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Hey everybody, welcome to etrailer.com. I'm Bobby. And today we're taking a look at the Yakima FreshTrack snowboard and ski carrier for four skis or two boards here on our 2022 Subaru Outback Wilderness. So this is gonna be a pretty decent way of getting your skis and your boards on the roof of your vehicle and get those out of our vehicle in that way, makes it a lot easier to start road tripping with a lot of people, get all that cargo inside or even leave some room for something like a cargo box or a cargo basket on the other side. So, really do like how this system works, can make it just a little bit nicer getting to the slopes, which is great. Now I will say, I think there's a few carriers that kind of do the job better than this guy.
The FastTrack, not really my favorite. Kinda keeping in brand I think Yakima's FatCat EVO 4 and 6 are just a little bit of a better upgrade for this system that you're seeing. What I like about it, a little bit more convenience on the security measures here. We do have locking cores, which is great. And that's gonna be something we're gonna see on a variety of other carriers here at etrailer.com.
However, not the biggest fan of how our locking system works here on our clamps. Personally, I like that FatCat EVO a little more because the one lock starts securing your underside here. If anybody does have this little security tool which they're not too hard to find somewhere, they could actually end up taking your carriers off. Now is it gonna keep honest people honest. Yes.
You know, most people are gonna take a look at this, walk right on by, but in my mind if you're looking for just a little bit more security there are gonna be better carriers out there. And overall, this is just a decent, this does a decent job of clamping on our boards here as you can see. However you're starting to see just a little bit of a gap here on our skis today, and that I'm not super happy with just because you can see just a little bit of shifting here is possible. Something like that Yakima FatCat, or even the Rhino-Rack carrier all the way up to the Kuat carrier. They just do a better job of actually securing our boards and our skis.
But I think this is gonna do it for a majority of people out there. If we're not too worried about our boards and our skis maybe knocking on each other just a little bit this one's probably not gonna be the worst and our boards aren't gonna go nowhere, right They're staying on the roof of our car. It's just the sliding in between our carrier that I'm not the biggest fan of. So this is gonna be aluminum as well, which is lightweight. Obviously we have a lot of plastic on here so that's gonna be resistant to corrosion as well. Now the clamps on here make it pretty easy to get on. However, you can kinda see we're at a little bit of a tilt here. I'm not the biggest fan of this clamping system just because it's pretty hard to get set how I want it every time, especially when you back it off it doesn't seem to wanna go right back the way it was before. You kind of have to mess with it and you kind of have to find that perfect fit. And you see here today, we do have a little bit of angle and that's gonna be important if you we're to put this on other vehicles other than your Subaru. Our Subaru has a pretty flat roof which is pretty nice, makes it easier for our crossbars to be pretty straight for us. If you we're to put this on another vehicle in the family you might start seeing a little more drift on there depending on the curvature of your roof. So we are gonna have a 92.6 pound weight capacity which is excellent. I think we're gonna be pretty hard-pressed to overcome that. Of course, let's always make sure we're checking with our vehicles owner's manual guide to make sure we're not exceeding anything with our roof limits. And to that end, like I said before, we do have room on the other side here of our vehicle, plenty of room to get a variety of other accessories on. So that's one thing about these smaller snowboards and ski racks that I like is that
