Mark & Laurie... Congrats on your new baby!
That rear window is the "escape hatch" so it does not have the normal hardware for keeping it open. And as you have no doubt noticed the side of the window closes to the shower wall does not leave room for the normal hardware. We use a very low-tech, unelegant way of making use of the window...we prop it open from the outside with a small stick about 5" o r 6" long. We prop the lower end of the stick against the latch lever, so that if we have the window open and want to close it in the middle of the night, we can just move that lever causing the stick to fall out and the window closes. If you do this, don't use a stick so long that it will slam closed as it could break the glass. This had worked for us quite well. We find that if we open the side bed area window and the rear window over night we can get nice airflow.
I have not replaced the fan in the bathroom, but I think most of the job can be done from inside. You'd have to put on the top piece that closes and do the sealing from the outside. If you don't want to deal with it or don't feel capable enough, have someone else do it.
Have you realized yet that to turn on the bathroom light you must also turn on the vanity lights? This is not good if you have to use the bathroom in the middle of the night...you'll wake up your other half for sure. I don't know why they wired the bathroom light this way but it made us crazy. If you are replacing the fan it might be a perfect time to remedy that. I rewired the light by "stealing" electricity from the fan which is very close to the light. The fan is controlled with a button switch on the fan, so the wire providing power to the fan is hot all the time. If you splice the hot wire for the light (which is only "hot" when the vanity light is on) into the hot wire leading to the fan (splicing before the fan switch) you will then have power to he light all the time and you'll be able to control the bathroom light with the switch on the light all the time. It will be independent of the vanity light. It's made a world of difference for us.
Good luck and happy travels on your the Tetons and Yellowstone...
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