Deciding on Gear for a 4 Day Wilderness Camping Trip.

Hey guys, how's it going? We sold the house, so I'm going camping. This is all of the stuff, all of my camping gear that I have at my house. Honestly, my basement here is normally full of camping gear, and as you can see, it's pretty empty. Everything's in storage right now. We actually got a storage, sorry, we got a bin, like a garbage bin, and threw away like 1.6 tons of garbage or something like that. Just all stuff from down here, stuff from around the house. We a smaller three bedroom house and we fit that much garbage in it put the rest in storage and uh yeah everything's good man uh moving middle of next month um we sold our house no conditions and um yeah everything's awesome so it's time to go camping baby's good she's over two and a half weeks old um i need some videos out so like i'm saying this is all my camping gear i don't even know what's here because i packed everything away like so long ago i kept the essentials what i think was the essentials if not I'm gonna have to go to my Sawyer's locker and just dig because that stuff's at the very back so let's go what I thought I would do in this video I just show you what I kept what I thought might be the essentials for this type of this time of year for a camping trip for me I want to be going on like a three or four day canoe trip and catching trout stuff like that just having a good time in the fall in the autumn my favorite time of year to go on canoe trips and because I have my daughter autumn I've been home as you know. Okay, so I got my yoke for my pack boat, my Adirondack 13.6 Swift pack boat. That's an integral part of a canoe trip. I'm not going without that. I did that in the early summer when I went with Doug, Sean, Scott, and myself, and we messed up. I used a different boat, no yoke, and it sucked. It sucked. Anyways, the boats are light enough where I was able to still portage it, but I don't want to ever do that again. So that yoke is there. It's That's good. I got my little axe, my little council tool axe. I've got a couple of tripods, because I never know what I'm going to be using, this is all for camera stuff obviously. I've got my boots, which I probably won't wear, I'll probably wear trail runners and then bring these Morel barefoot jobbies as camp shoes. Actually, you know what, if I'm bringing these as camp shoes I can bring boots, I'm not sure what I'll do. boots and camp shoes or trail runners in camp shoes but for this time of year i will be using those uh camp shoes these are my trail runners these are like portaging shoes they they're morels as well and i've used these for the past few years you guys have seen me use these they're good they're a good boot for sure and they're a good shoe not a good boot a good shoe i also have slippers or sandals open-toed sandals that i might wear uh as a camp shoe instead of the water shoes all depends see how it goes all right well we'll just do it this way here's my sit pad this is my phantom x sit pad always handy always going to bring a sit pad when i go i'm just going to use that to kneel on right now okay so this is my tarp this is my kyle made 9x9 silnylon tarp i'll most likely be bringing this because uh there is rain called for one of the days we're going to be there so it doesn't weigh much and it's worth having especially like Like I'll have my tent, I believe my tent's in here somewhere, right? You can go in your tent at night and stuff, or even if it's raining when you're at camp. But if you need to cook and get out of the rain just to cook and kind of hang out by the fire, it's really worth having. There's nothing worse than wanting to sit up by the fire, just have a couple drinks, chat, whatever, and really get the downpour on. So a little tarp like that, a lightweight tarp, you can even bring a 5x7 or something like that, but this 9x9 silnylon is pretty small, packs down and it's very lightweight. I've also got some cordage at the top, some thin cordage with toggles on it already. This is my camp chair, so I will bring that tarp. I'm not sure about the camp chair yet. Going to Algonquin Park where there is a lot of camp furniture, if you will, already made with logs and stuff near the fire. So this will be a maybe pile over there. We'll bring the first aid kit for sure. This is a heavy-duty one. Very well may cut this in half that's the for sure pile these are legally required this is a bail kit when you're canoeing you need like a whistle and something to bail and a rope so this is a little pouch and you can bail with the the water sorry bail the water with the pouch in there and then in the back it has a rope a floating rope connected in there and it clips on and the whistle is in the clip so you got everything you need in there and I also have my flashlight in my camping gear but this