Finally! We have really missed your video footage (and carefully chosen music) over the course of the winter/early spring! Hope your truck transition goes smoothly. Can’t wait to see you back out adventuring!
Thank you. I wish more of our viewers felt the same. 😄 Every thing we publish with ski footage tanks like Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile Delmont 88. I think this season we'll limit it to Shorts, except for extenuating circumstances.
Another great video! Hope this is the year your channel gets to 100K !! I know you must be excited for your new truck to get here! Can’t wait !! Happy Trails Michelle Tallhassee
Since my orthopedic told me that I cannot ski anymore with my titanium knees, I really miss the skiing. I so appreciate your footage going down the slopes. I know it’s not for everyone and that it is technically not about RV camping, but it is a Grand Adventurer. You ski like a pro and I enjoyed the ride! 👍🏼 I’m wondering where you are headed. Unfortunately we will be at the south end of Utah, so there will be no chance of bumping into you - your safe for now! (Zion around the 13th, Mexican Hat around the 15th and Escalante around the 20th) We are both looking forward to your new videos!! Thanks again Marc, Ram and Kuuipo 👍🏼👍🏽
Appreciate that you two! We view Grand Adventure as being about outdoor adventure using an RV as a base, be it kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, or even skiing. So this still fits. We can't wait to bring you new travel videos. Stay tuned
Camping season is coming up! When going near Wells, NV, take a side trip up to Angle Lake, only 10 miles from Wells. Beautiful area with wildlife and broad vistas below. I am waiting for my sciatic pain to subside before we pickup our new trailer. Then we are off to visit our favorite old campsites plus new travels to Glacier NP this year. Love your videos and good luck with the arrival of your new vehicle. Part shortages are still a problem!
They sure are, Tim! Wishing you a rapid recovery. And yes, Angel Lake is spectacular! We stopped by briefly while staying in Elko last Summer: th-cam.com/video/YQb_DHdFo6I/w-d-xo.html This time, however, we plan to take a more southerly route across US-50.
Hi Marc, you make sking look so soothing!! Thanks for your travel update. We have our fifth wheel getting checked out right now for our trip to Alaska in June - August. If never been so nervous about a trip!!
@@GrandAdventure Thanks Marc, Between Covid and what life can throw at us, we are just going to go for it! I wish safe travels to you and yours this summer!
Marc, those shots of the ski area and surrounding scenery is mesmerizing that I had to keep watching it. Finally, I had to save it so I could go back to it when I wanted to relax and take it the beauty. The battery option for the Newair cooler is a Marvelous option! Is there other methods that the battery can be charged? I'm Power Stoked to see the new truck and how you optioned it out. When you get ready to start adding some after market add-ons I have some Marvelous ideas. Enjoy your bonus day of skiing!
I picked up my Starlink kit in Fallon, NV (about 60 miles east of Reno on U.S. 50) a couple of weeks ago, set the dish up on my truck’s tonneau cover and got 162 Mbps down right out of the chute. Works here in Reno with roaming using the Fallon service address. It’d be great if you did a meetup while you’re in northern Nevada. Thank you for all the great videos and safe travels!
Lovely skiing on perfect pack. Very relaxing skiing. Back in 89 I had an early video camera setup that I used while skiing. I would get the camera lense down as close as I could to the snow... at sky tip height. The sensation of speed from that birds eye view was very interesting to watch. Looking forward to your new season on the road. I hope you truck comes in soon so that you are not hanging on for too long. What truck did you end up ordering? Gord
@@GrandAdventure I hear ya, Marc. A Ford F350 diesel will be very stable and reliable on the road. A little hard riding, but that can't be helped on that chassis. Gord
re: US 50 - one of my favorite roads! I usually boondock or use public campgrounds, but the KOA in Ely is awesome. And Ely is not too far from Great Basin NP, the Ruby Mtns, Garnet Hill, the Success scenic loop, and Berlin-Icythyosaur state park (currently closed, but due to reopen this spring).
Thanks for the tips! If you've got any particular boondocking locations to share, hit me up backchannel. I'm planning our first stop between Ely and GBNP, second stop possibly a detour to Pioche.
