Rivian R1T Camping in Mojave Desert CA
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- In this video we head out with our Rivian R1T and a couple friends to explore the Mojave Desert! We camp by sand dunes, off road on the Mojave Road trail, eat some awesome food and explore a lava tube. Enjoy!
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I really like that map sequence you added where you show the state of charge leaving and arriving and the recap at the end. I have a Rivian and I'll be overlanding soon. I'm learning a lot from watching your vids. I look forward to your posts. Keep it up!
Thank you!
This is becoming one of my favorite youtube channels. Great job.
Thank you Jirka! This mean a lot 🙌🏻
Came to this channel for a review on a tent, and kept coming back for the zen. Love this channel.
Happy you are enjoying the content and welcome to the channel!🙌🏻⚡️
Great video! Thanks so much for incorporating the distance and charge % graphics. Very clean and creative way!
Thanks! Im trying to integrate the stats more into the video rather than just at the end:)
I love your video and photo work!
Thank you!🙌🏻
So beautiful, the landscape and cool cave… amazing! Great video!Thank you for taking us along on another wonderful adventure 😍
Great photos!!
Thank you!
Thanks for your awesome content. Pease keep it coming !
Thanks!
Dude, being honest with you your videos are cinematic it was impressive love it
Thanks so much!
Really love the Rivian but I can't stop thinking how much better it would look with normal headlights.
Looks like a fun trip!
Was a great trip! The headlights are a little polarizing for sure but they have grown on me👍🏻
Great video, fellow OC resident here. Greeat map with the Rivy state of charge. I have spent a lot of time in this area and its great as long as you don't mind desert pin stripes cutting through your clearcoat! That creosote bush is tough and woody.
Side note about this trail. Unlike mentioned in the video, The Mojave Trail, prior to its exclusive by the Mojave Indians bounding from spring to spring to trade with Indians and newcomers in the San Bernadino valley, was actually used mostly as a transport trail for the gold discoveries and ensuing Apache wars in Arizona, and later livestock for ranching in AZ, rather than as an immigration route to California...Arizona was still a territory before the first railroads were built and this trail was abandoned, AZ being very undeveloped compared to California at this time. The Mojaves often attacked whites on the trail including the famous explorer Jedediah Smith until the government established Fort Mojave circa 1860, at which point it became safer to cross for U.S. mail and wagon supply trains. After the railroads were built to California via Kelso in the 1880s the trail was pretty much abandoned and forgotten.
Thanks and also great info on the trail! I’m always happy to learn more about these places🙌🏻
This is awesome.
Thanks!
Only CZcams account I've ever clicked the bell for!
This is awesome to hear! Thanks for the support 🙌🏻
I live in San Diego. The weather is getting better. So I started to go camping!! I’ll try Mojave next time!!
It’s a beautiful place to check out!
I love these videos you put out and I hope you keep it up. I’ve watched some of them multiple times and have been configuring my R1T very similarly due to your recs (just installed our iKamper mini 3.0 yesterday). Curious where and how you store your iKamper when not in use (ground? hoist system? With or without the crossbars?). Keep the videos coming. They’re relaxing, entertaining, and informative to watch!
Thanks Curtis! I keep the iKamper on the truck full time - would love to have a hoist system at some point though! If I did need to take it off the truck right now I would probably remove it with the crossbars and just set everything on the floor of my garage👍🏻
Great video! just subscribed. Can you please add the time it takes you to charge when you mentioned charging…. Something along the lines of …. I got to the charging station when i was at xxx percent and we waited xxx minutes to charge to xxx percent. Helps me understand if the Rivian is worth it or stick to a Taco… thanks
Thanks and welcome! I can definitely start including that in future videos👍🏻 There is some variability depending on speed of the charger and outside temp but at least could give a rough idea of how long it takes
When you're overlanding do you air down your tires? If so, to what PSI? Do you switch to off road drive mode or leave it in all purpose. I'm planning a west to east overlanding trip across the Mojave Preserve for this October, about 173 miles and planning on needing to average 1.4 mi/kwh to make the trip. I've noticed in my Rivian with the iKamper over the bed, tires aired down to 32 PSI and in off road mode I'm usually about 1.2-1.5 mi/kwh. If you want to make another trip out to Mojave this October you're welcome to join.
I generally air down to around 32 if I’m off-road but there is for sure an efficiency hit so if you’re trying to maximize range I’d only air down when you really need the extra traction. Also I normally stay in all purpose for most driving👍🏻 Sounds like a fun trip!
Awesome trip🙌!! What month was this when you went? You got some nice weather! I'm going to Mojave Road next weekend, March 16th.. the weather right now is insane with all the snowstorms. I just hope everything clears up by the time I head down.
This was a few weeks ago right before all the crazy weather hit 😂 At the moment the weather for next weekend is looking much better!
@ChargeOverland I sure hope so🙏. Soda Lake is closed according to the NP website. we won't be able to cross the lake bed 😭. One of the main trails I wanted to take my brothers on for their first Mojave expedition .. praying to weather God to calm down lol 😆
Any problems with the truck yet? You are pushing it the way it’s supposed to be used
So far so good! Only a few minor software things that have been easily fixed with a soft reset - also my tonneau cover isn’t working but that seems to be a common problem unfortunately
Can you still access your spare with that RTT?
Yup! 👍🏻
It looks like you had to do about an hour of backtracking to get to Fenner then back to the park. Do you think you could have managed the route leaving Barstow at 90+% charge and skipping Fenner?
Looking back now - yes I probably could have made it. Still working on getting some good numbers for my efficiency when off-road so I can plan more accurately. I’ve generally been overly conservative on range planning just to avoid any issues👍🏻
@@ChargeOverland I’m sure I would have made the same decision. Running out of juice in a 7000lbs truck on a dirt trail in the middle of nowhere isn’t something I want to experience. I’m going to need a lot of miles off road before I’m confident in my range projections. There are just so many variables and it’s not like someone can bring you gas.
How’s the tonneau cover doing while off-road?
I’ve kept it closed for awhile now actually😬 Its starting to jam up and I need to get it to a service center
@@ChargeOverland 😭 I really hope they have a new version coming out soon.
where did you get that portable fire pit?
Appears to be the Fireside outdoor Pop up Fire Pit.
They have a website and an Amazon store
If you go for that one, get the full size 24”, the smaller one doesn’t fit standard length firewood logs
Looks like someone already got the answer:) Yup it’s a Fireside Outdoor fire pit - I bought mine at REI but you can also pick it up on Amazon as well👍🏻
Great photos!
Thank you!