I am here now, this time at Overland Expo in Loveland, Colorado, so this is my third event
to attend, and so this is a bonus episode for Overland Expo.
I figured I would just do the intro while I'm here, rather than wait and go back to
my quote-unquote studio in my closet.
So right now I'm looking at the Forester Hybrid that Cary is building out for the Rebel Rally
with the help of Milton and Subaru of America, and of course some build partners.
And seeing this thing in person is pretty incredible.
It looks absolutely amazing.
They've got the Mountain Subi, Subaru USA, Silver Bullet XB, XV on the back.
They've got their Instagram handles there.
So yeah, the color is really, really nice.
This blue is amazing.
And being that it's a hybrid, of course that's great too.
And this thing, if you are following and watching their journey on Instagram, this
car is pretty amazing.
It's doing some really, really cool stuff off-road.
So I think it's going to do amazingly well at the Rebel Rally.
So thank you, Subaru, for partnering with Mountain Subi and putting this thing to the test this
year at the Rebel Rally.
That's going to be super, super cool.
We also have here in the Overland Expo booth, there's a Cross Trek Wilderness.
It's the blue color, I guess hyper blue.
I'm not sure exactly what color it is.
It's got some rock sliders on it, front bumper guard with some lights, and also some ditch
lights and a rooftop basket, some LP Adventure wheels.
And it's looking really good.
Really, really good.
Oh, and it's also got a rear tire swing.
So Subaru, you can just ship that to my house or my apartment whenever this is over.
Thank you very much.
Okay, okay, scratch that because I found out later on that that is Robert Champion's Cross
Trek, so I don't think that'll work out having that shipped to me.
I mean, not that they would do that anyway, but I thought that was kind of funny.
And because it's a really, really nice Cross Trek, it looks really great.
And of course, me owning a Cross Trek and, you know, wanting to eventually get a new
one at some point, but also keeping Pearl, that's probably the most logical plan at some
point.
But yeah, I don't think that Robert would appreciate anybody shipping that to me, because that's
his.
Yeah, she had to throw that in there real quick.
And then of course, we've got the big love sign up here where people can take pictures
and post them up there.
And then we've got Troy with his outback wilderness talking to people.
And his build, of course, looks completely amazing.
With all of the modifications that he's done to it, it looks really, really good.
Then you've got the owner lounge, which is really nice.
People in here are chilling, having some snacks and drinks, picking up some little
bit of merch.
And then we have Betsy Blackie with Basaltic Outback.
And she's got hers here on display with a lot of really nice accessories on it.
She has, I'm not exactly sure what it's called, but it's a little like the step that you
can put on your tire so that it looks like you can get to your roof rack a little bit
easier.
And she, of course, has the Subaru Outback Wilderness.
And she's got it fitted out for car camping really well.
And I see a wee boost up there, too.
That's nice.
Then, of course, there's the Subaru Wilderness badge on display here.
And then lastly, we've got the little stage where Carrie and Milton are currently doing
a little demonstration or talk about modifying your Subaru.
I was up at the stage before, right before them talking to Tanya.
I had her on the podcast in this episode.
And then now I'm heading over.
We've got a Wilderness Forester, which looks really, really nice.
It's also the same color as the Cross Trek, the Hyper Blue, I believe is what it's called.
And they've got it kitted out in the back with a little dog, like a shed, portable dog
shed or something, and then the ramp.
So yeah, this is Overland Expo in Loveland, Colorado.
Oh, one more thing.
We've got the little trailer over here that, like the pull-behind trailer with the topography
and everything on it.
That looks really nice.
It's also got a rooftop tent, bunch of merch in the back, so nice, nice little setup here.
So that's Overland Expo, Loveland, Colorado, Mountain West.
I was planning to record everything, the whole intro from there, record it from the
event.
But I can't help myself.
I get back here to edit, and there's just something about having the headphones on and
talking into the mic that it's just, it's a lot different.
It's something, but it's like the experience of it.
With this bonus episode, it's going to be like the other ones where I will introduce
the first day, and then I just let the conversations roll, and then I will introduce the second
day just so you know that what day it was on.
But yeah, I had some good conversations and met some good people.
So they will introduce themselves for each of the conversations, so I'm not going to like
tell you here like I had this person on this day, and this, and this, and this.
So you will find out as the conversations come.
But before we get into those conversations, I just want to say thank you again so much
to Subaru and Joe for bringing me out to Overland Expo and allowing me to be a part of
this journey and a part of Overland Expo 2025, since this is the first time that Subaru has
officially participated.
I really appreciate it.
I had such a great time.
Everybody else had a great time.
It was such a great space, and we've got one more event to go to.
I'm looking forward to that, and I'm looking forward to meeting new people and seeing
new friends again.
So yeah, we will get into this conversation here from Overland Expo, Mountain West, and
Loveland, Colorado.
Oh yeah, and of course we're going to start off with day one, which was Friday.
So that's what these conversations right here are going to be.
Alright, we're here at Overland Expo, Mountain West, and yeah, it's just audio.
So we're here at Overland Expo and Mountain West in Loveland, Colorado.
We're here in what somebody called the Subaru Oasis when we were in Oregon, which seems
like more appropriate for this.
So why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself, because I have my first guest here.
Hello Rafael, my name is Tanya, and yeah, I'm a content creator from Mexico, but now
I'm living in Bellingham, Washington, and I'm so excited to be here in Loveland,
Colorado.
This is my first Overland Expo.
This whole world is just so new to me, and I'm just so thankful that you have
me here.
So what brought you to Overland Expo, and specifically to the Subaru Oasis?
So yeah, good question.
I have a Forester Wilderness 2024 that I got last year, brand new from the agency or
the dealership, and ever since I got it, I just kind of had this wild dream of making
it into an adventure car, and I already do a lot of travels, and before I wasn't driving
that much, and now that I'm in the States, I'm literally enjoying the freedom of having
your own car and being able to drive everywhere.
So it just makes sense to be here and learn about all the brands, all the experts, like
learn about everything that I want to do to make this dream a reality.
So being that you have a Subaru and a Forester, you're in the right spot, and wanting to do
more with it, because there are a few cars here with people that can definitely help you
out, that have done some pretty amazing modifications to their Subaru's, so it's a perfect spot
to be.
No, I'm so excited.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
So what made you choose Subaru to purchase, and then also why a Forester Wilderness?
So yeah, it was a little bit torn between which car was I going to get, but to be honest,
the safety features that it has being a solo traveler right now, and being able to feel
secure in my car, that was like one of the highest priorities of getting this one.
I did some test drives from the cross track, like I've been out of the outback, but
the Forester was the one that made me decide to choose over it just because
of the room that it has.
The Wilderness Edition particularly was perfect for me just because of the seat, the seatings,
and then being able to put all the back seats down very quickly and just being able to
car cam quickly.
That was like wow, it has so much room, I love the moonroof, and yeah, I just fell
in love with it.
So how long, when you bought it, did you start car camping right away where you like, this
is your goal and your vision to car camp with it and among just traveling?
Well, ever since I got it, yes, that was my vision, but I didn't start right away.
I think I just started this year just because it was kind of like the winter, and then
I was doing a lot of traveling internationally, so there wasn't a lot of time to actually
enjoy the summer, but this summer I did my first car camping outside of my trailhead to
go see the sunrise and it was so beautiful and so quick and that was an amazing experience
and now I just came back from Alaska and I tested out a roof tent and I'm like yeah,
I want to have that in my car so I'm starting this journey of documenting everything, taking
people along with me for, yeah, like to see and to learn with me because I am not that
experienced in this space, this is all new to me in Mexico, like at least where I grew
up, it's not that popular, like there's like sewer ooze, like it's kind of like
new there, but this, you know, car camping, it's kind of like getting popular now,
but it's not like as crazy as it is here, I'm seeing so many beautiful vehicles and
infinite possibilities and I'm just like overwhelmed and amazed about all the options available.
Yeah, of course Subaru specific, you've got plenty of people to talk to here in the little
Subaru space, but being at Overland Expo and being able to explore all the different options
for camping and any other type of gear you might need while you're out, this is like
perfect spot for that.
Yeah, for sure, I'm very thrilled to see what else or what are the additions that
I can make to my car, like the changes or modifications I would say.
So how did you find out about Overland Expo and then how did you find out that
Subaru was at Overland Expo?
So I came to a conference in Colorado in the travel adventure space from the ATTA,
the Association of Travel Adventure, and there I connected with other people and
then told me about this Expo because I was talking about my desire of just
turning my car into the best adventure companion and they told me about this
Expo and yeah, basically I just decided to come here following this dream
randomly and come here.
So did you know that Subaru was at the Expo?
Yeah, well like once I started researching, I saw like there was a lot of
brands and I was like, well, that's cool, that's where it's going to be there.
I have Subaru and need to learn about the space.
So yeah, for sure.
And it's perfect because this is the first year that Subaru has done all of
the Expo's because last year they did like a little pilot at the first event in
California and then based on that they decided to come to Overland Expo and
attend all of the events this year, which we're all glad because it's been
it's been such a great experience and I know it's gotten a lot of great feedback.
I didn't know, but I was checking also that like in some
Subaru's Instagram account, they have a lot of people that are like you said
fans of the brand and it was like, well, that's an amazing community and I want to
be kind of part of that.
So yeah, I don't know anyone that owns a Subaru like in where I live.
Well, kind of like, but I haven't met the community, so I'm excited to
like just immerse myself in the community and be able to share
traveling experiences.
And what's nice too about the Subaru community, especially like the off-road
and overlanding community is when you like if you reach out to somebody to
ask a question, everybody is so helpful.
So like don't ever be afraid to reach out to somebody if you see somebody
that's doing something you know that you are interested in because like so
many people have experienced that where you know they're new to the
community, they're like maybe a little afraid to reach out to people,
but then they end up reaching out and are very surprised that people
are extremely helpful because like what happens with us is we see
somebody new come into the community.
We see somebody that gets a new Subaru and then we get really excited
for them, especially somebody that's really passionate and really
wanting to use their Subaru for what it was made for and beyond.
We all get super excited about that and we just want to like help
everybody with their journey.
So it's a great space to be in.
No like and I've been discovering a lot of like new things that I didn't know.
I don't know if you have heard about Rebel Raleigh.
Oh yes.
So like I just learned about that you know like I think two weeks or
something I let go before coming here and I was like wow imagine like I just
could imagine myself using my Subaru to explore and then learn all these
things and just all about learning and you know making everything work
in my favor in some ways or just like do crazy things that I haven't done before.
Yeah so the Forrester Hybrid over there that Cary is driving.
Cary has been participating in the Rebel Raleigh for the past.
I think this is going to be her fifth year and she the previous
years was driving her own outback and this year she's going to be driving
the Forrester Hybrid.
Oh my god.
And so she's been doing a lot of testing so she would be a great
person to talk to because she's actually participated for several years
as a driver and now she's got the Forrester and then of course we've got
this Forrester Wilderness right here.
What color is yours?
Mine is the green the first green I think.
Yeah they're so beautiful.
Yeah every single color of the wilderness I've seen is a good color.
Like I think but I think the white I didn't like the white that much
just because since you have the black thing at the at the hood
I just feel it's like makes a lot of contrast whether all the other colors
it's kind of like it blends in and it doesn't look as intense but yeah like
yeah you're talking about the right on the hood yeah like the black thing that
it's covering that it's kind of like so that's a good point that was like the
white it was like everything was perfect except that was like
it's just a lot of contrast and all the other ones are
more like blending in and it's just like they look beautiful.
That's a good point yeah because I have my cross-track is white
and everything on my car is black and white like I've gone with the black
and white theme. Ah but then in the wilderness you have like the
yellow like little things so that's it.
Yeah but I mean since mine is just a you know a 21
base model like it's it's funny because I was looking at a picture of it the
other day when it was stock yeah and then the way it looks now and I'm like
it just like it doesn't look like my car you know like
what it is now is like that's my car. Yeah yeah that's amazing.
Yeah so it's it's fun to build them up but so how long have you been
doing content and like what kind of content are you doing?
I have been creating content I guess over the past six years.
Oh nice. But since I'm very passionate about photography
about traveling and yeah just content creation allows me to blend
the things that I'm passionate about and now it seems that I'm passionate
about driving since I got back in Mexico I didn't
need to have a car to be honest I was like for the
past 30 years I was like I knew how to drive but I
never owned a car until I moved to the States. Okay. So yeah like before I was
afraid or anxious like to be driving you know in big cities and now that I'm
like much more confident driving like I just see
like infinite possibilities now that I'm like driving I'm like oh I can drive
anywhere everywhere I want to drive. Yeah. So it just
just made a lot of sense to also do like this car camping living here just
because the options in the United States
available for you know this type of lifestyle
are just beyond what I had imagined and I'm so excited to
explore more of that. Yeah and you're in the Pacific Northwest so you're in like
the perfect spot for that too. Yeah that's why I moved there I was
living in Houston I started living in Houston and I was like
yeah so that's you mentioned that before we started recording because I
live in Houston how long were you in Houston? For six months.