I skied at Alta in 1975, the price was $12 per day, which was dirt cheap even then. Mammoth was about $30/day and Big Bear $27/day. I see now, Alta is $175/day, wow.
Update to my mechanical problems. $444.00 one way car rental to pick up my repaired truck. Mercedes now said it may be September before parts are available. I traded for another new Mercedes without the recall and pick it up next weekend. There will be a lot of frustrated people this years looking for parts. LGB-FJB
Nice. We are also in Utah. Saratoga Springs west side of Utah Lake in the free camping area. We are headed east next week over to Cheyenne Wyoming. Staying in the Laramie Range at 8000’. 13 years fulltime living the dream. StarLink is working great! Real game changer for our Boondocking lifestyle. Still waiting for roaming.
What, you're not roaming yet on Starlink? I thought everyone had it by now. Try moving without changing your service address and see if it enables. Safe travels into Wyoming and enjoy Oohtah! The Laramie Mountains are really pretty cool.
@@GrandAdventure Contacted StarLink customer support two days ago and they said roaming was still being tested and didn’t have a release date. Looking on my status its still saying roaming “False”. I check it every few days. We moved from Yuma 3 weeks ago up to St George and then last week up to Saratoga Springs. Had to use a new service address close to us both places then It worked. Do you have “Allow Remote Trouble Shooting” turned on? Just curious if that would make a difference on StarLink being able to update service or change settings. Mine shows Never Allow. I can turn it to Allow or Never Allow. It was in the Never Allow position out of the box so I haven’t changed it. I wonder if also doing a factory reset would activate roaming. That would fly in the face of what customer service told me if it works. When did you receive roaming? Did yours just one day change status to “True” on it’s own or did you have to do something to get roaming to work. I remember you not having roaming in Quartzsite. When I received my StarLink we where Boondocking within a quarter of a mile from the Mexican border and couldn’t get service at all. Moved 12 miles in away from the border and no problem. Worked great.
@@StarBase7390 in our experience, rebooting the router, rebooting the dish or doing anything else didn't make a difference. We got roaming equals true shortly after we did the video with Marcus. However, realize that it is a status and not a feature. We got roaming by changing our service address to a place about 30 miles west of where we are. We have since changed our service address back to our physical location, so we now again see roaming equals false. However, we will leave our service address right here when we begin traveling and will again see it true.
@@GrandAdventure Thanks very much for the understanding of feature vs status. That made all the difference between how I thought it worked and how it actually works. I truly thought it was a feature that needed to be enabled. I changed my service address back to my original service address in Wyoming and it is still working. The status has changed to True. Thanks very much for that tip. I had not heard anyone explain the difference and thats an important piece of the equation. Real game changer. Thanks again. Happy Travels.
If/when you ever get to Summit County CO, we'll buy you a beer (or two) at The Bakers' Brewery. We have some pretty good alpine & nordic resorts here. Unfortunately, our county is very RV unfriendly during ski season. Ugh.
LOL, you bet David. We tend to not move much during winter, though. We moved to Utah in January 2005 almost solely due to Alta, so we return to Utah each winter even now as a full-timer. We pick up a monthly RV site and stay there from late November through April. I spent a lot of time skiing Summit County as a kid (primarily Keystone shortly after it first opened, and Breck) as we lived in Boulder, where my father was an executive with Head Ski Co. during the Howard Head days. We know that area well, and last passed through there a couple of years ago traveling from a campsite at Twin Lakes to our next one at Rabbit Ears Pass.
Hey Marc, it was refreshing to watch those cool weather scenes of Alta from the hot desert here in Quartzsite. I skied Alta for one day back in the early 90s. I was a beginning intermediate skier and somehow ended up on a tremendous mogul hill. I was wondering if I would ever make it off the hill I fell so many times. Despite that, it ws a great time and Alta stuck me as the place to be for those that truly loved skiing. I didn't think I saw any snow boarders in the video. Are they allowed? My nephew ordered a single wheel rear axle Ford F350 in November 2021 and took delivery the first part of January, 2022. It is a beautiful truck and no problems. He pulls a triple axle 42 ft Momentum toy hauler and it does a great job. I suspect you will be thrilled with the new truck. I'm looking forward to seeing it take you on many new Grand Adventures.
