Camping in Heavy Rain With Tent Solo Adventure

What? Come on, come on. Heat. Hey, what's going on, guys? Welcome back to the channel. Today's adventure is a rainy and wet day here in the forest. As you can see, we are already crouched inside the tent. I'm soaked. Boomer is soaked. I gave him my raincoat to lie down. I want to take his sweater off in a minute. Heat it up. It's not very cold. Actually, it's 10 degrees Celsius more. But it's a wet and wet rain, which is never good. Before getting too involved in the assembly, I'll explain what I brought and why I brought it. So, for the tent, this is a tent for two people from Norendy. It's the tent for two people. A very, very good tent, which is not for walking freely. The reason I brought it is that I need two large vestibules. One for equipment and the other for cooking. Because it will probably rain throughout the trip. For the sleeping bag, I brought this sleeping bag minus 20 degrees Norendy. This is the sleeping bag Ling. Beautiful hyper central. Sleeping bag very, very beautiful. My favorite so far. Pillow. I have the Thermi Most Neoare X Thermi. This is the very wide rectangular version. I've been using it for over a year and I love it. Very hot, very comfortable and very light. The backpack in the vestibule is now the Fihaven Q52L. Backpack very, very durable. Perfect for all these things. So, I'm going to start making a hot coffee. I brought the transangea with me. I have to get ready somewhere in the vest. I'll probably put my bag aside. I'm in a kind of dirty area. So I'm trying to keep my feet away. Let's see how this works. But yes, let's start with a hot drink. All right, guys. Well, I'm making a cup of hot coffee now. And looking through the door of the tent, it's raining a lot, very constantly. The problem is that it is very quiet where I am. Because the area is totally open. There aren't many big trees and the rain is only falling on the floor. The floor is super, super soft. It's dripping like a sponge. There are no leaves. There is no hard surface beyond the tent. It's the only thing that's making noise now. But it's raining a lot, a lot, a lot. Very constant. I mean, I'm getting soaked just standing outside, walking around. So, I'm going to stay here for a while. I'm making this coffee. I'm going to make the Boomer very comfortable here. The kitchen area is well tidied up. Today's dinner won't be too hard to prepare, I think. Yes, I think it's going to be a good time. I mean, how can you complain about that sound? A beautiful sound, and a lot of space inside this tent to relax and enjoy the rain on the outside. So, health, folks. Let's enjoy an afternoon coffee. What? It's still out there. I'm shaking. The Boomer is shaking. We need to go to bed soon. But this hot meal will definitely help. So, I have mazala. I have a little rice, yellow onion, a little pepper and some ureps. It's so good. It's cold out here. It's not freezing, but that wet rain and the wind, the humidity definitely soaks India and you get very, very cold very fast. And I always think that being stuck in a tent seems to make you eat more food. I don't know if it's just me, but when I'm stuck in a tent, cooking, seeing the rain or snow, it doesn't matter the weather. I think I eat a little more and I really don't care. Try to cook a hot and tasty meal, relax and enjoy. I also have movies saved on my cell phone, and I knew I would be stuck inside the tent. And the bonus of this tent is that all my wet clothes can be hung on this railing. So, usually winter expedition tents have that. If not, you can simply add them. But it's cool to hang things up, dry and dry, because I like my dry stuff. My shoes are soaked, my pants are soaked, my sweaters are soaked. I'm going to hang everything overnight and I hope it's dry. Yes, let's eat this and enjoy our hot dinner. Boomer was out there, soaked. So, I had to take it off my clothes and dry it again. But that's it, thanks guys. Hot dinner, stuck in a tent. I know. There's not much going on, but the view is beautiful. Old fir trees, half green. Some are dead, just pinging. Soaked out there, very dry in here. Around 7 and a half in the morning, 8 o'clock in my area. So, it's getting to that time. I just had dinner, probably 30 minutes ago. I did a little cleaning. I'm soaked and shaking from the cold. With a lot of cold, Boomer is drying now. He took off his sweater. I put it on the floor there as a second absorber. I brought a second sweater I was hoping to wear on a walk today or tomorrow. I gave it to him because he really needs it. He's not going to get in the sleeping bag, soaked like that. So, I'll wait until he's dry and, yes, then he can get in the sleeping bag. He looks like Master Splinter when he's all wet. No, you stay down