16 Gift Ideas For The Outdoor Lover, Christmas Ideas Camping, Bushcraft

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So I got a lot of requests to do a gear-specific video about maybe what you could get your significant other for Christmas or ideas for specific gear-related Christmas presents. seeing as how it's winter it's almost christmas we're going to focus on winter type um gear or winter type activities cold weather tripping tripping as it were okay so yeah a lot of these things um i have multiples of and over the course of how long have i been asking for this stuff for christmas and stuff forever so over the course of my whole life honestly really probably the past 10 15 years i've been just accumulating gear um we were broke before you know we didn't have money and um and it took a long time to accumulate gear through christmas presents through birthday presents all that stuff and i was getting low-end gear at first and working my way towards um getting light quality lighter uh better gear that packs down smaller so i'll give you i'll try my best to give you a few options of each piece of gear that I have an economic version and then more lightweight quality version not that the economic things aren't quality sometimes it's just a lot of the times are a little more bulky and heavy and when you're doing these distance things that matters all right so let's start what should we start with Wow well let's start with sleeping bags nice and warm so behind me I have one of my oldest sleeping bags I have this when I bought this I bought this from Mountain Equipment Co-op okay so if you're in Canada you'll understand what I'm talking about MEC but if you're in the States REI is basically the same thing is my head getting cut off it is REI is basically the same thing and the good thing about those stores is that they have their own brands right where they'll be cheaper for you to buy and they're still relatively good this one is probably a poor example of that whereas i bought this well before we went to Sousting uh me and kevin that's got to be seven years ago or something like that yeah six years ago anyways i've had this for a long time this was supposed to be a negative three celsius sleeping bag a down sleeping bag so i would always recommend getting down and if you can get the treated down the dwr down that's even better There's a few reasons. It's lighter weight. A lot of times it's warmer. There's a downfall to it. If it gets wet, it starts having a lot of condensation. It starts losing its warmth and that's not good, especially on a multiple day winter trip. But it's still very good and the likelihood of you getting it soaked where it's going to keep you warm is slim and nil. And if you get a sunny day, a windy day, you can hang this up and it will dry it and wick away that moisture. so this was supposed to be a negative three celsius bag i got a rebate i got a a letter in the mail maybe a year later saying the rating the rating was off and it was supposed to be a plus three celsius bag so i had been using this in the very cold temperatures sleeping and shivering thinking i'm just the coldest sleeper in the world um anyway so i got a rebate for it i ended up keeping it and getting like 40 bucks back whatever i love the sleeping bag it's my summer bag packs down extremely small so my point is go to REI go to MEC if you're looking for an economical sleeping bag hoping that the rating will be true on the other oh sorry oh there we go on the other hand of that i have a Mountain Hardware which is which is a company that should be known uh negative seven and this is also a down down sleeping bag so you can see how small that packs down to and it's not heavy at all how much do you think that weighs three pounds i think it weighs like a pound really yeah so it weighs about a pound maybe if that um yeah great sleeping bag negative seven celsius gets me down to pretty much uh any kind of like fall weather i want it all into winter and here's another really good thing you can do is if you don't want to go out and spend the money on a big like negative 20 degrees celsius or negative 40 degrees celsius where that will negative 40 Celsius will meet up at negative 40 Fahrenheit. It's the same temperature. Anyways, you can use this sleeping bag in conjunction with that sleeping bag. You can put one inside another. So if you don't have the money or the desire to go and spend a bunch of money on a lightweight or even a bulky cold weather sleeping bag, double them up, and it works just as fine. So that sleeping bag fits into this one completely fine. I've used it into very cold temperatures. Works great. I'm also using a stuff sack from Sea to Summit. It's a lightweight stuff sack and it makes it's a compression sack It makes everything just compress So, yeah, that's a really good thing to have for your sleeping bags, too Some don't some sleeping bags don't come with a good one I would suggest going and buying one a very good lightweight one such as Sea to Summit. That's the one I use Also, you can use a wool blanket now, obviously if it gets down super cold this isn't