Okay where'd you live? Kind of like outskirts of like downtown so like
everything was at least 30 minutes and yeah like nature was like two hours and
oh yeah everything was like far there's no sidewalks I wanted to walk from where
I lived to downtown and it was like freaking seven
I hope it's something like that so yeah yeah Houston was not for me.
Yeah I know it's I've been there my whole life I live in west Houston
and I've said it so many times on the podcast like owning the type of
Subaru that I have living in Houston is the worst spot for it
but that's where I live I don't really you know I have kids there and family and
stuff. Funny thing I was born in Waco so yeah I was born in Texas.
Oh that's I was just in Waco last week yeah so I was driving I went to a
project for work up in McKinney, Texas and on my way back down I stopped by
Waco because I've driven through Waco I just never really stopped in Waco
so that's Carrie right there by the way so she's the one that did the
rebel rally. Perfect, that's what we tried to occur.
So you said you bought a Subaru for safety where were you doing your research to
find that out because when I bought my Subaru I didn't
buy my Subaru for safety I didn't know about the
safety features I bought it because I thought it looked cool and because I
wanted a manual but so many people that I've had on the podcast
that was a huge reason for them purchasing a Subaru is because of the
safety features so where did you do your research to find all that out?
My research was mainly done with my friends at own cars and they were like
looking it for me and they were like oh you can have these options
I was also looking at other brands and kind of testing kind of like similar
price range as well but when I bought it last year
to be honest I wanted to buy a used car but then
it was almost the same as a new car and I was like well I can get a new
car and then I just get I got a nice like interest rates
and the loan and I feel that was like the reason that I picked it
because the Subaru had a very good promotion and I was like well I want to
have the cheapest or like the lowest interest rates
and I liked the car so that was like the second highest like
there just being able to have a good financial
you know decision like in terms of buying a car
and that's why I decided to buy a new instead of used but I was like and
also the fact that Subaru holds its price for like the long term and even if
you want to sell it yeah you're gonna like you're it's gonna be a very good
investment so that's why like those were my top three reasons like safety
like the financial opportunity that I got and being able to
not have a loss when you sell yeah yeah it's good
anything else you want to share before we
well I'm very excited to start this journey of car camping and I feel I'm
in a great spot here at this Overland Expo it's
about like less it's like 10 a.m. right now almost
but yeah I feel I've got it already so much information
just for like this first day before even midday so yeah I'm so excited and stoked
about the future so before we end where can people find you
yeah my Instagram handle it at Tania Barillo like T-A-N-Y-A-B-A-D-I-L-L-O
and that's my website as well I have TikTok and I'm gonna start
a YouTube documenting like everything and seeing like sharing
more in depth of like this car camping series
okay great well it's nice to meet you and I'm sure we'll see you around for the
next couple of days yeah for sure thank you so much for
having me you're welcome
all right we're here at Overland Expo it's noon
and the weather's pretty nice it's a little overcast but this is my time
slot to record with somebody and so I found somebody to record with
who owns two Subaru's welcome to the CBNU podcast and welcome to Overland Expo
Mountain West hello hello go ahead and you can introduce yourself to
hi my name is Margie and I have two Subaru's right now
I'm on my fifth and I went back to my second
oh very nice very nice so what are the two that you own right now
I have a 2025 cross check wilderness and I have a 2018 outback okay so
before we started recording you were telling me that the cross track hasn't
been out much because I was excited to hear like how it's been doing but
you mentioned that it's hail season so you've been keeping it protected and
we live in Cheyenne and there's hail and I don't want to have a
damaged car so it's in the garage I driven it maybe
I don't know aside from home from the dealership maybe
three or four times okay and I really really like it
but I just don't want it to be all messed up
totally understandable so what made you like so you have the
2018 outback what made you decide to get into the cross track wilderness
so actually my first Subaru was a cross track in 2015
okay and I didn't really like it because
there was no power in the engine so then after that I got the 2018
outback and then after that I got another outback and then
after my second outback in 2023 I got a cross-track sport
and I absolutely loved it my mom had gotten my 2018
outback and she was ready for a new car so
she got my 2023 cross track I bought a new cross track and I took
the 2018 outback back from her to use as a hail car
okay yeah dedicated hail car dedicated hail car
hey you know I guess if that works for you you know but I mean that's
yeah the hail is that's no good I saw uh somewhere on Instagram a couple of
weeks ago some bad hailstorm it it was like
busting out car windows and stuff that happened to a lot of people in
Cheyenne our neighbor has one of those big SUVs with like
where half of the roof is glass yeah and the whole thing's completely
shattered so people had broken out windows they
had broken just everything dense everywhere
some people got it really bad some people are getting a new roofs right
now on their houses so it's but the insurance companies love that
but I guess that's what it's for yeah that's what you pay for right yeah
so what do you think about so have you been to overland expo before
we did we came last year okay so obviously Subaru wasn't at overland
expo last year but so what do you think of the Subaru space here at
overland expo I think this is really nice I have been to
another Subaru space at a ski resort okay
and um winter fest it was a winter fest okay
yes it was in um lake Tahoe oh nice um but this is a way this is a way better
set up probably because the weather has something to do with it right
yeah but that one they just pretty much had vehicles
okay um this one is definitely I mean there's obviously vehicles here but
there's kind it's kind of more interactive I guess
which is pretty cool yeah it's I I like it uh because it's more open it doesn't
really feel like a booth you know it's just yeah for sure and when I was in
an uh Oregon I was talking to a gentleman there and he said he said he feels like
it's more of like a Subaru Oasis because of the way that it's set up
that makes sense yeah and the lounge is really nice yeah the owner now just
really cool and then it's nice to see some factory vehicles on display
and then also vehicles that people have done some really nice modifications to
yeah I always like I mean but that's kind of the theme of this whole event right
as modified vehicles so I definitely think that's fun
plus I mean it's always nice to see what you can do I don't really know
that I'm gonna go off-roading in my wilderness okay
um my joke right now with my husband is no more hobbies
and yeah and I really enjoy my mountain bikes so
okay I think I'd rather if I had the time I think I would
rather go ride my bike than yeah go off-roading
so what got you interested in Subaru in the first place
um value yeah at the time when I got my first one
um we just we were kind of looking for an
interim car okay and it was you know it's always nice to get a new car
as opposed to a used car yeah and it was just it was a really good value
and so we got it and then I was just honestly
I've always been blown away by what you get
in a Subaru yeah and it seems like anytime I compare to another brand
um yeah I just you just don't get as much
yeah and so I feel like I kind of always end up coming back to the
Subaru because of that and the all-wheel drive system is
it's so good it works really well
really really almost a little too well I have to tell you
there's a really wide street um near my house
and when it gets about a foot of snow on it okay
um I really like I like to drive down it and get a little loose
oh yeah and um and the all-wheel drive system works a little too well for
that so it doesn't let you have as much fun as you
want to it doesn't let me have as much fun as I want to
exactly um or even like out in a parking lot just
trying to like with the little snow trying to drift a little bit yeah
it really wants to catch but then on the same you know
same token driving down the street in snow
with traffic and cars on the freeway whatever I feel
like my cars got me back yeah I had I had somebody on the podcast a long
time ago that was I think he I think he had rented a
cross track or was interested in buying a Subaru or something I
can't remember the whole story but it was a snow storm and he was driving
down the street in this cross track and there was like
so many other cars off the road because they just slid off the road
and he said he even saw some jeeps you know that had slid off the road
and he said the Subaru was just going right through had no problems made at
home and and I was you know at the time I was I hadn't
driven through snow before and I was like man I want to experience that because I
live in Houston but living in Houston we do get a lot of rain
and yeah trying to get those especially an underpowered car trying to get it to
drift is difficult but it also makes me feel good
that the all-wheel drive system is that good that when
I'm driving in heavy rains I'm not as worried about
you know I mean you could potentially hide your plane because if there's water
there's water isn't that you can do about that but like turning going up and
down hills and stuff it's going to definitely do a lot better
right and I'm actually my mom does a lot of driving
and I'm glad that she's in a Subaru because I mean not only because of the
all-wheel drive but just the general safety of it
yeah absolutely and ironically enough from my 2023 cross track to my 2025
my insurance went down oh good that's good like
how highly regarded Subaru safety is yeah yeah both of my kids now have
Subaru's so them also living in Houston I'm glad
that they have Subaru's now for for the safety and for the all-wheel drive and
all the rain that we get so yeah right
that's good that you've had so many Subaru's you know and that you've
come back to it that's really nice to hear
yeah there are a lot of fun to drive
I mean I yeah I just I like them yeah and
how do I explain it I don't know there's just so many
aspects of a Subaru that I think fit well
for my lifestyle and just you know we'll load up the bikes and all the
gear and everything and it everything always fits
and we can get wherever we need to go and even you know
if you're headed out somewhere like off of dirt roads
for us to go ride we can get there no problem we don't always have to take a
big truck yeah because they're so capable they're
super capable and then they're super creature
comfortable as well yeah they get really good
gas mileage I mean there's just so many different benefits to a Subaru
so what when you were getting the cross-track wilderness like what was it
that attracted you to the wilderness edition
um so one of the but other than the fact that they look really cool
yeah um one of the the things was we had
okay so my 2023 had 17 inch wheels and we had bought snow tires for it
okay and the 2025 sports have 18 inch wheels
but the wilderness has 17 inch wheels so we were like whoa well we can swap the
snow tires that's nice we don't have to buy a new set of snow tires
yeah um I liked the exterior styling a little bit better
or well a lot better than the sport because they kind of redid the sport
yeah um I like the um
well I love hate relationship with that that whatever that sport tech fabric is
that they use um I like that it like cleans
really well and um but it gets really hot when I wear
shorts and stuff so I just always have to throw a towel in the seat and sit on it
but whatever no big deal I think it's like a really durable
material too like so that's that's really good
yes I'm at some point if I get another
cross well my next car would probably be another cross track but
I'd like to get it with that that'd be nice mm-hmm what color did you end up
getting I got the metallic gray okay I liked how
it blended really well with the cladding that they put
yeah and then I really liked how um the metallic accents
that one right there yeah the metallic accents are kind of like that
orangy bronze color oh yeah instead of like the limey yellow oh yeah of the sport
I mean which looks good too but I already had one so I thought something
different yeah no that's good and you know you said
you're not planning on taking it off-road or going off-road with it but
it's nice to know that you can you know at some point if you decide like
because what's nice too is you don't have to do anything crazy with them but
you can take them on some trails that a normal car wouldn't really be able to go
on and just have the confidence that you can get
through it because like that was one of the main reasons that I bought mine
is we have a family reunion up in east Texas
and I was driving my previous car which was a lot lower
and I saw this road it was like a county road
and it had like some divots in the road and all this stuff and I'm like
like there's no I want to go see what's up this road but I can't
and at the time I knew that I wanted a cross-track but I was like you know if I
had a cross-track I know I could get up this road
and so like for me that was kind of like the biggest thing is being able to
go places like that where I couldn't with any of my previous cars
not necessarily I'm not trying to do any rock crawling or anything but just
the knowing that you can go and take some paths that you couldn't in any
other car was like the big one of the biggest appeals to me
right yeah that makes sense yeah so you think you'll
always own a Subaru then probably unless they
unless something really drastic happens to either a Subaru or
my life yeah yeah okay well thank you for taking
some time to sit down with me and record you're welcome
it was nice meeting you you too yeah and if you want you know if you're
interested you want to go listen to there's over 200 episodes so just
people out in the community I've had the woman that's sitting up there
she goes by mountain subi she also is driving the not the
cross-track but the hybrid forester over there okay
she participates she this will be her fifth year participating in the
rebel rally which is an all women rally
where they race for just trying to get from point A to point B
she has taken that yeah I'm carry
where do you do the rebel rally where do you do the rebel rally
California Nevada desert yeah so I was just telling her about the the
forester sorry the generators over there what I was just telling her about the
forester I'm just telling her about people I've had on the podcast oh yeah
yeah because I was yeah because she's driven her
her outback and the rebel rally the previous four years
so hi Kerry hi Margie nice to meet you nice to meet you too she has a
2025 cross-track wilderness but she also has a 2018 outback
and she's had some other Subaru's as well so we were just chatting about it
yeah we'll be a starting competition
like the October we'll have three Subaru's
we'll have three Subaru's competing this year
so that's super exciting and looking forward to
nice yeah again thank you for hopping on the mic
you're welcome all right have a great day you too thanks bye
all right I'm here at Overland Expo Mountain West and we're in the
beautiful owner lounge here at the Subaru Oasis
so welcome to the podcast would you please introduce yourself
hi my name's Ann and I live in Palmer Lake Colorado and I have a 2024 outback
wilderness all right so that's good to hear and
