Camping ala Prius

Hi All -

I took my son camping over the long weekend -- we drove down to Yosemite and camped near Tuolumne Meadows.

I was pleasantly surprised at being able to fit everything in the car, without impeding my view out the back! No problems with the drive up either, even though the car was pretty fully loaded - two adults & one kid plus LOTS of camping gear, but never ran the battery all the way down in the process of climbing to 8600 ft. elevation.

We arrived right after a storm and had to drive over some recent snow/hail which was high enough to scrape under the car bottom. No problems handling though & I got to look up what the little light with a road and snowflake means (Cold! less than 37 deg F, but you non-californians already knew that ...)

I did have a problem getting up the last bit of campground "road" up to the actual campsite. It had a few rocks that were not going to clear - we tried backing in since the front seems to scrape more going first. Still had a rough time maneuvering so that various rocks didn't scrape other things underneath ... it took a long time to drive 20 feet! We should have gone in forward and not backward after all, I think.

Does anyone have other suggestions for this situation?

Overall a great success!

 

Nope, didn't notice a thing.

Well, OK, but what scraping speedbumps in a parking lot? What about my driveway? Oops, I'm whining, sorry!

I can't drive in forwards without scraping the heck out of the front underneath. Now that I've figured out backing in to fix this problem I should see if anything needs repair.