I like the Foxwings, etc but I don’t always use the same side for my ladder.
Pain in the ass getting just level and realize there is an 18” tree 10” inside your ‘radius’.
That’s a west coast problem I guess.
The big 3 wind, rain, sun. I bought an REI thing that has a small 10’ sq footprint with
really lightweight nylon. It has two detachable wind walls. Just recently in Tuk I camped on
the edge of the ocean at +2 / 25 mph winds. I wore every piece of clothing I had, but it
kept the blowing rain out of the way and I cooked a pretty good stew on the Coleman on
the tailgate. It by design, and luck, just clears the roof at the rear of the truck when set up.
This keeps rain from dripping down.
It is movable and not attached. The side walls work nice for setting sun, and privacy.
They don’t sell it any more. Comments on the forum indicated it was too difficult and
some idiot was surprise it didn’t survive a hurricane and wanted his money back.
I don’t know what kind of rig you have? I just saw a simple straight side pull awning here,
on the forum, but don’t recall exactly where.
I’ve got that steel square tube Tradesmans Rack from Aus I got second hand. I’m thinking of
simple tube within a tube slide outs that I can just lay a tarp or canvas over top. Sort of like a
drawer but with only 4 tubes instead of a drawer. Then two poles to support and it wouldn’t
take up any side room, wouldn’t add too much weight, could have one on each side.
Do you use a roof top tent now? Most if not all have rooms and side awnings.
To be honest biggest value for me is wind and rain protection, and privacy.