before we started recording I asked if it was your first Subaru and you said oh
no no how many have you owned I've owned nine
okay so do you have the little ownership badge with a nine on it
yep nice I sure do yep and five five other
little emblems that came with it so that was a pretty sweet deal because
that's free yeah yeah it is nice it's nice that you can
put those on there and show your proud ownership of it
yep so what are the other Subaru's that you've owned
previously all outbacks okay except for actually we had a 93
legacy sedan and that was a five-speed manual
the kids learned to drive on that very tough little car
going through teenagers um and then we had one other
outback that was a legacy but other than that they've been the the station wagons
yeah I the outbacks are really really nice
I and like the so the before the newest newest outback like the current
generation outbacks I they're a little too big for me
but the wilderness all day long I could there's
there's something about the wilderness that I love
well like I mentioned before we started our recording here
um I bought that 24 wilderness in June of 2023 because they had no more 23s
available so I didn't even have a chance to test
drive it but I got in it they taught me how to handle
and break in the turbo and I've been grinning ever since
so what made you decide on the wilderness
well if I was good so all these other Subaru's I've had
never had a car payment I bought them all cash nice
and I was trying not to have a car payment but then
when I couldn't find what I wanted and a used Subaru at that time
used good used cars for a good price for hard to find yeah
I went ahead and went new and I thought if I'm going to have a car payment
I'm going to get the wilderness yeah there you go no regrets
so what would you say is your favorite thing about the wilderness
oh my gosh were there too many favorite things
number one is I love being able to pass everybody else going uphill
yeah I really do I mean it's and I've got 36,000 miles on that car now
and it's given me absolutely no trouble some of the older Subaru's that had
turbos I know there were some issues but this one's been fine
the other thing I really like is it lives up to the hype in the X mode
so if you put the X mode on and you need to use it because I've taken it off
road like where I take my Jeep okay and it has clearance
it handles downhill scree just fine
I'm very pleased with how it performs off-road yeah
and if you don't know what you're doing you could get yourself in trouble
but if you know how to four-wheel drive and how to manage your vehicle
this thing lives up to the hype good that's good to hear
yeah I haven't driven a wilderness personally
but I hear a lot of good things about it I know the X mode is really good
unfortunately my car since I have a base model
manual transmission it doesn't have X mode but
it's okay because I love my car for other you know
various reasons and I live in Houston so I don't really need X mode
well I was curious how it works so there's a little road outside of
you wanted to put into the test yeah it goes up to a
collapsed caldera so it's an old volcano
that you can get to within a mile and a half or so off of I-70
and it's a pretty steep road the only thing up there besides
actually when I went up there there were three Subaru's parked at the
bottom I just thought to myself they're
rookies I went on up I have my own wilderness I went on up
the only thing coming down were ATV's yeah I'm like what did I just do
but I got to the top no problems but coming down that little volcanic
pebble scree stuff I put in an X mode
and it does exactly what it's supposed to and it did the hill descent
breaking all the way down even down around the
hairpin course I had no trouble good good so then that just pretty much
solidified your confidence in the car yep
yeah that's good to hear yep yeah I know that they've just continued the
I think they're called Geolander tires they came stock on the new Subaru's
yeah um I think there's better options out there that's the only
thing is if we were getting to this point what do I not like about it
was those tires they're okay for summertime driving
and stuff but they're not that great in the winter on snow
okay yeah so I put snow tires on it in the winter but
I think that the newer Subaru's coming out are not using those tires anymore
okay yeah that's good yeah so what got you
interested in Subaru in the first place you know years ago whenever you
bought your first one well it gave me the option
I was the kids were young when I divorced and I wanted to be able to go skiing
and camping and have an all-in-one vehicle that could
carry it all so if you got enough roof racks
system you can load a Subaru up as much as a
suburban yeah and so I could take the boys camping
and skiing and all of our stuff fit so I knew that was the right car
post there you know I have a friend that's a mechanic
and he has his own shop and he works on all things Japanese
but his focus is Subaru so I already knew from him that's what I wanted and
I am a die-hard Subaru owner obviously with a nine under my belt
yeah no that's awesome that's great to hear because
I mean I'm on my first Subaru and I didn't really know much about Subaru
at all before I bought mine and so it's you know it's great to hear
stories like that because I know for me this won't be my
my first and only Subaru it's it's um they've definitely
and and I've told the story before on the podcast but
I went out with a friend who was looking for a new car years ago
and he went to a Subaru dealership and I was looking around at them
it was before way before the cross track I don't even remember which
particular model he was looking at but I'm I know they had the Forester
and they had the Outback and some other ones but I remember looking at them
going like why would you want to buy one of these they're so funky looking
you know but like now that's what I really like about them is they're so
different you know and and they're just and knowing how
capable they are as cars and how reliable they are
and then experiencing the all-wheel drive they're just
they're such great cars well you know um I think that's a
selling point is you get a lot of vehicle for the price point
and they're fairly affordable to ensure
I know there's a lot of qualifiers out there with insurance
they're very affordable to maintain they're
cheap to own and of course the newer Subaru's cost more and whatnot but
it's still a very affordable car you get a lot of car
and a lot of safety features and and any of the Subaru's you get even old
ones yeah the one that um I had a 2013 Outback
that I got t-boned in I was so disappointed to lose that car
it was a wonderful car and it's kind of belly aching about it to the tow
truck driver when I went to pick it up out of the
re out of the the city town lot and he said hey it did its job
I've seen a lot of accidents and you could have been a lot worse off but
you were in a Subaru and those are his words I'm not making that up
yeah but that car did exactly what it was supposed to
I was in and out of the emergency room and recovered within a few months
I would have been in much worse shape if I'd been in a different car so the
safety features are very real yeah and I've had so many people
say that I've had quite a few people on the podcast that have been in
accidents and that have said I'm pretty confident
that if I was in any other car I wouldn't have survived that or it would have
been really really bad in the Subaru savory yeah
and that's I didn't even buy mine because of safety safety features but I'm just
glad to learn that after I bought it and now
my daughter owns a Subaru Crosstrek a 2024
third generation Crosstrek and my son has a 2010
Outback so it's I feel good knowing that they're in
Subaru's well that's what I bought for my boys
their first cars were Subaru's I'm like I'm not buying anything else
when you get enough to afford to buy your own car you can get whatever you want
my second one has had two Subaru's of his own
nice after the first one you bought for him yep
nice so he's bought two more the other one went with Toyota so I'll
forgive him but yeah I mean that's where we're at
I mean I personally will always have a Subaru in my garage
that's good to hear probably going to be a wilderness of some sort yeah
no the wilderness like I there's the Crosstrek wilderness over here which
one of the guys has modified some but even the Crosstrek wilderness
with no modifications just off the factory floor they're so nice
they look really good yeah and it might possibly be my next car
however I would have I would get a second one because I can't get rid of my
manuals and I'm trying to see how many I'm actually trying to see how many miles
I can get on it because right now I have 132,000 miles
and I've only had it for four and a half years
fairly broken in yeah I know so I there's actually a guy that I know
he has an an older outback but he has 390,000 miles on his outback
I got three of mine one of them was that 93 legacy
and I got that one and two of the the outback station wagons to
over 300,000 wow and then they all died mostly because
my youngest son drove him into something and it just
ended up having to be told yeah but I'll bet you I could have got a lot more
miles on it you just had to replace the head gaskets
do some maintenance but those things they were it ran strong all of them
yeah my son's outback is uh it's 2010 3.6 r and he has I think
206,000 miles on it he's having some transmission issues with it
but other than that everything else is like the engine is
such in such good shape you know for the age and it's he's also like I
think the maybe the fourth or fifth owner because the guy that we bought it
from bought it and then sold it and then
bought it back and then gave it to his father-in-law and so it's
and it's had some modifications done and then take it off and then put back on
but it's still yeah so but it's a it's a good car and
you know he's enjoying it so well thank you so much for hopping on and
sharing a little bit of your story I love it you know
I always I always praise Subaru's you know I've lived it I've
experienced it on all different levels I'm a happy camper
good that's good to hear thanks for having me on you're welcome thank you
all right there's our conversations from day one of Overland Expo Mountain West
and now of course we're going to get into day two of Overland Expo Mountain
West with some more great conversations thank you all so
much for tuning in thank you so much for listening I really really
appreciate it let's get into the rest of this
bonus episode I'm here at Overland Expo
Mountain West why don't you go ahead and introduce yourselves
and let us know like is this your first time at Overland Expo in Colorado
yeah and Ken and this is Courtney Jason
it's my first time at the Overland Expo Colorado
I've been to one in Flagstaff with Courtney before this is my first time
at any Overland Expo very nice yeah and I saw you
y'all were at Flagstaff so that was pretty cool
yeah dude it was absolutely right yeah because what were y'all wearing there
I think we were in our cow out yes yes yeah okay and I was like whenever I saw
y'all in these outfits I'm like they're kind of like the people that were in
Flagstaff I'm like is that the same people yeah that's awesome
that's super fun so tell us like what happened recently because you're in
the market for a new Subaru and she just bought one recently
yeah so two months ago we were sleeping in our bed
had our cars parked out front and a drunk driver hit both of our cars
totaled them out we got Courtney into a new 2017 Forester
very good now I'm just kind of limbo on what I want to get
yeah shopping and stuff so I'm excited about what you used to have and I know
you're looking for another one because you had a cross-track that was a manual
which is what I have yeah six feet so yeah phenomenal
yeah yeah a little touchy off-road because it's better in the
the clutch while you're doing things it's different yeah well it's super
funny about that is my very first off-roading experience was in
Colorado and we went to Woodland Park with some people that I had
I had on the podcast and we were going up and over this little
hump or it was a little small hill and my son was with me
and so I'm going up and over this little hill and I'd never driven off-road
and especially not in a manual I know it's not as easy and my son was like
what's that smell I guess my clutch yeah I hear that it's a
common thing yeah that the riding the clutch when you're
in the woods with them I've she got stuck in her out back before they got totaled
out yeah and I thought I gradated my car trying to get her out of the sand with
it yeah yeah now they're stinky yeah but at least easy to replace though
you know like replacing the clutch in a manual transmission compared to the
the CBTs a lot simpler of a task yeah I I
I would like to try to replace my clutch whenever the time comes
but I don't have access to a shop or anything so
hopefully I can get someone help me out but I have 132,000 miles so far and I
haven't had to replace it it's not too bad though
no yeah yeah so and what is it your your
forester your forester right yeah I have a 2025 forester
nice nice and you had you didn't have a Subaru before that but then you had
a Subaru prior to the your previous car so what did you have
before yeah so I used to have a 2007 Impreza okay and that was replaced then
with a Honda Accord which was then replaced with a Ford Escape
and I went back to Subaru with the 2025 Forester very nice welcome back to
Subaru I love being back yeah so were you just like
after I know your story with your Ford and everything but
were you like I just want to get back into something that I know is
reliable or were you were you kind of contemplating going
back to Subaru before that yeah I mean when I moved to Colorado
you know I had the Honda Accord got stuck it in the snow once and was like all right
well I need something with all-wheel drive or four-wheel drive
you know be a little more reliable yeah win for something nice and cheap
and ended up paying more for it so in that died was like all right
do a little more research find something super dependable
you know something that can handle Colorado and the weather the mountain
passes things like that I bought my Forester and have been loving it ever since
very nice yeah so how long have you had it now I bought it in December okay
great yeah so you've had it long enough to really get to know it well yep
it's been hasn't let you down yet hasn't let me down it's been great
on everything I've thrown at it you know snowy mountain passes or
back trails just you know everything stock has just
worked great yeah because you haven't done any modifications to it and
which is really nice to hear how capable it is being stock
yeah I mean long-term want to do those modifications but
yeah I've been looking at researching before I spend the money yeah
yeah okay good nice most glad to have you back in Subaru and I know you are
too yeah so and y'all are all with camp Subaru
this uh this weekend right yeah so how did y'all find out about camp Subaru
we all invited like through email or something
yeah I just got a random email one day filled up the form figured
oh there's no chance I'll get accepted and got the acceptance email
very nice yeah so what's your camping experience been like over there so far
that's been great I only had one night so far but
had a lot of great food a lot of great people great conversations about Subaru
yeah yeah it's great to be around a crowd of people that you are
you know have common interest with for sure it's great
yeah yeah so all right thank you all for hopping on the mic for a little bit
yeah you're welcome all right so I'm sitting I'm sitting here at Overland Expo
Mountain West and we're in the owner lounge with Chris how's it going man
good good having a great time our name is Chris right yeah Chris
like wait a minute I've met people if this is legal purposes it's Christopher
okay yeah all right proper yeah yeah so uh won't you introduce your Instagram handle
