Overnight Bushcraft Camp - Waking up to Snow! - Multiple Tarps - Huge Fire - Great Food.

We traveled all around, trying to find a decent spot to put in. We've come to the sad realization that it's time to put the canoes away for the year because 90% of the lakes were ice. So we found a cool little spot by the river here and put in, paddled across. We're going to make up a nice tarp camp. A big old fire in front. It's supposed to get pretty cold. We've got both dogs with us. Wolf's off somewhere getting into trouble. Looking forward to this camp for a while. We're going to have some fun. I've got my small canvas tarp. I think it's like a 5x7 or 6x8 type. We're going to use some toggles I've already cord to attach it. The toggles allow you to be able to slide it down wherever you want it, tighten it up, pretty handy. You've got to get one in the middle here. We're certainly making progress. Tasha's got his nice big 10x12, nice big awning there, that's a pretty slick setup. We've got a couple people under there. I've got my little... Don't get any ideas. Oh, I've already got it. You see how scrappy my setup looks? Nice and taut over here, so it's not a big enough area there, and I'm just kind of saggy a bit, but it's fine. I have a lot of room actually. It just doesn't look the prettiest, but that's okay. Neither do I. Quite a bit of room. Nice and flat. Yeah, as you can see, me and my dog have plenty of room here. Hey Cooper, hey good boy. Where's Wolfie? Off eating birds, eh? Anyway, it's lots of room. So this'll be home, have a nice big fire out there. We can chat, it'll be cool. I like this type of camp. Silly me, I forgot my ground sheet. I have a nice canvas wool ground sheet that Wolf and I will share. You can lay on it. I actually have a sleeping bag for him as well. So as well, it's supposed to get down to negative seven tonight, cold enough to sleep in front of me. Oh yeah. I think I'll be using the baby for the most part now. Just not only because it's cold, but to keep the dog off of my sleep stuff. We'll be sleeping in tarps and open shelters and things like that for the winter. So anyway, that's all good. Wolfies is right here. You can sleep next to me. We should go probably start collecting firewood now. Look at these guys. We're going to steal his stick. No. Hey, Wolf, what's going on, eh? Go get your own stick, you filthy thief. Good sight there, wasn't it? No, don't worry, I'll let your crack out of it. I tried to at least, but it was kind of taking up the whole frame, so. Has crack. The haas crack. Yeah, let's build a fire pit. I'll go get some wood maybe if you want to start on that. We'll double team. That general vicinity I think is good. Yeah, that's my grill. On account of the cookin's. The cookin's? Yeah, I think. On account of the steak that we forgot. Tosh has been at my place for a few days. We're out trying to get a deer or whatever, but we write on the, we're like trying to plan our camping trip and we're coming up with stuff at night and he goes, you got a pen and paper? Write stuff down. The only things we write down, steak and seasoning, we forgot. That's okay, we forgot. Just tonight, I forgot my potato. I didn't bring any potatoes. Swear to God. I have some. I think we've got two potatoes. One grouse, two potatoes, some popcorn. And some freeze dried stuff. Yeah, we'll be golden. Dog food we got. Oh yeah. Cooper here! Come on, see your dad. Clean up camp a little bit, make it a little bit neat. And then, let's fire it with wood. There you are, bud! Oh, I know, hi! He's like, what are you calling me for? What are you calling me for? I always smell these stuffs. Shablam! Looks like that's enough for me. Good boy, Wolfie. The husky boy's got his nose in his bum bum. Husky Lake. Oh the lab. Damn it I got all fogged up. Got the lab. Oh he looks so worried right now. Oh no now he's fine but his ears back he looked all worried. Yeah like that. What you doing? What you doing? Hungry? Yeah actually probably is. Good time to eat eh? Just along the wood been throwing on big pieces just hanging out by the fire. Perfect day to just chill out at a camp. Getting pretty cold it's supposed to get to what negative seven tonight. I thought you said 10. Negative 10 tonight. Something like that. This will be the coldest I've slept with uh wolf. What