I wanted to update some stuff from the original post about my trailer.

Recent thoughts on “if I did it again”

The biggest thing is that Hiker now has a new model, the Mid-Range XL Off-Road. This basically splits the difference between our Mid-Range and the much, much more intense Extreme Off-Road. You get a slightly more robust chassis and a little more ground clearance.

We do not, as I have said, do crazy off-road stuff, but we _do_ push the envelope a little. We’ve never had a problem with clearance, but we have on occasion had to look at where we were about to go and pause for a moment.

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Some answers to questions. This is going to be lengthy and rambly. Sorry.

Want to *see* me babble about our trailer? I did, at the 2nd annual Hiker Trailer owner meetup. It’s on Youtube, here.

Update, September 2021 I added some more info (link TBD)

Q. Why? A. I’ve been camping since I was in the womb – I mean that literally, my mom and dad were camping a few days before I was born. I’ve slept outside for probably thousands of hours and in every weather – all 4 seasons, desert to forest to mountain to beach. I’ve done it all, more or less. Any camping experience I haven’t had is probably complicated and/or expensive: Mt. Everest, backpacking through Iran, etc.

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To make a long story short, it has been so long since I last updated my blog via my publishing system, the pub was broken. Having spent the entire day at work dealing with broken tools, I broke down and moved back to wordpress.