let us know where we can follow you yeah so I'm just on Instagram not YouTube or
anything else it's a silver roux underscore off-road
okay and what kind of you have a forester right yeah yeah it's a 2021
forester sport okay yeah nice nice so is so the
forester is that your first forester or your I mean your first Subaru
no so I had my first car was a 2004
WX wagon um Blaba I think that's what they called the
no force yeah um yeah bone stock okay when I first one yeah
and uh didn't last long until I started modifying it right away went the
the off-roading route put forester struts on and all the
train tires nice we had it at one point it had a um a
built motor uh bigger cams in it so then kind of idle like a
hot rod and put it on e85 and I was young at the time and just
didn't treat it right and I uh blew the motor three times
yeah wow yeah that'll do it yep it's one way to go about it
yeah so did you have something did you have another Subaru like
after that or did you what else did you have a so
after the yeah after the wagon uh the WRX I ended up moving into Tacoma
um I had the Tacoma for about four and a half or five years
got into the whole off-roading space a lot heavier with the Tacoma and kind of
set it up to to travel the country and explore
trails and kind of you know live out of it for
the lack of better terms um I did that for a long time
and uh eventually uh a little over a year ago
it got rear ended I totaled the truck and um
I just kind of reevaluated the car situation and where my
life was and my priorities and um started looking at
Subaru again and I found the found the forester and that's how we kind of ended
up in the forester yeah so like what have you done to the
forester and and like you modified it as well yeah so um
the thing I like to say is uh with the Tacoma I spent a lot of time getting
it set up to be really easy to to live out of I have
everything kind of set up to you know everything has a place so once you
kind of use some you can put it right back
and now I knew going into the forester that was going to be a little bit of a
challenge because uh you know coming from a truck everything's
kind of open you about yeah um in the forester you know space is limited
so I kind of had to apply everything that I learned from the Tacoma
and make it work in the forester and over the year now that I've had the
the forester and gone out and used it a ton and lived out of it
um uh when I'm out you know off-roading or getting the
backcountry it it's working better now in the
forester than they did in the Tacoma I'd say I'd say that the
the way that it's set up it there's less friction when it comes time to
setting up camp um a lot of companies out there like
adf and um Sherpa racks they're making roof racks so I can put
everything up on top of it adf makes these uh quarter panel moly
panels for the back so you can put stuff out of the way
so my sleeping setup is completely um unobstructed very nice so yeah it's it
whatever I learned everything I learned from Tacoma applied to the forester
and I enjoy it more and I go to the same places I went
in the Tacoma in the forester so and what about like the off-road
capabilities yeah so the off-road capabilities I
I'm still getting more and more impressed by how well it does
yeah um I uh I may have mentioned already but I've
gone almost everywhere I've gone in the Tacoma
maybe sparing maybe one or two trails that just overall clearance wise that
you just know it's not going to make it yeah but there has been very few times
where I've not been able to take that side road down off of a
forest service road um it's gotten me through most
everything that I've wanted to to the point where it's so capable that I've
found that I'm pushing it more and more yeah yeah that seems to happen
yeah this is good you know it's good that you can find out what the capabilities
are yeah yep it it's exceeded expectations and
then some that's for sure so having a Subaru before then going
to the Tacoma and then out back into the Subaru again
you obviously came back to the Subaru for a reason
so you think that you'll continue to stay with Subaru
yeah you know um I I think from my experience with the forester
you know and and for the most part what I learned from the
WX before I mean I I know I blew the motors on those but for the most part
that was the only thing only issues I had with it
I never had any other issues with the suspension components
any of the the electronics in the car I mean all that stuff
were fantastic so I came to the forester because of some
previous experience in reliability and hearing
everyone else's stories about reliability I just knew
that's that was the way to go yeah and you know the all-wheel drive here in
Colorado is it's absolutely fantastic in the snow it's
arguably one of the best all-wheel drive systems so and I've heard that you know
having done the podcast for four and a half years now I've heard that from so
many people that I've heard that from people who
have been in either four by four or some other
all-wheel drive system they say especially when it comes to all-wheel drive
particularly they say that Subaru's is just like superior above others
absolutely I I've been stuck in the snow
on the road in some deep deep snow events in a Tacoma
I have not been stuck yet in the in the forester very nice
that's one thing and the interior I am also extremely impressed by too
because I get out there and I off-road and it feels
you know at times like you're kind of kind of beating the thing up but
when you're on the inside I just it feels like kind of like a luxury car
yeah and the moon roof oh man oh nice that was another selling point for the
forester yeah it is absolutely fantastic
having that yeah I'm sure if you're out there in like some really
remote spots you can look up through the moon roof and see the stars
I yep it's exactly what I do I'll pull the moon roof back and I'll
watch shooting stars the only problem with that it just keeps me up a
little too late yeah so is this your first time to
overland expo it is yeah I've been trying to get here
for a couple years now and works always kept me away
in some some form or another so um yeah first time here local here so it was
nice to just come down the street and then got to come in for the
Subaru camping experience too so it's kind of
amazing it was worth the wait you know yeah making the fours and now you
come in Subaru's ears that's really cool
so what do you think you like the whole setup here with the little Subaru Oasis
we've got going on yeah so I've been you know
hearing about it on on your podcast and and a lot of other people talking
about how it uh they really made it warm and
welcoming feeling and and like just really cool
personalized feel and actually seeing in person
they've nailed it yeah you know it it's unlike a lot of
this is the most approachable booth I feel like I've seen yet
yeah I've had other people say that too like it's the most inviting
space you know of all the vendors here and yeah absolutely
it's just I like how spread out it is it doesn't feel like you're boxed in
in any means you know so it's uh I think they did a great
job with it yeah absolutely yeah so what has your
camping experience been like so far over at Camp Subaru
yeah so um I mean first off they've taken
extremely well care of us Joe over here we weren't supposed to have dinner last
night but all of a sudden there was pizza so that was a huge plus
you know they've catered breakfast in the morning
the you know every time someone's coming in everybody's getting up to speed and
what's going on and you know we're over there at a
Boyd Lake and everybody's got their own little spots but
it's the first time that I've camped in a campground
with a whole bunch of other people going I'm really used to sleeping out in the
woods or in the desert where I'm when I'm in the back of the
forester it's just like ah peaceful so it's a little bit
different and you're like oh there's dogs barking and stuff but you know what
it's it's part of it and I'll say the one thing that's nice is it's
kind of the added safety of other people yeah which because I'm a
little bit of a of a scaredy cat when I'm out
doing stuff so now it's like cool I don't have to worry about that anymore
oh that's good yeah slept a little better yeah that's good
and I know they were doing yoga over there too yeah I did it I took I uh took the
time to sleep in a little bit okay yeah sleep is good I don't usually get to do
that uh out off work or I mean when I'm on working so yeah I had to sleep a little
okay good yeah now it's it's been nice being here
and I've been I've had an opportunity to go to Flagstaff
to Oregon now this one and then I'll continue on to
Virginia but I'm like it's it's a great opportunity to
meet a lot of different people and I think it's great that Subaru is
doing this that they're participating in Overland Expo
and I think it's a good presence for them and this is like a really great
event for Subaru to be involved with yeah
absolutely I think um I thought I had heard that it was last year that they
had a small test booth I think and they're
kind of trying it out yeah and then this year they obviously as you can
see here um went all in and uh seem hopefully they continue to do it because
yeah I think it's awesome I think we're it's been cool seeing a lot of other
people that are uh you know not even Subaru owners
coming in and uh you know like we had over here at the axle swap with
Milton I think there was two people or at least one that was a toilet owner
you just wanted to come over and do that and I haven't seen any other booths that
have like done an axle swap demonstration I mean that's pretty
yeah it's pretty unique yeah yeah so you know we're trying to like
think of ways to stand out a little bit more and do some
different and get people out in the community that have experience
doing stuff like this to give people a piece of mind
that it's potentially something you can do yourself because I changed both my
front axles on my car and I did it with the help of them
and also watching some youtube videos but also
knowing that they had changed out several axles and like
having that peace of mind that hey I've got somebody that can help me out
if I if I need it you know yeah absolutely well and it's just great
you know obviously there's a lot of Subaru owners coming through here so
it's great to talk to some people and find out you know some of their
stories and you know it's like I was talking to a woman yesterday
that I asked her if you know the Subaru that she owned was her first one she's
like no this is my ninth super ninth Subaru yeah
so it's pretty pretty cool and yeah his fourth one over here yeah
and then so it's just it's so fun because like
especially for me because this is I'm on my first Subaru
and I didn't know a whole lot about Subaru and I before I bought mine
so to see all these different cars and hear these different stories it's
like really a lot of fun yeah absolutely and and
I think the being over at the camp has been pretty cool because we've had
you know you have a super diverse group like you're saying and I think we've
talked about that a lot is I mean everybody from first owners to people
that have had them for years and years and years
I mean I'm personally like into the off-roading side of things but I've
learned you know already somebody that came in and
just started getting off-roading and they're doing little things to make
their camping better and you know learning something from them you know
I mean I I am definitely not uh I haven't been
doing it that long and know everything by any means but it's just a
pretty cool place to come and just see what everybody else is doing because
there's always everybody has a different view and
different way of doing stuff oh yeah and yeah yeah like you've got Betsy
over here that she does her car camping she's got a whole setup in the
back there with her luno mattress and luno pillows and stuff and yeah
she said she slept really really well last night in her car and
did you sleep here at that oh nice yeah yeah it was uh it was really cool and uh
but yeah and it you know it's just fun to see the different there's a lot of
similarities and things that people do with their cars but then everybody
puts their own personal touch to it yeah and that's what's really cool
and yep you know and you get ideas from other people so
not necessarily like oh i'm gonna copy your build but
get inspiration yeah exactly that's fun because like
there's you're always like messaging people through instagram
because we're all spread out all over the place and the amount of help that
people are willing to give and the excitement for each other is like
what really makes it fun too yeah absolutely yeah
so thanks for hopping on the mic yeah absolutely I appreciate it
yeah yeah Joe you want to add anything
I'm just looking for some some good night's sleep tonight that's what I'm
really looking for that's my goal today yeah same
here yeah yeah that's cool thank you thank you
I'm here at Overland Expo I'm out in west and I'm sitting here with Chris
how's it going good nice to meet you yes nice to meet
you as well yeah I was great chatting earlier and we're
talking a bit about your your outbacks and so I decided
to get you in my noon slot which is really cool
so why don't you let us know what you're driving now and then you can let us
know what you were driving previously okay yeah
I have a 2025 Subaru Outback Wilderness edition
okay the galaxy black paint oh nice which I discovered really
looks like a galaxy yeah I had it for weeks and then one day I caught it
in the light and I was like oh wow there's the
there's sparkles in here nice yeah yeah I have a
2021 cross track and it's crystal white pearl so it has like this little nice
pearl lesson look to it you know and that's what I ended up naming my car
was pearl because I couldn't think of anything else at the time
so yeah so you've got that but you had an outback that you
owned previously yeah that's right
yeah I had a 2005 Subaru Outback XT it was a limited turbo edition and it was a
five-speed manual that is that must have been so fun to drive
it was amazing I really liked that car I had a young family so it was perfect
for getting us around Colorado and you know and never had to
worry about snow or oh dad or any of that stuff
and manual transmission with a turbo was just really really fun
oh gosh yeah I know so I have a 21 cross track that's a manual
and you know it's a slow baru because it's got the 2.0
but it's being a manual it's so fun to drive right it makes the driving
experience so much better so I can't even imagine like what
that must have been like driving that outback yeah it was pretty fun I mean
you could definitely do very sporty things with it yeah
so when did you did you buy it in 2005 or did you buy it yeah we bought it in 2005
and we sold it in 2021 um we just kind of outgrew that car okay because the
2005 model was I would say significantly smaller
yeah the current models of Outback yeah yeah and I I absolutely love the older
Outbacks they're just they look so cool I know they are smaller on the hood
oh man yeah but I they are smaller but I like that smaller body style it looks
so good so how many miles did you have on it by the time you
sold it actually not that many my wife drove it as her main
daily driver and she only lived like a mile and a half from home so
it only had like 85,000 miles oh my gosh that's
see that's funny because my cross track I've had it for almost four and a
half years and I have 132,000 miles on it
yeah it was crazy the dealer was pretty excited to get it oh yeah I mean that
would be amazing to have a car with that little mileage for you know that age
yeah yeah so what got you into Subaru in the
first place well you know we were looking for
something that combined two things I had a truck and my wife had a sedan
and at that moment in time we needed a single vehicle
okay because we our son was just born all right and so
what car is out there that has the utility of a truck
yeah and can drive around the city like a sedan
