Hands down, you guys are the most professional, informative van channel on KZfaq. ❤️✨

We just got back from a camping trip next to a wonderful creek. This made me want to go back! There is nothing like the peace you get being next to a stream and falling asleep at night to its music. Great video!

The view and rock formations are so beautiful! Oh and the elk - that was spectacular!

I absolutely love your channel. Your voice is ASMR calming like listening to a gentle rain or breeze blowing. Views and commentary deserve an award! 👏👏👏

I love that you all rate the campsites at the end. So helpful that you cover cell signal, what size rig, safety for off leash, you all cover all the big ones. Thank you! Oh and your awning! Love it. We made a homemade one similar to yours for our van and it is so nice, not only for shade but for being able to cook outside during light rain, etc.

Best DIY awning I’ve seen yet! Also, I got Roodle’s song stuck in my head last week! I was singing it at the top of my lungs riding my Harley trike down the road in Pahrump Nevada. 😉😆😆

When fish to release trout you need to wet your hands before touching the fish. Dry hands remove the protective coat on their body. Love your videos.

OneAdVANture is the best boondocking channel for people who want to see genuine real life adventures and beautiful views. These guys are so resilient, it’s inspiring. Thanks for getting drone up to see that GIANT elk herd guys. Never seen that before. That hot spring price was ridiculous!

So sorry for your brake hiccups; glad it's squared away for those mountain roads. And the awning idea is fantabulous 👏👏. Thank you for sharing how & what. 😘

Have fun and take care and take it easy and enjoy it

That hawk flyover on your drone footage at m9 was aaahhhmazing!!!!

That's one of the best regions in Colorado! So glad you are having a great time in our fair state, and I hope that your brake issues are fixed!

Very nice boondocking spot...beautiful mountains

Thank you guys for your amazing videos! Love from Alberta 👍😎🌲🇨🇦🌎✨⭐🐾

I live in Beechgrove ,Tenn. Heading back to Co.in the next week or so. Really appreciate your videos;they help me know several boondocking spots

I do like the new song during the drone shots. Great job guys. Another awesome video 😊

Great video. We will be traveling those areas over the next couple of months. You have definitely inspired us and we learn a lot from you channel. Thank you

Great drone shots, both elk and mountains. Wonderful place, thanks for the video.

I know it sounds silly but there's been many times, I've sat along the Riverbanks and through my line in. And never baited my hook. It's all about Serenity and the surrounding oh, and peace of mind. Looks like a beautiful place thanks for sharing

Great video. Beautiful Boondocking spot. Great job on the awning. The drone shots were the best. HAPPY TRAILS

Great aerials @18:27 of that craggy mountain top!

Great video, thanks!

Glad to see you found that route!

I really enjoy your channel especially the boondocking.

Hope you have no more trouble with your breaks. This place is absolutely spectacular... Excellent drone footage! You give some excellent information. As always I am looking forward to your next video because they are always amazing. Safe travels.👍👍👍👍👍😁

Ok, I do like the metal conduit idea. Great for rigidity! Never thought about using spike in dirt for pole. I had thought about that same general idea (pvc poles) a few years back. The pvc permits me more flexibility for length. But, the pvc strength also limits rigidity. I will probably get several lengths metal pipe and connectors from Homer’s and cut different lengths to suit my needs! One issue I have is that my pickup bed is only 5.5 feet long and the shell is cab high! I have a total of 4x 1/2 gal plastic buckets filled w/ sand for weight and duct taped and used as needed. I do use the bungi balls with 3” dowel rods at 1/2” thick on my tents when in wooded areas. I have 3x of the Homer buckets I clean out with a Clorox wipe. I fill them with potable water and use the screw on lids from Homer’s. I keep a fourth 5 gal bucket for waste water from cleaning dishes and dump it as far as I can carry from camp. My 2x 5 gal shower bags are placed on the driver side of the pickup shell (about mid way back) to gather warmth from the sun, and my portable potty tent is placed adjacent. That tent permits ample space for potty and fragrance free shower by one at a time! The potty is yet another Homer Bucket with applicable seat, paper, plastic bags, and chemicals. A clear necessity for me as I no longer have a large intestine. I place my Harbor Freight Predator 2000 about 50 feet opposite sleeping area and completely surround it with cut sound board to dampen noise. A small tarp set over a pvc homemade sawhorse provides protection from the elements and helps dissipate noise as well. The Predator runs all night for powering my CPAP. (Predator is Medically deductible). It also keeps my portable fridge running! Everything is actually dis/assembled and easily stored in the pickup shell with room left over. Cook fire is either camp stove or campfire using 4x of the 4x8” paving bricks placed on their sides for height and an old discarded oven rack. Pickup is 2019 F150 Sport, super-crew w/ 5.5 foot bed under a standard cab high shell! Finally, the best protection for the rug bug in pickup bed is provided by the abundance of Harbor Freight moving blankets, bought dirt cheap of course! Camp protection is courtesy of Glock model 40 with appropriate Underwood Xtreme Penetrator bear rounds! (Check local laws) Finally, checkout some of the National Forest Lands for some great FREE camping! Take some good books and stay awhile!

