Canvas Tarp and Log Shelter Solo Overnight Camp. POURING RAIN With a Wool Blanket for Warmth.

Hey folks, how are you? Joe here. It's the middle of November. As you can tell from the orange I'm wearing, just trying to be a little cautious out here. If this looks like a familiar scene to you, don't be surprised. This is the best lean-to. The best lean-to shelter that I've finally revisited for the first time in three years. Almost four years probably. All my old building materials are all here. Except for any kind of paracord or anything. I took every man-made material out of here. So I've got logs. I've got a big old fire pit there. the plan for today is to set up a temporary shelter for tonight with some wax canvas from bushcraft spain got a wax canvas tarp a ground sheet a pretty cool chair to make it's supposed to start raining really late tonight at around midnight and it's going to rain all night through until like nine in the morning heavily so i do have to get prepared and ready for that i have a wool blanket for warmth i have to gather some leaves from my bed and i'm going to have to get a lot of firewood because i'm going to need the fire going as long as i can to keep me warm by the fire it's not gonna get too cold today plus seven degrees celsius at night which is better than it was than it has been so it's a good day to do it anything useful like this i'm gonna put over here logs anything that i don't think i'm gonna use or at least right off the hop i'll throw far enough behind because i need to make my shelter right here i need to have a an empty spot right here for the most part this is a lot of work man this was years of work but i didn't want to leave it up when I moved away because I didn't think I was going to ever come back and it's been almost four years so I don't don't regret tearing it down at all plus it'll give me a new chance to build something new just for tonight here because I'm only spending the night and a chance to play with my canvas tarps okay pretty pleased with how clear this is now I do want to pull all the leaves away I don't want to get them too far because I'm going to use most of them for my bedding but I want them away from the fire pit first. There's gonna be sticks in there I'm gonna have to sift through a little bit But for the most part I want all this stuff for my bedding and to get away from the fire pit Dual purpose yo, dual purpose. Yo, I found a bug a little larva. I'm gonna go bury him again over here Oh larva guy you don't want to be over there. Anyways, it's gonna get hot now. I'll beat a little grub not too shabby Okay, I'm liking the way that's looking got a little bit more duff to throw on top here For my bedding in here, you know my orange puffy there next to a sweater on the ground Just trying to keep it orange trying to keep it high-vis around here, you know Alright, let's check out this hidden woodsman backpack and see what I got for today I've never used this tarp before you've seen me use a bushcraft Spain tarp, but that was my bigger one This is the smaller one they made and sent me I think almost a year ago I've never used it because I've been doing canoe camping and stuff And this is the time of year that I like to use these things so we're gonna try it out for the first time still got the creases in it and everything it's waxed canvas like I've been saying they were nice enough to sew my my patch on right under there that's pretty cool these guys are awesome to deal with anyway what do you think it is six by eight maybe yeah maybe six by eight it looks like it should cover this pretty well and then as far as how I want to set it up I can go in an a-frame or I can go on a lean to actually yeah I'll probably go on the lean to just because it'll be better for the fire I can use some of those logs to we're gonna figure out what we're gonna do here first all right I think I got a pretty cool idea about how to build the shelter pretty minimalistic small with this backpacker outing so that's why I got the small axe small saw but we're gonna do just fine with them that's a dead white pine we're gonna use that for a ridge pole almost two arm lengths full you can see my canoe way off in the forest there i brought it back into the forest with me this time so i got the right size now i just want to clean it up as much as possible this white pine is pretty slick lightweight not too many branches coming off of it every which way and straight readily available ticks all the boxes all the boxes folks no pokies soon taste good and everything That later on, I'm pretty satisfied with that. I've gone and breaked it from the back forward too now. Kind of got the bed where I think I'm going to lay. Right about there, just behind the ridge pole. I can't breathe. We're getting there. So if the length weighs, overlap it a bit on the top, I think I can get more of a protection coming over, and they'll still be fine by the fire because of the canvas. That looks good to me, pretty level. It's on there pretty good. Not too bad. Pretty happy with that. Let's go do the other side, see how it turns out. too bad a little creasy this isn't so bad i got quite a bit of coverage under here yeah quite a bit i'm pretty happy with this let's pull back the back of the tarp though let's try and gain ourselves some more room i'm sure some people are wondering why i didn't just use one of the pieces