Whatever. Ufck you guys.
The Biltmore was a pretty crazy place to have an event. And paying $100 to get in seemed excessive, but let me tell you. I've never been more impressed with a man made structure in my life. That place was insane. I'm going to plan a weekend back just to see more of the house and the grounds.
Anyway on to the show.
Here is an aerial shot of the entire thing.
Dunno why that one section is circled in red, but whatever.
The Biltmore itself is on the left hand side of the image. The show and on-site camping is the middle section right next to the river.
The actual show was only from the tree line that splits the open area to about where that red circle is. It wasn't huge.
But it was definitely chaotic.
The camping was at both ends. So all day people were driving through the event area where people were walking.
Some manufacturers had legit setups.
BFG for example. They had a whole course that you could go and drive with a Jeep, a Taco, and a RHD old Land Rover.
The local Land Rover dealer brought this over.
This was super cool. There's a company in California that is taking old International Scout IIs and completely rebuilding them from the ground up. This one had a Caddy CTS-V power plant, atlas 2, D60s, and looked showroom fresh. Total price tag, about $150k
There were also some monstrous rigs there.
There was a converted 5-ton. It was for sale. $120k.
The inside had a set of bunk beds, full kitchen, two safes, full shower and residential toilet.
There were too many people in it to take good pictures. But it also had a rooftop deck.
I was super impressed with this Defender 130.
One of the better trailer builds was this company from Indiana called Hiker Trailers (
www.hikertrailers.net) this was their off road teardrop.
As equipped with AC, power, propane, and 33s, came in about $10k. And it was worth it from the looks.
These were super cool. They're like Maxtraxx but you can fold them up. And while you can't bridge with them, the guy said they can get you out of damn near anything.
Saw these Goal Zero batteries everywhere.
You pay like $450 for this and connect a $250 solar panel to it and it can run your campsite for days. No gas, just the sun. Pretty badass.
This looked like essential camping kit.
$60 from Frontrunner Outfitters.
Those were all the pictures I took. I'll ask my friends to send theirs over so I can post them.
Also, Brian should have some as well. He actually camped at the event site Saturday night. And he can share some insight on that.
Overall, it was a good event. But it felt very thrown together. Nobody knew what was going on, the camping was kind of mixed in with the exhibitors. It was strange. I got some really good ideas for where I'd like to go with the camping and travel setup.
I don't think I'll go next year. But maybe the year after.