Bushcraft - Scouting a New Location with my Dog - New Shelter Build - LEAD UP TO OVERNIGHT CAMP.

Tripper, what's this? What's that? Hey? Them deers? How are you folks doing? It's Joe. And of course this guy. Get right in there, man. Tripper and I are in a new patch of woods. Somewhere we're checking out for the first time. It's pretty nice in here. Got a nice open spot here. But then it gets pretty dense in here. I think what we're going to do is try and find a suitable spot to build a little camp and then come back here tomorrow or the next day and then camp in it. Hope you guys stick around. There's lots of deer in the area. lots of deer action too it's a pretty defined print right there you know what looking at it we've hiked in for about a half an hour and looking at this spot like i'm far in as i want to be and looking at this spot looks kind of like a nice little open flat area there's a decent cedar a decent cedar this guy's no longer with us so he can be taken down uh a decent poplar let's just check out here because poplars have a tendency to be pretty weedy like a weedy kind of tree and they break off easily stop eating the poops you're gonna get diarrhea they break off easily so we don't really want to camp underneath it but this looks totally fine to me nice live limbs but look at this some action some deer action here but other than that look at pretty flat man i like it i don't really know what what type of shelter i will build and i don't even really know that i'll integrate the trees but this is a nice little flat open spot that's cool i don't ask why oh you really did a number on that one can you take down that one for me now no way this is like a solid sheet of ice underneath here it's not even really worth me doing this makes no sense for me to remove this snow there's all this ice under here look at this straight ice no joke ice so it obviously is counterintuitive for me to spend energy and time removing the snow only to find ice underneath not the ground so what instead I'll do is build up build up off the ground and have a big fire and melt all this and try and melt it melt it dry over the course of however long give me that back give me that I need can I please just have this well if it's gonna keep you happy there There you go big guy. We'll get other woods. Insane in the membrane. Insane in the... Ain't got no... Insane. Got no brain. Score. Check out my tumble home hat. Are we camping yet? Took me some doing with that fire steel, I'm not gonna lie. Finally my knife feels pretty dull and I feel pretty out of practice. Come here. Come. Get your stick and come. We cleaned up this tree. Pretty good. No damage to the tree at all. A lot of them just popped right out. That way. up not gonna get anything snagged on anything i got a lot more space to work with in here now i think i'm gonna use this tree as one of my sides to my shelter and this one is the other so i gotta get rid of that little guy but no big deal so the wind's kicked up a little bit and now that it has you can really see what the smoke direction is going what the wind direction is going and it's going to come right in towards my shelter if i set it up like this so i've looked around a little bit i've come up with another plan uh we'll leave the fire here for today We can cook on it make up a lunch whatever while we're working. It's fine But when I come back to camp, we'll make the shelter and the fire over here. I'll show you yeah I'm getting just completely smoke bathed out right now You got to have your shelter parallel to the fire so that the smoke goes by instead of at you So this is what we're gonna do trippers found his ball that he lost on the way in bonus Maybe that'll keep him busy and not barking at me too much. So here's the new location Location it's a lot smaller in length a lot shorter, but it's still long enough for me to lay down So that's good What we're gonna do is we're gonna build a short Try or sorry a short ridge pole and then a tall back and we're gonna have almost a flat roof just short just enough like not even talk back in there too far at all just enough to cover me and Get some protection and then we'll build up the front build up a nice bed and do it overnight I don't expect this to stay here I might even tear it down after but where I am in this location. There's crown land There's tons of dead trees around I'll show you and it's easy picking so it'll be nice lots of materials ready right around here I think I've worked out the logistics in my head. I'm not gonna go deep at all We're just gonna go back enough where maybe I can bring Tripper I'm not sure if I'll even bring him on the overnighter It's hard to deal with but I'll go back deep enough where I can lay there and potentially have my dog lay here So it really only has to come out to if I put my it really only has to come to like here so the logs don't have to be long at all which makes everything easier I can get two pieces out of one tree. Maybe three pieces Okay, cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Save that for firewood. Gotta move this. Wanted to break it up first It's kind of big and heavy. It's stuck in the snow. Go on. The snow over here is different. Maybe it's just getting warmer out There's not as much ice on the ground either. I might pile some up maybe for a little bit of a fire reflector on the other side or something But it's looking better. Oh look, where have you been my friends? Here's the cave here It's a very dense forest and a lot of trees just don't make it. There's a ton of them around This is one of them. I'll be able to get like four pieces out of this one It's so long. So I don't want to jump the gun and cut it too short beforehand I'm gonna cut it off the base measure and work my way up slowly bring it back over to the camp It's not far 20 feet that way but there's so many around that's the point So I got my dual-purpose blade on this Ego saw and I'm glad I do because this isn't even fully seasoned yet It looks a little like fresher of the wood. It's obviously not gonna make it Might be some tension. So I gotta be careful here. Too bad. Too bad. I just did a rough measure and it's basically two arm lengths is gonna give me more than I need. So that's where we'll go. Okay, so we got this little Easy Co Hammock. What is it called? Easy Hammock Co. UK. Somebody sent me this a while ago. I've never used it. It's a kind little chill hammock. Figured I'd bring it out. Probably lay in it if I really wanted to. I'm just gonna take five. I'm gonna cook some lunch up. I got a healthy lunch of some oats and flaxseed and some good stuff. Some pure maple syrup. I'm always eating steaks and stuff on video, so I figured try to be a little bit healthy for a change Not that steaks aren't healthy, but mix it up So we're gonna make a lunch I'm gonna probably today