of wood i already had for the ridge pole uh but there was just none long enough that was the reason so i'm gonna peg out the back bottom in the middle first before i tie it out back bottom middle i get my other piece of shelter here my ground sheet the oil waxed canvas rather and the wool on the bottom again from bushcraft spain let's go put this on top of the leaves and try to make ourselves a little bit of a bed so i've really tried to spread out the the leaves and take out the sticks and stuff to make it the right size for me looks like there's enough off the ground it should be all right with this doubled with this which is canvas and wool like i already said and my wool blanket should be plenty i've definitely done with less a little bit of a pillow not too shabby i might use if i don't need that i might throw that stuff underneath the mattress here too okay oh perfect size for me i fit perfectly on it comfort wise this is not bad i am going to take the little bit of extra at the bottom and stuff it underneath more probably i'm probably going to i'm going to make a bed actually like an outline of a bed so so it doesn't go everywhere. That's a good call. That's a good call, Joe. Thanks, Joe. We're boxed in now, the better. Not so bad, not so bad, a little lumpy. Not too bad, eh? A lot of coverage, that's not so bad. Cool, gonna do this side now. And it's getting pretty daunting out here. We got some leaves falling, that's for sure. Holy smokes. I think I'm done for the most part. Okay, I can double up, put half my blanket underneath, half of my blanket on top. This will trap some heat. I'm gonna have, hmm, maybe I can build a fire reflector. Maybe I'll build a fire reflector too, okay. Look, there's little pine trees growing in my old fire pit, this is awesome. I got another really cool piece of gear that I haven't used yet. We'll grab that and we'll get it ready for what I'm gonna use it for. This is something really cool. This is like a clothes roll slash pillow. So I got all my extra clothes in here. I've got it tied off with a Canadian jam knot just for compression. This is again, bushcraft Spain. And check it out. So I've got clothes in there. I've got sweater, long johns, socks, a toque, a little buff. But now this is empty. You flip it inside out. Oh, I've got a handkerchief too. Flip it inside out and it's got wool on one side and canvas on the other. And you can fill it with things to make a pillow. Tonight I probably have enough clothes here where I can just leave a few articles of clothing. Even if I take off my pants tonight, I can stuff my pants in there and sleep in my long johns. I probably don't need to collect leaves because I have enough. But in the future like or whatever it doesn't even matter you can use clothes, too I just like the idea. It's nice and soft man. It's wool. You can tie it off, too Just see how we would do that. Maybe just like this Look at that actually have to tie it in order for it to be tied nice little bow nice little bow I'm happy about that happy about that. Can you tell damn son? I got frickin cozy dream oh oh man that pillow is everything I feel pretty confident like I got a lot of coverage here I'm not really concerned about getting wet please a nice feeling you know I'm gonna turn my attention to the fire now I gotta clean up the fire pit I've got to get firewood and I've got to make a fire reflector all of which shouldn't be too difficult because I have a lot of materials right here pine trees sorry guys sorry guys but there's plenty more are in canada believe it or not so under here there's a rock right i don't know whoever remembers or has seen those videos i lined this because i was concerned about putting a fire right on top of the ground here so this is all like same rock as this under here they're all the way across i've had many many long fires overnight fires here super hot fires and stuff super safe really good design really good design if i do say so myself i'm happy with this place this was such a cool place to come to i live about nine hours away from here now and there's plenty of stuff near my place i just had to come here i had to come near here uh for some personal business and i decided to stop here and make a video because it's very nostalgic i thought you guys might like to see it again and i certainly wanted to look at this, there's roots growing on top of it that's cool man, the forest was taking this whole thing back, hey, after like almost four years just already roots growing over top of it, this would have been buried and gone, that's pretty cool man pretty cool, i'm pretty pleased with how this looks, everything's away, i did find some big rocks that i had stacked around here, i didn't remember, i might put those up as the start of like the the block the uh fire reflector, that's what i'll do, try and make that all stone all rock fire, we shall see anyway, hey i'm going to put wood here too these aren't enough but those will block a lot of the flames from touching the wood back the wood backdrop it's pretty decent to me oh yeah, wrong with that at all, okay we got those back rocks blocking it, quite a bit so I doubt it'll even catch tonight which is bonus, bonus, okay well I went down and got some water from the lake just after two I gotta get firewood done I'm gonna cook up a stir-fry tonight I'm hoping the rain waits until I go to bed But