Roof Top Tents

I'm considering buying a roof top tent for my F-150 Jeep Support Vehicle to use next year on the many flat fender adventures that I plan on attending.

Pop up pickup campers and tents do not qualify as "bear proof". The Forest Service law enforcement does not want you to store food inside one. They can fine you for it. At their campgrounds they provide lock up food storage bins. A real pain.  My wife doesn't like the idea either.  Bear spray-------5 cylinders of it.  Alot of choices out there. Oilly

Bruce W wrote: Since you do have a pickup, instead of a wrangler, I think I'd be looking for a pop-up camper for the pickup. They're much more comfortable than a tent, and can have fixed amenities (sink, stove, icebox, etc.) A pop-up would actually be easier to erect and take down, and tho it fills the pickup bed, you can still haul a lot of stuff inside. BW

I'm not aposed to a pop up camper, but I'm a bit limited because the bed on my truck is only five and a half feet. I've looked around a little and haven't really found anything in the used market that would work and the new stuff is beyond mt budget. Still just in the info gathering stage, but I like the positives of these roof tops tents compared to a ground tent. The negatives are as you say, lack of fixed assets.

As for bears, I've decided that if there are bears around, all my smelly stuff will go in John's camper.

 And, I'm sorry folks, hard-side campers are not "bear-proof" either. I've seen them with the door ripped off from the hinge side. I guess Br'er Bear don't know how a door works....      BW

Ol' Stan don't brake much so be sure to shoot the rt knee.. Muley

 A short pickup bed doesn't mean you can't haul a decent camper. I hauled a ten-foot pop-up around for years on a Chevy half-ton with an eight-foot box. It just means that the tailgate doesn't close. In fact, it extended out over the t'gate. 

We have an older popup camper and it works for us.  Lots of choices in pickup campers.  You might want to check out the online camper magazine.  They cover all brands and types of campers and modifications by owners. 
www.truckcampermagazine.com

Tom

Part of my issue with almost any type of outfit with hard sides is storage. I live in suburbia and I just don't have any place to keep a trailer, and a camper would almost have to stay on the truck which makes it unusable for other truck stuff. I have a tall garage where I think I could rig up a pulley system to store the roof top tent up in the ceiling.

So far no one has chimed in with any expierience with the roof top tents. Maybe I'll have to be the test case. I won't be deciding until we are much closer to next years jeep season, but just not staying in the Iron Horse Inn for a week would make a pretty good down payment on one of these

There's lot's of comments over on the expedition portal site about RTTs and the racks to put them on.
I bought my motor home because I felt that after back packing for my many years I had slept on about every rock in the state and I wanted a real bed and a place to store beer (and food).
I do carry a bear gun.