3 NIGHT WINTER CAMP, Canvas Tent with Wood Stove, Cooking GREAT FOOD in an EXTREME ENVIRONMENT!

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It's a canoe trip so we've been planning to go on a winter trip for a little while. So for me it was about a seven-hour drive to get here in Northern Ontario. We're lucky that there's this one single solitary snowmobile track which is makes pulling very easy and the snow is actually not too bad off the track but here you can almost just walk without snow shoes so it's gonna really help us get deep quickly without having to struggle with slush or deep snow. The temperature right now is about minus 15 degrees Celsius. We're here for four days, high each day, it's supposed to be around minus five degrees, minus six Celsius, and the nights are gonna be around minus 20, so about perfect weather for good deep country, back country winter camping. We're gonna put a shell on, just cotton canvas, that way the wind doesn't cut through. We're getting a little bit cold, minus 15 with the wind chill, I'm not really sure what it was, but as we're getting out into the lake, we're getting the wind coming from the northwest a little bit more, and we're a little bit sheltered the beginning do you think mike pretty sweaty yeah my back's getting sweaty problem is with the wind you have to have some kind of shell on yeah oh that mountain's right behind you that portage we're looking for is right at the base so we're getting there come away yeah man out of shape this is a hike this is definitely a hike in and we're very blessed to have this one lonely snowmobile track headed probably to the exact spot we're going it seems that way so two feet off or a foot off this track either side and we'd be probably doubling our distance time, doubling our travel time. There's a helicopter flying right overhead, flying pretty low actually. There you are. That was kind of neat. How long has it taken us to get across the lake Mike? Two hours, almost exactly. Portage is just right there. That's not too bad. Yeah, like Joe said earlier, if we had to walk in the unpacked stuff, it might have been double. It looks to me like the sled trails go right to the portage so i'm not hating that at all we have arrived to the portage now it'll be a matter of seeing how rough the portage is and seeing as how the sled looks like there's sled trails going through it it can't be too bad which i'm stoked on but that does mean there might be snowmobiles on the on the next lake at least but oh well not a deal breaker yeah yeah yeah same sounds good uphill action well we've come to this everything else has been child's play up until this point we got some good elevation but we're hopeful that once we cross this over top of there I could see blue so yeah no coats no hats same for Mike we're warm we're just trying to abide our time before we have to go up this hill elevation looks like absolutely nothing in the camera She's a smooth ride, made it 99% of the way up right. So we are at the destination lake where we're going to camp and I don't have any time too soon. I need to melt some snow and get some more water into me and I'm pretty hungry too. Oh yeah, what do you think Mike? Looking good? Sweet. Looking good. Yep. How's that for a view? on that dome right there so we can have a mountain in the view i keep calling it a mountain i know it's not but just let me have my little mini mountain we're trying to get up onto that bald spot there where mike's going but there's some open water or some actually some slush just on either side of these tracks so we're going to cut across the untouched spot get up in there and hopefully just tuck right back behind that bald dome and hopefully there's some some flat spot right there for us that would be an epic epic campsite with a great view there's a little It's a little sketchy, I might point it out there. Avoid. Looks like it's gonna be a suitable spot up there. We'll take you on up and check it out. It's very windy, but that's okay. The tent will help us with that. Half an hour or so. Yeah, definitely, yeah. One jump off the cliff, yep. So Mike and I are just tamping down the snow here. Might look a little silly. We're not dancing, I promise, if this isn't the white man's dance. We are gonna do this, and then go off into the bush and get some boughs, down because digging down here would just no doubtly unearth some uneven rock or some tree that's fallen down and there's quite a bit of snow up here so we tamp this all down and while we are going to get the boughs and some firewood this will solidify a little bit and then it should be all right for a few days while we're out here but the snow is very granular and soft because it's pretty cold out, understand why Inuit have a bunch of words for snow now there's a reason, you know what I mean, it comes in different snow, isn't snow, take that away with you folks, we think it's been about an hour or so, yeah, 45 minutes, how does it feel? Feels a lot more firm than before yeah, I think we're probably okay to set the tent up now, nice start laying on the floor, you need the Y piece, Joe, it's a dad joke Mike showing your age there but so it looks like a perfect footprint for it too because there's no trees on this side or anything to tie it off to, I'm gonna have to put snow anchors on the back