Tarp Camping in the Snow - Double Lean-To Tarp Setup with a Fire in Between - Pulling Sleds to Camp.

It's too cold. Hey guys, how are you doing? Joe here, I have a new dog. No, I was just joking. This is Cooper, this is Tosh's dog. Oh, Cooper, don't hit the tripod, big guy. So last time you saw Tosh and I together, we were over by my place, and we did that winter camp, that three-night winter camp. Lots of snow, good times. And then the holidays passed, and we did a bunch of stuff with our respective people we needed to do things with, and we wanted to get out again together for another camp. This time we're gonna do a cold camp. No hot tent. It's gonna get down to negative 12 tonight Celsius. So it's kind of chilly. Now, us and Cooper are gonna go do this camp. We're at a frozen lake here. We're gonna hike into the next frozen lake. It's a little bit farther away from the road. And we'll set up tarps, cook some good steak, have a couple drinks, spend the day with the dog, and just explore, have a lot of fun. You can probably hear the cars on the road right now. That's how close we are. This is just the staging area. This is just where we're parking. So I've got duffel bag with some camping gear in it, I've got a boreal shirt, wool blanket shirt, couple pairs of gloves, shovel, and that's all just gonna go in here. And then I've got my secondary backpack with some personal stuff, food, clothes, stuff like that. In the out here, this lake has been used for ice fishing it looks like. Oh, in the bush again. First cold camp? No, not first cold camp of this year. I did the Walmart thing. First bushcraft-y type cold camp of the new year. We do have to be careful. There still is some open water. You can see it there. Tosh just pointed it out. But it is a bonus. Like, we do have to be careful, but it's also a bonus because we can get water from there. If you look on the ground, even in the bush, there's not much snow where we are here. We're quite a ways south from where I live. so there's barely any snow and melting snow for water be hard when you have to scrape it up like this and we don't have an ice auger to drill a hole in the ice we can chip a hole through the ice with the axe for sure we can do that but what's much easier is going to be to go to that open water and fill up our billy pit billy pots and nail jeans and whatnot and head back to camp and boil it up we shall see back in the bush now going uphill i'm just taking a breather here i pulled my sled in and had a backpack and Tosh manned up and just had his backpack there so he uh he had a heavier load than i did but i'm tired so anyways he's over there cutting some wood i'm gonna help him in a minute we uh gonna arrange a fire pit set these tarps up a ground sheet from Bushcraft Spain with the wool blanket in it canvas and wool blanket so that'd be cool gotta find the ice is making all sorts of noise gotta find some firewood more than what Tosh is getting and go figure out how we're gonna get some water as well you're the fastest dog life fastest dog in the world thanks Tosh nice job you did your part Cooper now you can eat this is camp like I said and we're deciding we're going to put two lean-tos facing each other these are the trees we're gonna tie off to and those two there we'll have a fire right in the middle Tosh will sleep here it's a little bit bigger of a spot and I'll sleep right where the camera is similar spot similar size and then yeah fire right in the middle with some rocks Cooper will be with Tosh we'll be able to cook we'll be able to eat hang out have a couple brews take some nice nighttime pictures maybe I like it what what brand is that um came from Canadian outdoor equipment nice I like the color yeah it's their ten 10 by 12 I'm gonna wing it I just had a a little bit of a heart attack but it was like wait a second that's really small still in half all the yeah that's like okay let's just see is it gonna be well yeah you got enough room oh yeah yeah you're not even on the corner oh oh yeah thinking like what we're doing here we don't know there's a middle yeah that's good okay cool all right I'll do a ridge line yep ridge line it up first do a couple taut-line hitches on it this is the cordage that came with it Nylon, but we'll try it out. Beautiful spot. Hey Cooper. What do you think about it? Yep. You're the knot guy All right, so just walk and we'll measure the amount we need. Go around that big ass tree Yeah, just give yourself another foot or so, cut that off So another thing to think of is how high you want it, right? So you have a 10 by 12 you said? Yeah, we're gonna do a lean-to. You're pretty tall. Let's go to my like chin. Get somewhere in there Yeah, I think so You want to touch on your side? Do that and then we can always adjust it after. Okay, so what you're doing is a taut-line hitch You can remember two on the inside, one on the outside. So you have it crossed, right? Simple enough You go one all the way around, two all the way around So that's the two on the inside and then you take it on the outside of your pinched fingers and you just Do one on the inside, right? Yeah, then you just kind of all together and now that's gonna slide for you and you can cinch it up and loosen it nice and easy and quick sweet slick slick Rick, damn son, easy enough I would go to the put too much overhang over the fire either no right, that's probably good there if you want to tie that off and then what you tie this out this way yeah up and out so what we'll do for here is we'll just put toggles in them okay you don't have to tie it, make a loop with the line pull the line through the uh tab I wasn't gonna say my girly dainty fingers could do it in a heartbeat. All right. And go right through, yeah. To there. That's