going to cut it by itself but what it would be good for is using conjunction again with a sleeping bag maybe if you put it on top of you you can protect yourself if you're sleeping next to a fire the embers won't hit your sleeping bag but one thing to remember is this will compress your down in your sleeping bag if you put it on top of you putting this inside a sleeping bag would be uncomfortable as well I've done that so really really using that the wool blanket in conjunction with the sleeping bag is basically for keeping the sparks off of you in my opinion all the way okay let's go to sleeping pads I got a Therm-a-Rest NeoAir here and you've seen me use this isn't this isn't my brand new one this isn't the XTherm this is the older one it's crinkly but it's got some kind of insulation in it and it's very durable and I've used this for a long time yeah I bought this at the same time bought that for somebody so this is one good way to go it's nice and wide and it's a rectangle the whole way down you can get ones nowadays that taper and are a lot lighter weight and stuff but you saw how small this one was this is about the size of a Nalgene now let me show you the other end of the spectrum this sleeping pad i've had even longer than the last one this is when i first was transitioning from like canadian tire walmart gear to more like sports store i think it was a sport check even though that's not the greatest camping place and you can see this is packed down it can probably get a little bit smaller but this is nothing compared to the Nalgene size of the Therm-a-Rest NeoAir this is a Therm-a-Rest RidgeRest or RidgeRunner or something so this works it's a heck of a lot cheaper you can still pack it down and it's still very warm actually has a rounded end to it a little bit but yeah this did me fine it says Therm-a-Rest Pro Plus I don't know if that was ridge runner anyways this is an old one and does fine this is self-inflating you can top it off by blowing into it after but a fraction of the price of that one also what what another good one would be is that like egg carton one Therm-a-Rest makes an egg carton style one you can't really pack it down so much but you can strap it to the outside of your backpack and if you're in the winter in the winter maybe you're using a sled depending on where you are okay so let's get the uh we got the boring stuff out of the way. Nobody wants to buy a sleeping pad, right? My dream isn't to go to the store and buy a sleeping pad. I like comfort. I like comfort too. Yes, it's very important. But something cooler would be like a knife, you know, like a bushcraft knife or an axe or a saw. Don't get your significant other. Tell them the problems you have trying to buy from me. I can't buy him anything. I never know the right thing to get him and when I get it for him it's always not what it's supposed to be. Because this stuff is very specific right? I can't just say go get me a sleeping bag. You know there's so many different sleeping bags there's so many different purposes and reasons uh times of year and ratings and weight everything that come into play and I feel like that's the same with all camping gear. I feel like it's really really hard to any kind of hobby thing like if I was in the toy car uh RC car race you You don't even have to be specific about that, too. Anyways... He gets nothing for Christmas. I get nothing now because I'm so picky. Knives. Every bushcrafter, every outdoorsman, every survivalist, every camper loves a knife. I don't care. It doesn't matter. You do. So, a couple of good ones that I like a lot. I really like Adventure Sworn, the company. This is an Adventure Sworn Explorer. This is one of my oldest knives. This is one of the Bushcraft USA runs. You can see there's some rust on there. I just haven't cleaned it off in a long time. Black ash burl, 5/32nds thick, which is a bit thick for a Scandi. But look at that sheath, too. That sheath has been through the wringer, man. Got fire steel, matching fire steel on there and everything. So that's a custom knife, and you're going to have to either wait to get that or pay a few hundred dollars to get that. And maybe that's not for everybody's cup of tea. Maybe even for your first kind of knife, that's not something you're looking for. This is my other suggestion. This is a Mora Garberg. This is one of the newer Mora knives they made. This is a great knife guys like probably around probably around a hundred dollars Which is still a decent price for a Mora But this is so solid one eighth thick full tang and the tang is exposed at the bottom so you can pound on it Not have to be worried about you can actually strike a fire steel on there too like that But yeah, very good knife very good design super happy with this one comes with a decent sheath, too yeah I had three Moras I had a Mora two more Triflexes and a Clipper and I had those for years remember that from Ragnar from Ragnar Ragnar Ford and they come in colors very true so I don't mind this sheath at all it's actually pretty decent sheath but I'm actually getting a leather sheath made from one tree leather very soon