Thanks Bruce for letting me know about your nephew's experience! That's exactly what we ordered, a single rear wheel diesel F-350 with the 8-ft bed, Lariat trim. Mine was only ordered about 4 weeks after your nephew's truck! Yet they still haven't even begun the assembly. You're correct, Alta is one of only three US ski areas that still prohibit snowboarding. The other two are Deer Valley in Utah, and Mad River Glen in Vermont.
@@GrandAdventure The dealer signed my nephew up to receive updates on the progress of his order from Ford. He received a production week date about a week after the order was submitted. There was one change to the original production date with a one week delay. Hopefully you received a production date by now assuming no holds on parts. Sorry I missed you this year in Quartzsite. I wasn't able to view TH-cam to see you were here until the last Saturday of the Big Tent show due to the cell tower over saturation. I swung by your camp spot the the last Sunday but it looks like I missed you by a few hours. My spot is nearby on the Powerline Road a few hundred yards west of where the horn blowing big trucks were at. Hopefully I will catch you next season and will check out that truck!
@@bruceh3786 I'm on the email list, but no production date yet. The last notice I got basically just said it's taking longer than we thought. Hope to see you down in Q next winter
I started this year putting Methanol into my 12,000 mile diesel in Sacramento. Pump was surrounded by green posts, that was 8 weeks ago no parts yet. I bought a MB Forester 3 weeks ago and Mercedes recalled it the next day. No parts yet. Things are not right!
@@GrandAdventure Thank you for your reply. Just got a call, my Ram Eco-Diesel 1500 Limited is fixed today!!! 400 miles north to pick it up. MBS Forester 2401B is my next recall vehicle also a diesel.
Given the price of day tickets, we would be too. Using a season pass we got our daily price down to around $20. Of course, Alta also accepts Mountain Collective and Ikon Pass multi-resort products for a cost-effective way to hit the slopes.
Kevin, we winter at Mountain Shadows in Draper. There are only really three choices in the entire Salt Lake Valley, and the other two are much further from the skiing.
Finally! We have really missed your video footage (and carefully chosen music) over the course of the winter/early spring! Hope your truck transition goes smoothly. Can’t wait to see you back out adventuring!
We can't wait to get back out there either, Steph! We would also much rather make cinematic travel videos than how to's or gear reviews.
As a former skier, these glimpses of Alpine slopes are always appreciated. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. I wish more of our viewers felt the same. 😄 Every thing we publish with ski footage tanks like Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile Delmont 88. I think this season we'll limit it to Shorts, except for extenuating circumstances.
You make the best videos, period. I'm looking forward to eavesdropping on all your future grand adventures. Cheers!
You're much too kind. Thank you very much!
Broke our trailer out of storage (jail) today. We're excited to get out and adventure.
That's wonderful Michelle! Adventures are just around the corner.
Not knowing where you are headed till the day before is the #1 benefit of full-timing!
So true, bud. So true.
We just watched this! Thank you for the ski video! We have the best memories of skiing with you!
What beautiful scenery!
Safe travels!
We very much enjoy your videos, Mark!
We like keeping up with you! ❤️
Thank you Kim!
Yes, need to get as much skiing as you can while you're there. Looking forward to the next episode. Thanks Don
Thanks as always Don!
Yay! So glad your getting back on the road soon. Safe travels!
Thank you Myra, same to you!
Can't wait to see Hwy 50 and northern Nevada.
Thanks Dave! We'll bring you there.
Looking forward to seeing you back on the road again. We've missed those great videos of your beautiful country.
Very soon! We'll bring you back out there.
Another great video! Hope this is the year your channel gets to 100K !! I know you must be excited for your new truck to get here! Can’t wait !!
Happy Trails
Michelle Tallhassee
Thank you so very much as always, Michelle!
What a beautiful video!
Thank you William!
Man it’s good to see some older guys still ripping up the mountain, kudos to you and your buddies, hope to run into you someday on the slopes!
Looking forward to hearing about the new truck!
Almost as much as we're looking forward to finally getting it, Pete. 😄
nice videoing, looking forward your videos this year.
Thank you Vince! We look forward to bringing you along.
