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Afternoon naps.
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Grilling up brats and mac and cheese for dinner.
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Relaxing by the fire.
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Arclight LED interior lights
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Camping lights
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20 degrees out with dense wet fog, he bundled up for bed.
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The lights looked like lasers in the fog.
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Cold, damp, and foggy in the morning.
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Frost on the tent.
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Frost on the ladder.
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We decided to call it, it wasn't going to be a good day for adventuring with a 3 year old.
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Dash cam screen shot of the roads.
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We had quite a bit of condensation to dry out when we got home. We played football while it air dried.
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Tight setup there brah. Good pics!
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Your kid is going to have great memories and a love of nature from his early childhood. Good on you.
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I sure hope he does. The goal is always to provide your kids with a better life than you had.
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Dbest wrote: Tue May 21, 2019 7:16 pm I sure hope he does. The goal is always to provide your kids with a better life than you had.
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The amount of :jelly: can't be expressed in a response here.

Great work on the rig, it's fantastic. I wish I had your skill set, and your time/location to go on adventures like this. I think my wife and little man would love it just as much as yours seems to.
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Devilchrono wrote: Wed May 22, 2019 11:36 am The amount of :jelly: can't be expressed in a response here.

Great work on the rig, it's fantastic. I wish I had your skill set, and your time/location to go on adventures like this. I think my wife and little man would love it just as much as yours seems to.
Thanks man, I appreciate it.
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Devilchrono wrote: Wed May 22, 2019 11:36 am The amount of :jelly: can't be expressed in a response here.

Great work on the rig, it's fantastic. I wish I had your skill set, and your time/location to go on adventures like this. I think my wife and little man would love it just as much as yours seems to.
Thanks man, I appreciate it.
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We were planning to get back out this weekend but we just got a shot load of snow. Everything in the mountains is buried and all the trails need to dry out. Tuesday I leave on a work trip for a while so I think the adventures are on hold until July.
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We were planning to get back out this weekend but we just got a shot load of snow. Everything in the mountains is buried and all the trails need to dry out. Tuesday I leave on a work trip for a while so I think the adventures are on hold until July.
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Love the rig as always brah

My 10 day camping adventure made me realize the benefits of a RTT. Jelly.
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Johnny_P wrote: Sun May 26, 2019 3:42 pm Love the rig as always brah

My 10 day camping adventure made me realize the benefits of a RTT. Jelly.
Nice, where did you go?
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Dbest wrote: Sun May 26, 2019 10:56 pm
Johnny_P wrote: Sun May 26, 2019 3:42 pm Love the rig as always brah

My 10 day camping adventure made me realize the benefits of a RTT. Jelly.
Nice, where did you go?
Sedona
Grand Canyon
Escalante
Valley of Fire
Red Rock Canyon
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Johnny_P wrote: Mon May 27, 2019 12:22 am
Dbest wrote: Sun May 26, 2019 10:56 pm

Nice, where did you go?
Sedona
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Red Rock Canyon
Damn! That sounds pretty awesome.
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I've been out of town for a long while, I flew home on July 3rd in time to pack up and hit the road with my son for camping and biking.

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Oh wow that lake view 😍
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Here's the next adventure from last weekend, hiking a 14,036 foot peak in the clouds with my wife.

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Hiking the Ridge to the Summit
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On top of the clouds
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At the summit
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My wife taking a break in the rock wall shelter to get out of the unrelenting cold strong wind. It was about 40 degrees with a constant 30 mph wind.
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The clouds were starting to break
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As the sun came out and we made our descent to warming temps the gloves came back off
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Click this pic, its a link to the video or taking the express way down. So much fun!
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That was the summit up there left of center still in the clouds
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I just finished up an epic trip with my best friend, I have a ton of pics to go through, sometime this week I should have it posted. Both of us and the truck got a hell of a workout without much rest.
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Dbest wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 11:22 am I just finished up an epic trip with my best friend, I have a ton of pics to go through, sometime this week I should have it posted. Both of us and the truck got a hell of a workout without much rest.
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Big Brain Bradley wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 11:56 am
Dbest wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 11:22 am I just finished up an epic trip with my best friend, I have a ton of pics to go through, sometime this week I should have it posted. Both of us and the truck got a hell of a workout without much rest.
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There’s 400 of them lol, I deleted about 100 so far trying narrow it down but it was just scenery that wouldn’t quit.
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This was my plan for a dual battery. I don't have all the stuff yet, for now I'm holding off on the battery monitor, solar panel, A/C shore power, and the fridge but I have enough to get it up and running properly wired, fused (circuit breakers actually) on a DC-DC charger with e second battery running vow voltage cutoff leading to the power distribution module running all of non-OEM electronics,
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The past couple days I've been working on the dual battery setup.

I got the C4 Fabrication passenger side firewall battery tray painted and installed so it's not in this picture.
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I made a cardboard template to figure out how much room I had to work with and transferred it to a 1/2" piece of HDPE.
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Trying to visualize how I want the components laid out for a clean install with minimal wiring.
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Test fitting and checking clearances with a rough layout.
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I'm happy with the layout but I need to modify the hold down so there no interference with the wiring.
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The top end is modified, the bottom end is not.
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Proper clearance.
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Countersunk bolts so it can sit flat
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I got the bottom of the hold down trimmed for clearance and painted and then everything laid out to map the excess real estate to trim.
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Trimmed down and wired up.
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I need some wire loom and I have to find the paperwork and figure out the small wires on the Redarc, but the cables almost all of the wiring is done. Almost ready for install.

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Your work is so freaking clean. :jelly:
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