would be best for the Alaska trip. That was one of the best decisions I ever made.
I bought the Outfitter popup in my signature, made the trip, and enjoyed the freedom of truck camping so much that I never went back to travel trailer camping.
I have enjoyed my Outfitter, but if I had it to do over again, I would get a hard side camper. It is a bit of inconvenience to put up the top, especially after you get to be an old fart like me.
By all means, take the trip. Alaska is the trip of a lifetime.
Good Luck.
Perhaps you could talk to Bob about the cost to retrofit your camper with the electric lift top. I have had both the manual (in our 2004) and the electric (in our 2007) and with the power lift it is a one finger job to raise the top. Even with a roof full of solar panels and items in the rooftop storage box.
With the power lift there is also no real need to climb up and use the clamps as the mechanism holds the roof down.
