I haven’t been able to find the group/link. Any chance you could share?
I do see an LLC was formed in May “Overland Softgoods LLC” out of Vail.
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Search “overland softgoods” within the GFC owner fb group and it should pop up. There’s a thread about insulation and Scott who owns Overland Softgoods posted some replies. I messaged him but haven’t heard back
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Not to sound needy or incompetent, but can you be more specific? Which GFC FB group is this in? Nothing comes up as “GFC Owners”. I don’t want to join a bunch of groups and hunt. There is a “GoFastCampers Owners”. Is that the one? Facebook Groups
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Yes thats the group. And no problem, took me a while to find as well
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I am interested in doing a Demo of this product. I have a v2 with driver’s side door. I live in Golden, CO.
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Hi guys! I’m Scott Pope and I made the post in the Facebook group about developing a prototype winter insulation package for the v2 tents. We are a professional cut and sew shop that mostly produces “white label” products. We sell B to B and put other companies logos on the products that we produce rather than our own. We decided earlier this year that we would start developing products that we could sell direct to consumer. Because I am a camping enthusiast and own a GFC I have decided to start developing and producing aftermarket products for the v2 campers.
Here’s a link to a pic of my rig: The Random GFC Photo Thread - #366 by WrinkledPants
After a week of entertaining in my wife’s family members from out of state, I am ready to start spending some time on this project. Thanks to the members here that replied to my post on FB. I’ll need to get a game plan to follow-up with you guys. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to form a sort of brain trust in getting this thing designed and out the door.
I’ll try to get back in touch with those of you that reached out to me by end of week.
Cheers!
Scott
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Hey Scott,
I’m super stoked on this idea!!! I’m not on FB because it’s too much of a time suck for me. Keep us posted on here. I would be stoked to be a Canadian tester as I’m planing on using my GFC all winter for ski touring and avalanche training.
Cheers,
WG
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V1 could add gypsy studs and attach the insulation or an attachment system on top of the current snaps.
@WrinkledPants some of us don’d have facebook so please keep us posted on here or maybe start a thread just for your project
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Interested here as well
Happy Thursday! Between Facebook and this forum there has been a great deal of initial interest in the tent insulation project. I would like to communicate by email if it’s not a problem.
Please send me an email if you are interested in being kept in the loop. My email is: scott@overlandsoftgoods.com
This may end up taking a little longer than I had initially hoped for but hopefully the results will be worth the extra time invested.
Thanks!
Scott
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I am only the messenger, but I did hear from @WrinkledPants a few days ago out of band and he said he is still hard at work on this project.
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Happy Friday! It’s been a few weeks since I posted regarding the tent insulation project. We are moving forward… but, at a snails pace. Unfortunately, material supplies, while available, are taking approximately forever to ship to us!
That said, we are about 85% through the product development phase. I asked my good friend, Eric Alexander, to help out as our winter camping subject matter expert and he is “all in” on the team. Eric is known by many in the mountaineering community as a mountain guide that has summited the highest peaks on seven continents. He is probably best know as the person that guided Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man, to the summit of Mt Everest. Here’s a link to an article about Eric if you are interested in knowing a little bit more about him: Eric Alexander - Simply Life India Speakers Bureau
I have a meeting scheduled next week with Eric and our production manager to finalize the first prototypes.
I will have more to report after that meeting. We have prototyped several other products for the GFC community during our wait for materials. I will happily share each of those upgrades with you soon!
Have a great weekend!!!
Scott
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Looking forward to it!
I’m also very interested in this. Do you know if your solution will work on V1 campers?
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We will look for ways to modify the basic design to fit other camper/tent models. Thanks for your interest!
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absolutely in for one when its ready
do you have an idea of the fabric you are using for production? will there be options for side doors/ no side doors? I personally don’t have them. how about rough price point that you are maybe targeting? I need to start saving my allowancecoughwife.
the other week it was in the 30’s and I had bad condensation with both windows open and rain fly cracked a bit. I was in a steep valley next to a river after a week of rain and it rained a bit that night. so not ideal for dry tent but it was bad
I will have more definitive answers to your specific questions next week. This is much more about managing moisture inside the tent than actual heat insulation, for sure.
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thanks for the reply