side and on this side and maybe the front of the tent, ideally I'd be using a longer stick than this but this is what it broke off to be I'll show you how well these snow anchors work when we leave here in a few days, I'll probably need my axe in order to bust through the snow to get the snow anchor out, that's how solidified it gets in there, just want to get as far down as you can, stick it side, stick the stick sideways and then bury it, a bunch of snow and then stomp on top of it with your snowshoes or your boots, but your snowshoes help a little bit more and that'll stay just as good as if it were tied to a tree as you can see the back needs done as well pretty windy man pretty pretty windy well sorry guys took you for a ride there real quick Snowshoes and tripods don't really work out. Tripods don't work out. Little piece of Kevlar cord to the original tie out because it wasn't long enough, but we're just going to do a simple overhand. Nothing fancy because we are in a hurry to get in here and get our stuff set up. So we're about done. Get our bows in there and make this like home. Oh, there's snow on my glove. It's cold. It's cold. Tie this last one off if you want to do that. All right, we're going to share the work just to make things go a little bit quicker. Mike's going to lay the bed in there. We got plenty of bows. We have some snow on the skirt. Tie this last tie out up. And we'll get the stove ready to get on in there. And they extend. Packable and light. It's a chimney. And the fact where it goes smallest to biggest. Biggest being on the top. Well, I don't know. I don't know what it is for this one. And this is the fire resistance. Extend it. I'll probably extend it. Nice and easy. If it holds up to that wind, we know it's good. Beauty spot. Couldn't ask for more scenic. That big rock there. Mike did an amazing job of laying the boughs in here. It smells like Christmas time all over all the time Beauty, just beauty. Wood stove is set up nicely We've got the two logs in the holes on the on the legs To keep it from sinking at all if it was going to, it smells so good So they call this a two or three man tent, but as you can see it's pretty maxed out with two guys So well, we're in the daytime. Well, we're just kind of lounging We're gonna put all the sleeping stuff in the back so for my sleeping gear, I have my bushcraft Spain Oil skin slash wool blanket ground sheet which is amazing I'm gonna do a full video on a lot of their gear really soon I just got my sleeping pad on my sleeping bag Thermarest new era negative 20 bag that kind of wraps around it keeps it contained and protected I'm just gonna toss it on top of Mike's set up in the back here. He's got a similar setup That's good back there, and now we have room for our chairs Mike went ahead and played the smart smart guy game and put four tennis balls on his bottom So he's not sinking through all the time. We're gonna take a cue off that I think 100 pounds come on man. Oh look at that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's just sinking a little bit You start this bitch or you want to just chill in here. What do you think what do you wanna do? I don't know. I'm okay right now I'm kind of yeah, I'm not cold. I'm not cold either. I'm let's I don't want to get too comfortable We're not gonna want to get wood. Okay, let's see what you want Do you already want to just like chill for 10 15 in here eat drink and then we'll go I could certainly be alright with That yeah, I need to eat. I've had like running probably a crazy calorie deficit Choice hardwood most of its maple I believe we didn't really have to go too far to get it. Mike's got a real dry one There we'll start the fire with that one. You can hear how dry it is I can throw some of the lesser dry pieces on Steaks for tonight and Mike is going to cook them up for us in the cast-iron pan because I'm not really well versed in that By any means and I would like to learn No pressure at all. Mike's the best in the world. How long is that one? That's gonna be 24 We got the 21, the Eglit 21, Mike's got the 24 inch Saw from Adventure Sworn, so many like pieces of wood and like debris down my shirt. Oh, there we go Okay, it's a little itchy, debris. Okay, we're going to cut this wood. We're going to cut this wood for a little while. It's thicker, handle's a little bit shorter, head's a little bit heavier. It's not that far wood. It's kicking up. It's time to light this fire up. A little chilled here. So we got that damper completely open until this starts to go. Got a bunch of good twigs with lots of old man's beard or lichen on them. So those guys will go up real quick. Throw all these in there. Split ones here. Thin twigs. Good already. Living large, Mike. Pleasant life in the tent. It's fine. I'm pretty good from right here. Good. Yeah, the door's open, so there's a little tiny bit coming out, but I'll shut that. It's pretty vertical. It's just drifting around a little. We're worried about the placement of the stovepipe with the wind, but Mike's out there, and he says it seems to be pretty okay. We've got to get this door shut here, because we're smoking. Oh, look at that. Oh, finally. Pocket bellows for the wind. It was a little smoky at first, eh, Mike? The wind is not helping the situation. I think we got it fixed out fixed up so