hmm I wonder pretty much that's what led us to Subaru
and the other thing was when we were car shopping
we were comparing it to Volvo and there was another
car that was in the mix and Volvo for the price
was bare bones right it had barely anything in it
where the Subaru at that price was maxed out it was the XT limited it had
all the stuff so it was almost no brainer
now did you both know how to drive manual before you okay
I taught my wife how to drive manual though okay when we were kids
oh 17 yeah nice yeah it's uh it's it's a dying form of transportation you
know and transmission unfortunately but I mean I was
thankful to be able to get a second gen cross track as a manual
and I absolutely love driving it which is why it has 132,000 miles right
so when you so before you bought the XT did you
know much about Subaru um I knew of them you know
like I saw them around uh I think I always thought of the crocodile
Dundee commercials yeah um but yeah I never I never really
saw myself as a Subaru person until I had one and once I had one
it became really clear that this was just a
an all-around good package of a car yeah that's what I liked about it well I mean
you had it for 16 years yeah I mean that's
that's pretty amazing that says a lot and even though you didn't have a
whole lot of miles in 16 years I'm sure you
thoroughly enjoyed it yeah I mean we drove it to
South Dakota we drove you know we it's not like we didn't drive it
yeah we didn't have that daily grind that a lot of people do when they
yeah miles in their car that's good yeah so what did
what was like some of the things that you enjoyed most about that car other than
it being a turbo and being a manual because I'm sure that was like
high on the list of enjoyment that was that was probably my two favorite
parts of the car I mean having the the high ground clearance to
at that time in 2005 it had eight inches of ground clearance which was
at that time higher than a Toyota 4Runner oh nice yeah I think 4Runner was
we're at 7.9 so it was it was just having that kind of piece of mind
taking that that car over things was just nice
yeah so did you have did you do any kind of modifications to it or was it
completely stocked it was just completely stocked the entire
time we didn't have to do anything special to it
if I have a regret from that car it's that we never did anything with the
wheels yeah the wheels were like road wheels you know okay
with the low profile tires yeah and so we never really
tried to do anything too aggressive did you did you
change it out with any other tires because you're
in Colorado and you've got snow yeah we did definitely
we went through I think four sets of tires over the lifetime with it
okay but we always got the same low profile
tires because we didn't want to get new wheels
yeah and did you have any issues with snow I'm
never yeah that was not a problem that's great
yeah so so it seems like there's a little bit of a gap between when you sold it
and then now that you have the 2025 did you have something in between or did
y'all have a second car that y'all had as
as like your only car for a while well um after we purchased that car I did get
myself a Volkswagen Passat and I had that for a little
time okay and then I upgraded that I actually
I went on a trip to Hawaii and I rented a Jeep
and me and my family had a really great time exploring Hawaii in a Jeep
and when I got back I wanted to get something
more off-road capable yeah just a little bit of research showed me that I
did not want a Jeep
oh that's good yeah and so um at that time I
decided to get a Volkswagen Atlas because they were offering zero percent
financing yeah and the Atlas Peak Edition I just did air quotes
the Peak Edition is an appearance package it has
all-terrain tires on it and and it's always in all-wheel drive
with the rest of the Atlas line isn't in all-wheel drive yeah
and um it was good it did what I wanted it to do I
did go off-roading with it but I just found the limitations of the low
ground clearance and how big that car was
yeah it's pretty big I found that pretty fast yeah so I only had that car for
about a year and four months okay so then what got you back
into Subaru again well I wanted ground clearance
yeah that was the number one priority and uh
I started looking at Subaru's uh I was actually looking at the cross-track
I thought all Subaru engines were turbo
I just I was under the impression that they were all turbo
so I was looking at cross-track and then I found out that it's not turbo and
because of my experience with the first Subaru yeah
I learned what turbo means in Colorado you know I learned what it means to be
driving up I-70 have somebody cut you off
and be able to recover and go yeah you know yeah
I really do like the turbos in fact every vehicle we've had since that
first Subaru are all turbo oh okay everything has been turbo since
so now yeah now you've got a turbo again with the outback wilderness
yeah so but I'm guessing too that your experience owning your first
Subaru had other than the ground clearance had a lot to do with it it
did it did and this uh new outback with the
wilderness package on it has 9.6 which I think is crazy
yeah I did video of myself going over some rocks and stuff
and at the time I didn't know was it good or not and I
looked at the footage and I cleared it by a mile it was
yeah I didn't I mean it was I have so much ground clearance now I love it
I yeah so my cross-track I don't have a lift on it and mine's like
well I have aftermarket wheels and tires so I don't know what what it
actually is now but stock it's like 8.7 and so I'm guessing it's
probably about the same yeah but there's been times when I've been
going on trails and I'm by myself and I'll look at
something and I'm like oh man that looks kind of rough like from inside the car
it looks bad yeah then you get out and you go down you look at the line and
like man that's easy yeah and then there's there've been times and I've
like taken a video and I look or I'll like or I'll watch
like my daughter in her car or something or somebody else wherever I'm
at and I'm like oh hold on let me go look at that for you
and then they start going through it I'm like that was something that was
nothing yeah you know it just always looks worse from inside the car
but totally agree yeah so I mean that's great that you've got the ground
clearance and so how long have you had it now well I actually just got it in
June but okay I've already replaced the
tires and I I can feel like how this is going to
become a thing yeah because I've I just got the um
the topo decals I'm going to put that on probably
next week and then I'm looking at all this stuff here at the expo and I
I'm just thinking yeah this car is going to be with me for a while
I just have a feeling well and then for for context because of people
that can't see we're sitting in front of an outback wilderness
we're sitting in front of Betsy's and uh Basaltic Outback and she's done quite a
bit to it she's got lift on it she's got her ditch lights
and then she's got her awning and a roof rack you know so there's
it's these cars it becomes fun to start thinking about all the
modifications that you can do to it and like
even if you're not going to do any kind of crazy mods just doing like you know
you're going to do the topo on it just doing decals and stuff to
personalize it and make it stand out a little bit more
even that is like you know fun to do that because like that's what I did with
my car first because I couldn't really afford to do anything else
and so just like finding the decals that I wanted to make it look the way I
wanted it to look and you know and I've even changed those around
so it's it's it's a lot of fun to to have these cars and do fun stuff with them
yeah yeah and I've only had it since June and I already have
5000 miles on it because I've been everywhere in it
yeah I've gone places I just never thought I would go
yeah um I'm exploring more of Colorado it's like it's like just open the doors
for me yeah and that's the fun part too is
like when I bought my cross-track I knew I wasn't
probably going to do anything crazy with it but I wanted something that was good on gas
I wanted something that was affordable and I wanted something that
would take me places that my previous cars wouldn't take me because like
you know I just wanted the ability to get off the pavement and go explore
some different things and so I really enjoyed it
yeah yeah I'm not a I'm not a rock crawler or anything like that I'm
not interested in that that kind of overlanding
but I really have been enjoying the Colorado Trail system
I've been using on-ex off-road to just sort of guide my
my path and it's been really fun so have you like started looking around at
different places that you want to go explore
yeah coming up with a list yeah I've got a whole like bookmark list of places
I want to go try to very nice take photos I mean that's
ultimately this is all for my photography photography channel is
I want the Subaru to get me where I want to go
so I can take these photos that I want to take
yeah because when we were talking earlier today you said that so far
the Outback has been able to take you places that you
weren't able to get to before and so like now you can continue that and
and that's what's great too is like a lot of people have said that
on the podcast is like if they want to go hiking or they want to go
mountain biking or something you know their Subaru can get them
further up into spots so that they can get to the
through spots that they really want to go to right and that's what's like really
nice about these cars too even if you're not going to use it to do crazy
off-road stuff it can just really enhance your outdoor
experience and lifestyle yeah yeah it gets me up
90 of the way and I do the rest you know my legs do the rest and
yeah I have discovered places I've discovered scenes that I never would
have seen or known about without good getting up there right yeah
they're a lot of fun and I know just everybody really
enjoys them and the community is like super super great so
do you have an instagram page for your car it's not specific to my car but I
do have an instagram page okay what's your instagram page it's
at chris frytag so that's my name um and my last name is spelled f-r-e-i-t-a-g
and I always have to say that because everyone in school learned
that stupid i before e-scept after c rule yeah yeah do you do you plan on
starting an instagram page for your car I actually kind of thought about that
um because all these people they they met one another through their passion
of Subaru and my I'm sort of mixing genres here
with my Subaru my photography so it might be worth starting
my own page just for the photography or for the uh Subaru yeah and a lot of
these people have met each other through instagram
and or through facebook or something because I mean
that's how I got connected with a lot of different people was through
I was like okay I'm gonna do the silly thing and start an instagram page for
my car right and and I'm glad I did because if
I hadn't I wouldn't be sitting here with you today
right yeah because I got connected with people
through instagram saw how passionate they were
and decided I can't you know that's when I had the idea for the podcast of like
let's get these people on here to share more about their story and their
journey because there's so many people are like consuming
podcasts so much these days and it's such a great way to get
uh you know a media where you don't have to like sit and watch
something you don't have to sit and read something
because you can listen to a podcast while you're doing so many different
things you know if you're out on a long drive it's great
time to listen to a podcast if you're going for a walk if you're
you know I listen to them when I'm like washing dishes you know folding clothes
or something so it's like it's an easily consumable
you know form of entertainment to you yeah yeah I agree I listened to it a long
time in my outback I have carplay wireless carplay
and I just listen to my podcasts while I'm driving around
so with the outback wilderness other than the ground clearance and that's
the Subaru like what are some of the features that you really like about
the outback well the the ground clearance is definitely
the the best one um what else do I like about it
you know I haven't had any problems with the CVT or
having power or anything like that in fact I feel like it
sounds very much like a normal transmission I haven't
haven't had that effect happen that sort of
sounds like the car is stuck in a gear yeah I haven't had that happen to me
at all um so everything just feels very
reliable and good like I haven't I guess if I have a feature I like the
best is I don't have to worry about it yeah I don't think about
yeah I'm not worried about stuff falling apart
so that's probably my favorite feature especially what I'm doing
stuff really deep in the mountains or way out in eastern Colorado chasing
storms I don't want to be yeah worried about my car
yeah so what are your uh other than going and exploring and you know you're gonna
do the topo wrap on it do you have any other plans for your
car as far as like modifications especially being here at the expo you
know and seeing a bunch of different things and seeing some of these cars
on display here at the booth are there things that you are
thinking of that you want to do yeah I think the first thing I want to do is
skid plates okay I do have a front skid plate that
came with the wilderness edition yeah but um I think I want to get some beefier
skid plates yeah really protect my vehicle from
anything like that you know something that I misjudged
oh yeah just be nice um and then I think an awning
would be great yeah you know those those just look like practical
you know yeah I'm up in the middle of nowhere and I want to
sit down for a sec and take a break put the awning out
like that would be great yeah they're yeah they're definitely very nice
and especially to give you some shade get out of the sun for a little bit and
just sit and have a snack or something enjoy the view you know
definitely come in handy you do you think are you planning on
potentially getting a lift to lift it even further do you
think that the places that you're going to be going that what you have
will be adequate for it um you know I was talking to some
super good people and that they were like the first thing they would
recommend is tires and I've already got that covered
and then skid plates so I would do that next
I'll probably wait and see how much I do to see if I need a better
suspension a lift because right now what comes
with the wilderness edition is so nice yeah you know they
they kind of specced it out to be what I want it to be
yeah so it's it's pretty nice that it's all
part of the package you know that that wilderness edition is really
um I don't know it feels like a very Colorado car
yeah so having owned the XT before and your previous outback and
owning it for 16 years I'm guessing you'll probably have this one for
quite a while that's that's the plan and do you do you think that you
potentially see yourself always owning Subaru's or at least a Subaru
probably you know like at this point I get
pretty brand loyal when once I find something that works for me
um so yeah I I actually plan on having it for a while and
that's why I want to protect it right that's why I want to do like the skid
plates first so I guess I guess some of the
ways that it's changed your life too is being able to you know being that
you're in photography and you want to get some of those good shots and
everything is just being able to take you further
yeah yeah it's really been a great vehicle too
another thing that I like about it is having the Atlas for even just one year
I couldn't reach the other side of the car oh yeah
so now it's really nice to be able to like put stuff on the window
um you know like I can reach over and I can get to the other side of the
car so it's it's really nice having that from so I do all this
in-car camera stuff okay for my for my youtube channel
and so you know just having access to the whole car