have you had uh Cooper out to do you think? Minus 30. Oh yeah? Yeah. In a hot tent or no? No. We tarp camped last winter at minus 30. And he's fine? He was like basically in my sleeping bag with me. Well you're more than welcome in my sleeping bag wolfy. I think I think with his husky coat like his fur is probably three times the length of Cooper's and he's got a double coat. Yeah. And he's part husky. I think He'll be all right. I think he's gonna be just fine. Hey, what kind of, what brand of coat is that you got going on there? Where'd you get that coat from? Go check out Robinette Outfitters. Maybe you should've checked that before you left, hey? Wait. Yeah, you were about to get that before I said that, buddy. So we were able to snag a chicken on the way in, and it's a white one, so nice and tasty. I'll filet this and split it, and then we got poutine to make. This is a ruffed grouse or a partridge as opposed to a spruce hen. So the spruce hen will be darker meat. And from what I'm told, this is the more sought-after one. It's really starting to cool off. I got my poncho. Joe was all ponchoed up. Joe picked up a rough grouse on our travels today. So we decided we're going to put a little spice on that and clean it up. And that's our appetizer for dinner. Spice, spice it up. Spicy. So yeah, a couple of these for a meal if you were hard up. A couple of these would do it. Yeah, for sure. Ta-hey Oh, that's T-O-H-A I remember we had this one guy All right, she done. What do you think Tosh? You gonna give her a test? Let's try it. All right You first. If you croak. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah? Nothing wrong with that at all. What's chickeny? Chicken. Delicious. Cooked all the way. That's a bonus mm-hmm that's a little crisp on the outside of it oh yeah cheers are back everybody it's rubbed it all over your fingers oh yeah I know that's good yeah nothing wrong with that at all delicious it's still juicy too that's really good yeah a little bit of spice on there mm-hmm you know just like chicken I like you just like you hardly know the difference you know it's got the same grain and you know since I purposefully Cajun cooked Yeah, that's good. Oh man, nothing wrong with that. One more piece. Oh, yeah, she's all cooked, yeah. Thanks, well done. So that would take like two of those probably to fill me up, two burgers to fill me up probably. That's not that hard to do. Two burgers and some rice or something. Yeah, rice or a potato or whatever. Yeah, you have a meal. If we wanted to get real fancy, we could have cubed this up, deep fry it, put it in with the poutines. Partridge poutine. Partridge poop. That's gonna happen What you want to tell the fine folks at home what what just transpired? Well, I thought I would adjust the fire a little bit right on the counter. There was so much flame There was so much flame that we were gonna probably light the oil on fire. Hmm, probably and in the process I spilled the pan and lit all the oil on fire So so now our pans empty. Well, you saved a bunch of oil to put in again, right? So we're gonna go with plan B Which I think involves some tin foil. I think so. Done, yeah? Oh yeah. Good and hot. Do something like that. I just thought of this and it might not work. Put them back in, melt it up a bit. That is a genius idea. That's going to work. Cheese curds on the fries. What are you making up now? A little gravy to dump on top of this. Tasha's got the gravy on and we're going to smother these frickin' fried up cheese curds and fries with gravy. Oh, look at that monstrosity. This is so Canadian. This is so Canadian. Look at that, oh yeah. No, leave that for you. Oh, I'm thin and ready. A lot of gravy. That's good. Chewy, big, hungry. Canadiana right here, boys and girls. Oh, it's hotter than sin. Yeah, I'm sure it's pretty hot. Cheesy goodness. That's so good. Whoa! Uh-huh. Oh my God. You lost it. It's pretty hot. Oh no. Have to wait? Mm-hmm. That's amazing. Oh, it turned out so good. Uh-huh. Even though I royally screwed the pooch on this one. Pancinelli? No! Hello? That's what it is. Did you ever hear that? What can you do? Punchinello, Punchinello, Punchinello from the zoo. Must have been a Robinette thing. A Windsor thing. Is it Josh or Tosh though? Spilling everything, making an ass of