Good evening from Godley Texas, enjoy your new adventures 😎
Thank you John! Enjoyed having you at the Premiere, thanks for coming.
Can not wait to see your Nevada episodes and would like to see the new pick-up truck as well. Travel safe
Thank you John! We look forward to bringing those to you.
Wow, brings back great memories when I skied there.
The last I skied was at bogus basin in Boise Idaho in 2000
Time to get back out there, G!
Since my orthopedic told me that I cannot ski anymore with my titanium knees, I really miss the skiing.
I so appreciate your footage going down the slopes. I know it’s not for everyone and that it is technically not about RV camping, but it is a Grand Adventurer.
You ski like a pro and I enjoyed the ride! 👍🏼
I’m wondering where you are headed. Unfortunately we will be at the south end of Utah, so there will be no chance of bumping into you - your safe for now! (Zion around the 13th, Mexican Hat around the 15th and Escalante around the 20th)
We are both looking forward to your new videos!!
Thanks again Marc,
Ram and Kuuipo
👍🏼👍🏽
Appreciate that you two! We view Grand Adventure as being about outdoor adventure using an RV as a base, be it kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, or even skiing. So this still fits.
We can't wait to bring you new travel videos. Stay tuned
I like the freedom to travel as we please. The campground’s are difficult to get into and this leaves boon docking ( our favorite).
Ours too, Don. Ours too.
Looks like you had a great day, up on the mountain. We honked when we went thru SLC. Have safe travels, and
Hope to see you out there.
Sound s like a plan!! We air up the tires Friday and roll Saturday am!!
Sweet! Ours will be late next week.
Camping season is coming up! When going near Wells, NV, take a side trip up to Angle Lake, only 10 miles from Wells. Beautiful area with wildlife and broad vistas below.
I am waiting for my sciatic pain to subside before we pickup our new trailer. Then we are off to visit our favorite old campsites plus new travels to Glacier NP this year.
Love your videos and good luck with the arrival of your new vehicle. Part shortages are still a problem!
They sure are, Tim! Wishing you a rapid recovery. And yes, Angel Lake is spectacular! We stopped by briefly while staying in Elko last Summer: th-cam.com/video/YQb_DHdFo6I/w-d-xo.html
This time, however, we plan to take a more southerly route across US-50.
Hi Marc, you make sking look so soothing!! Thanks for your travel update. We have our fifth wheel getting checked out right now for our trip to Alaska in June - August. If never been so nervous about a trip!!
That is one huge trip. Here's wishing you a wonderful time! We're jealous, it's on our radar for future seasons.
@@GrandAdventure Thanks Marc, Between Covid and what life can throw at us, we are just going to go for it! I wish safe travels to you and yours this summer!
@@stevertherver3887 and same to you, my friend.
Marc, those shots of the ski area and surrounding scenery is mesmerizing that I had to keep watching it. Finally, I had to save it so I could go back to it when I wanted to relax and take it the beauty. The battery option for the Newair cooler is a Marvelous option! Is there other methods that the battery can be charged? I'm Power Stoked to see the new truck and how you optioned it out. When you get ready to start adding some after market add-ons I have some Marvelous ideas. Enjoy your bonus day of skiing!
Thanks Marv! You can charge the battery from any 120V AC source, or via 12V DC via their 12V-24V adapter.
As an Australian skiing is a real fringe activity. I always avoid the cold, but it certainly looks epic. Greetings from the Smokys. The 2 Tasmanians.
Oh come on! Perisher, Thredbo, Buller, Falls Creek, Hotham...
Hey Marc, looks like an enjoyable day skiing, hope you're new truck comes in soon, we can't wait to get our trailer on the road too. Travel safe.
Thank you Gary, you too!
Who knows, we may see you out west this year.
Hope so Tim! Please keep us up to date with your travel plans. It would be wonderful to connect for a week.
I picked up my Starlink kit in Fallon, NV (about 60 miles east of Reno on U.S. 50) a couple of weeks ago, set the dish up on my truck’s tonneau cover and got 162 Mbps down right out of the chute. Works here in Reno with roaming using the Fallon service address. It’d be great if you did a meetup while you’re in northern Nevada. Thank you for all the great videos and safe travels!