as a Canadian maker very cool I got a another nice sheath from the other day and i was very impressed by it uh okay so anyways yeah and it doesn't have to be a Mora Garber you can get any kind of Mora you can also go like the the Buck route you can go uh Condor has some some decent uh economic economical knives i really prefer Mora because i i've used them and i know that they they help hold up um very durable for the price exactly and this one's way more durable than the other ones this is the most durable one i've seen yet so other cutting tools we should move on to that saws um dependent on what the situation is how the camp is where you're going if you try to be discreet tons of uh variables but i have three separate saws that i think would cover all the bases the first one what all right the first one uh that i would recommend would be that i had i have had for the longest time too and and probably this is the most common one is the Bahco Laplander you've all seen ray Mears use that for years now which is great and it's a it's a decent uh saw in my opinion the teeth do not have half the cutting power of this Silky Gomboy so look at the size difference right already you got such a big bigger blade on the silky the silky cuts on the pull there There are disadvantages of the silky. Every single silky you're going to see has a broken off tip or a bent tip. It's very common because these blades are so thin that it's easy to kind of bind it in the wood and snap it off with one of these. That's why you're supposed to pull, the piece of wood that you're supposed to be cutting isn't supposed to be more than half the thickness or length of the saw blade. So when you're cutting, you should be able to have enough room where you're not going to bind it and jam and get a little one of those because it will snap. But this is the Silky Gomboy. I had a Silky Pocket Boy first, which is much smaller than this, probably half the size. But again, you can see the size difference on these guys. The teeth. That's the Laplander teeth and that's the Silky teeth. Much more aggressive. Now both those saws are great if you want to just do some pruning or some light firewood duty or whatever. maybe a little tiny shelter building and stuff like that, a little debris hut. But if you want to do any kind of real building, or if it's wintertime and you need, like, a lot of firewood, or you're using super dense hardwood, like oak and stuff like that. Or you're going to cut down your Christmas tree. Or you're going to cut down your Christmas tree. That's what we used to cut down that one there. This is the Agua Canyon, the Boreal 21. You guys have seen me use this a lot. I love it because of how easy it is to set up and take down, how well it cuts, and there's no pieces to lose. Everything is connected. On some buck saws and bow saws, there's different pieces that you can lose, which is very easy to do. But this, she's solid, right? There's a few different blades you can get with this, a few different colors of the saw and all that stuff. I highly recommend this as a buck saw. It's done me very well. so you might as well keep going with the cutting and go with the axes okay so i have three axes here three different sizes three different brands the first one i have is one of my older axes this is a 26 inch Wetterlings 26 inch axe is called the boy's axe that's the size it is um this has been modified like crazy not by me by someone else who had it before me so very very uh well used axe A very good axe as well. You can see all the sap, the pine sap on there. That was from building that shelter at Sean's property. What I like about these type of axes, these Swedish axes, is the head's relatively thin and it's sharp. This one, it does have a little bit thicker of a head on it, but she's sharp. She sinks into wood really good. That's an old Wetterlings. Wetterlings does not make axes like this anymore. I don't like Wetterlings axes too much anymore. I find the handles very chunky and the head's very thick. The second one I have and so yeah, so that's a 26 inch axe and then this would be the 19 inch axe next to it, this 19 inch axe is an old Sandvik head that buddy Mike fixed up for me the Kydex sheath on it was done by Copperhead Outdoors by Ron and this is a good example of not spending a lot of money on an axe that Wetterling's axe would have been a couple hundred bucks this head he got at a flea market for very cheap. This is a Sandvik, like I was saying, and he handled it himself. Look at the good job he did on that. It's a great axe. I love this. This is a good all-around axe, and it obviously doesn't have to have the Kydex sheath. You can have any kind of axe mask for it. There's a little leather guard on it, which I don't normally use, but on this kind of axe, I do like it. This is a good pack axe. I can do a lot of things with this axe. This is probably, if I had to only take one axe, this will be the one because it's small enough to pack around and it's big enough that you can use it with two hands here. Can you hold this up please? We got our 26 or 19 and then however big this is, 15 inches. Oh