goes clipped on the boat doesn't come off it's handy it's very handy I got a little handkerchief thing these are all just extras we'll see with that this is my Kevlar bag my food bag for my for bears 100% bringing this so I don't have to tie it up into a tree right bears can't get through this because it's Kevlar you tie it up super tight and the rodents can't get through the top either it's Kevlar rope you just tie it to a tree. You don't have to hang it high up. It makes camp life much easier. This is my sleeping pad I will bring. My Therm-a-Rest NeoAir. Lightweight. It's a very good sleeping pad. It has a good R-value too. So we'll put that in the for sure pile. Oh sweet, I do have it. I thought I might have packed away this little GoPro session connector. I have to go shut that off. You guys don't want to listen to that. I'll be right back. It was a central air kicking on, even though it's fall, it's middle of September, it's hot, and we came back into a hot streak, so, anyway, let's get rid of that, so this is for my GoPro, I clip it onto my boat, clip it onto some trees, anywhere, it really comes in handy when I'm on a canoe trip, so bringing that 100%, and this session, I know a while back I had some issues with the volume, the audio, I was using the GoPro, this is what I found out, I was using the new GoPro Hero 5 and 6, and the microphone uh the volume whatever put output for it is in the front and the back as opposed to where the session is just in the front i believe or maybe on the top and with the the hero 5 and 6 you're getting every little vibration from the boat and the paddling and everything at the same time as i'm talking so it switches but it's really really not a good setup for that so i've really switched it back to the session which is like a fraction of the price of the other two GoPros, but it is what it is. These are my other trail runners. I guess I did leave a lot of footwear here, options. These are some New Balance, excuse me, lightweight minimus. I'm not sure what shoes I'll wear yet. Again, my Primaloft Puffy. You guys have seen me wear this since way before alone. This is coming 100% this time of year. Packs down to almost nothing, weighs almost nothing, and it is worth its weight by far. Another necessity, especially getting back into that time of year is a good life jacket this one's a Stolquist fisherman I believe it's a good one depending on how hot it is I'll wear it if it's very hot I won't wear it if it's chilly I will this is my sleeping bag this is the phantom spark negative 2 Celsius or 28 Fahrenheit sleeping bag very very high quality sleeping bag packs down to like 3 quarters of that size really really good bag too. My Arc'teryx rain jacket is a hybrid it's expensive but it is good very good for bringing that to my little Joe Robin and grill probably bring that there's my Svea Stove reflector oven which is really fun to cook fish in or maybe bake like a cake or something while out there depending on the type of trip I'm doing I might bring so here's the here's the thing Doug and I are gonna go on a canoe trip together we don't know we know we're going to We know we're going for 3 or 4 days, we don't know where we're going in the park, we don't know the type of trip we're doing or how far we're going or anything like that. We're kind of leaving that up to the night before, when we get together, we'll drive out and stay in the hotel room, get together and decide all that. So I might even bring a little bit of extra gear up there and then figure things out then. In all honesty, I probably won't be bringing the reflector. My twig stove and my titanium pot in here, which will be going for sure. I need to wash that, oh my goodness. This is my zebra pot. heavier so I won't be bringing bug spray is no need sunscreen yep I'll be bringing the sunscreen so I got my little FoxLite pouch here this is a mesh one this is a really cool one FoxLite pouch FoxLite um on instagram check them out Fox Lite gear sorry FoxLite gear right here FoxLite gear so this is a nice mesh pouch that um they made for me and it's nice and lightweight you can see what's in it so I'll be putting stuff like my sunscreen um compass things like that into there for this trip anyway sometimes it makes it up these different pouches but here's my Suunto compass that's coming for sure also my fire steel that's that is a fire steel, come fire steel fire steel, come those guys are the jam I've got my ThruNite headlamp very good one a spork that'll go with my cook kit so all those things I just showed you are going to stay on hand my butt like which I'm gonna need more than that those are all gonna stay in my possible's pouch as well as my polarized sunglasses and probably a few more things as I find them. An extra battery for my headlamp. The headlamp takes one AA battery and it's the