etrailer | Yakima SkyRise HD Tent Review - 2013 Ram 2500

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What's up, everybody It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna be checking out the Yakima SkyRise Roof Top Tent, and we have them on our Yakima HD BedRock Rails here, mounted on the rails of the truck on this 2013 Ram 2500. Now, it's gonna be an awesome way to bring a tent with you, but you don't have to set anything up. It just kind of unfolds here on your bed. You can climb up on there and get to camping. Let's check it out.

One nice thing about having this on a truck bed instead of a roof is it's easier to access, and you're not quite as high up in the air, and you can just go ahead and adjust the tent easier. It was much easier to go ahead and install this on these bars here, then it would have been to lift it all the way up on the roof. Now it only took me and one friend to lift the whole tent up, so it's not that heavy when it's all compact, but that's the thing. You just need an extra set of hands to set it down on there, and then you can just pop it open. It was really easy.

And now this is all open in here and set to get camping. A lot of space in here. Plenty for me. I would be able to get my little sleeping bag in here, no issues. There's even some pockets here along the side, to store some stuff.

So if I wanna get my wallet out my pocket or if you had your phone, you could just store it in the side there, that way you don't have it in your pockets, and it's not just laying on the floor. You can kind of keep your area of your tent kind of clean with clutter and stuff not just being laying around. I will say that the floor here is nice and padded. It's much better than laying on the ground like you would with a normal tent, and there's enough there to where I don't feel the bottom. So it's not like a hard bottom of the tent.

I can push down on it here. I can come up there and show you a little bit better. I can push on it pretty good. And the padding I can pull up and you see, that's how thick it is. So that's what you're laying down on and it's pretty good. I felt like I could feel the middle part here when I was laying down, but I think if you just adjust and kind of put your knees there, you're not gonna feel it as much. I wouldn't just put your back on the straight up center. We have two side windows here. I've opened up this side here. That way it gets some air through, 'cause it was a little stuffy, and you can do the same thing on the other side. I can even open up the other door on the tent. This side will open up as well. And then I can go up here and do the top side too. You can roll that up right now and go from either fully exposed like this and open, or I can just roll this up and keep the mesh there too. Just want to show how it is mounted on our truck. These are the BedRock HD Bars here and these mount onto the sides of the bed with just a clamp style, so these we're really easy to install. And once we had these bars installed, then we could add the tent. The tent also follows suit. You don't need tools with that. It's really easy. You just have these clamps that go around the bar and you just turn this knob, and that's what tightens or loosens the clamps around there, and it's on there nice and tight. I can shake the whole trunk back and forth by the grip it has. I really like that we didn't have to use any tools 'cause you know, climbing in your bed of your truck, laying down there with your tools while you're trying to tighten this up underneath the tent, it is stressful. It's gonna be hard. This is way easier just to turn that knob, tighten it. It's nice and tight and you can move along to the next one. The nice security feature is each one of these clamps lock. So you can lock it up when you've got it all set up so that nobody can mess with it when you're not around. Another nice thing about being on the truck bed is you get a little bit longer bars. These are gonna be 78 inches long, and that leaves us a little bit of space on this side, then if you want to put a bike rack on there, let's say you already have a ball mount in the hitch, you don't want to tow anything behind you. You can put a bike rack up here and haul that as well right next to your tent. Now for some measurements real quick. Now, it's gonna be a little bit different. Our truck is lifted today, so it's gonna be taller than a normal truck, but let's go ahead and see how far from the ground it actually is. So we're gonna go from the ground to the very top of our pad here, it's gonna be 67