Wonderful campground and scenery! I have marked that one on my list!

Have fun, love the photography.

Gotta learn to luv those daily summer afternoon mountain rain and hail storms. Lived in Colorado for 20 years; best experience ever. 🏕 I wonder if the shop bothered to check the van’s calibers; possibly sticking up. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks again for the videos

That awning was brilliant!! If you could have gotten a plumbing joint on the top of the two outside tubes, you might be able to use the 3d if it was the right length! Kept waiting for RoodleMercials! Love this sight and love you all!!

LOVE the drone of the elk!! As always awesome video 💓

Dave, I think the brake fluid problems with water are really effected by higher elevations. That is why they come and go. I experienced this same problem in Silverton with my Harley. Pam and I had to ride to Ouray without brakes. The problem disappeared below 6000 ft. Brake flushed are a good PM every couple years.

Terrific drone shots

I’m jealous what a beautiful area to spend some time. Another year or so will be starting full time can’t wait. Be safe enjoy your adventures!

Omg I think I'm falling in love! With Colorado. Really enjoying your journeys through Colorado. Safe journeys. x

Another great video! Your drone shots are amazing!!

Glad the brakes work. Safe travels Colorado is beautiful.

I love your Colorado series. The San Luis Valley and surrounding mountain towns are my favorite area, but you’ve given me some great spots to consider. Thank you!

Georgetown's Guanella Pass is a Fav.of mine. Great camping bout 18 miles or so out.

Do hope your brake issues are resolved now. Loved the awning, am sure you'll get plenty of use out of it. As for the location, yes, I'm green with envy again. Those mountains are fabulous and I especially loved the drone perspective. Stay safe from bears🐻

What stunning aerial views of elks and mountains. Good to hear that brakes on your van are fixed. You made a great awning. Dave is having fun fishing. Roodles wants rainbow trout for dinner too. Thanks for sharing.

Some beautiful drone work! It looks really nice there. Hope you get the brake problem solved-worrisome. Take care! 🐕 ⛰ 🚐 🎣 ☀️

Awesome drone footage!!!!!

I finally made it to Mackinaw City and was thrilled to have your coordinates. All of the places now have no overnight parking signs. :-(

WOW! I wanted to pack the rig and take off after seeing this video. Some of your best drone work. Hey at 9:35 looks like you caught a red-tail hawk gliding over head. WOW

Hey Carrie and Dave. We hope your brakes are good now? Sounds like the mechanic you went to was really informative and helpful. Those time lapse videos and drone shots were absolutely incredible! The beauty actually brought me to tears! (Jan not Rob 😆). We absolutely can’t wait to get out there. The mountain peaks looked like they were from another world. So incredible. Keep up the amazing footage….and we will live vicariously through you for now. 😉

Love the awning! I’m very curious about your break issue! Looking forward to more info! I wasn’t totally convinced about any of the conclusions but what do I know! 🤪🤙 great video and the elk drone shot was incredible! What you guys rule at! 👏👏👏👏👏

The campsite was lovely and the flowing creek was the cherry on the cake🍰 I think your brake woes must be behind you as the gentleman seemed to be making sense. The awning too I imagine will give you protection from the sun and rain and also work as an outdoor sitting area. I look forward to seeing you both enjoying it. Have fun🤣😝😜

Downshift manually on hills. Your brakes will last forever and it does not hurt the engine.

Good morning to you three! I live over in Ouray. This is an excellent showcase of the Silver Jack reservoir area. It is definitely a favorite of mine. My dog and I are back there for adventures frequently. Your drone work is excellent too! There are some really unique ridge and mountain tops there that you highlight. Safe travels!

