Living in a 4x4 Truck in Colorado: Overnight Snowstorm + Perfect Day w/ My Dog at Camp

Alright, we're out looking for a new campsite and I'm in a new-to-me area and came across these rocks up here. I want to check them out real quick. So This is a pretty unique looking See I was driving along and then all of a sudden I look up and I see these rocks With these massive holes in them So naturally I got to come check it out Okay, so it's not all the way through It's still pretty wild though, then you got that one over there Let's go check out Check out some areas over here. The wind protection is really good, which is what we want Because it's gonna be really bad wind tomorrow. So we're gonna go up over in that section right there and see If there's a good campsite with a nice view But yeah, good protection. If not, then we'll go to one of our sites that we've already been to before. I don't know if you can really tell but These rocks that are like right here and right here Like over there. Those are massive boulders that are stuck that were stuck in the lava flow as it was coming down because this is like a massive massive lava flow and I'm in this little canyon right now, but this is really cool Check it out, it's been snowing Got the stove totally pumping right now. It's about 3 a.m. Just woke up to start the stove. So I decided to really crank it full of wood So much I get in there right now. Yeah some cedar and the rest of it's pinyon pine so We'll see how the little stove performs, but so far it's been pretty mighty Alright, we'll see at sunrise That sounded like a freight train in here all night last night, so didn't get any sleep partly was up at 2 I think I took that film segment at 330 and been up ever since but wanted to go out this morning and check the snow and so Use the little Reflectix heat barrier shield right there In front of the window or in front of the door last night because this door is actually not sealed at the bottom See how it's open right there So let's send a bunch of cold air and the wind was coming from that direction. So it was kind of cold But tonight's supposed to be 15 degrees colder and same with tomorrow night. So we're gonna get really stocked up on this wood here's some of the Cedar I was able to get look at this. This is such beautiful wood. It smells great in here. So I've got some more cedar out there But I've got some more cedar out there that there's that big stump that I was working on I brought it over here So I'm gonna work on that today The snow is probably gonna melt a little bit because it's supposed to get to 40 today So I might be a little sloppy But I create a little area to work on then I'll be good and then I've got some other wood underneath the truck that I can Use but let's go outside and see how much snow we got Looks like it was more of an ice storm That wind was crazy last night. Oh the rocks look cool Looks so awesome It's gonna be oh, man. It's gonna be so beautiful around here today Look at this over here. Let's walk over to this little bluff. We can look out and the rocks Yeah, look at this. Holy cow Look at how cool that is This area is so awesome And We can't we see the warm in there last night, but like I was saying it was just loud So let's walk up over here. I want to see what we're looking at for incoming weather It seems like it's coming from kind of the West over there. Oh, yeah It's plenty ominous Actually looks like there's a little bit of a break coming Then more after it Yeah, this was more of an ice storm yesterday or last night Tell you what, it is dark over there. I think I know the waves coming Yeah, no, the waves coming. I think I know the wave is supposed to schedule schedule to hit at 9 And last for an hour or two so it looks like that's what's coming in so we're gonna head back over here and Hunker down. I'm gonna break my diet this morning. I'm gonna bake some biscuits and some cookies over the stove because Is that just I don't know. I'm just I feel like it and it's cold out and I don't want to Cook a whole whole breakfast yet. I'm still kind of waking up. So let's get into 10 here. Whoo Definitely chilly not as much accumulation as I thought though Look, who's up? What you doing, baby? You want to come outside? You know, come on out. Come on. Don't come potty. No, okay Here's that massive red cedar stump that I'm gonna Process up today. So I'm not really sure I'm gonna do that That thing's just a big twisted ball of knots, but it's gonna burn up real well And then the rest of the wood that I have is right underneath here So I may need to get a little bit more to ride out three days worth of really cold weather, but we'll we'll see Let's get our coffee going Get our breakfast and of course number one thing gives Sierra some lovin Hey when you're working with the stove you always want to bring your your coals in the back towards the front because those are the ones that haven't burned through them through That they basically burn the least and so the pull up to the front here You can kind of get like a second burn out of that that wood that you put in here. Oops And then what I want to do is throw in a couple of these Softer Wood pieces just for daytime burns. I'm gonna I'm gonna save all of like the the hardwoods like this