yeah, that's about 15 inches so this is a Gränsfors outdoor axe, so this is a completely different type of axe that was the first axe I bought you for an anniversary forever. This was no, your Gräns fors Bruks, Gränsfors, yes, the first Gränsfors Bruks, remember what happened that thing no that was the first axe I ever got, I got it one, one of the gifts I got right, yeah right right off the hop that was so long ago I'm talking like 15, 16 years ago, um it was a Gransfors Bruks Scandinavian forest axe and that's like the equivalent to this but a Gransfors which is supposed to be like the holy grail of axes I'm actually picking one up tomorrow after I tell you this story I brought it out, we went on a wild camp for like a week long me and my buddy in the sweltering heat eating my black flies, we didn't know anything about what we were doing and I chipped that axe really bad on a piece of gnarled oak, remember how bad it was? it was like the size of like a dime that came out of it and it was just like, I swore I swore off, I swore Gransfors Bruks off I thought they were garbage, like all that stuff i must have just got a lemon i don't know what happened but um yeah so that was like the reason i never had to throw an axe properly throw an i wasn't throwing it like you know chop this one yeah so i swore them off said i would never get one anyways tomorrow i'm picking one up because i've used a bunch in these past years and i that's not the case they are a great axe i don't know maybe i did hit a rock call it a piece of oak could have been a rock who knows Anyways, this is a completely different axe than you'll see really anywhere. It's a very small axe. It handles more of a hammer type handle where it doesn't have that big swell. You can use it two-handed, but mainly you're going to use it one-handed. It has this metal collar, which is kind of cool to keep it protected, and then the head is very wedgy, but it packs a wallop with oh, you just poked me, packs a wallop with all that uh oh no packs a wallop he says with uh with that head anyways i like this axe a lot i would use this on a canoe trip maybe on a not a long distance backpacking trip or just heading to the woods you know want to make uh you know like a little lunch or whatever have fun in the woods kind of thing this axe is very discreet slide in your pack good to go i got this at Canadian Outdoor Equipment that's online okay so moral of the story on axes don't have to be expensive you can get a Council Tool axe that's already made up for a pretty cheap price or you can make one up yourself buy a handle buy a head at flea market or somewhere like that a garage sale and fix it up yourself it's a lot of fun i actually have a video on my channel from years ago that i did that with one jersey pattern which is a harder one to do and it's a lot of fun good project uh let's go cooking gear cooking implements i have three here this is definitely not going to cover all your needs for cooking but boiling water being able to boil water in the wintertime it melts snow or like cook up soup or stew stuff like that is very important you do need a metal cooking implement so I started off with this this is a Sierra Cup all this is is like a Canadian Tire Walmart metal cup that nests an algae nest right inside of it the handles actually come off very easily and then you can make a wire bail around the top there's a lip and all you would do is just make a wire bail there and then have one hang over the top actually i have videos of that too back in the day um and then i made a lid out of like the apple juice container put a little put some holes in it put a handle on it and then yeah you can either set it right in the coals or hang it and that that did me for years like it's small you know i mean i only really made like cup of soup and tea and that and stuff in there but it worked my chocolate The next up, what I've had for a very long time as well, is this is a Zebra Billy Can, a 12 centimeter one. Remember, I got this in the suit, right? Yeah. This is very old. This comes with a lid, an inside dish, and then a pretty decent sized pot. You can cook eggs in the top, with water in the bottom, you can do tons of stuff. You can bake in this. This is a great piece of kit. It comes with a decent bail, with a little loop on the top, so it actually sits good. a lot of guys were modifying these with wire around taking that this off so you can slide it on like a bird beak not she made this is kind of thick but I've never found it necessary I really like this and I have three sizes of this I have a 10 centimeter 12 centimeter of 14 this is the middle this is the 12 heavy steel this is my newest piece of kit that for that style this is my heavy cover canteen set obviously you've seen me use this a bunch of times this is titanium super lightweight super bomb proof throw this down a hill and uh it takes the heat very well uh titanium is used in like engine like plane engines and stuff like you can you can put this right in the hot hot hot coals you're not going to warp it she's good to go um yeah heavy cover you can check that out that's online