going to hold that there and we'll be able to adjust it back and forth too. Sweet. That's just such a simple way to do it, eh? Yeah. No knots or anything. Right. And it's tight and you can literally slide the whole, if it's longer, you can slide the whole tarp whatever way you want it back and forth. It's great. Okay. So we're going to tie Taj's tarp up here. I'm going to put myself up into this tree a little bit and try to get as much as possible. As much as we can anyway. I'll just put you on my shoulder. Yeah, we could do that. See that twig that I'm standing on? Do you see that twig that I'm standing on? That's what I was just looking at. There's no way that twig would hold me. Dude, I don't think it should hold me either. That's pretty bad. That's like a pencil. Yeah. Cut that? I do, yes. I'll cut it up here actually. And I'll cut it around where you are. You're standing on pencil-thin twigs, dude. Go get the camera and show them how small that twig is. Oh, it's all washed in. wash it out. Oh it's bending Joe. It's bending. It's not good. Joe's going down simmer. Your left foot's gonna let go soon. Okay. All my weight's on the right foot and there's like barely any, it's not much thicker. That limb. Move bud. Good boy. I'm warm now. I'm a warm boy. The sides, they're going to kind of be turned in on a side, or like a wall. Two, three from the corner. And then that's gonna get pinned there, and then the sides are walls. Okay, and then they're gonna go straight ahead. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I just need to get a couple stakes first. And then that hump is in the way. The hump is in the way. It's not in the way of me, but I would have a ton of more room if it wasn't there. You know what I mean? You could put your dog back there or whatever with you. And this is just a 10 by 10. Camp is looking pretty awesome. We're not done tying my tarp up yet though. So we're gonna pull the old shoulder trick here. I'm gonna hop up on top of Tasha's shoulders and tie my paracord up there. So we're tying this line up there because I wanna get the top of my tarp up away from the fire where we're gonna have the fire going. So we might do that. Yeah, you probably wanna come up a little higher. Okay, all right, let's do this. Try it, turn around. You ready? Oh my God, are you okay? Yep. Do I weigh nothing? It's like you got a child. It's like a slightly heavy rucksack. Yeah. Oh, we should have cut this first, dude. Damn it. Are you good? Yeah, I'm fine. You can come back next time. That's my mom. Oh, I came down, dude. How did that happen? For nothing. How did it come down? Oh, I don't know. All for naught. Maybe I didn't reach up high enough. Pull it. Yeah. That's good. Well, that was super necessary. Oh, yeah, buddy. That is looking fancy, yeah I'm happy with this we need to find some rocks for a fire pit still I wouldn't get carried away nice yep yeah they're all the same color when you yeah yeah and it's gonna be comfortable for sure slick buddy I'll put the fire out and drive home get our Instagram pictures and call it good yeah Tag teaming these rocks like crazy boy the camp is pretty much done Like we've got to set up our beds and stuff, but it's snowing. There's no real rush to get our beds out Exposed to the elements. So excuse me. It's about 2 30 We're gonna spend some time dedicated to going to get firewood now Tosh got that stuff that you saw but it's soft wood We're gonna go around and see if we can find some hardwood some more soft wood built ourselves a nice little fire pit here and Yeah, settling down a nice day. It's snowing out quite a bit out there on the lake. So hopefully that keeps up Yeah, it's actually like beautiful right now temperature and everything is awesome. Yeah, I don't think I've had my gloves on since we started No, but I'll put this right here. Good boy. Settle down a little bit. Back at the night yard, buddy. Oh in the hills, we should find some hardwood too actually Tosh found some hardwood. I got this Old spruce here. I'm gonna grab it's still softwood, but it looks good to be in good condition There's another one over there. So that'll add up too. We don't need no stinking saws. Yeah that hardwood Yeah, be happy with this from up here. You want to grab the top half that broke up? Yeah, I'll do that. Okay Not at all. Yeah, no doubt it looks even crazier on camera pretty decent pile of wood We got ourselves here. Tosh was nice enough to bring some steaks for tonight So we're gonna be living living like kings in the woods. Oh, thank you. Very nice. Yeah, it's getting a little stormy man Get that five to whatever it was centimeters easily. They were talking about Right? Easily. Aggressive team! When the course ended, I was like, Sergeant, just a... Well, we're gonna go down and get some water from the creek. Found a spot that's open, like I showed you earlier. It's getting dark. Look at how cool... how cool that camp looks. Go down, get some water, come back, start up the fire probably, eh? Getting towards dinner time. Yes, sir. I'm hungry, boy. Hey, your, um... your patch on your arm? Yeah. It matches your, uh, gaiters. My boots. Yeah. I synced it all up. Everything's syncing today. yeah it happens when you melt your clothes Cooper di pooper good old crick water does he do it at home on the ground or just outside i think he just likes it man it looks like he's having a time of his life all right no just the ground or snow yeah i think i think he just likes it man the burnt park when we were out finding our firewood so nice easy light i was happy i brought my wool blanket shirt my boreal shirt here i was sitting here just a little chilled and threw it on and everything's filthy, you feel like a hobbit, you know? They're about the same size. I