Solo Spring Hammock Camp in the Rain - 4 WALLED FLOATING SHELTER IN THE FOREST- UGQ Outdoors Gear!

Hey guys how you doing? Joe here. Today we are on an adventure. We have to go see if the ice is off of the lakes yet. Near my house I have a big lake the ice is off but typically the ice on the inland lakes where I like to go to get seclusion wilderness experience they hold on to their ice for much longer than the big lakes do around here. I've packed a hammock in my backpack so that's not the normal for me. We have to see if I can set that up properly and get a good night's sleep but first we got to travel about two hours north of my place to see if we can even get the paddle wet looking good man it feels so good to be back out here i've camped out here before i never see anybody out here it's always a good time i'm going to pull up behind me here to shore and set up my hammock i was planning on exploring a little bit and maybe going down a little bit further to set up my camp but it is threatening to rain it was just sprinkling it is sprinkling right now so we'll get camp all squared away then maybe we'll paddle down to the end but uh let's go see if i can set this hammock up oh that's that's just awesome i went into the water to here I went into the water to here dry wet soaking wet good start good start Joe this is certainly a lot of gear for one night but I have some big camping trips big canoe trips planned in the near future and I bought this recreational barrel works barrel and harness from Andy so we'll see I plan on using this for my food bag for my food barrel and extra stuff my second bag. We'll see how it works out. I'm going to attempt to put my hammock off these two trees. They might be a little too far apart. We'll see. Now, like I've mentioned, I've only spent a handful of nights in hammocks, and only really one night in this particular hammock to use this time. This is the Dream Hammock that UGQ Underground Quilts helped me out with. So I've got all their stuff, their top quilt, their bottom quilt. That's why it's a little bit big because I brought the cold weather ones my summer ones wouldn't cut it cold weather ones are gonna be too much but the summer stuff was not enough excuse me alright so this is the hammock green hammock inside out that side inside out here and then the bag just kind of stays on it we got straps for the trees far as I know you take the running end and you slide it through the loop at the end pull it through and there's this little elephant trunk dealie this little elephant guy pull this through to get in your home all right pull it up a bit center down i think we're ready to put the old hammock up so we've got some dyneema and that just goes right under the trunk of the elephant elephant trunk almost done pretty pretty slick right so this is my ugq outdoor under quilt and i'll tell you what what it's rated to here in a second because i don't remember i think negative 20 oh look it says joe i've only used it a couple times it's still pretty new i only used it once i think where is the rating bro negative 18 or zero fahrenheit negative 18 celsius zero fahrenheit so he's got all these tie-ups to uh make it secure and keep me warm i should be quite warm uh tonight which is good because there's a chance it might snow chance it might rain and snow see how that goes I want to put that in there, first off, as per Chad from UGQ's advice, just to simulate some weight in there. And we've got to get this underquilt on. And the underquilt might be the hardest thing for me to do, although it shouldn't be too hard. And I hope I brought my tarp. I hope I brought my tarp. If I didn't bring my tarp, that's a problem. It's a huge problem. There we go. We're solid. All right, we've got to get this on here now. I think all of this is just connected with one clip. Is it here? I think I broke the snap off that one. Maybe not. No, yeah, this side doesn't have one either, so we're all right. We all right. We're going to be all right. We're going to be all right. Can you hear me? Can you feel me? I don't know. I think it's too tight, boys and girls. Too tight. Can you hear me? Can you feel me? It's going to be too tight. We've got to get the hammock. We've got to get the banana in the hammock, basically. Files are in the computer? Yeah, okay. And loosen it up there. Loosen it up with those. And then these come out, too. there's all these little um bungee pulls and looseners and tighteners and fasteners I'm just gonna loosen it all up and uh lay in it and get the right feel, right pitch as it were, I don't know if that's the right word or not, get in and see it wasn't so bad, it wasn't as hard as I thought it was gonna be, could be sagging a touch too much actually pretty flat that's not too bad I'm okay with that for now if I have to tweak it later on I'm good with that I need to do some more stuff camp wise so let's get this tarp on, still got that firewood and I wanted to try my hand at some fishing see how that goes, don't even know if I need these things here at all the tarp up so this is pretty cool I found my old Kyle made tarp and this is the ridge line to it, it has these pre-made prusiks right on it with a little aluminum toggles so this UGQ quilt or sorry tarp has these rings on it and one goes on either side and you just tighten it right up I'll do the same to the other side and that's not going anywhere super slick and easy might have to slide the whole thing yeah I got more room on this side so all I do is slide this toggle down slide this prussik down to where I think it's good and then match it up on this side keeping it real tight tight like a tiger now for the cool part, you say this isn't already been cool just wait so we've got little snaps obviously on the tarp and we're going to have an enclosed shelter did a video a couple summers ago sorry exact opposite a couple winters ago with the dudes from UGQ where we camped in northern Michigan and they showed me how to use this hammock and they hooked me up with it