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Have you considered removing the rear seat bottom cushions? It’s 4 bolts and opens up a lot of space in the foot wells. It also addresses your original concern of the upslope. We are able to fit FrontRunner cub packs in the foot well using this method which extends the sleeping area. We put an Exped MegaMat duo on top.
It is a little inconvenient to shuffle the bins in and out, but it’s been working for our short trips.
Have you considered removing the rear seat bottom cushions? It’s 4 bolts and opens up a lot of space in the foot wells. It also addresses your original concern of the upslope. We are able to fit FrontRunner cub packs in the foot well using this method which extends the sleeping area. We put an Exped MegaMat duo on top.
It is a little inconvenient to shuffle the bins in and out, but it’s been working for our short trips.
I did consider it for a second while originally thinking about the approach. I am planning to stay in a house with family/friends on a few of my stops and wanted to be able to pull the platform out and shuttle people for the week or two I wasn't going to be sleeping in my car.
I do like that approach though for a solo trip. Do you have rear seat heating? Do you just disconnect that cable and then its four bolts as you said?
Yes! How is it to keep going that way? The sun was setting so I turned back but it looked amazing.
It’s magnificent. You drop down into a whole ‘nother world when you get through the pass. The Colorado is right there, the weird steampunk industrial potash plant is right across the river, Tom Higginson’s Base Camp Lodge is at the bottom of the descent, complete with 18 hole championship disc-golf course. You can take a fantastic drive around Jackson Hole if you veer to the right when you get to the bottom, but if you go left you can go out to Chicken Corners and a great overlook of the river, or split off and take the Lockhart Basin trail, the 38-ish-mile mega trail south to the Needles district of Canyonlands NP. I don’t think I ever go to SE Utah without going over Hoorah Pass any more. It’s not challenging off-roading (no problem for a Defender, that’s for sure) but the scenery and the weirdness is otherworldly in places. There’s an old mine, the Copper Penny mine, abandoned in the 40s or early 50s, that had a case of dynamite still in it until Tom called the BLM and had them come remove it. But the old beds are still in the cave where the men slept, and it’s spooky.
Last edited by NoGaBiker; Dec 14, 2021 at 11:01 PM.
It’s magnificent. You drop down into a whole ‘nother world when you get through the pass. The Colorado is right there, the weird steampunk industrial potash plant is right across the river, Tom Higginson’s Base Camp Lodge is at the bottom of the descent, complete with 18 hole championship disc-golf course. You can take a fantastic drive around Jackson Hole if you veer to the right when you get to the bottom, but if you go left you can go out to Chicken Corners and a great overlook of the river, or split off and take the Lockhart Basin trail, the 38-ish-mile mega trail south to the Needles district of Canyonlands NP. I don’t think I ever go to SE Utah without going over Hoorah Pass any more. It’s not challenging off-roading (no problem for a Defender, that’s for sure) but the scenery and the weirdness is otherworldly in places. There’s an old mine, the Copper Penny mine, abandoned in the 40s or early 50s, that had a case of dynamite still in it until Tom called the BLM and had them come remove it. But the old beds are still in the cave where the men slept, and it’s spooky.
Dang that looks awesome! Thank you for the response and detailed info. I honestly thought I had reached the end of chicken corner and the view was so amazing I had to stop. I will try to go back and finish the route before I leave.
Any other recs? I was thinking about checking out Onion creek today.
Have you considered removing the rear seat bottom cushions? It’s 4 bolts and opens up a lot of space in the foot wells. It also addresses your original concern of the upslope. We are able to fit FrontRunner cub packs in the foot well using this method which extends the sleeping area. We put an Exped MegaMat duo on top.
It is a little inconvenient to shuffle the bins in and out, but it’s been working for our short trips.
Have you camped in cold weather with this setup? 20-30s? I did a trip last year in a different car and had an air mattress and was freezing underneath me all the time and could not warm up no matter what. I came to the conclusion that it was because the mattress had no insulation so the air in the mattress was just the temp that it was outside. That is a main reason why I have a folding foam mattress on this trip and havent had any issues staying warm.
This was a cheap Walmart mattress so curious if the one you mentioned solved that problem.
