First trip in the Elk, some good, some bad.

Well, we just happened to leave on the day we had some of the strongest spring winds in the area of the season, the poor Tundra could hardly break 45mph going up the bigger hills driving directly onto a 50-60mph headwind. It was brutal, there were several "brown outs" where visibility was about 10 feet. Needless to say, I missed the 2619 in these conditions, though it would still have been hard.

I should say that I added a Equalizer hitch with 4 point sway control, it was wonderful, without it we would have had to turn back and go home. The large trucks no longer blow me off the road. The wind would move us around, but the truck and Elk were connected as one.

Once set up, we love the space, bed, bath and frig in the Elk, but it was down to 30 degrees at night so we had to use the furnace. At least I think it was on, the bath heated up nicely, but the main floorspace took a long long long time to heat up at all. The furnace was a lot quiter than the 2619, but not near as effective. We went and purchased a small electric space heater for tonight. I think that will be much better. But I am concerned about heat/battery when boon docking in the mountains. I may try to figure out a way to direct more heat into the main area instead of splitting it with the bath.

As we were topping Laveta Pass a folding TM blew by me pretty fast, I assume that they were not having as many issues with the wind as I was. I didn't see what the TV was. I think he was showing off a bit for me. LOL