for at night Make it longer burns out of them All right, it's straight-up windy out today went out and just got some more wood process got all this stuff taken care of That's more hardwoods, which is great It's from that wood that I found yesterday I didn't realize some of it was already hardwood or that some of it was hardwood some of its softwood, too but I've only got enough wood for one more night and I've got they got that wood still underneath the truck, but it's not enough for For Saturday, so I'll have to figure out. Well, actually no if I if I get that that Cedar like huge ball that root ball if I can get that all Processed up that I think I'll be in good shape But um, let's take a lot of effort because that thing is huge What I was thinking about doing was sawing like a like a checker pattern you know like saw down and saw down saw down saw down and then taking my outdoors max and Banging it with the hammer part of the back part of it But the sledgehammer part of it banging that wood and breaking it up and just creating like, you know Like squares like that of cedar because this the cedar burned great last night. It was actually a time After I woke up that the first segment of the video or the first part of the video where I was up at three o'clock in the morning After I put that big piece of cedar in there and it got really hot and the flame was going up the The damper the first part of the stovepipe there was was hot the bottom part was red I could see it glowing so it was so hot So but it was still kind of chilly in here and I think that was due to the wind I mean these walls are paper thin in this awning room and I can feel a breeze coming through here right now I'm coming from this direction going that way it's not very not very strong, but it's there and Tonight with the temperatures getting down to 18 degrees Fahrenheit, you know, it's gonna be chilly in here. So I think it's gonna be another night of not Not having very much Not having very much sleep just because when it's cold like that you got to stay up all night and just work with the stove and You don't want your stove to go out, you know when it's that cold because getting it going again Especially a stove this small, you know getting it going again and then getting this room heated up It takes a little bit longer than usual The stove that I have in the big tent Is so massive that I can as soon as I get some flame going in there It's like the metal heats up and it's just like a massive heater. It gets going pretty quick But this one's a little bit smaller So it just takes a little more time and the airflow isn't as as good through it as the other stove that I have As far as drawing it to the front. I think the reason why is because this stove isn't airtight it doesn't have the little barrier around the the Stove door. So but today we're gonna watch movies here at camp I've got World War Z that I've I want to download the other day and I'm gonna watch that and then my internet Something is wrong with my internet as far as the that unlimited mobile data Mobile hotspot and so I may have to look at another provider I think the company that I was going with is going under so May have to go with like unlimited bill or something like that. The only problem is unlimited bill is pretty expensive It's like 200 bucks a month, but it's worth it. That way I don't have to go into town all the time And it's nice to have connectivity back here. So All right. Let's get the lounge day started All right making progress with this massive cedar root so it's uh, I split it right down the middle with the axe and then I'm gonna I'm gonna do a cut here with the axe and see if I can pop it out and then over on this one I'm gonna start jamming into this wedge right here and just start seeing if I can break apart any of these knots And if I can then we're set with firewood because this firewood is super hard this cedar I mean cedar is hard anyway, but for it to be in knots like that That'll be I mean a time and a half is hard. So that'll get some real long burns. It should be great And it smells awesome Yes Smells so good What you smellin babe some other animals in here I'd imagine they would take refuge You want it? Come here. It's yours. Oh boy. Come here. Right here. What are you doing? You want to read the book with me you want to read with me like all right You want to read with me It's currently about 1 a.m. I Fell asleep when I laid down with Sierra right after dinner And after reading that little bit of book and so I want to get the stove going again And put in a pretty large piece of cedar wood. That's taking up pretty much the entire Stove box here, so I'm gonna get this going and just let it smolder the rest of the night Supposed to get down to 22 later on So I've already got about let's see six hours of sleep this evening So I wonder if I can go back to bed or not I might make a cup of coffee and just save it in my thermos until Until the Sun comes up, but that way I'd have it when I wake up, so we'll see But it was a really great day with Sierra. We had so much fun running around and just Playing all over the place and having her chase sticks and do her fun things so But ready to roll on somewhere else tomorrow, so we'll see where the wind takes us