there. So, yes, he's trying to get the sleeping bag now. This is a no, no, his body is totally dry. Only the face, ears, head and feet are wet. So, yes, let's let him dry. But, the H, since I'm here and it's still clear enough to film. I can very well explain what you do in a tent when you're stuck in it all day and it's raining. Well, the truth is that there's not much to do. This is good and bad. The good thing about it is that you can just relax and enjoy the rain. Now, I have some movies saved on my cell phone that I'm going to watch. I want to watch one as soon as I finish talking to you and then I'll save one for later at night. Maybe I'll sleep too. This is my strategy. My situation inside the tent is that I have some backstage stuff with me. So, I have a camera bag that I carry on my chest and hang on the tripod whenever I use a tripod, just to give more weight. But I have camera equipment. I have my other camera here, which I need to dry and basically save when I finish filming. I have a light that I'm going to hang later. I even brought a coffee with milk. It's a very cold coffee drink. I'm looking forward to it tonight, believe it or not. This is really going to help me sleep. I know it's crazy, but it's going to help me sleep. So, what do I do? Normally, I have to check my entire bag to make sure that all the batteries are charged for tomorrow, both for this camera and for the main camera. Charge all my lights. I'm using it now because it's getting dark here, but I'm going to charge it in a few moments just to have a little more energy at night. If I sleep with this at least, Bloomer usually likes it because he can see around the tent and kind of moves around doing his thing as he normally does. But, yes, basically I take a look at my camera stuff. I make sure that all these things are tidy in the vestibule. I've already made sure that my trans stove and everything else is in a good place. And I'm only using a vestibule. I didn't even open the door of the other vestibule. In fact, I managed to have enough space only in the front. And the interesting thing about this tent, I'm going to mention now. It comes in versions for one person, two people and three people. They can be closed with a zipper. So, you can have a 20, 30-foot tunnel tent. If you have one for two people and you have another person who also has one, you can close the two together, end to end, and make a huge and long tunnel tent, which is really cool. I was looking at the zipper system and it works. It works perfectly. So, yes, I'm going to relax a little. I have some snacks here. I will try not to eat them now. I want to save this for my night movie. But, for now, I need to get into my sleeping bag, warm up a little, dry the boomer, warm it up and chill a little in the tent, get comfortable and, then, enjoy the night. I turned on two lights. So, you will see what I was saying before. This is my normal light. This is the light of my bomb. Actually, it's very bright and very useful. So, I was out there for a little break to go to the bathroom. Bloomer came out with me. So, he's a little wet again. So, let's do the drying process again. It's raining harder now, if you can see. This sweater is very heavy and wet. I brought a shirt with me. I left it very dry in here. So, a beautiful pajama-style shirt. I also have my filling pants with me, which are back here. So, I'm going to take this off, I'm going to take this sweater off. I'm going to have to hang it here and try to keep some things dry. But let's see how it goes. Because, obviously, breathing inside the tent will create a little condensation. And, by doing this, some things can get wet. This is the most important thing to keep in mind if you are thinking of camping in a tent with a heater. Many people think that a tent with a heater is only for heating. Of course, I could use the heater now. My hands are cold. The rain is very cold. It would be good to have a tent fire with a heater right here. Fill the tent with heat, have a slightly clearer environment, I can cook whenever I want, without having to turn on the stove or anything. But the most important thing is the control of humidity and air conditioning. Burn all that humidity, keep your sleeping bag warm, your dog ​​dry, me dry, clothes, shoes, everything just to keep things warm and dry. So, the reason why I didn't bring a hot tent on this trip, actually, there are two reasons. First, I have camped a lot in hot camps. I love it, but sometimes it's too much. Sometimes it gets a little boring, a little repetitive for me to camp in hot camps. It's very easy. So, I like to go back to camping in cold camps like I'm doing today just to take advantage of this effort, just to realize that it's cold, I'm wet, I can't warm up. All I have