himself. For that line, it's a doozy. Oh no, just dripping gravy on my poncho. Oh yeah, look at that, it's snowing. Oh, perfect. I thought it was just ashes raining down on me it's the poncho oh boy so we are aware that this is a pretty Canadian thing very Canadian yeah but I highly suggest it I highly suggest trying fries cheese curds can you yeah you can get cheese curds in the states Wisconsin oh yeah Wisconsin the cheese heads down there isn't that what they are the cheese heads the Green Bay hundred percent yeah no question and then some gravy you know you will not be disappointed you could even put bacon in it. My wife puts will puts onions she fries up onions and mushrooms and bacon together and adds it into the Poutine with the gravy and the cheese curds and it is pretty choice. Well, it is certainly snowing right now. That's a bonus It's accumulating nope the dishes after supper and she is is snowing, it's snowing pretty good. So, maybe we'll wake up to a fresh white blanket tomorrow. Good boy. He's laying under the tarp now, which is good. The F is for freezing. Look at this awesome rockin' fire we got goin' on. Look at the dry stuff on there now. That oil in there. Well, what do you say, Tosh? We made it to nine o'clock, that's pretty good. Yeah, that's, I feel all right about that, you know? Yeah. Gettin' up early every day. All right, well, don't snore. No promises. Where you going? Where did Wolf go? What are you doing, bro? It's time to go to bed, homie. Get out of the snow. Get your blanket. You want your blanket? We're gonna cuddle tonight, big boy. We're gonna cuddle tonight. Here, I know, I know. Use that as a blanket and a pillow. There you go. Good boy. That was a good night's sleep. We went to bed, I think, at nine o'clock, man. It was before 10. And then I don't remember laying here for long at all before I frickin' saw logs. So, good sleep, nice and warm, the dog's chilled out. I tried to cover up Wolfie once again, I'm gonna stop covering him up because he just gets up and takes the blanket off. So, I tried a wool blanket this time for him, and got my own poncho. You guys were here at the poncho. And he didn't care about it, so. I think both these guys got a little deuce taken out of them this morning. They feel a little bit better now. He really pops against the snow, this guy. buddies in the morning. Bluff charge them. Just this rectangle. Does that mean you want some food, hey? Okay, I'll get you some food. Some breakfast on. Do you like snow, Wolf? Do you like the snow? Someone's got the leaning tower going. Priorities, eh, Wolf? You get fed first, or what? For the humans? Not for you, buddy. So, Tosh hooked me up with one of his homemade, freeze-dried skillet meals. So, we got eggs, sausage, onion, all sorts green peppers anything i'm missing oh it's very good anyway came back really good and uh it's warming me from the inside my little bones oh wow if that tarp was set up properly that would look sick the sun coming through it what a sad sad shape of affairs fine if it just plays out yeah we'll pull it oh okay now just stand there for the next eight hours and we'll be golden just slide so easily yeah cheese is a given it's like why wouldn't you put cheese right well breakfast was real good just tearing down the rest of camp now you can see space I had there rectangle of dryness dogs are circling it must smell like Joe we've got a little bit of a drive to get back to my place so I think it's probably about 10 o'clock I'm not too sure chilled out for a little bit kind of a nice warming fire it's actually snowing quite a bit now I don't know if it's slowed down but I came out here and checked out the Sun oh yeah it's small little pellets good spot very good spot I'm glad we came here well boys that's That's all she wrote. Wolf's picked up a new habit, you know? Cleaning out rocks. Watch out there, bud. Let's see what you did. Just clearing out the rock of all the moss. That's so strange, man. Like, eating about, you know, that much moss. So, no more of that. Go on, go on. Get from here, go play with your buddy. I need a Wolfenstein, let's go. Come on, good boy. Guys, thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed the video. Tosh, thanks for coming, buddy. Thanks for bringing me along, bud. Anytime. We'll see you again in...