as well heavy cover titanium um as far as shelter in the wintertime you're either using a tarp you're gonna be using a like a four season tent a hot tent maybe you're building a shelter yourself I like to use if I'm not using my hot tent I really like to use a tarp this is my old Bushcraft Outfitters 10 by 10 coyote tarp this is a ripstop tarp nylon and I like it a lot it's not um sil nylon so it's not the lightest in the world but It's not the heaviest either, and it's super durable. I've patched, I ripped it one time. My tent pole is broke and pushed through it. And I patched it up, and it's been no worse for wear. And this has been going strong for years. Love this tarp. Just, can you smell it? Reeks of smoke. I swear when I put this up in the spring or the summer, the bugs just go away because of the smoke smell. This is, yeah, again, Bushcraft Outfitters. You can find them on there. They still have them. They have a bunch of different ones. um yeah i would recommend a nylon tarp regardless if it's sil nylon or ripstop i like it a lot better than any of the poly tarps or anything like that this is a really really good piece of kit i think i think i paid 60 for this like eight years ago six years ago and it's been going strong tarps are good tarps are really good in the winter um every season every season the only reason i i don't use a tarp is if there's bugs yeah but you still could find other uses for it yes yeah tarps are useful. Gloves, I've got two pairs of gloves here. Really, this is only what I would do in the wintertime. I've kind of cut out all the other gloves I ever wore. I have a pair of leather gloves that are insulated here. These are called Hestra Fall Line gloves, okay, and they do me from the fall until the winter, and I'll use them in the winter as well, but when it's too cold, I use my choppers, and these are military surplus. They're huge. They're leather. They've got a wool liner so between so between my Hestra Fall Line gloves and my choppers i have all my bases covered i can touch fire with this i can hike with these i can sit around the camp with these they slide on and off super easily the wool on the inside is dense and you can take it out if you need to there's a little snot rag on the back which i know is not a snot rag it's for like cleaning your glasses off and stuff but works good you know i got these at a surplus store for 30 bucks and you were what was researching these the other day because they're almost on their on their way out and I was saying I might need a new pair how much did you find for they were typically between 150 and 190 American American and some of the places have them on sale right now for 120 American you remember that place so they're expensive I got these on sale at a website called liveoutthere.ca and I was really happy to get them for a cheap price partly because my hands are little girl hands I think that's why they had this size left but that's a lot of money for gloves guys like a whole lot of money for gloves you can go to the store and get a pair of normal leather gloves without any insulation and just use those and then if you're moving around and stuff obviously you're gonna be warmer sitting still 30 bucks man at the surplus store and they sell like high-end styles of these but I've never found a reason to get one these are these are very good I think they're canadian military if i'm not mistaken uh pants okay you guys have seen me wear these Fjällräven pants for years now okay they're expensive too don't get me wrong i'm not saying you need to go get these i'm not saying these are any gonna make you a better woodsman or make your time with doors more enjoyable or anything like that but for me they have features on them that i love i always get asked about them so that's why i'm talking about them they're durable as hell yeah These are my Fjällräven Vidda Pro trousers. They've got reinforced knees. They've got pockets underneath. You can slide a pouch, or sorry, a pad up the knees so you can not kill your knees when you're out in the bush. They've got these closures on the bottom that I really like. These elastic closures that you can cinch it down and have a tight cuff. Reinforced butt, axe loop, pocket, a bunch of cargo pockets, and you can wax them as well i've never waxed any of my fall ravens but you can these are more for hiking so these are my bushcraft pants these are like lightweight but no venting no nylon on them at all these are super durable walk through brambles everything with them these are more of my hiking pants that i have the option to vent so all here is a stretchy nylon material like elastic material sorry and then down here is that G1000 the the normal fall of a material and then on the sides you do have venting and then down below you have venting you have the same uh closures on the on the cuff you can see on the butt of these they're all full of balsam fir uh resin again from building that shelter at sean's place that's not coming out but uh yeah these are what what did i try yeah these are what i'd be using for hiking because you can vent them and stuff in the winter time