don't have big enough feet, though. Put my feet on the ground. Gross. Gross. How hairy are your toe knuckles? My feet warm. I call them toe mittens. Toe sweaters. Well, I could be ripping you off. Highly unlikely. Accumulation. What did we say before? Five centimeters to the air resistance? Yep. What's that in inches? Somebody knows the conversion. Something like that. Set up my sleeping area pitch black out or less using the headlamp so you guys can see what I'm doing here There's a big hump a big rock here But I have enough room in front where I'll be able to still be covered and actually maybe I can even lean my back against that, that might be all right, but I'd have a sleeping pad. I have my bivvy sleeping bag and inner bag, so I'm gonna be nice and warm tonight I hope, I'm sure I will. It's a good thing to do if you don't have the money for a super heavy-duty sleeping bag It's, they're expensive and they're not a fun purchase like who wants to spend like however much hundreds of dollars on a sleeping bag when you could buy like a cool axe or whatever the case may be, but sleeping bags are important And if you get even just a couple cheaper ones or smaller ones You can always put them inside of each other and you get way more warmth out of them than you would buy themselves do it a bit cheaper, this one is a negative 10 yeah this is the talon and a little pillow tie this light up here, it'll have a readily available light for filming and seeing things because that's what lights are for, seeing things look at that like nobody's business also I want to tighten up my tarp because it's very saggy, normally you've seen me before take the middle and push it way back and tie it off to a tree back there, look how much room I would have and look how much more tight it gets, there's just nothing to tie it back there for like 30 feet, so it's fine for one night I'm just going to tie this side up a little bit more to try and tighten it up, just tie it to this tree, nothing fancy at all, let's see, you can see the difference it makes already and not too shabby all right there's the setup we got the bushcraft spain canvas tarp wool blanket combo ground sheet which again i love the usgi bivy i believe this one's gore-tex if i'm not mistaken maybe part vortex anyways the old faithful thermarest neo air the original this thing's super super old can't believe it's still going and you know what I've blown air into this every winter since I've had it for like eight years and everybody always said with these ones you're not supposed to blow into in the wintertime because it gets condensation and ruins it's never it's been fine it's held the R-value I've never cold one with it anyways then we got the mech talon negative 10 celsius along with the ugq top quilt which is like plus four or something like that and the whole faithful sea to summit uh pillow she all gets wrapped up in my bear burrito and it's ready for the nighttime and that way too it could it could snow all it wanted i could just throw this right back there but here it's fine to be there for now bam son we've got some lumpy kind of congealed oil the best yeah but uh garlic onions and some nice potatoes wrap that up all right man, steaks are almost done look at that little steaks boy, give me a scramble though medium rare, we're gonna eat them with our hands because we're animals and we forgot our plates and stuff but we're outside that's okay you know, oh dude look at it, it's just like oh yeah oh yeah they said we're going caveman here it's so good or two we'll have some potatoes dude this is really good ton of fat but it's like really good fat yeah it was just like you got a big glob of it my light shut off oh well thanks man it's so tender so for a walk on the lake at night supper was amazing still snowing quite a bit I see some fresh fresh snow there wait a bit i'm gonna go try to get some shots of the camp from over here some cool shots cooper running around there's a good boy oh wow halfway across the lake you can see the fire he's over here hey bud there he is good boy there he goes put that in the video i have no clue what time it is no idea no idea either my phone's packed away in like three layers of clothing are you recording no i am 8 22 right so i got to Tosh's house late last night around uh 9 30 or so got to see cooper again he's a good boy i'm always happy to see him and he's always happy to see me hey cooper he's always happy to see everybody this dog but uh spent the night there and we we made a plan uh where to come this morning and uh yeah it's just been it's It's been a relaxing day, man. We got a nice, very nice, comfortable camp set This is probably one of the more comfortable camps I've had. Yeah, it's a pretty slick little setup we've got. We were saying we could even put a tarp up if we had another big tarp. We wanted to, potentially right in front of where you guys are here, coming up as a wall, draped over top of the tarp here, and like stopping here, still have the fire. We'd be very enclosed. There's no need for it. It's just cool. As Tosh was saying earlier, it's like the versatility of a tarp is fun to play around with. It's been a fun trip. Ate some good food. Had a couple of brewskies each. I'm not too cold. I stayed by the fire. Yeah, we were down shooting some footage down on the ice and it's a little chilly. It's nice up here. A little camp. Not too much snow. Enough to pull the sleds, which was nice, but the sled, you didn't ever bring one, did you? No, I just packed it. Anyways, yeah, just chilling out. We have a lot of firewood left. This fire is nice and warm. I can feel it warm my leg like crazy. That's a good thing about wintertime camping man you can access places that you don't normally access