Helpful Videos: How to use our rental gear
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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 and troubleshooting
Headlamps and Lanterns - troubleshooting
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.Â
1-Person / 2-Person / 3-Person TentsÂ
The video uses our 2P Tent as example, but all these tents set up the same way
4-Person and 6-Person TentsÂ
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.
Similar instructions apply to JetBoils.
Sleeping bag
Here's a video of how to stuff and compress the bag
Backpack
Everything you need to know about backpacks! Common features prominent in most backpacks, how to pack your backpack for backpacking, and how to adjust a backpack to your torso size. Hint: 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.
Troubleshooting trekking poles: Loose locking mechanism
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.Â
Headlamps and Lanterns
Most of our headlamps come with a very helpful feature to save battery life:
You can lock it in the off position to prevent the headlamp from accidentally turning on in your backpack and draining the battery:
To lock/unlock the headlamp, press and hold the button for about 10 seconds.
To toggle between regular light and red light for nighttime use, first turn the headlamp on, then press and hold the button for about 3 seconds.
Check the battery status every time you turn off the headlamp. Green means good. Orange means change the batteries.
Rechargeable Lanterns
Both our BioLite Lanterns and LuminAid Solar Lanterns double as charging ports that allow you to recharge your phones and other electronics using a USB cord.
Using the LuminAid Solar Lantern, first connect your phone to the USB port and then press the "charge" button in order to start charging.
Using the BioLite Lantern, simply connect your phone to the USB port and it will start charging automatically. However, BioLite Lanterns share similar lock/unlock features to the headlamps. Here's a video the shows it in action:
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!