Love y’all’s videos! Even though this one is a couple years old now I have to ask a couple questions. Just two months ago at the end of August/first of September 2023 my wife and I were camping in Colorado for two weeks. We took the road to Owl Creek Pass and over to the Cimarron River. Ironically we camped in the EXACT spot y’all stayed next to that big cottonwood tree right beside the East Fork Cimarron River. Nice little stream side sitting area just a few feet outside our door. We love off-grid “boondock” style camping as we have a BIG truck camper. A Lance 1172 w/double slideouts and enough solar to stay off-grid as long as we want. I also love flyfishing whenever in Colorado as Texas has much fewer trout fishing opportunities! My question: in your video you walk/hike down to where the Cimarron enters Silver Jack Reservoir. This was where I wanted to spend some our time because where a river enters a lake is historically one of the best fishing areas. Because we had no cell service I couldn’t look at Google Maps and see how close we were to the upper end of Silver Jack. Did y’all walk down the road(858) to the lake or did y’all simply follow the stream down to the lake? How far of a walk was that? I ask because of all the undeveloped campgrounds we have stayed at this spot ranked as one of our favorites. We will be back! Thanks again for y’all’s great videos! Neil from Texas

You guys have an admirable and unique approach: low-key, unpretentious, straight forward, and real. "No chairs after 3-years..." Love it! We went out in our RV a few weeks ago, showed-up at the camp ground, took out our Coleman only to find we had no matches and no pots or pans with us. Yikes! We're newbies, also in a Promaster (159") and will be setting out in October from Maine. Buen Camino to you guys.

So many wonderful and cool things in this video!! Not the brake problems of course. Just glad you weren't stranded. Vehicle problems are so stressful. The awning looked pretty cool. What were your thoughts? Was it a good addition? The scenery is amazing!! I will watch this video many times. The elk herd....What?? Amazing!! We hope we can travel to Colorado some day. Our summer is way to busy this year, so no summer time travel for us:( We will be putting these locations on our future bucket list. I loved watching Dave and Roodle fish!! So fun!! I am not sure I understand why you would keep fishing with no hooks left on the lure...oh well, as long as Dave is having fun:) Can't wait for next weeks video. Safe travels!!

Great idea with the tarp👍. I hope you have settled the brake issue 👍. We have similar gear ratios in our transmissions. Looks like 3rd or even 4th would be a good down hill gear🤔. Looks like an epic place to spend some time.

Safe travels Dave Carrie and Roodles!

Beautiful! I love that area of Colorado! It is well worth exploring! Great awning idea! I understand why you wouldn't want to pay to camp at that hotsprings. On the surface it seems a lot of money, but if you are someone that loves to soak all day long, like me, then it is completely worth it! It's a beautiful place with several pools and a sauna with a cold plunge. It is beautifully landscaped. I hope you will still visit and enjoy a soak!

My favorites were the Elk drone fly over & the fearless, majestic Lion you spotted hiding under the van. 🚐🦁😁

Know y'all are going dark soon. Take care and happy trails!

I always check out your projects before I do one on my van. I just made an awning last week. Yours looks great and simpler then mine. Well if mine doesn't work, I'll try out your design. I used painting pole extensions for my adjustable height poles.

Great video ya'll. I'm glad you got your brake problem worked out.Thats one of the worst problems to have in the Rockies.lol Just a heads up we finally got word the engine for my wife's car is supposed to be installed the 23rd of this month.Beautiful Colorado I will see you again soon.lol

Beautiful as always got to watch those breaks though you don't want those catching fire The fire fire extinguisher probably won't put out a tire fire so be careful

Hella cool!!! Thanks!!!!!

Nice spots for sure. I was guessing a sticking caliper on that side. He’s right about the moisture on DOT 4 fluid. Sounds like it’s fixed this time 👍🏼

Dave, awesome drone shot of the elk man. Also, did you love that bird flying through your shot about 9:45? @one adVANture at a time

What great drone footage! I just came back from a week along the Dolores River watershed in SW Colorado, where I took hours of video, but it doesn’t seem anywhere near as clear and vivid as yours when I put it on the big screen. I’m pretty new at this, so any pro tips are appreciated!