really makes it easier to do to do my job yeah
good well thank you for hopping on the mic and chatting for a bit
yeah it's great to hear like I would love to find an outback like your
your previous one your o5 that would be super cool
it was really cool but we definitely outgrew it
that was the whole reason we I mean my my oldest is 19 and you know
everything we were all just getting bigger and um the the new outbacks
definitely have more room in the yeah so they're nice
are you encouraging your kids to get out back or I get get
so that's that's the funny thing my youngest
he might get to drive my outback when he's 16 right
so we'll see how that goes but yeah um he's into it though he likes it
like one of the first things he said to me is he liked it better than
the atlas so yeah that's important yeah kid approved yeah it's kid approved yeah
teenager approved cool well thank you so much Chris yep
enjoyed it thanks you're welcome all right you ready yeah
what do you want me to say all right I'll guide it all right I'm here at camp
Subaru at Overland Expo Mountain West so this is day two evening two and
standing around a campfire people eating s'mores eating some good food
laughing having some great conversation around Subaru's and everything else
so welcome how are you doing I'm doing fantastic yeah what a beautiful night
my name is Emily dresser and I am the yoga teacher in camp post here at camp
Subaru very nice so how did you get that gig
well to be completely honest I had a marketing agency reach out to me because
I am already a teacher at the Overland Expo's of yoga
and yeah the marketing agency reached out asking if I would like to
teach yoga for Subaru so started there in Pacific Northwest that was my first
time and then here I am now as a camp host doing yeah camp post duties
keeping vibes high are you doing them like mostly local to you or are you
going to travel to the next one too which is in Virginia
well I'm currently in Bend Oregon so I traveled 17 hours in our truck
camper to get here all right and we will see what happens I'm hoping to
continue my journey with Camp Subaru very nice good yeah
no it's I know it's it's an exciting time and
we're glad you're out here so like what has been your overall experience
being with the campers and with Subaru building community is so important
these people are going to leave lifelong friends and
it's really cool that Subaru prioritizes the relationships that they
have with their people yeah yeah that's been nice
so you get up in the morning and teach yoga class
at what time 7 a.m we've got yoga going on and then the second word done
breakfast and coffee is ready and then the shuttle comes and takes
people to the expo nice so you did that Friday
morning you did that this morning and then you'll do that tomorrow morning
as well tomorrow morning before we send people off
yeah very nice very nice cool well thanks for hopping on the mic for a bit
absolutely thanks for having me you're welcome
okay I'm here with my next guest here at Camp Subaru night two of
Overland Expo Mountain West why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself
hello I'm Elias Arredondo I'm a Subaru owner
brought to be here nice what Subaru do you own
I have a Forester Wilderness 2025 very nice very nice yeah those are cool
so what has your experience been like here at Camp Subaru
it's been excellent it's been
it's far exceeded the expectations that I had okay
because I've never had any experience with any
event like this so it's very unique and that's why we came out here because
if it would have been like something else we already knew we would
probably be like oh it's just like some gimmick or whatever but coming out
here and meeting all these people it's just like
a different way of experiencing some
product basically because it's just a product but then it becomes more than a
product yeah we have this kind of interaction with
other people that use the same product yeah exactly it's been
unique and remarkable about it now did you know anybody before you came to
Camp Subaru or are you meeting all these people for the first time
everybody's brand new we've been only here about a year so
everybody's right now okay we're new to this whole thing
nice amazing so and were you here Friday night
yeah as well yeah we came Thursday night Friday night Saturday
very nice very nice yeah so what do you think is going to be like your biggest
takeaway from this experience
probably the different approach because usually
marketing and brands I guess in their
in their projecting their brand or whatever they tend to be
condescending maybe yeah but Subaru is a different brand and they just
you know you bought they you bought their product but then now
it offers something else that it's without attachment so yeah
that's why when we were invited we were like I don't even know what this is
but that's why we tried it yeah now that we're here we're like okay this is
great yeah because there's no strings attached it's not like
you know it's yeah they're not trying to get something out of you yeah it's
just like they're doing this for you and that's honest yeah and that's what
comes through and so that makes it different and yeah Joe with Subaru
like he's done such a great job of curating all of this and putting this
together and you know I like there's been a camp
Subaru with the previous Overland Expos this year and so it's had nothing but
positive feedback so it's really cool to come out here and
enjoy talking about your cars enjoy the outdoors
enjoy some camping you know sharing some great food
and I'm sure stories with each other so it's been nice
yeah so yeah yeah well thanks for hopping on the mic
oh you're welcome all right thank you for having me thank you're welcome
okay I have my next guest here why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself
hi my name is Kimberly Haskins I'm from Centennial Colorado
all right and what Subaru do you drive um I drive a 2016 hyper blue
uh cross track oh so that sure is over there very nice so what has your
experience been like here at Camp Subaru this has
been the best camping trip of my life I came out here
I'm a little introverted but I have an introverted side but
I had moved up to Centennial March had not made any new friends and
um I got this email from Subaru requesting like hey like we got this
camping opportunity up in Loveland tell us what you love about Subaru
and I spoke about the insurance institute of highway safety crash test
um IIHS I talked about how much um it mattered me that I was driving a
safe vehicle because I was hit by a drunk driver years ago lost my father in
accident so um I spoke passionately about that and
their environmentalism and all their other um pro initiatives when it comes
to like taking care of the environment being good stewards of our neighbors
so um I've never came across a coming that had
as close similar values as I do and it's just been a great time it made
so many friends out here so when you before you came to Camp
Subaru had you connected with any of these people in any way
there were a couple of people that I knew indirectly from the
Colorado Springs Subaru community okay so yeah so that's good so it's probably
a little bit easier to come out here knowing at least a couple of people
yeah everyone uh bought the Subaru for similar values that
you do that they're all outdoors they probably love camping and
they love dogs yeah yeah so it was really easy to make friends
okay so what has been your like favorite part of being part of Camp
Subaru here so a couple of days ago um when we all kind of checked in
Thursday night to the campsite we had a giant giant
windstorm blow-through it was knocking everyone's it was knocking our
Subaru banners down and you saw like all the all the
Subaru Camp Subaru campers running around with
um the little like stay cameras or an extra stakes extra guidelines so we're
checking on our neighbor's tests making sure they're secure and the
snakes are fleshed around it's really awesome seeing everyone helping
you chill her out in here yeah it's it's such a great community and like
I know I've talked to so many people on the podcast who bought their Subaru and
didn't know that there was a community and then they find out that there's the
community and then I've had so many people say like
so many of my best friends now are my best friends because I bought a Subaru
and I could connect to all these people so but it's nice for them to
bring people together that don't know each other already
and put this together and you know bring them all
and you know into something that they're all passionate about which is the car
and then to company and then to be able to put this together for them I think
was pretty cool so yeah well thanks for hopping on the
mic for a bit thank you so much you're welcome all right thanks
do you want to hop on the mic or why not all right let's see you want to go a
little farther away yeah let's do that
all right I'm here with my next guest why don't you go ahead and
introduce yourself my name is Benjamin Carrier
and I'm here from Durango Colorado all right at
the Boyd Lake State Park for the Overland Expo Mountain West
all right so how did you find out about Camp Subaru
I know Rob with Off-Road Roos yeah and um he
he came down in July to Durango and um did
off-roading event and camp out for the night okay and then he
asked if I wanted to help volunteer and help run the
run a trail one run on Friday and he said you can come up and you can have
admission to this event and stuff and so I said sure why not I've never
been to the expo and so I kind of I didn't
like have to take a survey or anything I kind of was just told about it
and then offered it and so I decided to come on up and camp out and it's
been really great nice nice yeah so what has your
experience been at the camp here it's been really great met a lot of
really nice people um met a buddy Chris Ingram that's
Silver Rue Off-Road yeah great guy yeah we camped together last night
and we went trailing me him and Ken Aldrich um
in our Subaru's on Friday in the Switzerland trail
nice and then the camp's just been great it's really nice spot
um and it's really fun coming together every night to have
have a campfire and get to chat with everyone yeah so what's Subaru do you
drive I have a 2010 um Outback 25 and it's
lifted about three inches oh nice and I've just finished
installing the print suerack on it okay sweet yeah yeah yeah and it's
same color as my son so that's cool yeah I like that yeah
so what what do you think is like your biggest takeaway from camp Subaru
this weekend um probably say just all the cool connections all the
companies I've talked to um and all the new people I've met is
always great it's really neat being able to um come out here and we all
have a commonality for just getting out and enjoying
enjoying camping or off-roading or the love for the cars
and getting to meet a bunch of um cool people and
check out some new companies has been really neat yeah and then here at the
camp having some good food and being provided and
you know it's yoga breakfast and everything so
it's uh I'm sure it's been a really fun experience and did did you know
anybody here at the camp before you got here
so I didn't like I guess not really like I had talked to Chris and Ken
online um and I had I had vaguely heard about some
people online but I had really not met anyone else like I kind of
chatted with them online so it was pretty much a new experience getting to
meet everyone yeah yeah I can't for the most part
nice nice so I'm glad that they were able to put this together and
you know get all the Subaru owners together and and just have a good time
and camp out and stuff but you know before the event and during the event
yep totally I really hope they do it um continue to do this
because yeah you know it's a really awesome thing to do and especially in
Colorado it gets a lot of a lot of people um out that don't
know about it too yeah absolutely it's more community
yeah yeah cool thanks for hopping on the mic for a bit yeah thanks for
having me on you're welcome yeah all right
I've got another victim I mean another guest here on the podcast for Camp
Subaru uh yeah because I just I wanted to I hadn't
done this before at the previous uh Overland Expos where I talked to people
at Camp Sob like when I was here last night we were all
everybody was talking and I was like you know this would be a good opportunity
to talk to people about the actual camp yeah so yeah so go ahead and
introduce yourself yeah hey I'm Jessica Swift um I'm a Subaru owner
I have a 2025
uh Forester Wilderness very nice um it is yeah but I'm gonna I'm gonna ruin your
podcast a little bit the 2026 Subaru Forester Wilderness
um I saw it today and it has the cool console
in the middle so like the bigger screen yeah um so I have car envy already
and I've only owned my car for a month so
I don't know maybe there might be a three Subaru family
hey yeah you never know yeah so what has your experience been like here at
Camp Subaru and then how did you find out about it
okay so I'm gonna flip flop your question how did I find out about it
I got a random email I think you've heard that a lot
yes uh and so I read my emails that's good it's important sometimes uh and I
responded so some dude asked me some questions
about about my Subaru and I answered the questions
and then a couple of weeks days weeks I don't I can't remember uh later he
said congratulations you've been selected as you know one of the
owners to come and and hang out with us and here's the deets
let me know if you really are interested because this is
for real for real yeah and it's only a select number of people yeah
25 people yeah right out of hundreds of applicants so I was like well
I never win anything that's so cool oh like if you're like a winner
right yeah um so then I'm like well how did I get selected and that's a big
mystery and we won't get into that um but
yeah so we're here and it's it's been really really groovy to get to know all
the other Subaru owners to see the cool things that they can do with
their cars if they have done with their cars oh yeah um I learned how to use the
paddles on my steering wheel which I hadn't done for um the ascent or
descent and on any of the things that I'm doing so like
just super smart stuff and and silliness but also how to soup up
your Subaru oh yeah yeah so were you here Thursday night
for oh yeah we've been here the whole time okay so what has been your favorite
part about being here at the campsite for Camp Subaru
honestly it's and this is going to sound really weird
because the C word cult isn't isn't normally something that one embraces
but a Subaru cult it's kind of it's kind of wild like
spread the love right um so it's it's been just seeing all these
Subaru owners and and how cool they are and you can almost
just feel the the energy like the the the aura and I don't want to get too
like metaphysical yeah that's great um but
yeah just you know that there's an aura that people give off
um that that are Subaru owners and it's it's a chill vibe it's fun
community camaraderie yeah and like now we're gathered out of
fire sharing a playlist and just talking about all the cool
things we can do with our cars and you didn't know anybody
before you came out here like that's at the camp I didn't
okay so were you kind of like nervous meeting a bunch of new people
or were you also like well they all in Subaru's so that makes it a little
bit easier no I was totally weirded out I'm
an introvert okay um and very very shy
but they all made it very easy to become an extrovert
or to get to know everyone um and we actually have started
I don't know I'm gonna go live now and make my manifest
um a reality um we started a Subaru Colorado camping group for girls
but dudes are invited yeah but you just have to know one of the chicks that's
going yeah just can't be some random so our first trip is
gonna be to um Grand Junction and we're probably gonna do it in the
next three months which is awesome pretty fire yeah and
it all stemmed because of this it all started here and I have thank you camp
