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It is a serious question.
You shouldn’t be keeping food or cooking in a soft sided tent trailer in the mountain parks.
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Why not? We used to keep our perishables in the fridge (which is air-tight, like a cooler), and our other stuff in cupboards. I can confirm I was never eaten by a bear.
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A proper tarp and tent set up keeps you completely dry in rain
You can easily hall bikes on the back of your car
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The trailer was pretty good at keeping us dry too. and it had a table to play cards at.
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Originally Posted by GGG
And in a tent I sleep on very comfy mattresses.
All the equipment fits within two bins and am fully set up in sub 30 minutes.
So once you account for having to drive slower because you are towing it is guaranteed to be faster using a tent as well.
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Our tent trailer was 1200 lbs dry. It wasn't even noticeable to pull it. All of that stuff that takes you 30 minutes to set up is already set up in a trailer.
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So faster, cheaper, weather proof, and just as comfortable. (Though comfort is a perception thing.
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it is neither of those things, but I'm glad you are enjoying your tent. I'm not crapping on tent camping, I like doing that too. But it is impossible to argue that a tent trailer isn't objective more comfortable and useful than a tent. The only benefit to a tent over a tent trailer is being to able to backcountry camping.
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Originally Posted by GGG
Note I’m not saying trailers in general. I understand the desire for a hard sided trailer. The tent trailer has all of the trailer downsides and only a fraction of the benefits.
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It has almost all of the benefits. If my wife wasn't a sissy, I'd have a tent trailer instead of a hardsided one.