Hello, I'm Bryan and I'm excited to share with you today
the new REI Special Edition Basecamp 16.
Now, when we decided to collaborate with REI, we had their team and our team look at our
product offering and said, what is it? What would be the best product?
What would be the best platform to put this together in?
And the Basecamp just made sense.
It's easy to tow. It can be towed by small SUVs,
midsize SUVs and any truck. Easy to haul gear inside and out with the rear cargo door and it
has the ability to take your adventure just a little bit further with the equipped X-package,
which is standard on the REI. We get a 3" lift, we get the more
aggressive Goodyear tires, and as you go forward - the stainless steel rock guards help protect the
aluminum. Certainly if you have very aggressive tires on
your tow vehicle and your off road and you're kicking up debris.
The solar guard plays double duty.
It offers protection from road debris from your tow vehicle on dirt or gravel roads.
It also helps reduce a lot of the UV and that heat that can come from the sun.
When we sat down with R. E. I. We wanted to look at sustainable features and
sustainable design, but it's more than that. We also want to take a look at two major
aspects of a travel trailer. One - how do we conserve water? And two -
how do we maximize our energy?
Now, every Airstream has a front port for a portable solar array but unique to the REI
is an optional 360 watts of solar with 2 - 100
amp hour lithium batteries. The solar is a little bit more unique.
These panels are adhesive and they cover almost the entire roof of the Basecamp itself.
That allows for not just your weekend getaway, but that allows you to really extend your
adventures. Up front we have our two and 5/16 hitch, our seven way,
our breakaway chains, and the emergency brake. Unique to the Basecamp is this LP shroud,
it's all about aerodynamics.
You have to 2 - 20lb. L. P. tanks and a shelf up on top that allows you to
hold cables, hoses, etcetera.
Down below. You'll see on this particular model as we got
it here to this park, you'll see the Blue Ox TrackPro weight distribution hitch.
Off to the side of the Basecamp, we've got a lockable door.
This door opens up, you can grab the shower, you have both hot and cold water,
you can rinse yourself off, rinse off your gear all while putting nothing into the holding tank.
It just simply goes to the ground. Right below that is a storage area.
That storage area can be used for a water hose, tools gear etcetera. Next to this is a
release valve in the actual area for that holding tank to be released.
The wheel itself is unique and exclusive to REI.
Off the back, you have exhaust ports for your water heater and your furnace.
We have two areas of water connections.
You can simply connect the water if you're at a campsite or if you are boon docking like we are
here, you have a area to unlock and you can fill that fresh water tank. On the inside,
there's an onboard pump and that pump along with that tank allows you to simply utilize all
the faucets on the inside of the unit.
Lastly, we have a plug, it's a 30 amp plug, 30 amp connection.
We use a SmartPlug for its lightweight cord, easy to use and the solid connection
that we have on that connectivity of the SmartPlug . On the rear of the Basecamp we have these
automotive style cast aluminum LED tail lights.
We have a latch up on top that helps with windy days but it helps if you have the door open to
be able to keep that latch, the door doesn't shut.
Unique to the REI is this green that surrounds the door surrounds
the window and also the license plate. On the inside, you have a white board to tell people
know where you might be going off to.
You've got three different storage areas. REI comes with the first aid kit.
All Basecamps come with the rear window and a privacy shade...
.when you're ready to call it a night. On the REI we've got two racking systems,
one of the wall and one on the floor.
The one on the wall can be designed for gear and hang a helmet from it whatever you may want
to have it. But on the floor, what's unique is you can
actually now bring bikes in and you can mount them to a mount. That mount is sold separately,
but it fits right onto that track.
The door opening is 26" wide, which allows for any bike handlebar to be pushed through even
the real wide ones, you can just maneuver. Right below the rear door
you have a spare tire with a keyhole, that keyhole.
A tool will go in, simply cranks it down, makes it nice and easy to access that spare tire.
If you take a look at the overall design of Basecamp,
you'll see an intentional and aggressive departure angle.
That departure angle is done so on purpose to get you through those dips and ravines you may
encounter. Right beside it or right back here you have some skid pads,
Those skid pads are there on purpose in case you get into a difficult situation,
it won't damage the bottom of the Basecamp.
You have two heavy duty stabilizer jacks that when down creates a nice sure-footed area for
Basecamp while you're inside.
When you are plugged into shore power, you've got, you've got two plugs here,
both 110[volt] that allows you to connect up to two devices. As a leader in outdoor recreational gear,
we came together to create a kit to enhance
your adventure. That kit has a dedicated place and dedicated
storage on the inside.
And a lot of these are intended to be used outside - real quick and easy way to get your
camp set up. It comes with flex light chairs,
, your roll top table, a down blanket. If the campsite is equipped with a
picnic table, a cover for that picnic table as well as a cover for the chairs -
it has a little cushion to it.
First aid kit that you saw in the back door, a clothesline that could be hung - great for drying
out a wet suit. Playing cards, two mugs and this
Illuminaid which is actually a light that lights up as well as a lantern to walk around
with. And it can charge your devices.
It also comes with soft sided cooler and these Pack-Aways. The largest Pack-Away goes right in
that rear cargo door while the other smaller Pack-Aways go in the overhead storage area or
dedicated storage areas throughout the cabinetry inside the Basecamp itself.
Now that we've seen the exterior and the kit, we're gonna take a tour on the inside of the
all-new REI Special Edition.
