Recent content by COAKXterra

I still use Avenza as well. MVUMs and agency travel maps are the legal definition of open routes, so I tend to stick with them. I’ll cross reference to google maps or another app where necessary or to help with planning.

In the power wagon with the fam… 5gal Home Depot bucket with a lid, kitchen trash bag inside. Usually try to minimize trash before the trip and snack/cab trash goes into the gas station bins. Grocery bag for recyclables to take home. Bucket stays in the bed under the fiberglass shell at night...

I’ll second this. That is amazingly clean and certainly looks meant-to-be-together. Well done. Gonna show my wife this as how we spend her upcoming severance package. 😂

We’ve got a 2018. Daily about 50% of the time when my xterra is up a running. Other than being big and thirsty I don’t mind daily driving it at all. Bought ours with 14k in Oct 2020, now around 73k. Driven to/from lower48 twice. No major issues over that span. I do use it for power wagon things...

Quickfist under the bed rail in my power wagon for an axe. Works well and keeps it out of the way.

Yeah. Quite chilly. No issues other than the insides of the windows icing up a bit even on full defrost. I stayed in hotels (truck was fully packed to make our return to the northern great land, so no room for even a sleeping bag to be layed out). The hotels I stayed at in Edmonton, Fort...

ND to AK earlier this month

Went for a little drive in the power wagon a couple weeks ago. Beulah, ND to Anchorage, AK. Leading into a serious cold snap. 2650mi (uncorrected) Avg 11.7 ( plausible) Avg mph 53 Time 50:09:37

I drove from ND to AK leading up to that week. Chilly is a word. Frigid is more accurate. “Seriously f’ing freezing” is best. Ram thermometer stopped reading at -33F. Local weather showed -45F. Yes I went for a swim at the hot springs.

I’m not shy with taking our Power Wagon out on the stuff it’s capable of. That’s why we bought it, and knowingly took the obvious and glaring payload loss. But we wanted the crew cab (2 adults plus a tiny human and not tiny dog) and the capability vs payload and putting a camper on it full time...

Yeah. Our trainer explained that was the point of the lead training away from the other stimulus, since that’s how he was before. Sniffing and chasing down anything he could try and find. The training seemed to work pretty well for us and I don’t regret the time put in. Don’t get me wrong...

Oh did we have problems with this early on. Being over 100lbs at a year old, and anticipating the arrival of our daughter, we invested in some pretty dedicated training… which along the walking on a lead front included using a slip-type lead and taking our pup to the far corner of the local...

Our family “pup” is a 130lb mastiff mix. He’s been through Canada to the lower48 and back, plus all the camping adventures. Crossing borders, I always carry his vet paperwork, as others have said. Never been asked elsewhere. Food (depending on length of trip) is usually in anything from a 2gal...

Aero press for all the reasons above. Depending on the trip, we may take the pour over with paper filters, the French press, and/or the percolator as well. But generally the aero press, one other “multi-serving” option, and via packets are always in the truck.

Thank you, guys! Can’t wait to try out the kitchen bag next summer. Got it packed but haven’t gotten to play with it in the woods yet.