Subaru I have new best friends like honest to God
for life so thank you yeah yeah that's great that's
seeing I'm glad I came over here because it's these are the kind of
stories that we want to hear and I think these are the kinds of stories
that it's good for Subaru to hear yeah it's wild
yeah so that's that's why I wanted to come over here and talk to some people and
see what their experience is like and that's a really great experience and
what a great story it really is and and we're so excited and we're talking
about like how can we make our subarus
match right like so we live in different cities different
different states even how can we like show some sort of like
even more just not just the Subaru but like do we get special Subaru
emblems do we like what do we do a decal made or show how that we're doing
these different things yeah so the sky's the limit we're super excited and
and it would not have happened without this experience
yeah super cool yeah glad to hear it yeah thank you for hopping on the mic for
a little bit absolutely love it all right thank you thanks
you're welcome all right I'm here with my next
guest and why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself
I'm Jason all right welcome Jason I talked to you earlier today at
overland expo but I wanted to come chat with people here at camp Subaru so
have you been here since Thursday night no I got here Friday afternoon
okay all right that pesky job you know oh yeah yeah
so how did did you get a random email about this for Camp Subaru
yeah got a random email I thought it was a scam at first
and you know so I was actually from Subaru
putting the application was like ah there's no way I'll get picked and
here I am all right so and you did you happen to know anybody here at the camp
before you came out nope not a soul okay and so what has your
experience been like so far here at the campsite and meeting all these people
it's been great everyone's wicked friendly food's been great
great community had tons of fun at the expo
it's been a great time all around good mom glad that
I'm glad that Subaru did this and you know got people together for the camp
I mean we've got a campfire going and so what would you say has been like your
favorite part about the camping experience here
ooh that's a good one um I love that everyone's loving my dog buddy
yeah nice he's kind of been the star of the show which has been great
he loves the attention um I mean it's been great to see everyone out
see all the different camping styles you know you have some people in tents
some people in fully decked out Subaru's some people with trailers
so it's great to see all the different ways that people use their Subaru
yeah very nice yeah so it's been uh and I know they they brought some they've had
breakfast have you been doing the yoga in the morning
I am not really a yoga person so I've been skipping those
yeah now how you haven't been skipping breakfast have you
no breakfast was fantastic good yeah I've heard they've had some good
food here so it's nice to hear get your day going right
out to go out to the expo yeah I always love when someone cooks for me
yeah that's really nice too well thank you so much for hopping on the mic for a
little bit yeah for sure all right thank you
all right I've got my next guest here why don't you go ahead and introduce
yourself hi my name is Don I know Don what
what's Subaru do you drive I just traded in a 2020
Outback Onyx for a 2025 Wilderness Outback very nice good upgrade there
third Subaru oh very good very good nice so
I'm guessing you got a random email about this camp Subaru and
decided to apply and and here you are correct I did
it was very random yes and I was excited to
get to join this group of folks all right and have you been out here since
Thursday night yes okay all right so what was your like
thoughts before coming into Camp Subaru like did you have any expectations
about it or are you just like I'm just going to see how it goes
I didn't really have any expectations of course we met
at um out and had breakfast on a mountain
oh nice west of Boulder I can't remember the name of the mountain
was this Thursday afternoon or Thursday morning oh Thursday morning okay
nice and we had breakfast and then we took off on different excursions
okay yeah a hike off-road drive and then a drive
Rocky Mountain I believe a trail ridge so we all got to choose our own little
excursion which was we broke off into groups and then we all
ended up here for dinner yeah so did you happen to know anybody
by chance before you met up with all these people
no okay nobody at all all right and were you like
a little nervous about meeting a bunch of new people
not really I was kind of excited because it was we all had
something in common yeah yeah and we're all going to be camping so it's going to
be a I was looking forward to a great experience of
community yeah no new people yeah absolutely so
what has your experience been like now that you've been at the camp for a
couple of nights it's been amazing we've had
great food we've had great camaraderie
everybody's kind of from different areas yeah of Colorado I believe
oh nice yeah and and it looks like we built a great friendship so now we're
planning on a group and hoping to get together and do other
trips yeah it's really cool because like it's nice that Subaru brought
random people together to do this I think that's like a really smart move
because it gives you an opportunity to meet other
people that are passionate about something that you're passionate
about which is your Subaru and then it gives you the
opportunity to meet new people and make new friends
that's always a good thing and we were um invited to bring
a family man family members or friends or guests so
nice did you bring anybody with you I brought a friend of mine who lives here
and she lives in Jonestown okay each other
in Louisiana nice and I live here in loveland
okay yeah so and it was her first camping trip
oh very nice now got the camping bug she also has a Subaru
okay good so it's just been a great time I'm glad I was invited
yeah so what would you say is like gonna be your biggest takeaway from this
we got to learn to change out a CBT axle I guess
yes that was really cool the demonstration there yeah that was cool
the just the fellowship that we in the friendships I
hope will be lasting so it's yeah and the camping
so it's been great to camp here yeah it has been nice so
well thank you so much for hopping on the mic real quick you are so welcome
thank you for having us out here you're welcome thank you
I'm here with my next guest why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself my
name is Carolyn hello Carolyn nice to meet you
so what has been your experience like here at Camp Subaru
well this is an odd group of people but they're nice
okay good well that's good and we all drive Subaru's
that's the best part and the most important part
so I'm guessing you also got a random email about a random email yes
okay about coming to camp and I live in loveland
oh very nice that's very convenient very convenient
so what Subaru do you drive a 2017 outback very nice nice 128,000 miles
oh good good you're catching up to me I have 132,000 miles on my
21 cross track oh yeah but they're fun I have so many miles because I love
driving it so when you got the email and you
decided or you were picked to come here were you like a little nervous about
meeting people you hadn't met before no
okay well that's good that's good when I started researching
what style of overlanding camping was I go
this is probably out of my league yeah yeah
so I'm guessing you've had a good time here at Camp Subaru yes
what would you say has been your favorite part of it
the weather has been very good the weather has been very nice it got a
little warm today but like in the east like right now it feels
so good and the get-togethers in the evenings are nice
yeah and then I've heard there's been really good breakfast here too
I've been sleeping at home so I haven't really been here for breakfast
gotcha okay okay so you just here in the evening
part-time camper I'm a day camper gotcha okay well that's good that's fine
so yeah you think you would do this again if they decided to do it next year
oh yes but I understand it's going to be in Virginia
oh yeah well they're so that's they're continuing on
with Virginia is the next stop but for 2026 if they come back
to Loveland to do Overland Expo again and Subaru comes again
sure they sent me an email and I was free yeah okay
all right sounds good is there anything else you want to share about
like what your like what your takeaway from all this is
it was it was very nice it was interesting seeing all these
monster mobiles that people camp in yeah absolutely yeah I know there's some
pretty big rigs out here my style is more vintage okay yeah campers
all right nice well thank you so much for hopping on the mic
well thank you you're welcome nice to meet you
okay ready one two three camp Subaru all right cool thank you thank you
you're welcome
there you have it day two and as I was recording those
conversations there at Camp Subaru about halfway through I was thinking it
would be fun to do the camp Subaru at the
very end so got everybody to agree to do that so
that was pretty cool but anyway here we go with the third day of conversations
at Overland Expo Mountain West and this first guest I had on I was
trying to be really cool so I lowered my voice some as you can hear
actually I was just I think I was really tired but uh yeah I was listening
to it when I was editing and I was like what was going on was I like
trying to be cool or something but no I was just
tired but uh it's totally worth it so here we go
all right we're here at Overland Expo Mountain West day three and I'm here at
the Sherpa tent and booth I'm sitting here with Alex how's it going man
I'm doing really well yeah it's been an awesome weekend good good
how many uh Overland Expo's have y'all participated in like how many years have
y'all been doing this so we probably went to our first
Overland Expo in 2019 so we've been at it for a little while nice
yeah and how long has the company been in business we started in 2017
okay and so I heard that y'all are now getting into the Subaru
Subaru market which is really cool yeah we've had a lot of requests
and excitement from the Subaru space to offer some products for the
Subaru's we've had employees who have Subaru's asking for it so
um we made it a priority and this summer we've been doing a ton of
prototyping and a ton of fitments um for a lot of the
current generation and previous generation Subaru's so come in October
first we're launching eight fitments in the Subaru space
very nice very nice so I saw the Forester hybrid that Kerry and Milton
have built out over there with the Sherpa rack it looks really good on there
so that was the first time I'd seen one and then I saw
Chris's Forester this morning with his rack so it's looking good it's nice
to see y'all come into the Subaru market I think that's pretty good
yeah we're really excited there's a lot of opportunity in the Subaru space so
many people have expressed the need for additional storage on the Subaru's it's
already a relatively small platform and yeah
everyone that has Subaru's is into so many hobbies so being able to
carry all that with you and not have to be so
picky with what you bring with you on a trip being able to bring a lot more
of it your bikes to your stand-up paddle boards
more camp here get heavier rooftop tents up on top of the Subaru
they're really excited to see it yeah so I'm sure that y'all are
going through and looking at all different types of
I guess racks and systems and accessories for
different things that people are doing yeah just getting like feedback from
people on what they want to see yeah exactly so the nice thing is we have a
really good understanding of how to make a good rack system what people are
usually trying to carry on the racks the Subaru space we've tried to get a
lot more consumer feedback to see what they are bringing out on trips and
what they want to mount on their rigs yeah we kind of come from the off-road
space where people are carrying recovery equipment
they have a lot of their camp gear up there we started in that more like
hardcore rock crawling space okay and the Subaru
space is surprisingly closer to that than we had
anticipated people are taking these things down a lot
more technical roads than we had anticipated we thought it would more
so be like people trying to go up to the mountains and go skiing
you know a little bit more ability on in those adverse weather conditions on roads
but we've been really surprised by how many folks are taking these all the
same places we're bringing our built Toyotas and Jeeps and stuff like that
so it's a relatively similar crossover to that
that market than we had anticipated when you've got these two crazy people
over here doing all the stuff they're doing
they're uh yeah they're definitely helping out with that yeah and maybe
they're skewing our perception a little bit they might be on the more
hardcore end but no it's cool to see that that's all
happening in the Subaru world yeah and it's cool to see what they're doing with
their rigs and what's capable of how you can
build out a Subaru and what it's capable of and yeah of course they're doing
more extreme things that than a lot of other people will be doing but
there's still people that are doing some pretty
more than typical stuff with their Subaru's which is really exciting
yeah it's it's been really cool and we're excited to continue to dive
into it I feel like we're just dipping our toe into the water and
we have so much more to learn about the Subaru market and so many more people
to meet and probably a lot more events to attend but
we've been doing Overland Expo for a long time now and it's been really cool to
just see the reception in the Expo world here
with the Subaru stuff a lot of the people who already have our racks on other
rigs at home are excited to be able to put it on their
Subaru's yeah or have been thinking about switching to the Subaru
platform nice so I would really love to get
y'all and do a full episode to find out more about the history of the brand
and then like how you guys all met and got started the name
you know where the name came from and all that kind of stuff would you want to
try to do something around October where you're going to be releasing all
these these versions of it yeah we would absolutely love to sit down and
talk about it there's a pretty cool history with our company
we're all pretty young we started back in high school in college and we
just love tinkering and it started from a love of the hobby
and being outdoors and we've just turned it into a job and
growing a lot of people with us so it's been really rad that's awesome yeah well
I look forward to it and sharing your story
and getting more recognition out there for Sherpa and the Subaru community
well we appreciate it thank you so much you're welcome thank you
so we're here at Overland Expo Mountain West day three and I'm sitting here
with Tiana Tiana nice to meet you Dom
Dom nice to meet you both so I understand you drive it's a 2023
Forrester wilderness that's correct okay and you said that you've only owned
Subarus or you will only own Subarus for both yes okay
so how many have you had so far this is my third one actually
yeah so what'd you have before this one I had a 2008 Outback so I'd had a pretty
big upgrade I love that body style though
yes it's like that's my favorite generation of Outback yeah it was like
perfect for everything that I was doing I had it all throughout grad school
and like great for camping and like storage and stuff and then before that
I had a Outback again or not an Outback of Forrester but I
don't remember what year it was like an old boxy yeah I loved it
Tram was penny she was great yeah I on the way here I saw a
gold Forrester like that boxy body style and I'm like
I was just like oh my gosh I love it so much she she did me good for a long
time also through college was she was it manual or automatic automatic
I've never learned he's never taught me no but I have a manual
