Our rental gear is pretty easy to figure out, but we've collected videos to troubleshoot a few things. Prepare for your trip by watching these helpful videos below that correspond to the items you're renting.
Skip to your desired video:
Tent: 1-Person / 2-Person / 3-Person Tents - tips and setup instructions
Tent: 4-Person and 6-Person Tents - tips and setup instructions
Sleeping Pad: Lightweight- how to inflate using inflation sack
Sleeping Pad: Ultimate Comfort - tips to inflate and deflate
Stove: Two-Burner for Car Camping - connecting the fuel
Stove: For Backpacking - connecting the fuel
Sleeping Bag - how to stuff and compress
Backpack - how to adjust for a perfect fit
Trekking Poles - tutorial
Ratsack - best practices (no video)
If you have any issues with our gear during your trip, please get in touch with us asap. Even if we're located in Las Vegas, we can help you troubleshoot most issues over the phone or by text.
1-Person / 2-Person / 3-Person Tents
The video uses our 2P Tent as example, but all these tents set up the same way
4-Person and 6-Person Tents
Expand the description on YouTube for more tips about setting up these tents
Lightweight Sleeping Pad
Comes with an inflation sack - this is a video how to inflate the pad using the inflation sack
Comfort Sleeping Pad
The stuff sack doubles as an inflation sack - don't lose it!
This pad self-inflates, but you still need to add air to increase firmness. This video shows how to add air using the inflation sack, how to use the double-sided valve, and the easiest way to deflate the pad to fit it back into its stuff sack
Two-Burner Stove
Video of best practices when connecting propane to the 2-burner stove
Backpacking Stove
Video of best practices when connecting isobutane to the backpacking stove
Sleeping bag
Here's a video of how to stuff and compress the bag
Backpack
Here's a video of how to adjust the backpack (skip to 1:34 for adjustment and 2:48 for how a perfect fit should look) - you don't need a tape measure! You can get to the right fit pretty quickly by trial and error.
Trekking poles
In case you've never used poles before, here's a great tutorial. It's long, but it's very well done. Skip to 3:50 for fit, 4:30 for how to use the strap, and 5:40 for using the poles.
If you need to tighten the screw on the locking mechanism, it's very easy. In the open position, use your nail or a house key - or a screwdriver if you have it - to turn the screw just an 8th of an inch and that should fix it.
RatSack (no video)
To minimize encounters with rodents, you should first put your food in a stuff sack (squirrels recognize food packaging), put that in the ratsack, and then hang the ratsack. The beauty of these bags is that you can simply hang them at arm's reach. You don't need to create an elaborate pulley system 100ft in the air! It works best when suspended because animals have a hard time balancing on it and they can't drag it away.
That's it for our videos! Hope you find this useful.
As always, feel free to reach out if you have any comments or questions.
Have a fantastic trip!