Our 2023 Subaru Forester Car Camping Setup | Full Summer Essential Gear Walkthrough

thanks for clicking on this video there is a good chance that you are interested in some sort of car camping setup whether it's a Subaru Forester or converting your own vehicle so we are super excited to show you our setup for this year we're gonna be showing you our 2023 summer warm weather car camping setup we starting with the inside of the car and then working our way to the outside of the car and before you click away please hit that like And subscribe button at the bottom follow us on Instagram and how rude I'm Anna and I'm Adam and we're going to be showing you the inside you ready yeah let's go oh let's see so our mattress is the fitted Luna life 1.0 mattress this is the original one it is insulated and it is dog proof meaning that it's a little sturdier for your dog for your dogs to walk around so underneath the mattress we will add extra blankets and towels to just add a little bit more leveling to this mattress because it's just the car slant slightly down is just more comfortable we have a summer comforter from Ikea that we carry with us because it's lightweight and it's not super hot and we always travel with this wool blanket for those nights that's a little extra chilly we like to put it between the mattress and the fitted sheet for an extra layer of warmth or just an extra blanket because I always steal them from Adam a couple of things to show you on this side for the inside setup new for this year are these window covers that we bought from Amazon because we knew it was going to be warm and there was going to be no airflow inside of the car so this allows wind to come in without the bugs from the season we have a couple pillows here they're nothing special just purple pillows that we use at home underneath to support our heads we actually use the lunolife cubes that support the top part of your mattress because we always get asked I am 5'3 and Adam is five seven we both fit very comfortably in the back of this 2018 Subaru Forester another Comfort investment that we made this year is a battery powered fan what makes this cool is you can hang it you can clamp it it's battery powered and it has an LED light it runs low medium high on high it can run up to five hours on low it can run up to 17 hours it has a timer on it for one two and five hours we had it for five hours last night the LED light is perfect for illuminating your campsite or whatever you need to shine light on I'm going to go ahead and hang it from this little sunglass holder in the Forester which worked out really great speaking of lighting this year we invested in some headlamps and these are great not only for car camping but when we do astrophotography at night time they have several different functions from the white LED light which is really bright goes from lower to higher brightness and then it also has red light and an SOS flashing light the cool thing is that they are motion sensor so if you hit this button here and you go like this it turns it on if you go like this it turns it off so that was very helpful right here we have a lightweight picnic blanket that we use for hiking and car camping we'll set it down and we can either lay our stuff down on it or pick a spot to have lunch and then Betsy's sleeping Arrangements we will bring her blanket with us and we usually put it right here in the center when we go to sleep and she'll curl herself to bed and we sleep on either side of her however if you have a dog that doesn't have separation anxiety like ours you can set their bed in the front seats and your dog can comfortably sleep there without the fear of getting kicked so that's the inside and I'm going to be showing the outside of the car starting with this Yakima Slim Shady we have the six and a half foot length but this also comes in four and a half feet and eight feet we're going to set it up so you can see what it looks like this provides six and a half feet of Glorious shade it also comes with tie downs and Stakes for those windy days off the back of our awning we have this oversized Carabiner which allows us to hang a water bladder we can use it for washing dishes or filling up a water bottle since we sleep inside of our car we need a place to store our stuff and that's where this roof box comes into play it's a little bit full right now but this is the medium sized Force Edition roof box and we chose to go with the medium size because it was the widest of the roof box for the force line the large and the extra long are longer which is more designed for skis where snowboarders and we can fit our weekend camping gear up here and we can fit at least three if not four snowboards up here our roof box is sitting on top of a set of booze RV roof rails and a couple years ago we did an in-depth review comparing the Subaru to the booze RV roof rails and what we found was the Subaru was easier to install but the booze RV ones were quieter and since we leave the roof rails on all the time we thought this made more sense to have the bouge RV but you can check that in-depth review right up here so for all the items that we're talking about today if you go in the description of this video or of any of our videos we've put together three kits we've got a vlogging kit we've got a hiking kit and we've got a car camping kit that'll show you an entire setup for pretty much anything we can find from Amazon let's go check out our bathroom check out this Vlog from these YouTubers Anna Dan Adam they did a video on crestone dude we should go check out these places yeah when you're done let me know okay bye this is our pop-up Hooper this is actually a shower and changing tent that we use for our toilet so inside we have this collapsible toilet that we use with these biodegradable bags so pack in pack out we just take it with us for peeing we just bring us out of pee bottles with us we go to the rest restroom we just dump them out the last thing I'm going to talk about is how do you have power while Off the Grid so running out we have two of these external USBC battery banks these are 13 000 milliamps which provides a ton of power I can charge my camera battery 10 times off this and it can charge her camera batteries five times or drone batteries five times off of these we also have this this is a 300 watt power inverter it plugs into our cigarette lighter it has two AC outlets and two USB Outlets so example this is Anna's camera batteries we'll plug it on this side so it gives us access to this one Outlet and we have this five port USB charger that we can plug into the other side of here so allows us to power up our drone batteries our camera batteries our phones allows just to power up a lot of stuff when we drive to different places like yesterday we drove to the zigger app we had plenty of power as we drove over there let's head over to the kitchen where Anna will show you what that looks like and to conclude the video let's talk about our kitchen seating area equipped with two folding chairs a four foot collapsible table that we bought at Walmart our camping stove equipped with two burners this one does require a lighter so don't forget that I also like to bring my mocha and I like to bring our Dutch oven this is really great as an oven for our breakfast burritos and it's really versatile for just about anything because we're on the road having cups that don't break is important so we like to bring our Yeti cup and mug and then our Bear Keg which serves either as a trash can or food container for storage that is our summer 2023 car camping setup we hope that you've enjoyed the tour of our Subaru Forester AKA Fez we also have a winter Edition but that'll come out later in the year or maybe next year so if you like this video please please hit that thumbs up please click the Subscribe button and don't forget in the description of this video and all of our videos we have a link to our gear that we showed you all today and we can't wait to take you on the next adventure we'll it's fun [Music]

Channel: Anna D and Adam

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Length: 8min 17sec (497 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 19 2023