all i do is i wear a pair of decent long johns underneath those uh normally i do wear the kevs because i can vent them and i do get overheated wearing the long johns so um that's a good winter pant a very good winter pant there are a couple hundred bucks for real Fjällräven it's like f j a l l r a v e n and they're uh swedish yeah great pants expensive pants but again i've had them for years and uh i do love them and he's been through many before that yeah yeah that's one thing with the with the Kev's is that if you do get ember on you in the in the elastic part it will burn through that for sure and getting embers on you happens when you're outside lighting illumination flashlights so for the longest time I use this Phoenix headlamp I like a headlamp so imagine like this is a great light there's a ThruNight flashlight great light yeah it's fantastic but i don't want to hold this in the woods trying to do stuff right like it's you need your hands so i really really really like headlamps i'm never gonna only bring a i might bring this as a backup but i'll always bring a headlamp as my main for the longest time i use this phoenix uh it's a good one it's called the HL50 pops off of here if you want it to use it a couple different ways you can clip it on a backpack all that stuff The problem with this one is it takes a CR123 battery, which is like $20 for two of them. And they burn out pretty quick. You go quick. This is my first headlamp. My first good one. This is a Petzl Tika. And you can get these anywhere. like Canadian Tire, Walmart, maybe not Walmart, but like Sport Chek, all that kind of stuff. This takes three AAA batteries, which again, isn't the most convenient. It's an okay light. It doesn't have the brightest functions. my favorite flashlight of all time my favorite headlamp of all time has to be this ThruNight T100 i am oh sorry TH20 this is not a sponsored video by ThruNight I have not done a Thru Night video in years this is the same headlamp this is like the last ThruNight video i did was for this headlamp fantastic headlamp i could not have picked imagine it going any better has three very bright functions and it runs on one AA battery and that's my favorite. Getting three AAA batteries to put in this Petzl was a pain in the butt. AAAs are expensive. One AA and it lasts a long time. All I have to do is bring one AA for a backup even if I'm gone for over a week. Really, really like this. Soda demo. So I would highly recommend going for a headlamp the Petzl Tika P-E-T Z-L Petzl It's totally fine. It will work for years Possible's pouches are something I get asked about a lot too, and I have two very separate kinds here. This is a hidden woodsman Possible's pouch. It's very durable. I could throw this down a cliff and not worry about it I like to put my camera batteries in here. Sometimes I put food in here. I have a couple of them He's got tabs on the outside. He's got a handle on this side. You can hang it. There's a logo there the hidden woodsman fantastic dude fantastic products all made in the states uh in new england i believe the other end of the spectrum is this one which is a sil nylon stuff sack which is a great stuff sack as well uh possible as coach i've had this longer this is by a guy named phantom x he makes them in the states as well um it's big and what i like about this one is that it forms to whatever i put in i feel like i could never put too much stuff in it it always lets me it's hungry it's hungry It swallows up the gear, whereas this one is kind of more rigid, and it's harder to get lots of things in. Different applications, both great. I've tied a little bit of cord on each tab on the outside of this one, and, yeah, I never go without them. My headlamp goes in there, my knife, my sharpener, my first aid kit, my compass, my butt wipes, my backup water filtration, lens cleaner, all sorts of stuff goes in there all the time always bring one regardless of either kind so again Phantom X for silnylon and Hidden Woodsman for durable like i said before a lot of my camping gear was accumulated uh for christmas and birth christmases and birthdays and stuff like that so i get a lot of questions about my watch so i got this one right one year So I got him this. It's a Casio ProTrek Tough Solar. I remember ProTrek. I looked through them. I researched it myself and I picked it out all myself. It's very true. She did. I did good. I like it. It's very tough and it's solar. You know what? I've never changed the battery. I've never had to. I don't think I ever have to. I kept it in my drawer for a couple weeks at one time. It just went completely black. I brought it outside, hit the Indigo button, and it was all good to go. Everything's working fine. It has like a barometer, temperature, compass on it, thermometer, not temperature, compass on it, all that stuff. Really like it. Casio ProTrek Tough Solar. Yeah. Okay. Something I didn't really get into until like maybe a couple years ago was twig stoves. And they can be really helpful and useful on a trip. This is all trip-dependent and activity-dependent, obviously. but I do really like a twig stove so