One thing to add that was a big issue for us - hard sides keep out bears! In Colorado virtually all the state parks and forest service parks require food to be kept in a hard sided vehicle. I'm sure that applies to northern NM, western Wyoming and Montana and other mountain states as well. That means tenters and pop-up users have to ferry food back to the car or truck each night! TM qualifies as hard sided at these places and eliminates the nightly ferry-dance. Now we can plan that trip to Yellowstone and stay with the big boys.
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