is probably gonna be gathering all the materials maybe framing out the bed And then next time I come back for the overnight. We'll build it all and we'll We'll camp out and stuff, but I'm chillin. I'm having a good time. I like it. It's nice being out I've been cooped up for the past couple weeks, so anyways cook some lunch. This is cool, man I can even lay in it, I think. Little Joe. No, maybe not everybody can lay in it, you know? But little Joe can fit in it. It's not even that. It's pretty, it's pretty comfortable. If it had a little bug net, it'd be all right. Inside. So we got flaxseed, almonds, steel-cut oats. This is new. This is the first time I'm not having instant oatmeal. Alrighty. We'll snap. She looks done. We got flaxseed. That's a lot of flaxseed. Maybe we won't eat that much flaxseed. Oh my goodness. Okay. We're gonna, we're gonna re-do that one. Here, rip! Tripper, stop. So we put the right amount of flaxseed in the first time, then we're gonna go, then we'll pour in our thick rib-stickin' porridge. All right, this is gonna make me warm and stick to my ribs, fill me up. I hope I cooked it right. Looks like the right texture, maybe a bit thick. Got some real maple syrup in this piece. It's healthy, right? That's a lot. That looks good. The syrup kind of smoothed it up a bit. Not so tacky now. Looked out over there. Okay, well let's try this concoction. Hopefully it's good. Definitely the honey, the maple syrup I can taste over everything. Probably because it's the only thing with taste in this. The almonds are nice too. So how many people got to see the show I did with Tripper? Man, woman, dog on National Geographic. For those who don't know, it's on Disney+, you can watch it. Pretty good time. It changed so much after his last surgeries. It really messed him up. what i'm talking about if you go watch the show but he's a different dog he was raised around fire and now he can't even i'm surprised he's not barking at right now normally pulls logs out that are burning and bites the embers and smoke and crazy he's pretty content right now with this stick all right i'm gonna eat this and get back to work for a little bit gotta get some more logs that's the biggest biggest thing get logs bring them here and find some good boughs because it's so tight in here that like all the spruce boughs and stuff are really high up so it might take take some searching for like a down tree or something but no fear we'll figure it out well i've been walking around the forest trying to find a decent size tree that has a good diameter to put in front of my shelter as like a stop for my bed so that nothing falls out of it this aspen will do the trick it's obviously dead it's broken off maybe 10 feet up if i can push it over i will but it's pretty thick got a good diameter to it i'm gonna have to cut it some I want to cut it low because I want the girth. I want the girth by my bed We're gonna have to really make a big platform because this is all water ice and water So what's happening is this is burning down melting the waters coming up and putting it out So I have to have a huge base like almost like this big around and then make a big platform out of that Make a long fire in front. I'll use a wool blanket. It'll be cool So anyways, let's get this guy into place and see if it fits or not. This was not as heavy as it looked because it was pretty punky on the inside, but heavy nonetheless, don't get me wrong. Especially for little Joe, little Joe. So the shelter's gonna go right where the hammock is. Wanna get this log in front as kind of like a snow stop, as a fire stop, or as a bed stop from my bedding falling every which way possible. Build the bed up on top of this. That's not a bad deal. Okay, we use this as a base, you know what I mean? Stick the starting of the bed on top of that and build it up and do that and build a proper bed. That's not a bad deal. Then we'll be elevated off the ground completely. Maybe we'll do that, build the old Morse Kahanovsky bed. You've got to get another big one for the back. But anyways, we're getting there. This is a perfect size. I don't need to cut it down at the end. I don't care if it's a little bit too long, but it's a good base for something, my bed or blocking stuff in, whatever the case may be. Anyways, more wood, more wood! That tree, the one I said when we came here, use this for something. I wanna see if I can grab one more of those big logs for the back. I'm running out of energy and I'm almost done for the day, but it'd be nice to get that in place and then not have to worry about it the next time I come and just focus on building completely. post-holing every step This morning when I came in, the crust on the snow was hard and I was able to stay on top, so I didn't really need my snowshoes, even though I had them. Now that it's after lunch or whatever, sun's warmed up the snow, and I'm not able to stay on top. Here's the other one we're gonna try and get. There's no try, we're going to get it. Not as thick around as the other one, but we can pop up underneath it with other sticks to make it have some girth. This one's solid. Just gonna make the bed as wide as this. These trees are apart, need plenty. Get the most room out of it as possible. Right down there, so. To support it here, it's a little bit weak right there, but no big deal. Yeah, cool, that's about as level as it gets, and again, I can put things under it to level it more or not. Plenty long. Cool. All right, it's time for me to go. Just packing up and I wanted to show you guys a slick way. I attached my backpack, or sorry, my shovel onto my backpack. So I wanna go underneath. I wanna have the handle underneath. Comes up that way from underneath, then the shovel head back on. Gets cinched right down because it has two heights, right? And then if I really wanted to, I could buckle this in and the whole nine yards, but it kind of holds it up. So I just slide it right down and it's not gonna go anywhere. It's stopped on the bottom by this and the top by the head. All is well there. Pretty slick little rigamarole vest and my suit. And we'll start walking out of here. My gloves too, whatever they want. Well, it was a good day out. I'm exhausted. I need to go home and relax a bit. We're gonna come back pretty soon. Not sure if it'll be tomorrow or the next day. Next day, but next video we'll be here and we will complete the shelter. We'll build the shelter fully. We'll camp out, we'll cook up some good food, we'll have a good old-fashioned overnight bushcraft camp. Still not sure if we'll bring Tripper or not. Leaning towards no, but we'll see. All right, folks, you have a good day. I hope you enjoyed the video. I'll see you soon. On the next one. See, it's not gonna fall out at all. Pretty cool. The old, why not? Wildland Scout Pack. Come on, let's go. Here, here.