in Prezza and I love it yeah yeah my cross-track is manual yeah
it's it's you're still more connected to the to the car to the road and I
really like it but I haven't taught her how to drive manual yet
yeah it's so fun I taught my son how to drive it because he was
he was turning 16 like when I had my cross-track
and so I'm like you know it's a it's a dying skill
and so I'm like I want him to learn how to drive
you know it's manual yeah my parents my first car was a
manual my parents were like you have to learn how to drive a manual first
because if you can drive a manual that you can drive anything right exactly and
then they were like if you're in Europe ever because a lot of cars in Europe
manual um you're renting a car anywhere so that's a good point I never really
thought about that yeah yeah my parents my parents made us me and my
brother yeah no that's good that's good that's great
I it's funny because like whenever I because like I'm renting a car here
because I live in Houston so I flew out here and so
whenever like especially all of these roundabouts when I'm going
through the roundabouts and all this kind of stuff as I'm driving the automatic
that I have I'm thinking about how I would be
shifting gears as I'm going through these turns and wishing that I could be
shifting gears yeah as I'm going through the turns
because you know it's like you you get the timing right with your
shifting and what gear you're in everything through certain turns
and stuff and it just makes it more fun it does
what year is your in prezzo that's uh 2015 oh right yeah just the the base
in prezzo yeah that's what I have the base cross right yeah
it's great I love it yeah I've had it for six years now something like that
okay yeah she's great all right yeah is this your first time coming to
Overland Expo yeah this is our both of our first
times coming to Overland Expo yeah okay so did y'all know that Subaru was
gonna be here or did you just happen to see them as you are coming through
here no we were we were wondering if they'd be
here because we love super is more like a super family and then my brother was
like oh yeah super is over here and we're like oh let's go check it out and this
is a nice setup yeah yeah yeah that's because oh
that was one of one of the questions I wanted to ask is like what do you think
about this whole setup and the way that they've got it laid out
I think this is wonderful I feel like they've got a really good kind of
view of some of the different models I got a chance to like talk to a
couple people who were like looking at the most recent Forester and they
were asking about the version I had so I really like it I think it's
really nice they have a little guest lounge and snacks and drinks I don't
think I've seen any other vendor have anything like that set up
yeah and yesterday when it was raining we were all huddled under here and I was
like I'll bet none of the other booths have a little spot for their owners to
huddle huddle under yeah it was super nice
no it's nice that y'all I mean there are people that come here
this year for Overland Expo because they're you know several different
locations and there are people that knew that Subaru was going to be here
so they intentionally came by but it's nice to hear
people that didn't know that Subaru is going to be here and then they discover
that so that's really cool yeah absolutely it was a nice surprise
yeah yeah so and and so like last year Subaru did a
little test run at the one in California and so they did a lot of
data gathering with that and they decided let's go ahead and
do it and take a shot at it and let's do Overland Expo in 2025
so I'm glad they're here they brought me out here
they brought some other people out here that I know to do like little
demonstrations over there with Carrie and Milton so
it's been such a great venue and I think it's a perfect spot for Subaru
absolutely I feel like a lot of people in the outdoor space
own Subaru's and so I'm glad to see that they're represented here because I
know there's a lot of other options like the vans and other things but we
we wanted to get the wilderness edition so that we could
tow a trailer with like something like a
like a bean or something like that on the back end and
yeah and that's why we ended up getting the wilderness it's got a little bit more
of that towing capacity so now that we've had it for a little bit
we're in the market and so this is like the perfect place for Subaru to be and
to like look at things that you can add on to it oh yeah you've got plenty of
accessories here that you can go look at and see what you want to do with it
have you done any modifications to your impresa or is it just it's just
it's pretty stock yeah it's just a commuter car for me mostly okay the
four-wheel drive you know in the snow here
helps and stuff like that yeah but yeah nothing to mind
and we haven't done anything to yours yet either I mean with the wilderness stuff
you don't really need to do all that much we've taken it
in some pretty crazy places honestly we took your outback
in some pretty crazy places too um and it just yeah they just go
I know yeah yeah we we don't get snow in Houston but
we do occasionally but we get when we get some heavy rains there's mud
there's some spots that I know where there's some mud
and one of the things that I like to do is just get out in the middle of the mud
and just stop and then just start driving and I'm like
I'm just so amazed that it just goes right through it like it's nothing
you know unless you get in like the really really thick mucky mud
other than that it just goes right through you know but I have had the
opportunity to drive some Subaru's in the snow because I've traveled and
gone to some other places and so I've driven an outback
through some snow and I've driven a first-gen cross-track that was
lifted through some snow in a Lake Tahoe area and it was
so fun and my son got to drive it through the snow too so it was really really cool
yeah we've been in some pretty gnarly situations like we lived out in Grand
Junction for a while and now we live on the front range but
when we were in school we would have to come back for like Christmas breaks
or other things you're driving in like pretty pretty gnarly whether they'd
close the highways down and I've never felt unsafe in the cars
that we've had which is why we keep buying them
like I feel like we've always been in in a pretty safe safe situation yeah
yeah yeah and what's your name oh hi I'm Grant
Grant and do you have a Subaru I do not okay I currently own a Nissan XTERRA
okay those are nice too yeah I've always liked those those are super cool but
um I've been out here this is my first time at Overland and my best friend
Tanyin has a second gen 2019 cross-track that he's built out
I think he's been on your guys's podcast before for a full breakdown on his build
as well oh nice what was his name uh his name's Tanyin
but his Instagram handles NASA Trek oh okay yeah cool yeah cool yeah yeah
yeah it's uh it's this is a fun venue I'm really glad to see that Subaru is here
yeah it's been really great I on day one met up with Milton and Kerry
they're awesome yeah their builds are really cool
yeah so yeah it's been pretty exciting to like see
how customizable they've made all of their vehicles and
yeah the the Forrester hybrid that they're building out over here is really cool
the new Forrester and I really like the Sherpa wings that they have on the
side yeah that they're about to come out with
because the the Orvis wings are just so wide
on on this one and yeah it's really cool to see
the companies like making it more like slim sleek
yeah yeah it's good well thank you guys for stopping by and
checking it out thanks for hopping on the mic some people were like a little
nervous and don't want to do it but y'all seem kind of excited so I figured
out asking thank you so much you're welcome yeah it was really fun
yeah I appreciate it thank you for having us you're welcome
all right so we're here at Overland Expo Mountain West and this is day three
I'm sitting here with Julie how's it going it's going great thanks for asking
you're welcome thank you for wandering through the Subaru
space that we've got here what do you think of the whole setup
well I think it looks great I love the owner's lounge I honestly was
surprised to see Subaru here I've been to Overland before and hadn't
seen it in years past so the setup looks great and
yeah yeah yeah and we're sitting here in the owner lounge just relaxing and
having a good time yeah so I like it when people say that they
didn't know that Subaru is going to be here and that they're surprised because
so Subaru did a little like pilot last year at Overland Expo in California
and they just gathered some data you know came up with some ideas of what
they wanted to do if they were going to do
Overland Expo in 2025 so they decided to go for it and here we are
yeah well I think actually I mean I think it's a great
I think it's a great gathering here Overland Expo and I think it
makes sense that Subaru is here I know
just kind of the vibe on adventuring and thinking outside the box and going where
you want to go it it it makes sense that you guys are
here yeah and you own a Subaru of course so that's
great what did you what is it that you own I have an outback
okay what year is yours it's 2023 okay and we were chatting
before we got on the mic here but you also owned a cross-track which is
really exciting to me because I own a cross-track
and we both had something similar with ours tell them what yours was
yeah well mine was a manual transmission but and it was orange which is the best
color so yeah it was a great car I loved it
what year was that one uh I'm embarrassed to say I don't
oh remember I think it was a 2016 okay yeah
so an orange was the very first one that I ever saw
and then having a manual too just absolutely love it well I just remember
because there's a hike that I love in outside of where I live in Boulder called
Fourth of July and I remember the last drive I did
in that car I took it up the trailhead it was a pretty rutted road
pretty gnarly out there and just honestly I loved
driving that car and it got me up to the trailhead had a beautiful hike of
course with tons of Colorado wildflowers but it was a very
it's a very positive memory of my bright one yeah
so did you have any modifications on it at all no
no so stock tires and everything yeah stock tires it had enough lift to get over
all the bumps and oh yeah dips and everything it was great
yeah and and those are like situations like that where
I've had people on the podcast where they've talked about
being able to get to further up into places where they want to get to
trailheads that they couldn't get to before and so having a Subaru has just
really helped them explore more and you know do more with
their cars and that's so cool totally I mean we
artwork we love the mountains obviously well not obviously but we do love the
mountains we live here we have a son who's a huge skier we're all
skiers as I mentioned to you before this
conversation we traveled for a year we were in a 24 foot rig but when we got
back and wanted to continue with our adventurous
lifestyle it made sense that we had a Subaru and honestly when we
go up to the mountains and ski in the winter we don't have a big old truck
use our Subaru outback and I love the handling and I
I'm not like a car person I just think cars are a way to get from point A to
point B safely with what you need and a Subaru is what I drive
yeah and they're they have very high safety ratings and
it's like that's one of the big appeals for people too is the safety rating
yeah so but aside from Subaru's we're here for another reason too
you have a book you want to talk about it briefly and tell people what it
is oh thank you for asking yeah so I just did a
seminar here at the Overland Expo there's a you know there's a whole lineup of
of talks and panel discussions so I was talking about
how to make travel when people are out and about
just a deeper more meaningful experience and there were three different
ways I talked about how you can do that through finding community through
volunteer work and through world schooling and world
schooling is learning through direct interaction with the world
so my book is all about world schooling my family traveled for
13 months we took our nine-year-old kid out of school for a year
and used the world as a classroom and it was just an incredible
year of adventure and wonder for us and so I co-authored with two other
women who had traveled with their families at different times
very nice wonder year it's a guide to long-term family travel and
world schooling and thank you for asking you're welcome
so are people able to find this book somewhere right now
yes they can find it at many rai's across the country
very nice Barnes & Noble independent bookstores and of course
amazon okay great well thank you so much thank you yeah it was nice to chat with
you and great to see this book and great to hear about your
Subaru journey so far thank you you're welcome
all right that concludes the bonus episode from Overland Expo Mountain
thank you so much Subaru for having me out to participate in this awesome event
and this whole series that you are participating in
this year for Overland Expo I really really appreciate it I'm
super grateful for the opportunity I'm very thankful that I was able to see
some friends again and also meet some people for the
first time and of course put together these great
conversations that I've had with people in different parts of the
country at each of these events and hopefully on this last one we can
reach our goal again of finding somebody that does not own a Subaru
and has come into the space so we will try hard to do that I've got
everybody out there in the space looking out for me they know what I'm
trying to do so everybody's trying to see if they can
capture somebody that does not own a Subaru of course that is not my only
goal of course I'm recording these these conversations
with people who own Subarus and asking them what they think about the space
asking them what they think about Overland Expo and Subaru being at
Overland Expo so we've had some really great conversations and I know
we'll have some more great conversations in Virginia coming up in
about a month I also want to give a huge shout out to
Road for coming up with the Road Wireless Pro because it has
completely changed my remote podcasting game
it's so nice that I can move around the space sit in different spots
go to other vendors that I've had on the podcast before or new vendors and chat
with them and it just makes the experience so much
greater when I'm not just stuck in one particular spot
so I just I think they're great but anyway
thanks again so much for tuning in really really appreciate it please
share this episode so that more people can hear it because if Subaru is
going to be able to go out to Overland Expo in 2026
it would be great for people to hear what the experience was like so that we
can try to get more people out next year if that is going to be the case
and hopefully get some new people into some Subaru's or get
people that are considering Subaru's into a Subaru
that's what it's all about isn't it so again thank you so much
have a wonderful weekend I'll see you later we'll be
back with the subi scoop on Monday much subi love
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About this episode
The episode captures the vibrant atmosphere of Overland Expo Mountain West in Loveland, Colorado, highlighting Subaru's first official participation. It features detailed discussions with Subaru owners about their vehicles, modifications, and outdoor adventures. The Subaru Oasis booth and Camp Subaru provided a welcoming community space for enthusiasts to share experiences, from car camping setups to off-road capabilities. Guests also discuss Subaru's safety, reliability, and the growing overlanding culture. The episode includes insights from Sherpa Rack's entry into the Subaru market and showcases the strong camaraderie and passion within the Subaru community.