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I stored our standard folding ladder and bought a seven foot ladder from Camping World, the one that folds down to roughly 3 inches by 3 inches by 7 feet. Slides in the front of the basement quite nicely and is easy to get out and put back in (unless I store things on top of it). It's still not quite enough to reach the top of the Montana except when I put the ladder in the bed of the truck but the top part I can reach from the roof.
Until a couple of weeks ago we toted two standard adult mountain bikes on a ladder rack and had no problems with the ladder at all. Keystone told me it will support it and it did. With our first Montana I had a "mishap" coming out of a very steep driveway and caught the bike wheels on the ground. Not a good thing to do. It bent a couple of the horizontal ladder supports but didn't do any damage at all to the Montana itself nor the mounts on the Montana. So I can attest to that ladder being plenty strong enough. We had one of those "standard" bike mounts that slip over a rung on the ladder and have two bars curving outward to mount the bikes on. Worked fine but was a pain when I wanted to get on the roof. We only used the bikes once in 15 months so our youngest son and his wife are now using them.
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