Thank you! Starlink is truly one of the most revolutionary things for our RV travels. Keep your eyes open, for hopefully we will cross paths.
@@GrandAdventure Copy that, Marc... thank you, sir!
Lovely skiing on perfect pack. Very relaxing skiing.
Back in 89 I had an early video camera setup that I used while skiing. I would get the camera lense down as close as I could to the snow... at sky tip height. The sensation of speed from that birds eye view was very interesting to watch.
Looking forward to your new season on the road. I hope you truck comes in soon so that you are not hanging on for too long.
What truck did you end up ordering?
Gord
Thanks Gord! A 2022 Ford F350 diesel. Hopefully it won't be a 2023 by the time it gets here.
@@GrandAdventure I hear ya, Marc. A Ford F350 diesel will be very stable and reliable on the road. A little hard riding, but that can't be helped on that chassis.
Gord
re: US 50 - one of my favorite roads! I usually boondock or use public campgrounds, but the KOA in Ely is awesome. And Ely is not too far from Great Basin NP, the Ruby Mtns, Garnet Hill, the Success scenic loop, and Berlin-Icythyosaur state park (currently closed, but due to reopen this spring).
Thanks for the tips! If you've got any particular boondocking locations to share, hit me up backchannel. I'm planning our first stop between Ely and GBNP, second stop possibly a detour to Pioche.
I skied at Alta in 1975, the price was $12 per day, which was dirt cheap even then. Mammoth was about $30/day and Big Bear $27/day.
I see now, Alta is $175/day, wow.
Yep, with the advent of the cheap multi-resort pass, day tickets everywhere have shot to the stratosphere.
Update to my mechanical problems. $444.00 one way car rental to pick up my repaired truck.
Mercedes now said it may be September before parts are available.
I traded for another new Mercedes without the recall and pick it up next weekend.
There will be a lot of frustrated people this years looking for parts. LGB-FJB
Nice. We are also in Utah. Saratoga Springs west side of Utah Lake in the free camping area. We are headed east next week over to Cheyenne Wyoming. Staying in the Laramie Range at 8000’. 13 years fulltime living the dream. StarLink is working great! Real game changer for our Boondocking lifestyle. Still waiting for roaming.
What, you're not roaming yet on Starlink? I thought everyone had it by now. Try moving without changing your service address and see if it enables. Safe travels into Wyoming and enjoy Oohtah! The Laramie Mountains are really pretty cool.
@@GrandAdventure Contacted StarLink customer support two days ago and they said roaming was still being tested and didn’t have a release date. Looking on my status its still saying roaming “False”. I check it every few days. We moved from Yuma 3 weeks ago up to St George and then last week up to Saratoga Springs. Had to use a new service address close to us both places then It worked. Do you have “Allow Remote Trouble Shooting” turned on? Just curious if that would make a difference on StarLink being able to update service or change settings. Mine shows Never Allow. I can turn it to Allow or Never Allow. It was in the Never Allow position out of the box so I haven’t changed it. I wonder if also doing a factory reset would activate roaming. That would fly in the face of what customer service told me if it works. When did you receive roaming? Did yours just one day change status to “True” on it’s own or did you have to do something to get roaming to work. I remember you not having roaming in Quartzsite. When I received my StarLink we where Boondocking within a quarter of a mile from the Mexican border and couldn’t get service at all. Moved 12 miles in away from the border and no problem. Worked great.
@@StarBase7390 in our experience, rebooting the router, rebooting the dish or doing anything else didn't make a difference. We got roaming equals true shortly after we did the video with Marcus. However, realize that it is a status and not a feature. We got roaming by changing our service address to a place about 30 miles west of where we are. We have since changed our service address back to our physical location, so we now again see roaming equals false. However, we will leave our service address right here when we begin traveling and will again see it true.
@@GrandAdventure Interesting. I hadn’t tried that. I will give it a shot today and see what happens. Thanks for that.
@@GrandAdventure Thanks very much for the understanding of feature vs status. That made all the difference between how I thought it worked and how it actually works. I truly thought it was a feature that needed to be enabled. I changed my service address back to my original service address in Wyoming and it is still working. The status has changed to True. Thanks very much for that tip. I had not heard anyone explain the difference and thats an important piece of the equation. Real game changer. Thanks again. Happy Travels.