is a sleeping bag. That way, on my next trip, or maybe after that, when I go back to camping in hot camps, I will enjoy and have a lot more fun doing this after getting in the cold and wet rain. Second, second, and I know it seems strange to punish me like that, but that's what I do. Second, pick up firewood today after walking in this place. I've been here before, so I knew it would be a very long walk. Walking around here, making my way through all the trees, branches, carrying an ax, a saw, a little extra equipment, but making my way through all this and still looking for firewood. Now, there's a lot of dry firewood out there. I've made a lot of bonfires with firewood, even firewood and steel, UH, coal cloth. I've made a lot of bonfires in the middle of horrible rain and snow. No problem, there's dry firewood out there, you just need to know what to look for. There's absolutely dry firewood out there. But do I really want to stay there collecting all that firewood in the middle of a torrential rain all day? It's been raining a lot all day, literally, since morning until now, and it's almost 8 o'clock. So, keep that in mind, out there collecting all that firewood, bringing everything inside, occupying all the space inside the tent. Yes, sometimes it's just not worth it. On this trip, of course, as I said, I would love to have the heat. This is super easy, it's simple, there are two things less to worry about, firewood and stove. So, tomorrow I can put everything in my backpack, leave, disassemble the tent, stick everything in there and leave. I don't have to wait to disassemble the stove, cool it down, wait until it's finished burning, take all the firewood out of the way. It's just my preference on this specific trip. So, it's really cold. I'm not going to lie, it's cold, it's humid, so I really need to take these clothes off. 1. My hood probably weighs about 1 kg now, soaked, soaked, soaked. So, feather pants are always essential. They are, for sure, the best piece of clothing I've ever bought to camp. Pants. Super light, super quenches. 1. They work very, very well. Long socks. I've already exchanged for long and thick socks. As I said, my sleeping shirt has arrived. Boomer will have my second sweatshirt, my wool sweatshirt for his mattress, and he will be warm because it is very cold. We are both shaking, honestly, I don't shake much, but I'm shaking now, it's always the rain that gets me. So, let's get really warm. That's basically it for today. I'm going to sit and watch a movie, put it all cozy in my sleeping bag, and let's enjoy this sound, I hope, all night, and then wake up in the morning and make a hot coffee. So, I'll see you guys in the morning, guys, and I hope nothing special happens. So, I'll see you guys in the morning for coffee. Good morning everyone. Today is a beautiful cloudy morning, but very, very rainy and very cold. So, it rained all day yesterday and all night yesterday, until about an hour ago, when I decided to put my head out of the tent. As you can see, the tent is still soaked, I had to shake it to make it very, very wet. Some drops of water fell on the canvas on the floor there. In fact, it is the lining of the tent. I decided not to use it on this trip because it was soaked and I didn't have time to set it up. But some raindrops started to freeze. This tells me that it reached 0 degrees Celsius very quickly. Not very cold, not for a long time, but it certainly froze a little. So, our clothes, my blue cap with hood that I wore yesterday, were still totally soaked. My weatherboomer was still very wet. My gloves were soaked. The inside of the tent was a little wet. I left all the ventilation open and a little. In fact, I opened all the zippers on the solid panels, I opened all the air outlets. It was still very wet in there with the condensation, without a wood stove. And that's the disadvantage of camping at this time of year without a heat source, because the condensation of your breathing will accumulate. And that's why I'm cooking outside the tent or with the door wide open just to get the moisture out of the tent. So, as you can see, Boomer is ready to go. He's excited. He's stuck inside a tent. We are both. There's not much going on in this episode. So, stuck inside a tent. Sometimes that's how it happens. At least we were in the forest, protected from the wind, and not on the edge of a cliff, in a hole, in a net like before, or hanging in a river with strong winds, or on the edge of a lake with strong winds. Today was very relaxing. A little thin rain in the tent. Totally hot, totally dry in there. And yes, we did very well. So we already had breakfast. We did this inside the tent very early this morning. There was no need to cook. Just a snack here and there. Cereal