what we did what we did was angle the stovepipe more up and down more vertical um and I think that helped a lot and we left the door open on the fire for a little while with the stove with the damper completely open until it got until it got a good amount of heat going and then uh then we're able to close it up but I'm I'm toasty you feel all right yeah my feet are still cold so the good thing about the stove we can there's a spot where we can hang our boot liners next to it to dry them off so Mike can dry off his toesies and warm them up. That's the whole problem eh? Let your hoop boob. That's the whole problem eh? We hiked in, we sweat so things are a little bit damp now but it's a good thing about the tent it's it's a lot of hassle and sometimes it may feel like it's more trouble than it's worth but for an extended camp even three four days it's nice to be able to dry your stuff off. purple and red and white small potato small potato small potato got that on almost uh those have been cooking for what 45 minutes or so you think yep they're almost ready and we each got our respective steaks like i said mike is going to expertly cook them in the frying pan attempt no no pressure i got a ribeye what do you got everybody i did rib steak i think it okay just not tied up i got mine's pretty thick nice buttery it's all buttery mine's thicker so i'm gonna toss it on oh i gotta get that plastic off this is plastic yeah they wrap it and oh normally it's like butcher twine it has both oh that could have been a disaster yeah that would I don't think I filmed any of that oh yeah that's so that was what very very It's a little garlic garlic incense. Like what do you got? Potatoes are really good. Yeah, they're soft They're all caramelized and crispy and put them back in with the the butter from the steak Like the butter that we were frying the steak in. The steak dank. Well, should be good. Thanks for cooking those The potatoes might be some of the best I've ever had. We would never repeat that though Don't even know we did. The extra steak dank at the end I think. Yeah. Oh, oh Right? It is because I tried one before we did that and this is not the same taste as that well we basically made garlic butter mmm they put two separate seasonings on it so oh my goodness piastres what do I got here my beers a little bit of a slushy yeah yeah alright still tasty also I've got a Mad Tom in my CLP Scout Kuksa all is right in the world we both felt a little what's the word tired there's another word but burnt out when we got here there's about a three hour haul From the car which doesn't sound like all that much But when you're pulling the sled the whole time And then going up the hills on the last Part really was the kicker eh But we were lucky that snowmobile trail went Right through the portage trail I can't imagine Trying to break trail with those sleds And with the amount of snow it is right now Going uphill and stuff it would have up that hill Breaking trail with those sleds that would have been horrible We would have double teamed it and it still wasn't that bad but the video is not going to show it Feeling good now Tomorrow we have plans to go check out another lake. There's also plans to hike up that mountain that quote-unquote mountain. We're here for a couple days though so we got plenty of time. We do need to make sure we get a bunch of firewood tomorrow We were super lucky tonight. We didn't have to go that far and we got a lot of lot of hardwood Half of it's a little damp, but that's okay. It'll still burn after a while Well, we've gone through more than I thought we've gone through We would have gone through already the wind was a little bit of an issue at first but it seems to have died down now supposed to be a windier tomorrow but we think the wind is supposed to come over top of the mountain or whatever. We're calling it the big hill So we're hoping that it just whips over our campsite because it was actually literally puffing the smoke back out of the tent. Yeah, of the stove, oh the two holes in the door of the stove It was like blowing smoke out this food up, you know for a while I don't hate the idea of going to bed by 9 or 10 tonight. That's 8 already. We'll let you know what we do Smell o vision. Oh just getting ready for bed. It's about 8:30. No 9:30. So yeah it's totally justifiable right well old man it's a lot of work getting in here setting up and everything so we're both pretty pooched same day so cold set up head note for a pee yeah we both got a little bit of an awning with Mike with his wool blanket so you can put things next to you me with my uh tarp slash wool blanket have stuff like fossils pouch my knife my headlamp i'm sorry my hat boots water bottle. Everything's good to go. Mike's got his set up too. Be comfortable. It's a tight squeeze. Tight squeeze for two guys. I had to put my chair outside. There's just not enough room for it. Supper was very, very, very good. Ordinary. Well, cocoon Mike. It's about bedtime. I think so. How are you feeling? Toasty now. Well, I will be shortly. We'll see you in the morning. 100%. Yeah, you're not fighting there. It looks shivering. In the old hot water bottle. We're We're gonna head in tomorrow, we got some plans. Stick with us, it should be fun. I'm not gonna go to bed with gum in my mouth. Promise mom, goodnight.