BUILD and CAMP OVERNIGHT at the CREEKSIDE CAMP. Huge Shelter Build - Bed, Canvas Back Wall and STEAK

Hey folks how are you? I'm pretty excited for today's video. We just got here. We threw the canoe on the side by side, drove the old Polaris Ranger down some dirt roads, then we paddled through a little creek system, and now we're here at the Creekside Camp. It's a beautiful day, not too much sun, but it's not cold at all. I got a lot of gear with me. I have gear that we're going to add on to the Creekside Camp to build. I have gear for camping out because we're going to stay overnight too I'm excited to get some more built onto this you can see it's still pretty wet here not as wet as last time I was here but wet enough to wear the old muck boots I've got a few ideas for the camp here one of them is stretching out this oil skin tarp from Bushcraft Spain it's a pretty decent size and hooking it over top and giving myself some of an awning so coming over and then going down I know it's not gonna fill the hole back in but it'll give me a lot of good cover and it should stretch across the whole top so got that here and also to tie it on we've got some heavy duty rope they sent me check this stuff out it smells like it's been smoked it's like waxed uh heavy duty jute maybe anyways super heavy duty stuff and we're gonna use that so i'm excited for that we've also got to get more of the bed made and maybe that's as far as we'll go today we'll see we might start getting some cedars for the back but uh we got all day so if you watched the last video you know it's pretty tall up there and and I had a hard time getting up there last time. I'm going to attempt to tie it off to a piece of a long stick and get the tarp to the top of the ridge pole that way. We'll see how it works. And this will be a great test for the durability of this oil skin tarp from Bushcraft Spain. I believe it's 10x10, but I could be wrong. I have been wrong before. I want it to come off easily. Just wrap it a few times, not really tie it. I have to do both sides, get both sides up, and then actually try and put her up. Maybe I'll do that. All right, we switched sides. Just works out better this way. Little biggie. Something. I have to get up. The plane is going to be more difficult than I had thought. Back to the drawing board. My monkey on. Come on, get your monkey on, girl. Let's see. It's not coming off easy. Okay. Oh, that took some doing. Oh, I'm spent. Okay, I didn't even drop my rope. Look at that. So I got the good, heavy-duty rope here. okay oh man that was a lot my arms feel like rubber spider monkey joe monkey joe i'm gonna try to take that off untie it but i'm not holding on for my life maybe that'll make it just a touch easier you know touch quicker on the old spaghetti arms we got a steak for dinner on the coals cedar coals for me all right okay something's happening we're getting there this is one of the last ones uh just tying the on all of its tie outs to different sections along the tripod shelter frame i'm just using a canadian jam to finish it up here cinch it down oh she looks kind of sloppy but we're going to put a middle rib in here to tighten everything up look at that still looks sloppy we're getting there though see if i can do that here and tie it out to a tree farther out to stretch it out i think i'll be able to i think i cut the rope long enough if not we can add to it Yeah, and then I'll tie a middle one out too. We've got our long line attached to the middle I'm gonna get this up high on that tree. So I've placed a little Y branch for a ladder She's coming along definitely got some coverage gonna have to tighten all that up, but still not too shabby Wrap this far over as it goes just tie this on itself. I'm gonna do the one above I've already done the other side. This stuff is nice to work with this rope. Smells heavenly. I had to get a new middle pole and i messed the other one up so i had to go after a tall dead standing clean it up so has no pokies to rest against the tarp not so bad do a little bit more tightening after but that's good for now i want to focus on getting some of the bed made and some of the back wall working up a sweat though i'll tell you that much how's it look oh yeah plenty of coverage plenty of coverage if this is long enough to use for my bed if not i'll use it for the back part i trimmed it up good okay it will fit for the bed i've doubled the amount of bed poles starting to look pretty good i'm gonna line them up near the back more so that i have much more protection but i'm liking the way it's looking cedar postropedic this might take a little bit more adjusting because i'm a little bit on the angle oh it's not so bad oh yeah plenty of space very protected under here definitely it's overhead and plenty back i'm gonna put some lugs coming up the back here so on the inside So that when it rains if it drips off here, it'll hit the logs and drip down them like I have right here Okay, cool. I'll start doing that now. I'll make this in the back. It's 430 I'm getting hungry. So I know I need my pieces about roughly this long So one two and a half roughly axe lengths long I've got all these pieces and these cutoffs and stuff from last time So I'm gonna use the ones that probably wouldn't be the greatest for firewood for this So one, two, roughly half right there, seems about long enough. Wow, that one's actually really dry. Just over in C. Big enough to be a windbreak and help shed the rain, like I said. so when the rain drips off of this it's gonna hit this log and roll down this log as opposed to dripping inside the tent this is well inside this or inside the shelter this is well inside this this might have to go but it's here for now I got these cedar pieces that I'll put back on after but I do want to get this back wall at least started today gotta cook some food soon I've got like five four or five pieces back there I'm gonna take a break now to get my fire going I feel like i'm losing light relatively quickly here now this cedar looks super clean on the inside i'm going to use this as a plate for my steak just one piece of it so i'm going to split it down again trying to flatten use more for firewood too that's cool looks really really nice at least a little charcuterie board smells lovely that up there for now get on with the kindlings a lot of weight on that cedar i want to build somewhat of a platform to get this firewood up off the uh wet ground oh yeah she's soupy this is an old stump has like stuff that can potentially hold ember if it was dry enough just trying to get rid of it i'm hoping there's no rocks here which i don't think there are but and get that out of the fire zone oh it's just a root but it is so wet like no joke it's wet as you can see i've moved the whole thing closer than where it was last time um just going to keep the fire a little bit closer to me these are pushed back everything's almost under