ThruNite TH20. I've had this for a couple years now. Some extra paracord. I'm not sure. I'll probably bring a little bit extra. More paracord, more paracord, more paracord. So then we've got some AquaQuest dry bags and these will be good for things like your food if you didn't have one of those Kevlar bags. You can put them in this and then hang it at night. The smell stays down as well. It's waterproof. You can put your clothes in it. It doubles as a pillow. I use mine as a seat with my clothes in it for the longest time on my 10-day trip. Just lots of different options. Ooh, I've got a little beanie. I'm glad I looked in there. I'll be bringing that beanie too. So I'll probably bring the smaller this is the 5 liter AquaQuest bag. Probably bring that one with my clothes in it and stuff. I've got a belt that can go in there. Oh, my patch kit for my boat. That's always super useful. Bring that too. That's for sure. My ball cap. I like this. It's vented in the back. It's an outdoor research one. I always need to wear a hat. Everyone should be wearing a hat on a canoe trip. At least this type. What's more recommended is with the flap on the back, but I look silly with those on. And it's all about what you look like, right? I've got a spot system, which we'll probably bring even though it's just Algonquin. hand sanitizer, some q-tips to go swimming. I like to clean my little ear, my little ear wax out. The hand sanitizer is good for after you're done wiping your butt. It's don't bring soap for you. Charging cable for my phone or my GoPro. No, that doesn't make sense. Not for my GoPro, just for my phone or my phone. I got fleece pajama pants which I'll probably be bringing. I don't even know if I'll bring my phone actually so please pajama pants for the wind in the cooler weather take my word for it so I don't see a tent which is a huge issue maybe I'll be using my tarp I must have packed my tent away so what are the necessities right you need a sleeping bag for sure you need shelter for sure you need a sleeping pad I have that here somewhere sleeping pad I would normally like a pillow but I don't have one so I have something underneath me something to cover me up something over top of me like shelter and then I have pegs and no I don't have pegs I just have rope in here to put it up with then you need food right you need a cooking kit you need a way to get water which is upstairs I have my water filter upstairs I'm gonna go grab that right now so don't forget it that's super important so my be free water filter so again some kind of wood processing tool a knife how did I not leave a knife there's gotta be a knife here that's crazy I know I left a knife This is a Mora Garberg carbon. So I can bring that little axe for wood processing, got fire lighting, got water, food, shelter, maybe shelter. I might go look for my tent depending. It's a lot easier when you, after you've paddled all day, to just set up a tent rather than look for a spot to set up a tarp and it's just a little bit more, like I've done it 100%, 100% I've done it a lot of times, it's just I prefer a tent. But we'll see. either right now so maybe a tarp will be fine we shall see but uh yeah other than that so again underneath me sleeping pad um sleeping bag on top of me something to cover me up would be my tarp or tent i got a sit pad i got a cooking kit i got food i've got way to get water i've got all my stuff that i need in here i've got warmth for clothes i got more clothes upstairs i got shoes um rain gear legal stuff fishing tackle so i've got fishing tackle we'll be going after trout fishing tackle fishing stuff i got my adventure sworn scout which that's what i'll probably end up bringing it'll be perfect for this trip instead of an axe and a knife separately i'll be bringing this thing then i also did find which is a huge help i thought i was gonna have to go buy more is batteries for my camera and a gps and a little portable charging thing so look at that everything is moving on up in the world i had to bring this frost river fort pack over to doug i said i'd give it to him he was wanting one so i'm not using it anymore i actually got a fox light uh gear thorp bag but i packed it away so that'll be next year but nice glad i found that stuff well guys thanks for watching this video a little update video a little uh what's to come video the actual trip video will be up i don't know soon should be a really fun time i'm really really looking forward to going to do it i haven't done the trip in a long time an actual real canoe trip probably this whole year so for maybe once in the middle of summer so excited hope you guys are too i'm excited to move lots of exciting things excitement exciting times excited i'm very excited all right guys thanks for watching the video thanks for watching the video i'll see you later bye