The [REI] Basecamp has a lot of similar features to our traditional Basecamp as far as floor plan,
but the materials being used throughout and some of the different compartments that we have
are slightly different. For one, the designers really wanted to focus on sustainability.
Secondly, they also wanted it to look more like nature as well as some of
the attention to detail that they put into their flagship stores.
They really wanted to focus on bringing the color of nature in.
So you can take a look of the exposed edge that we have on the on the birch plywood,
the exposed fasteners that are throughout. The cargo net holders rather than the plexiglass
that we have in the traditional Basecamp.
And instead of having the flatware holder over in this area,
it's actually up against the wall.
So up on the wall itself there's a cutting board and pockets for your flatware.
It also comes with these OXO accessories. You have a cutting knife,
a cleaning tool, a pan scraper and also some utilities aspects for cooking.
The sink cover also doubles as a cutting board as well.
Now the sink is a little bit different in the REI Special Edition.
You've got the standard faucet, but then you have a filtered faucet.
So the filtration device uses a UV LED filtration that comes from the fresh
tank through the pump and into that filtration system.
So you get a full filtration system inside this particular unit.
Wwo burner cooktop gas stove, you have these items that come up.
These receptacles are 2 - 110Vs and USB's.
There's two of those up here and those are used when you are on shore power.
Now, there are other areas in here with USB ports
if you're boondocking and using battery. The 3.1 cubic foot fridge,
you have a microwave. The microwave is optional. If it is not there,
you have just another storage area.. storage where you can see where some of the gear has
come from. You have down below a place to put boots,
dirty clothes, wet suits, whatever you may want to have that's on there.
Now, back to the decor itself, you can see the greens, you can see the different color the
natural wood. Everything else, there's also a change to the
floor and to the cushions. So that is all designed around that center
focus of sustainability as well as bringing that outside kind of in.
Underneath this coin design, vinyl flooring is all new composite flooring throughout.
You have a composite split floor composite flooring all through here and in the back
removing the wood that was once they're in the past.
So now, besides the furniture being wood, the entire unit is aluminum or
composite. Underneath the composite flooring will be our tanks.
Those tanks are heated in two different ways if you're in cold conditions. If you're in cold
conditions and you want your furnace on the furnace that heats the entire area will also
heatt your tanks. However, if you're going to be gone throughout
the day and you want to conserve energy and conserve power.
You can turn on just the tank heater button down below here by itself.
And that will heat just the tanks without having to heat the entire inside of the unit.
It's a way to conserve energy. In front of me here, you have a lockable storage area,
so a nice deep recessed area here for taller or bigger items and then a pocket here.
Now, inside here there's two USB ports that actually can be routed.
There's a little recess there and you can actually have the units either inside and
locked while being charged or have them being outside while you're using them. Down below here,
you have three hooks.
It's two storage areas with bungee closures and then your four switches which control the
lights even inside and outside the Basecamp.
Right across the way we have our wet bath. Inside the web path is a toilet shower
combination because it's REI Edition it has a couple of unique features to it.
It comes with an REI caddy, two towels, some soap and a design
feature called Paper Terrazzo that is 30% recycled material on both sides of the wall. New
this year is a composting toilet option.
The composting toilet option basically takes your solids and removes them from going into
the waste tank. So the waste tank is just liquid.
The shower itself. I want to touch on this, it has a recirculating
hot water feature. So the water itself will recirculate until the
hot water reaches the shower head and then the water will come out.
It saves water - again - sustainability and conserving that extra water.
It's all about water conservation, making your trip last longer.
And we're going to focus on the back portion of the Basecamp now.
This area is all about convertibility.
You have the ability to keep it up just like this,
u-Shaped seating area, a split sleeping area, or a full 74 x 74 wide
bed. Up top..
you see the cargo storage with the REI bags. On this side,
you have the blanket with another REI bag and below this are the two boards that make
this into a U- Shaped seating area. It's split so you can
actually have different kind of bed conversions. So for example,
let's say you want to leave a table up but you want to keep this into a bed.
You can do that. You can put this into a bed sleep this way and have
your table. Or you can do the other way, you can have that
into a bed and have this open with a table with maybe some gear. Unique to REI is going to be
this cargo holder. You can put on a carabiner,
you can plug in some gear, a bag, maybe a helmet and as we spoke about earlier,
there's another one right here that's currently covered up,
but that's where you can put bike mounts. Unique to the Basecamp
is this Knoll fabric.
Again, that color was to kind of mimic that of the outdoors.
It's very comfortable, highly breathable.
And then also with the REI, REI gives you this
little mechanism that helps you store additional gear.
Whether you want to use it for drying or just gear storage. And it can go between the two.
You can modify that either way you like.
And speaking of storage, there's hooks all around the Basecamp.
We've got hooks in the front hooks as you walk in.
We've got hooks over here as well.
A lot of places to store your gear.
Next we're gonna talk about the control panel that we have set up in this Basecamp.
On the very top of this is gonna be your solar monitoring.
But again, you can monitor on this particular version with this option 360 watts of solar on
the top. Next to it - below - is gonna be your tank level monitoring.
So it tells you how much you have in your tank. So fresh water and your combo tank. Below that
is going to be your thermostat for your furnace and on the very bottom is gonna be a continuous
hot water heater with that recirculating feature. There is your first look at the all
new REI Special Edition Basecamp travel trailer.
If you have questions or you'd like to see one in person,
please contact one of our authorized Airstream dealers.
Thanks for watching. We'll see you off the trail!