either way we're safe under here. well, I got to build that chair still, yes let's do that We can see the oak leaves falling on the on the tarp see how much coverage I just have just how much coverage I have I should say plenty covered I might lay here for five minutes as you can see I've gathered up some firewood Outside and on this side quite a bit actually This big orange signal panel from Malcolm at the Hidden Woodsman Big enough for me to kneel on And to catch my shavings Pretty handy Cordura I believe This is the top of that spruce that I downed For my ridge pole I already used the rest of it In the firewood pile there Smoke's going past the shelter Which is exactly what I want to see I've got this leather piece That's meant to make a stool So I've got to cut and build a tripod I think this is long enough I don't need it to be too high at all legs I can probably go up the same length and get three pieces that piece can be used to fire a little Canadian jammer okay let's see if that's efficient probably he's tight let's see if not I'll tie a proper tripod but I thought this might work the Canadian jam knot piece of rope I already had coming in here holding my pillow together all right let's see so it's got these little pockets push it on to never use this obviously think that was as easy as pie easy okay see how she goes cool works this one's a little wobbly because I just tied it like a fool but I can retie it full support nice okay I probably will retie it it's getting real out here it's getting real some of my dinner in here so that onion and other stuff other places but that'll go there for Now I make my garlic-flavored tea. Mmm, that was a silly idea, Joe. Tool's actually pretty sturdy. It's pretty lightweight and flat. Just this one piece of leather and a little piece of paracord you need. Too shabby? It's an old blue foam pad, you know. Find some more berries. So what I have here is wintergreen berries and leaves. We're going to make a wintergreen tea. That's all oak. Got a bunch more oak there. Feeling pretty good about my wood. Good about my wood. Got myself a new Stanley cook kit. Cook kit? That's the word. let's check it out so i was at a local outdoor store in Sault Ste. Marie Joe's Sporting Goods and i saw this and i thought it looks like a pretty nifty kit so i got it i never tried it yet outside is a frying pan stainless steel frying pan BPA free put a little lock on it it's got the lid it's got what i believe is a cutting board oh i've got some spices in here i've got a spatula that kind of clips on like a backpack buckle just kind of nifty so it can fit in there and a plate with glitter and a dog hair on it silicone i imagine pot grabber but i don't really know anyways the frying pan's a decent size it's heavy duty and um yeah it's not too bad for you to put out right on the fire like those non-stick ones like i've been using for years and years so we'll see how this goes i'm going to do up a stir fry like i said so i've been using the cutting board thing inside the lid so it has a little bit of a lip it's working up working out pretty well i'm on to the onion i've already got potatoes and garlic all sliced up pretty thinly pretty thin pretty bigly oh yeah there you go it's almost almost uh got another little pouch here from bushcraft spain just using all the goodies they gave me this trip here somewhere cooking oil some in the pan because it's not a non-stick like i was saying it's just stainless steel so we're going to to need some flat spot here so in first potatoes a little bit of onions but mostly just potatoes in there i took the onions and garlic out because these guys take a hot minute it'll be nice if that stayed still we got most of it in there so this is a uh silicone pot grabber which actually works really well i've got sausages in here onions garlic and potatoes oh i've got some seasoning I'm going to put that on too. Put that on in a minute. It's looking good. Let's get some applewood smoked seasoning in here. Good. Place the meat in the bowl. I'm going to let that just simmer in there and get nice and soft. It's going to be good. That's about done, I'd say. The plate is tiny. Get back on. I'm going to leave the grease in the pan. Or the oil, rather. It's going to be hot. We've got some potatoes, onion, and sausage. maybe garlic can't see it but mmm very good it would be nice to have a pepper in there but I forgot to buy one about this some random little grocery store along the way that have never been to before oh man that's good this fire is nice and warm feeling good about being here man this is a very nostalgic feeling for me today's remembering day how mild this year has been already for like fall and winter going into winter there's been years where there was already snow on the ground when I moved up to where I live now near Sioux St. Falls in 2018 when we moved up in before Halloween in October it was blizzarding it's crazy to think we've been up there since that long since 2018 whole life we're so used to it now wouldn't even know how to live without again when we first moved up it was such an adjustment so proud of Emerald just fitting into school and not complaining about nothing and just going along with it resilient I don't know this is pretty good I'm gonna keep eating it I'll be back with you guys soon I'm sure this is so good I could share wish I could share just chillin