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What a great video, Colorado is so beautiful!! I am curious how the tarp held up with the wind and rain, it was such a quick and easy set up. Please let us know how it did. Thanks for the fantastic view of the area!

Did the mechanic check your brake calipers? If he felt like there was water in the brake fluid it could gum up arond the caliper pistons causing them to stick and keep too much pressure on the pads which would cause them to overheat. Another great video. Hope your brake troubles are solved. Safe traveling my friends.

Hi you Three..about the brakes consider getting slotted rotors they help on keeping your rotors and pads from getting hot.

DOT4 brake fluid loves to absorb water . Had a ford DOT4 in high humidity area . Nearly each yr it had water contamination . Switched to dot3 - 3yrs later No problems

Wow, 10,100+ feet.

Ok, I hate to say this, but I think the brake shop pulled a fast one on you. The brake system is a closed loop system. Water can’t get in the master cyl. If the water had been in there over time, it would have foamed and turned milky instead of swirling.

Have you put your rig on a scale? You could be hovering around the GVW limit. There's probably a aftermarket tow brake kit for the Promaster. Not fun coming down a steep grade with increasing brake fade.

Another great video. We liked the awning. Very simple and practical! Did you get the brakes all worked out? Mark & Teresa

We’re going to Dove Creek Colorado in two days. Probably to Cortez too.

First time watching your videos, and I think they are great, especially the drone shots catching the hawk flying was great! Not sure if I missed it though, but the most valuable part of me watching this was hopefully to find a Boondocking spot in Colorado. Did you specify where you were camping? If so, I must’ve missed it. Thanks!

You had severe rotor heat, 2 times. Hope your rotors did not warp. Might also need to have your front wheel bearings inspected/repacked? Steep/long downhill, always put automatic transmission in low. Sure it will be slower, what is the hurry in that environment? Thanks for sharing another mountain place.

Did you hold your breath as you guided the drone thru the 2 peaks @18:59? Excellent video, so much to see thank you.

Hope your brake woes are over. What book were you reading out of early at your first stop with your friends? Beautiful countryside.

Sorry you had brake problems. But your video gives me a heads up what to expect. I'm having trouble with rusty hubs right now because of stationery to long. Had to replace five lugs after brake inspection then got new tires and they had stripped another one. Waiting on a tap to get this one in. Hoping I don't have to replace hub.

Great video. Love the tarp idea. What size was the tarp? Thanks guys.

I’m crack handed and went with a Moonshade for $300 but it’s not that different from your Home Depot special… We settled on the popular Pico chairs easy to fold and sturdy.

Hubby seems to think you need new rubber brake lines. What’s happening now is they’re keeping them engaged.

Love your videos! What is the name of the book you were reading from?

My Golden Retriever dives underwater and grabs the trout off of my line if not restrained. He's never left a mark on a fish. Kinda bothers some of my fishing buddies..... Ha!

I like your tarp. As a minimalist, I suspect you can cut those spikes in half and they would still function, save weight.

If the caliper cylinder sticks, the pads can't cool. I had this problem and finally put new caliper which solved the problem.

Hey Dave so how is the awning? You moved spaces and didn't put it back up.

If nothing on your brakes appear abnormal...your caliper(s) may just be sticking. Hopefully all goes well. Since it's an American car, just go with new calipers. Get the brake fluid flush as well and use what the type of brake fluid is in the manual.

How did the tarp work in rain and wind. I'll be doing the same set up with my van.

Question: what caused water to get in the brake fluid? I am new to promaster and would appreciate the heads up. Your videos are always spectacular ❤

Maybe use the brakes less and the transmission more to regulate your downhill speed. Very nice improvisation on the awning!!!

Now that I am noticing, does Dave have any shirts that are NOT green? lol.

I'm wondering if green limes can be used instead of lemons?

49 bucks per person and full. It just shows I'm right. There are plenty of people with more money than brains. Enjoy your week. If needed you could add one more cord to the corners and pull tight sideways to hold it in the wind

Beginning to wonder if your brake issue is .... Colorado. Maybe the weight of your van + the mountains is just to much for your brakes.

You need your brake caliber changed ,its not retracting which causes pads to stay in contact with rotor, causing excessive heat,I'm a mechanic take my word, change calipers ,should be 70 -80 for part

Have you been using your heater at the higher elevations?

What is that book you used to find the hot springs?