Recent content by Scottie_T

We just added a mattress topper from IKEA, I think it's the Tanager, at 2 3/8", it doesn't take up too much room and it works very well.

Thanks for that, I had concerns about that too, but hadn't gotten around to checking on the weights & math.

Great, thanks for posting those photos. We may have to get that bike rack...

Thanks for the info on that bike rack. Any chance you could post a photo of the bike rack with the trailer in place?

Thanks for sharing. We have a 560 & have traveled through a lot of wet conditions, and we haven't seen any leaking problems. I'll keep an eye for it, but so far, so good.

We have a 2013, 4 cylinder Outback and it does pretty well for us, towing a 560 Ultra. We have to take it easy a bit on mountain passes, but it's not a problem. I had a poor experience with the hitch installer that I chose and learned a lot the hard way. They claimed it was "hard" to find the...

Quick travelogue - From Federal Way, WA to Anchorage, AK. We had to do our trip quickly, and get back home, so we did it in 4.5 days, in late April. Total mileage: 2,510 miles. The farther north you go, the later the campgrounds start their season, so our options were limited once we got into...

I'd say it came in handy to have the furnace. We had a couple of chilly mornings, since it was only late April when we were driving up north. Coldest morning was 36 F in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Photos from our drive north through Canada, and from our first two in-state (Alaska) camping trips with our 560. Ft. Nelson, British Columbia Somewhere in the Yukon.. Turnagain Pass, AK. Test drive. Ready to roll on our first test drive with our Outback. Quartz Creek Campground...

Boba Fett is a good name too. Wish we could have made the trip all the way to WI, but that would have made for a very long road trip.

Hi Casandra - May - September is reasonable camping weather. However, many of the campgrounds don't officially open until Memorial Day weekend in late May (or just before). We actually want to go camping this weekend, but very few campgrounds are officially open (some may be available without...

Our 560 Ultra is home. We had it shipped to a family members' house in the Seattle area in late April. Lucky for us, we received a golden opportunity to drive up a vehicle that could tow it (for the company my wife works for); so we took advantage of that and did a one way drive north to our...