If/when you ever get to Summit County CO, we'll buy you a beer (or two) at The Bakers' Brewery. We have some pretty good alpine & nordic resorts here. Unfortunately, our county is very RV unfriendly during ski season. Ugh.
LOL, you bet David. We tend to not move much during winter, though. We moved to Utah in January 2005 almost solely due to Alta, so we return to Utah each winter even now as a full-timer. We pick up a monthly RV site and stay there from late November through April.
I spent a lot of time skiing Summit County as a kid (primarily Keystone shortly after it first opened, and Breck) as we lived in Boulder, where my father was an executive with Head Ski Co. during the Howard Head days. We know that area well, and last passed through there a couple of years ago traveling from a campsite at Twin Lakes to our next one at Rabbit Ears Pass.
Hey Marc, it was refreshing to watch those cool weather scenes of Alta from the hot desert here in Quartzsite. I skied Alta for one day back in the early 90s. I was a beginning intermediate skier and somehow ended up on a tremendous mogul hill. I was wondering if I would ever make it off the hill I fell so many times. Despite that, it ws a great time and Alta stuck me as the place to be for those that truly loved skiing. I didn't think I saw any snow boarders in the video. Are they allowed?
My nephew ordered a single wheel rear axle Ford F350 in November 2021 and took delivery the first part of January, 2022. It is a beautiful truck and no problems. He pulls a triple axle 42 ft Momentum toy hauler and it does a great job. I suspect you will be thrilled with the new truck. I'm looking forward to seeing it take you on many new Grand Adventures.
Thanks Bruce for letting me know about your nephew's experience! That's exactly what we ordered, a single rear wheel diesel F-350 with the 8-ft bed, Lariat trim. Mine was only ordered about 4 weeks after your nephew's truck! Yet they still haven't even begun the assembly.
You're correct, Alta is one of only three US ski areas that still prohibit snowboarding. The other two are Deer Valley in Utah, and Mad River Glen in Vermont.
@@GrandAdventure The dealer signed my nephew up to receive updates on the progress of his order from Ford. He received a production week date about a week after the order was submitted. There was one change to the original production date with a one week delay. Hopefully you received a production date by now assuming no holds on parts.
Sorry I missed you this year in Quartzsite. I wasn't able to view TH-cam to see you were here until the last Saturday of the Big Tent show due to the cell tower over saturation. I swung by your camp spot the the last Sunday but it looks like I missed you by a few hours. My spot is nearby on the Powerline Road a few hundred yards west of where the horn blowing big trucks were at. Hopefully I will catch you next season and will check out that truck!
@@bruceh3786 I'm on the email list, but no production date yet. The last notice I got basically just said it's taking longer than we thought. Hope to see you down in Q next winter
@@GrandAdventure See you there!
I started this year putting Methanol into my 12,000 mile diesel in Sacramento. Pump was surrounded by green posts, that was 8 weeks ago no parts yet. I bought a MB Forester 3 weeks ago and Mercedes recalled it the next day. No parts yet. Things are not right!
We agree, it's seriously frustrating. Hopefully all of these issues will sort themselves out fairly soon.
@@GrandAdventure Thank you for your reply. Just got a call, my Ram Eco-Diesel 1500 Limited is fixed today!!! 400 miles north to pick it up. MBS Forester 2401B is my next recall vehicle also a diesel.
@@GrandAdventure BTW I broke my leg in 1963. A spiral break in 6 places. Nice ski shots, have fun
@@matthewsgauge nasty.
@@matthewsgauge congrats! That's great news for you.
Great video! What camp ground is your home base in the sat lake area?
Thank you! We use Mountain Shadows.
I LOVE Alta, unfortunately I’m being priced out of skiing.
Given the price of day tickets, we would be too. Using a season pass we got our daily price down to around $20. Of course, Alta also accepts Mountain Collective and Ikon Pass multi-resort products for a cost-effective way to hit the slopes.
Where do you stay in Salt Lake City?
Kevin, we winter at Mountain Shadows in Draper. There are only really three choices in the entire Salt Lake Valley, and the other two are much further from the skiing.
@@GrandAdventure Yes, I know where that is.