Winter Road Trip in a Truck Camper - SCOTLAND 

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Hi Martin, aye it was much more comfortable than the tent, especially for so many days. Might be heading down your way next month, we've got a ferry booked and a few weeks to travel and I reckon we'll be heading south for the sun! ATB mate.

​@@Adventure-Outdoors well it's already hitting 20c here so a nice time to travel. If you're anywhere near Barcelona/Vilanova let me know and happy to go on a day hike in the area with you both. If you're driving through the Pyrenees, I can recommend the mountains above Vielha and the area around Benasque. Happy travels! 🙂

@@whatsnottohike Hi mate, I'll give you a shout. I reckon I'll take my mountain bike and have a look at some of the trails in the Pyrenees as well. That's if the weather allows, last time I was there in April a few years back there was still a couple of feet of snow on the ground up high. 20c sounds perfect, it's done nowt but rain here for a couple of months. 👍

​@@Adventure-Outdoors cool! Yeah April there will be snow in the high Pyrenees, still there in June some years. Huesca is a good place for taking the mountain bike, lovely area too and not so much chance of snow. Let me know when you're going as I can try and be in the Pyrenees at the same time. Sounds like a nice trip you're planning 🙂

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Hi Kevin, yes it's much more comfortable for these cold weather trips! Cheers mate 👍

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Ahh that’s the river Feshie, it runs through Glen Feshie. The road we were on runs along the eastern bank of the river 👍.

Cheers mate, thanks for watching! It was a good time to go up there, even though the weather was bad there was hardly anyone else around 👍

Lol, that would’ve spooked me mate. Yeah there seems to be a bit more infrastructure up there these days but nothing like what they have on the continent. I’ll check out that distillery centre when it’s open, I should explore that area more really, it’s just up the road. Cheers mate 👍

Hi mate, I'll get onto making a review video sometime next week I reckon. Yeah too much comfort can be a bad thing 😂👍

@Adventure-Outdoors - mate we're all getting older and if we can still enjoy the things we do in a little more comfort then brilliant. I'll look forward to the review. I'm off to the Black forest area of Germany in May towing the camper trailer with a roof tent on it behind the Disco, but considering an option like yours, but maybe with a D Max. Mark

Cheers Paul, aye it was a canny trip, really comfortable in the camper. There is some great scenery right up in that far north west corner of Scotland. Atb mate 👍

Cheers mate, yeah not too many people around at all 👍

Cheers Tom, thanks for watching! I watched your last video the other day, great film, although it looked bloody cold where you camped. I bought a second hand fat bike a couple of weeks back inspired by your trips, it's a Kona Wo. It was an ex hire bike, only a couple of years old but used and abused so I've replaced a few parts here and there. Hopefully I can get out on it up on the moors next week; no snow down here but plenty of mud and sand. ATB mate 👍

@@Adventure-Outdoors Excellent news you've joined the 'fat side'!! - its a slower way to travel to be sure but you can take in the views so much better... I started out on a used Kona Wo as well and as you've likely seen I still have it! (albeit lots of new/replacement parts) the wifes was bought new during lockdown and everywhere was sold out of everything but I think I got the second last one in the UK at the time (according to Kona) - anyway hope to see you out on it on a future video! - ATB Tom

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I bet that truck is still going! The camper weighs 530kg dry so it's about half the total load capacity of the truck, you can really feel the weight mind, acceleration drops off a cliff but the handling is fine; just need to drive sensibly. I'm not sure I'd take it off road though without heavy duty leaf springs. Cheers mate 👍

@@Adventure-Outdoors Sure that would make a big difference. The canopy on mine was higher than the cab but not in the league of a demountable. It was fine for sensible driving but any unexpected avoidance manoeuvres tended to be butt clenching! Never came to grief though. Loved that truck. The dream is to get a vehicle to Iceland. You can do a lot to improve a 4Motion VW van but I’d rather do multiple river crossings in a high clearance low ratio hilux. Good few years away though given the costs. Looking forward to seeing your travels this year (& beer reviews! 🍻)

Cheers Callum, it was luxury in that camper mate, hotel room on wheels 😂👍.

Cheers! You don't see many of them here in the UK, they're definitely more popular in the US and Germany, France etc. I've still got the stock suspension, the camper weighs 530kg dry so it's about half the payload of the Hilux, it drives fine. I reckon I'd replace the leaf springs though if I was planning an off road trip 👍

Hi mate, I managed to avoid the mad woman of Smoo Cave 😂. I’ll still do some tent camping but yeah, some sort of camper is the way forward for those longer trips in Scotland 👍.

I've still got the stock suspension, the camper is fairly lightweight at 530kg dry so comfortable enough for on road driving. Not sure about off road with the stock suspension though, I reckon it would be better with heavy duty leafs. Thanks for watching mate 👍

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