and yeah that video was called like floating wall floating four wall shelter or something along those lines on the ends they've got these handy dandy cord tighteners you just pull it cinch everything down nice and easy gross in the background and everything check out my four walled floating shelter pretty taut pretty taut a little bit of slack on this one maybe pretty happy man all came together pretty easily nice and wide we got a lot of room in there so when it rains if it rains i can stay in there and read a book or maybe cook on my bush buddy i'm sure i could have done it a little bit better but this is pretty pretty good for me so i'm pretty happy now it's a matter of if i can actually sleep in it and we'll see that tonight but nice let's get out i want to go i hope you guys can hear that bird i want to go get out in the water see if i can get a fish and uh collect some firewood from around the shore things are coming together and the rain is holding off and that looks pretty freaking sweet from here actually i want to show you guys in here because i know i'd like to see if i was watching so you don't have to do all of them undo all of them to get in obviously but just showing you a couple different uh options like i could now tie this up you know what i mean have one side closed or whatever i obviously don't even have to set it up in this a-frame configuration i can set it up as a normal tarp as well pretty big super lightweight i want to give a huge thank you to the ugq guys again super awesome dudes and uh i haven't seen them in a while so hopefully they go into the states sooner than later and say hello promise i am going out there i just uh before i head out i'm getting kind of cold because my foot like it's actually soaked through like there's no uh no dry nothing my sock's gonna pour water out of it here um actually i'm not even gonna take my sock off i'm going to put my uh neoprene on over top and it'll just keep me that much warmer even though i'm wet because my boots soaked through too so there's no even if i put a new sock on which i I do have one change of socks. It's just going to get that sock wet, and I'd prefer to have that for tomorrow or for nighttime or whatever I need it for. Maybe I'll put my other one on just to balance it out too in case it does rain while I'm out there. I can already feel the warmth. That's good. Okay, I'm going to get all ready, and then I'll see you on the water. Pretty cold, but it's a really nice day. The rain is holding off. I just have a little bit of a chill. I don't know if the fish will be biting or not. Let's see. Anyways, no luck on this lake. so i'm gonna head over to the next one there's like i don't know a couple hundred meter portage i believe get over there see if i can't get a fish it'd be nice to i have food it'd be nice to grab a fish it might be too early i talked to somebody when i was getting when i was putting the boat in he was driving by and he stopped to talk to me because nobody's out here he said he'd been trying for the past couple days but that day he seems to think that they're full they're all fed up right now so i don't know oh it followed it right up it followed it right up and splashed Oh my god, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%. I think it was a lake trout. That was down deep, so that wasn't a snag. I'm going to keep trying to fish. I'm leaving some of my stuff there. Stuff that I hope not to need on the other lake. So I'm actually on the lake now that I did a solo camp last fall. I stayed like five days or something. So I left. I remember leaving a whole bunch of really good firewood and birch bark there. and obviously it has snowed and been a whole winter and almost like i don't know a couple weeks of spring however long of spring it's been with rain so let's go see we're gonna go check it out check out the spot see if anybody's been there see if the firewood and birch bark is still there and if it is i will bring it back with me and that will save me from cutting any kind of firewood uh even if i have to take two trips back through the portage with this boat as far as a short portage I just got through. I am very hungry now and I'm pretty freaking cold too but I am bound and determined to get a fish so I might even paddle my little butt down this whole lake and hop into the other one if if I can't catch one in this lake but seeing that one come to the surface really really sparked my interest. I would not have been on it this much if that didn't happen but I I did and I am it looks untouched. We'll go on up there. Check it out Nice looks pretty dry two spiderwebs on it. That's fine. It's a bunch of fatwood to if I can recall properly thought I put birch bark. Oh, yeah, it's a bit damp. But anyway, oh there's my pothook Yes, the one I drilled the hole through remember do you remember do you remember when I drilled the hole through the pothook? It was last I wish it was December it was autumn All right, that's cool. Nice Bonus I'm back on my lake. Now. I got too cold. I didn't go to over I just went the one over my hands were numb on that other lake was super windy Back on my camp lake. I'm gonna go back to camp. I'm really hungry Gotta get some fire or I got a fire going I get some food on and then who knows if there's time you're joking you're joking as I'm about to say I'll come back out if there's time I get a beautiful bass a beautiful golden bass that is going to be a delicious golden supper oh my goodness look at the color look at the color beautiful beautiful fish super happy okay that's supper sorted but man son just when i was about to say that's it you know what i mean like i'll come back or whatever i was trolling this whole time i thought i got a bite or two but nothing came of it and then i cast as i was talking to you thank you thank you cool i'm happy i can't pass up a good situation to get some wood there's some sticking out here standing that i think i will add to my wood collection oh yeah we're good she's dry go under my shelter