that aren't heavily used by people because like you can't walk across the ice all the time you know what i mean and in the summertime not everybody's paddling right yeah exactly there's come these places and there's abundance of firewood um yeah so it's nice and nice in the wintertime and you need that firewood to stay warm regardless if it's with a stove or or cold camping we were talking about that earlier yeah sure what'd you find we're just gonna chill out we'll get back with you guys in a little bit At bedtime, yeah, which is probably like five minutes from now. Well, we stayed up a little bit later than we thought it's almost 10 Party animal a couple of party animals over here We're gonna turn in the fire rip-roaring It's snowing still quite a bit actually I'm wet but we're gonna get rid of this big wool before we lay in the bed anyway Yeah, take those shoes off. Yeah, just from sweat. Yeah, we got extra. Yeah I'm putting my butt wipe in my sleeping bag with me. Just in case. Just in case. Yeah, you're right. Without a ground sheet, tarp camping, yeah, you have nowhere to put your stuff. That's right. Like, you could use the sled or your backpack or whatever, but it's nice to have things available. I have to get up and grab my camera. I have to get up and grab the camera, and yet I'm still taking my boots off. Silly. Well, I guess that's it for tonight, guys. Be with you in the morning. gonna lay here look at the fire for a while or have a good night's sleep I'm gonna say I'm too broad but it might be because I'm too fat why is that what's wrong what's that why what are you saying that for I said it might be because my shoulders are too broad I can't get the zipper done up but it also might be because I'm too fat oh you heard it here first all right oh that's a cool man that's some good light actually coming off of that all right folks well like I said we're camping got it crisis averted all right folks good night good morning you guys sleep all right yeah we did nice look great look at cooper just staring through my soul right now oh did you sleep buddy hey so we got some a little bit of snow hey there buddy nothing like a half half a dog oh he's got the butthole too hey good boy you coming in right in here you're coming in there's still a little bit of snow coming down out there but it uh slowed down quite a bit but check out my ground sheet got some snow stayed warm oh yeah well i've got more of a road trip to do i've got to go down south a little bit pick up my mother-in-law and my niece because it's my it's emerald's hey bud it's emerald's um 10th birthday in three days so i have to get down there probably spend a day down there and drive up and surprise emerald with uh her cousin and her her grandma because i don't think too many people are going to come to her party uh because the whole new rules and things like that again in canada so anyways we're gonna get up pack up and get out of here got a big old drive and we're done it was a great trip though fun times i'm glad came down visited tosh here it's a new spot and uh yeah we're gonna definitely camp again together get along pretty well and uh have fun camping out and bring the dog out next time maybe and and have these two crazy dogs running around together but uh we'll have to see how that goes but anyways i'm gonna get up now brave the cold i covered him up a couple times last night in a sleeping bag i pulled it over and a few minutes later i could hear him like rolling around and getting out of it right he didn't like it being on top of him no i imagine he must have been fine all night yeah he wasn't whining or anything all night right i didn't hear a peep yeah and if he was you know he would have let you know like if he was cold you could have heard him shake or no coop there you go and he's off check out the frost on the inside of the bootie here i just tucked my face right into it last night because it was snowing quite a bit on top of me frosted up but i stayed warm and dry for the first night the second night i would have had to probably if we stayed a second night probably had to hang this up in the sun because it's pretty damp from uh the condensation getting caught in there but no big deal that's why we got a little bit more than adequate rating with the two together so that i can do all these things i can sleep with my clothes on have a little humidity in there pull that over top and it's all good that's the joe way i'm not saying it's the correct way but that's the joe way okay where do you come from where do you go where do you come from one boot joe look at my boots frozen all right as tosh was just saying the most very most enjoyable part of winter camping is putting your frozen ass boots back on your warm feet if they even go on oh yeah jump jump the guy just a jump jump jump the guy hi well it's snowing again like quite a bit it's so funny we weren't we were right on the lake there not really dug into the bush at all and we couldn't even tell it was snowing this much same as last night but anyways oh yeah yeah good accumulation and no what else i've noticed is that this sled is about 45 times harder to pull today than it was yesterday just Cooper's tracks and Tasha's and all little Joe's on our way out this nice crown land camp crown land in Canada is like your public land I believe in the States so we're just allowed to pretty much do what we want some restrictions and stuff but gotta love it folks that's it for us thanks Tosh for having me yeah it was very fun we're gonna get together again in a couple weeks for another camp you guys can look out for that go check There you go, Tosh's video of this trip on his channel, Tosh Self Propelled, got a good Instagram too. So we will see you guys soon, thanks.