the tarp out to if it does rain so I'm not not supposed to but in the future I've got all my kindling and all my stages and stuff got a good like three foot long three and a half foot long fire going here then fancy just using the old lighter today then pieces and a brace lots of airflow that'll start snap crackling and pop in no time we're not having rice krispies we're having steaks actually there's a rock out here that I brought last time I've used for cooking before that I might be able to cook on I'm gonna get some more firewood ready and maybe cut another couple pieces for the back but other than that I'm probably done for the day like I said it's 5 30 now I'm losing gonna be losing light maybe an hour or so work until then four days now short days these days every time of year though it doesn't last long enough like that at least let it get hot throw it on so a while back for my birthday excuse me a while back for my birthday my wife ordered me a bunch of meat in a box from the mail and this is I believe Australian Wagyu a little bit different than Japanese but it's still very good Australian grain fed Wagyu anyways this is one of the last ones I thought it was fitting to bring it here on this bushcrafty creaky can't be overnight that's gonna go right on that stone and it's going to be heavenly you can see if it's gonna be raining a lot like my ridge pole is basically where my last bed pole is so you can see how much more coverage I have it's like two feet two and a half feet there and the fire is just on the outside but I could certainly move that in another foot get a little bit more extra more extra coverage okay all right I upgraded I carved myself a little utensil oh that looks quite good quite good I'm gonna let that sit for a few minutes throw some more firewood on and dig in that tarp is gonna stay up there as long as I want it to I'll leave it there for the winter and we'll see what happens next but this middle pole is gonna keep the snow weight off of it the only snow weight that might accumulate is on the top there but it is pitched down so it'll probably slide off and when I come out here I'll knock it off and stuff so I'm not too concerned about it I might build up some side walls here, you know get the back done in the future I would like to build up some side walls kind of enclose it at three sides I have this fire here and it's kind of like an Adirondack shelter that way right We're kind of protected from the elements on three sides You can have a fire inside of it as it is now I can sleep one person But if I put up maybe four more I can sleep to kick the fire out a little bit Permanent fire spot best for the camp as it is not too many people come and camp out of these shelters with me So it's not really that big of a concern and I'm sure you can hang a hammock over in the in the trees somewhere, too At first I was gonna have this whole thing like a platform But I kind of like the idea of having it like this is big enough But this is just way way bigger than I am I have plenty of room as to use this as a bed and a table It's long everything's good that way I like having the fire kind of inside it close by when especially when it's gonna be all snow around I can even if there's snow this year. I can even build up the sides with snow Oh, that will be we build we build the sides up with snow in the back, too And this would be like a cave because you know You know how it is like a couple years ago when I moved up here We were digging those trenches to camp and they were like six feet deep or whatever So imagine that we get that much snow again, last year was a dud. Imagine we get that much snow again It'll all be around fallen I have to like dig this out in here and I can Build it up on the sides and this would be like a cave, snow cave, a big shelter That'd be so cool, stoked for that and again like I said if the creek freezes correctly I can ice skate here, well supper was real good and the old tradition continues burning of the plate Got the old USGI bivy, forgot any of the pokeys Sure bivy is strong enough I'll cut a couple more logs and try and get them back there behind I have another idea, I might tie a log going from that side to that side right underneath the tarp on this on here and then lean all the logs on that that way they're all level and it looks a little bit better because they look a little wampus, right now but that's for another day, I'll just collect some more today and uh worry about that next time well closest to me is burned out, I'm just going to replace it on the old ends the old dogs I'll cook slow, if I really want it to move to do to, I really want to cook faster or boil it faster I I can just move it over here, but I'm not concerned. I'll just boil it up slow, maybe throw a piece of wood down that way or something like that. I've got my peppermint tea here. That bad boy's steep on the phone. Just relax. I've been sitting up on top of the shelter here. I'm pretty warm. I've been sitting up here drinking my tea. I'm actually really warm up here sitting above the fire like this. This is a pretty good setup. The smoke is just kind of going up in front of me, and I'm getting all the benefits of the warmth of the fire, the glow. Look at that. No, no flashlights on right now. That's just from fire. You gotta love it. Really nice little peppermint tea nightcap Nice night. There's no wind at all some stars out I'm quite comfortable and I passed out there for a bit. It's 11:30 11:45 now This thing's just all but out. I need to put some more wood on it. I'm going to bed. I'm going to throw another log on this. I'm going to bed for good. Folks, I'm going to bed. Get with you in the morning. Good morning. It's just over 8 o'clock. It's crazy. Slept pretty good. I have to get up and pee now. It's kind of chilly. The fire's dead cold. That's to be expected. Cedar doesn't really have good coals. but we'll get up the fire going I gotta pee the bed was totally flat I slept really good so that was a bonus excuse me there's all that dry wood I split yesterday plenty of wood there get a fire going my first pack of oatmeal and my self-carved eating trough trowel utensil half spoon half chisel but it looks cool I did a good job on this if I do say so myself it's coming up blue sky yesterday was pretty gray all day oh yeah that's nice so this this tarp got some frost on it I can see it dripping down often it's dripping way it's almost dripping past the fire there so it's a good overhang I felt completely sheltered all night putting that back wall proper is gonna do a little bit more for me hope you guys enjoyed the video not much left to do like I said eat up this drink my tea pack up my gear and go pack up my gear and go so I hope you guys have a good day I thank you for sticking around this long in the video if you have maybe consider throwing me a subscribe if you like the video we'll see you soon on the next one