The CTC spends the entire winter sleeping outside and gets covered in snow, which needs to be removed thus negating any permanent mounting on the roof.
My first idea was to us gutter style bracket like these:
![Image](https://www.rackattack.com/img/product/yakima-wide-body-bracket.jpg)
With a gutter foot like:
![Image](https://www.rackattack.com/img/product/yakima-1a-raingutter-towers.jpg)
But the price escalated quickly and I could not find an 84" bar.
The best I could find is this:
![Image](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31Ps-dyOR1L.jpg)
https://www.etrailer.com/Enclosed-Trailer-Parts/Rackem/RA-28.html
I would need to trim it as I want it to mount as close as possible to the roof.
Any other solution that I am missing that would not prevent snow from being shovelled off?
I am not against some minor fabrication, but I do not posses a welder nor to do I want to weld stuff for the moment. I also thought of some kind of rail system that I could screw on both sides and could mount additional things to it (like an awning).