bars, protein bars, dry meat for him, pepper sticks and things like that. So we are fed. Now it's time for coffee. So, I need to drink this and then tell you how the tent is and how it is wet. So, health, guys, good morning. All right, guys. Well, I'm still having a coffee. The breeze is increasing and the forecast is that it will rain again today. So, try to be quick. Talk a little about the tent. If you don't like that part, I understand perfectly. If you like, there are some really interesting points that I want to address about this trip and the future. This tent is from Nortente. It's the first time I've used it, believe it or not. I never even assembled it. I never did the assembly. I never even looked at the tent stakes, the masters. I didn't even open the bag. First time on this trip. So, I have this tent in a model for one person, which you've seen me use before. It is a little longer, for two people. Among the posts is the sleeping part for one person. So, that gives an idea of ​​its width. They just put one more ring to make another person, and so on. Last night I mentioned that you can close these tents with a zipper and make a long tunnel tent. You can. They close with a zipper. One person, two people, three people, they all close with a zipper. So, if you wanted to add a person to the tip of it on an expedition trip, you could customize this person and add a stove connector and add it as a hot tent addition. You could do that. I think you know where that's going to go. So, this tent is of very high quality. A disadvantage, which I don't like, and you've heard me say it a thousand times on the channel, is that it is not self-supporting, which means that all these fixing points need to be on the floor. This creates two problems. One, the terrain. Not just with this tent, but with any tent that is not self-supporting. The terrain you're going to camp on. Well, last night, no doubt, it was in my favor. The ground is soft. However, it is very soft. So, some of these stakes are almost coming out, which is not good because it is a tent without protection. Each fixing point is vital. All you and E-6 are vital. Now, you will notice that there are all kinds of yellow fixing lines here. This is a tent with a black label that was made to withstand absurd strong winds in open landscapes. Obviously, I didn't have that problem. So I didn't use all the fixing points. But this thing is a beast. When you fix it completely, it can withstand strong winds. Visit their website for more information on this. By the way, this is not sponsored. Guys, I'm sharing my personal opinion about this tent and other tents that are not self-supporting. Remember that. Therefore, all fixing points must pass through the terrain. Well, if it's winter and you're on frozen or frozen soil, some of these stakes will have a lot of difficulty getting in. You will have to use other means to place them and anchor the tent. Now, if you're camping in a rocky area, let's say you're in a rocky bed and can't put a stake on the rock, and there are no stones to anchor it, or trees. You're kind of out of luck because they need to be at a very specific angle to really fix the tent. I mean, you don't want this line pulling the tent to the side. This serves to pull it forward at an angle to keep the tent standing. This is one of the most important points. So, that kind of describes where you can camp, how you can camp, when you can camp. So, I don't like that. I really love independent tents. Honestly, if they added two more posts to that, it would be independent. Very simple. Let's go. Boomers wandering around chasing birds and squirrels. So things got wet last night. I opened the zipper on all the ventilation doors. And just being in there with the humidity and the condensation, it got wet. My sweater got soaked. My pants are still wet. The top of my sleeping bag is wet. Things got really ugly in there. Now it was raining a lot, a lot, a lot. It's wet. I'm at a high altitude. So I'm on this mountain in a cloud. Essentially, it's going to get wet no matter what tent you use. News. But that was a very good performance. One thing I want to mention is that these tents, the nylon seal, this material cannot be sewn with tape. So, there's no tape to sew on this tent. Remember when I said it was the first time I used it? I have many tents from Nortente and I only sealed the seams of a tent in the last six years. This thing didn't leak anything. You have to brush the silicone. It comes with a small brush and a tube. You have to brush the adhesive tape to sew, hiding the seams inside. You can do this on the outside. It just looks very ugly. I recommend turning it upside down on a sunny day and painting only the seams. The reason is that it doesn't stick to this