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My Schumacher battery takes forever to charge and it tends to kill my starter battery if I'm not careful. I haven't upgraded my starter battery or alternator yet, so that probably doesn't help. I also don't have any kind of way to turn off the flow if the main battery gets too low outside of...

That's one of the things I was thinking about. The issue I can see with going with Goal Zero is the ecosystem. It's like buying an Apple product, once you get one, it makes sense to keep buying from them. But just getting a panel, controller and some batteries and doing it myself would mean I...

I'm waiting to get into the solar generation game, but I'm not ready to jump in both feet. I currently have a backup battery/jump starter/all kinds of nonsense that I use as a secondary battery, but am getting tired of having to run the car to charge it. I'm debating on buying into the GZ...

Yeah, that would be great! I'm debating on buying into the GZ ecosystem, this might be a good start.

Reviving an old thread, have you had a chance to use the GZ light yet? I'm curious about it, but that price seems awfully high to me.

Lol, right? I'm looking into a skottle too, removes a bit of cleaning, but gotta deal with critters who are interested in the smell.

Oh, I hadn't thought of that... Also, what do you do with your dog?

Amazon sells Plano boxes here: https://www.amazon.com/Plano/b/ref=w_bl_hsx_s_sp_web_2598616011?ie=UTF8&node=2598616011&field-lbr_brands_browse-bin=Plano I even managed to find some Plano ammo crates on Walmarts website.

I love my Forester, but it's difficult to maintain it's on road drive-ability while making it better off-road. If I were to start over, I'd get a cheaper daily driver sedan and a cheap-o overlanding only machine that I wouldn't mind cutting into.

Oh man, that would drive me nuts. What did you end up doing?

There's all kinds of cool places in Stanislaus National Forest. It's roughly 3 hours from the bay and usually around the same weather (depending on where you go).

Just moved to the bay area a few months ago, enjoying the area so far!

+1, I'm in!

I dig this, I just got a plano box for all our normal gear, I might try to convert one onto a camp kitchen.

We do a couple things, if we're especially lazy, we use kuju coffee, which is great if all you want to do is boil some water. It's all a self contained pour-over type thing so open it up, place it over your cup, then pour your hot water into it until you have coffee Otherwise, I bring my...

Great weather for it, enjoy!

This might be it: http://parts.subaru.com/p/Subaru_2014_Forester20L-CVTXT-Touring/PLUG-COMPLETE-OIL-DRAIN------------------M87390-/49242989/32103AA080.html used here...

We usually do hot water, but it's still pretty brutal. I might look into cleaning gloves, that's a good idea I hadn't thought of.

My wife and I recently camped at Crater Lake. It ended up hitting the mid 20s and I realized how awful doing dishes in freezing weather was. From then on, we started food prepping like backpackers. We dehydrated everything we could and only had our bowls and spork to clean when out camping...

I ended up going with the hitch basket idea. Had to get a hitch first though! Thanks for the ideas everyone