and have a bush buddy fire and eat my chili because I was kind of sulking and not getting fish but now that Mr. Bass has graced us with his presence I do want to have a big fire and I do want to warm up and dry out and sit out there as long as I can. There's some pretty menacing clouds coming over but we've been lucky so far and I'm super happy about that. Sprinkles on the water is coming but holds off for a little bit longer worse comes to worse like i said i'll just go under the tarp but it'd be nice to a big rip roar and dry out and stuff so that same exact stuff where i was raving about it's so amazing same exact the uh pitter patters just keep getting at her you know let's slow down so i want to get this cooked up as quick as i can um let's do that now last of a fish crisp bags of moss and leaf litter on that one. A little garnishing. Big burr. Pretty good news. Big burr. Okay, okay, okay. That's a nice pan full of fish, if I do say so myself. stoked on that. That'll be enough food for me. A little Joe's belly. A little Joe's little belly. Good. It's gonna make a good little seat. Nice little seat. Oh man, super tasty. Yeah, it's nice to be out here again. I can feel the warmth on my leg. A little bass bone in there. Get rid of that. When I got back to camp, I switched out my wet neoprene in my wet sock for my dry neoprene there but uh oh yes just even putting my foot on the rock underneath is helping there's fish jumping out there oh no i stepped on my snake stepped on my steak and broke it we'll have to get a new one as you can probably tell my headlamp's about to die and i'm just enjoying this hot chocolate so i'll get with you when i get into the hammock i have more batteries over there i'm just going to finish this up and head on over there this is very tasty though refined palate all right that's much better new battery in the camera new batteries air horn my butt wipe that i need to keep in my sleeping bag with me to keep from freezing and or being super cold in the morning organize things in here like crazy one thing i do want to do i have my grill over here i'm just going to go run and put it over with my food and all my cooking stuff and new socks fresh new socks new long johns try and get all situated in here all right well all tucked in got an extra puffy here my sweater I can feel the warmth coming in already so wish me luck and I will see you guys in the morning hopefully hopefully I get a good night's sleep hopefully that was all in frame good night I slept okay I get up like 15 times to pee and that's not very convenient in a hammock. My hip is messed up I I'm laying here aching my hip my it's right below my hip where my leg my top of my leg bends like in the joint there It's right below the actual hip in the socket of my thigh and my hip I don't know if you can understand what I mean, but it hurts it's aching so it's completely noticeable I don't even know what time it is. It is is 7:30 so i guess it's time to get out of here it's raining quite a bit um i might just lay down a little for a little bit longer but i gotta go pretty soon here yeah it is icing up on the uh yeah it's going to slush on the tarp it's pretty cold i stayed warm though that's one thing i want to let you know i stayed completely warm um this thing is sagging like crazy i did not set it up properly, but I stayed warm for sure and I did sleep. Holy smokes. Yeah, I'd say it is cold. Oh, man Yeah, it's like snow falling in the lake. Oh my hip I can barely walk. What is wrong? Oh This is an issue. This is a big issue. Got a lot of extra room and another whole other bag with that barrel So I'm not taking the time to break all this down and stuff it back into where it needs to go properly this is just going the old pack down Joe way right inside the backpack one portage two lakes to paddle not so bad but i'm going to make up some breakfast underneath this tarp i just wanted to get this out of the way for another purpose for this tarp like i i can set up my tent if i set this up higher and it's sagging a little bit because of the rain but i can put poles going from either side and really push this out i can put my tent under here with no fly if i could just have this as its own thing where it can cook under and stuff like I said especially if it's up a bit higher but anyways get that bush buddy rocking I saved this and this will be plenty to boil my water plus I got some other one dry stuff that was under here dry-ish stuff that was under here so what you want to do with the oatmeal is you pour the oatmeal into a container see and if you're feeling a little randy you know just double yourself up there and then what you want to do is take the water that you've procured. Pour it on top of them there oats and use a fat wood spoon type thing to eat so it tastes extra turpentine-y and you really appreciate spoons and don't forget to bring them the next time. This has been morning routine in the rain sleet and snow with your pal Joe. Stick with me boys and girls the outdoor circus continues you know really okay I'm not hating this tarp setup at all pretty happy this whole camp there's a nice amount of space underneath here it tastes fine using this too no big deal okay I'm gonna eat this I'm gonna pack the rest of my stuff up and start paddling portaging this oatmeal is hitting the spot GoPro died on me the last clip just too cold for it but snow has stopped and is turning to more rain so that's good i don't want to see no more snow this year we're all packed up on our way to the first portage thanks a lot guys for watching i appreciate it i had a really good time it was due so in the in the future lots of canoe tripping and i gotta figure out what's going on with this hip because that can be a hindrance for sure so good trip figure that out good trip to keep getting wet and realize it's not the end of the world deal with early spring cold catch a fish sleep in a hammock lots of lots of not the norms for this little guy so really good trip you guys have a good day