fabric. Not just this manufacturer, any manufacturer. This fabric is very, very, very popular. It's light. It's very smooth. It folds. But it's so smooth that you can't put tape to sew. You have to brush. I didn't brush that. I threw it away last night, absolutely dry. No leaks. My tent for one person, my tent for another person. Averni 2, Averni 1. All my tents for hot weather. No leaks. So, that's a big advantage of this manufacturer in particular that I noticed. But yes, as I said, there are points of fixation throughout the tent to really hold it. Which means many stakes. Many stakes. Many risks of tripping all over the place. But overall, I think it was a good choice for this trip. Very large vestibules. I had fun and I hope this just opens your mind to which tents you have. Independent, non-independent, guidelines, areas, season, many things to think about. But in the end, this tent had a lot of space. Getting stuck in there. And I really didn't feel as stuck as I would be in a tent for one person. Or something maybe a little minimalist. This being a little bigger, it was absolutely the right choice. Okay, I hope this information hasn't been too boring. Some people don't like it, others even like it a lot. So, at the last minute, I made coffee, woke up in the morning, left the tent doors open, the rear ventilation open, everything. Trying to dry the condensation. It hasn't worked very well yet. The interior is wet. My backpack is still soaked from yesterday. Today is going to be a wet trip, so the condensation is definitely a problem. And that's why you see me leaving with a hot tent often in the early fall until almost the beginning of summer, to be completely honest. I use a hot tent in humid climates like today. If today were June, I would have a hot tent out here just to reduce the humidity. Because the nights are still cold, the humidity still accumulates. You have that heatwave. Even in the summer, you go out and have that heatwave in the windshield of your car, which is the humidity that can occur inside the house too. It's a temperature difference. So, if you're in there breathing humidity from your lungs, it will fill the inside of the tent. So, yes, having a small wood stove is not a bad idea. And that's why camping in hot tents is so convenient for me. And you see a lot of this on my channel, not just for the heat, but for having the ability to dry. And I know I'm emphasizing this a lot because I don't have a wet and condensed tent like this for a long time. Because I have a wood stove. So, yes, it's wet. It's a little wet. I will not lie. My jacket, my sweater, it's all wet. So, I'm going to stick this in my backpack. I intentionally brought my micropen jacket, knowing that I would wear my pants in the morning. Just because I knew that all the other things would be wet and heavy. And I was right. So, I'm going with the pen ones. So, I have to fix the toilet. I have an empty water bottle. About half, probably two-thirds full of methyl hydrate, which is the fuel alcohol that I use in my alcohol stove. I know people will say. Ah, you should label this bottle. I don't need to. I just said what's inside. I will not drink. And if anyone else is here and wants to drink my bottle, they should have thought twice before not asking. Don't touch what's not yours. And my children know that this is, yes. So, mark all the boxes here. Everything is ready to be packed. I have about 500 guidelines that I need to write down. So, this will be fun. But I need to get the sleeping mat. It's the first thing I do. So, I'm going to empty it and put it in the back of my backpack. The second thing I'm going to do is my sleeping bag. I'm going to stick it like this in the back. And then the kitchen equipment. And then the tent. I'm not even going to put it in the bag of things. It's going to be a horrible and wet mess. I'm just going to make a ball, stick it in my backpack, slide the rods inside and deal with it when I get to a place where I can hang and dry. This is more or less how we do things. It won't be fun. So, I'm going to end the video here because this part is going to be very, very boring. I already gave the information. I hope you enjoyed the adventure. I love being in this kind of climate. And if you recognize this area, it's an area where I camped about two weeks ago when I found it for the first time. It's right in the farthest corner of this area. So, I made a hot tent trip probably about 30 meters that way. So, this is the same area. I really wanted to come back here in the rain. I wanted to see the humidity. It has that very green and exuberant moss green. And, yes, I like it. So, health, guys. Check out all the other videos. If you have any questions, leave it down here. And see you in the next episode. Bye.