actually pretty comfortable I'm all the way underneath this tarp on the stool next to the fire very warm nice long fire just waiting for the rain the cloth went through this wood pretty good ah a bunch over there no rain yet more comfier pillows more comfy pillows I've had outside I got quite a few layers on too really really cold yeah that'll work oh my it's 11 30 i'm ready for bed i'm gonna stoke this fire up again big time a nice big bed of coals i'm not cold at all i can feel the residual heat way back here these uh these rocks are pumping it out too nice hot fire anyways stoke this up one more time big pieces on top of there on underneath yes this feels good Alright folks, if it starts pouring, or when it starts pouring, if I wake up, I will definitely get that on camera. But other than that, I'm going to bed. Good night. Well, it's 1 in the morning. The rain finally came. I just threw more wood on the fire. It's 2 a.m. now. I threw most of the rest of my wood out on the fire. I've got a bigger piece over there and a couple pieces over there. It's raining intensely is picking up. It is raining I might actually end up dropping that awning down flat like this in a wall when this dies down because I don't have enough firewood to keep going all night and I didn't have any warmth coming off about anyway after another hour or two And that'll be a good rain block because I am getting a little bit of residual rain in here nothing bad but not a bad idea to do that I actually and I actually anticipated that and built and made up the stakes there's one there and I'll just stake it right to the ground right down there cut the rope and tie it right down four in the morning most of my fire is done as you can see and there's a lull in the rain it slowed down so I took the time to go out and pull the tarp down a bit a little bit more uh down on the overhang for more protection now i'm headed back to bed now good night again just from the back like the backsplash and residual mist and stuff but oh yeah holy smokes stayed dry i had someone comment that there bushcraft spain tarp leaked like crazy well that was about the most rain you're gonna be in and it's not wet at all it's completely dry that's what i call it but it is morning and it is still raining all in all i slept pretty good i got up quite a few times but no sleeping pad and uh this freaking pile of leaves i put here is rock solid now but i still slept pretty good stayed warm uh and dry for the most part so with that amount of rain i'm pretty happy with this pulling it down like this last night It was a good idea after the fire died out. All I'm doing is packing down and getting out of here. I have a Clif Bar to eat on the way. It's too wet to make a fire. Yeah, it's time to go for me. Really, really happy with the way that this tarp performed. I'm happy I got a chance to try it out in the rain. And that rained from about midnight heavily until now. This is the lightest it's been. So it came down, I stayed very, very dry. Residual spray in there, mist back and stuff, but nothing could be done about that. This is a really good shelter, this is a really good setup. I like the size of it, I like how much protection I had on the sides from the wood, and from the front with the tarp, and obviously on the back. But if I didn't put those up on the sides there, I would've got rained in on sideways, for sure. This is cool, man, I like this tarp, I do. I really do. This is the heaviest rain that I've camped in in quite some time. All right, oh yeah, got it pegged down here. Wish those pegs worked really well. My camera's getting pretty wet here, I'm gonna have to put it away, but I just wanted to show my gear, basically, what I brought, so this is the tarp, all wrapped up. Goes against the back, my clothes roll, saw goes down the side, my possibles pouch, watches there, but I normally have it on, but I just, I have too many layers, um, to mess around to try and get it on right now. My Stanley, uh, frying pan cook set, which I liked. I'm pleased with it. I would, would recommend, would buy again. Um, and then I just got to get my ground sheet in there and the wool blanket oh am i sorry am i seat and my spice kit thing my uh cooking oil well excuse me i hope you guys enjoyed the video i sure had a good time um i'm really glad i came back here i'm like i said i made the detour here i had a long drive south and then i this is a few hour detour but i was in the area and i hadn't been in this area in a while so i'm glad i came nostalgic fun camp fun build uh glad to use these quality pieces of gear from bushcraft spain let's go check those guys out if you're interested but i just appreciate you watching the video so there we go ground sheets somewhat compact that's got to go in there you know what i'd rather have it in closer to the bottom. Just goes in, get that wool blanket through these loops. Generous webbing on the bag from Malcolm here makes putting the bed roll in quite easy. Nothing worse than struggling with that type of stuff or like trying to get a sleeping bag back in its stuff sack when it's too small. And I can actually make these straps bigger, but I'm just kind of in a hurry here because my camera's getting wet okay I got to put my cooking pot in the side and we are ready to roll so thanks again for watching the video guys we'll be back with another one very soon take care