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The happiest moments may be those spent under canvas-under the canvas of a Nimrod tent or camping trailer. Traveling to and through Alaska in a tent camper was high adventure plus warm companionship. At various times the tent flaps faced such magnificent scenes as Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, the formidable Wrangell Mountains and the highest point on the continent, Mt. McKinley. At the last place a grizzly bear visited the camp, and on snowy slopes just above it one could always see a band of white Dall sheep. [More] |
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Outdoorsmen have been pitching their tents on flat-bed trailers and building crude tent campers ever since there have been cars to pull them. It isn't clear when or where the first commercial models were made, but probably it was right after World War II. [More] |
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The typical tent camper is the shape of a flat cigar box and of less height than the towing vehicle when closed up for traveling. The aluminum box then opens up and outward, forming beds with foam mattresses on opposite sides of a living or camping space a foot or more above the ground. [More] |
There are many, many reasons why camper trailers are so popular today, and the low price is only the first of them. [More] |
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Another reason given for preferring tent trailers is the desire for a tent camping experience-for sleeping under canvas-but with none of the imagined inconveniences of using a tent alone. [More] |
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It's very important to insert here a word about tent trailer tires. The wheels on virtually all of these are much smaller than the wheels on the towing vehicle and of these so are the tires. [More] |