Winter is coming for these within the Northern Hemisphere. For the hardcore winter tenting and out of doors fans, this brings an entire new set of challenges, like attempting to remain heat after a day of snowy adventures when it is -20 °F (-28 °C) exterior. Mammoth Overland has you coated.
The WLY – or Wooly, because it’s referred to as, doubtless as a result of it has a wool-lined inside befit for the perfect lumberjack … or maybe due to its burly 33-inch Toyos on Timbren 3500HD impartial suspension – is a rad little offroad bumper-pull camper designed to deal with among the coldest terrain you will ever discover with the very best creature comforts of dwelling – like a toasty, heated king-sized mattress.
The WLY’s partitions and ceiling have an R12 insulation ranking, which places it nearer to what you’d discover in a median brick-and-stick home. The WLY’s flooring is R25 to maintain these tootsies heat. A typical journey trailer is R5, at finest. Pair that glorious insulation with a VarioHeat 11,500-BTU furnace and also you may really feel such as you’re in a sweatbox, slightly than a frozen tundra.
“Our engineers exceeded my wildest desires,” Scott Taylor, president of Mammoth Overland stated of the comfortable camper. “Throughout testing, we have been capable of preserve 85 levels (29 °C) contained in the trailer, even with the kitchen and each doorways huge open, with a 27-degree (3 °C) exterior temperature.”
And that is not all of the wooly-wall insulation is nice for. It is also nice on sizzling days and the whole lot in between, to maintain the inside a snug temperature.
Whereas it may possibly deal with the 4 seasons with ease, the WLY was constructed to sort out the snow. It comes shod with Toyo Open Nation A/T III 3PMS tires – that is Three-Peak Mountain Snowflake, made for excessive ice and snow circumstances. The rig comes outfitted with 9 20,000-lb (9,072-kg) restoration factors as nicely, ought to it or the tow automobile out of the blue change into caught and positively not due to consumer error … wink-wink.
Like Mammoth Overland’s different journey rigs HV and ELE, the WLY has an out of doors kitchen, however because of the WLY’s supposed arctic-like goal, the makers have added an annex that deploys over high of the rear hatch the place the kitchen is, retaining a few of that heat inside as you put together a sizzling meal.
The WLY additionally has a 23ZERO Bushman awning that attaches to the skin so you’ll be able to comfortably shed all of your chilly, moist gear earlier than popping into the camper. The roof has a full-length commentary deck and roof rack that comes outfitted with Maxtrax MKII restoration boards, to not point out an ice axe, snowshoes, Krazy Beaver shovel, and Rotopax. It additionally has area for 2 units of skis within the inbuilt holders, roof-rack lighting, and a lightbar.
Inside, other than the heated king-size mattress, hypoallergenic and fire-resistant wool, and a heater rated for a 600-sq-ft (56-sq-m) cabin, is a 21-gallon fresh-water tank with heated strains. You may count on the liquid in these strains to remain liquid, even down to twenty under zero, or 29 under zero for these of you that learn in metric.
For heat days, the little camper has an elective 12-volt Dometic 2000 RTX air conditioner, rated round 6,600 BTU. It ought to run for days on battery alone. The WLY additionally incorporates a cassette-style rest room. No batteries required.
Talking of battery, the WLY comes outfitted with an 800-Ah battery pack from Renogy. That is rather a lot, by the best way. And two 100-watt photo voltaic panels will assist hold your batteries topped up once you’re off-grid. If that is not sufficient, the WLY additionally has a 4,000-watt WEN generator to energy up no matter you want. In case you occur to be close to shore energy, that works too.
Absolutely loaded, the Mammoth Overland WLY will set you again US$56,900. Mammoth Overland is taking deposits now and the corporate expects to begin delivering items within the first quarter of 2025. I do know I stated winter is coming … nevertheless it’ll come subsequent 12 months too if you aren’t getting yours in time for this winter.
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