I have two twig stoves on the completely opposite ends of the spectrum here for you the first one that I just took out is called the Bush Buddy and you can see it doesn't fold down or anything this is the only difference it does for packing but the good thing about it is it fits completely in my titanium Toks 900 maybe 1100 um yeah it is 1100 It fits in there, and it fits in the stuff sack, and it's totally fine. It stays protected and everything. It's good. This is a Firebox stove, and you can see it completely does fold down. It folds down into a nice little package. It's heavy. This is a very heavy one. I would not bring this on a backpacking trip or a canoe trip, and maybe I can't even open it. I would use this on a day hike or in a place where you can't really have open fires. so this thing is solid like really really really bomb proof fold it down there's a grill that goes on top there's a false or there's a bottom so you don't have to get ashes everywhere and then you have all these pins which you can arrange in so many different configurations to make yourself a grill or a pot holder or anything like that that's a really really really good piece of kit both of these are completely different though one weighs like three pounds and this one weighs like an ounce and there's twig stoves that that range from super lightweight smaller than this to bigger than this heavier than this and everything in between yeah twig stoves are cool they're fun to play with they're useful and i think it's a good part of a kit and so where are we gonna put all the gear we bought for christmas honey that's a good question normally you put it in a backpack And it all depends, right? So, on what kind of activity you're doing, what kind of activity the person you're buying this stuff for is doing. I have a few different backpacks here. We can go through kind of what they are and what purpose they're for. This is a Fjällräven Friluftsum 55. This is a backpacking backpack. I like this backpack. It's a good overall backpack for a lot of different things. But in general, this is a lightweight backpacking backpack that you can cover some distance in and put a lot of things in. It does have an external frame, a little bit of an external frame, has a mesh on the back so you don't get sweaty. This is just a type. I'm not saying this brand is anything. I love this brand. Fall Raven is awesome. But you can go with Osprey, you can go with, man there's so many different ones I can't even think of any off the top of my head. But that type of backpack, Osprey, Fjällräven, MEC, or Mountaineering Co-op or REI should have their own brands of these backpacks as well. I know that Mountaineering Co-op does. I have one. This type of backpack. Anyways, good backpack for all around, but mainly for backpacking. Again, the other end of the spectrum, this is more of a bushcraft backpack, where it has one big opening, it's heavier, it's not made of that lightweight stuff. Oh, that's where it went. Cutting board, alright. Anyways, you can strap things to the outside of this, this is called a Hidden Woodsman Day Ruck 2.0 Joe Robinette Edition. So you've got all sorts of Velcro on the outside for patches, you've got MOLLE on the outside for pouches. You got an axe sleeve behind your pouch here, pouch on the back, pretty comfortable back, but just a basic, you know, day pack, maybe stretch it to an overnighter because there's like some loops on the bottom you can put a sleeping bag on or a wool blanket, but that's like really, really completely opposite from the other backpack I showed. So, yeah, Malcolm sells these, again, same guy as the Puzzles pouch. And even smaller still is something like a Camelback day pack. So, say you just want to go to the woods and you're just bringing like, you know, your canteen and maybe your knife or a little axe. All that can go in here. A thing of water can go all in here and you're super lightweight, super convenient. Even if you're biking around or something. I really like this backpack. It has a bladder too. Super comfortable. Padded on the back. There's a little tiny camelback mule. M-U-L-E. We have packed that. Yep. Yeah, we've used this a lot. I like this backpack. It's very convenient. um and then even more the most bushcrafty style you can go i think is this Frost River Cliff Jacobson pack sorry i said that really weird it's a Frost River Cliff Jacobson pack i used this on my trip to Woodland Caribou with Sean i used this as my secondary pack it did great for me uh it's wax canvas it's just really floppy you know i mean really really floppy so i used um something for like a frame like a pad for a frame in the back of it worked good for me. I like it. It's like a nostalgic kind of thing. It's not very convenient. It's not very high-speed, low-drag. It's the opposite of that, but it's nice, and a lot of people really like that stuff. Frost River Cliff Jacobson Pack, and they do have a bunch of different kinds of packs. This is just one of them. I think that's about everything. Oh, no, two more things. Boots. Boots are very important in the wintertime. So, for myself, I've used Baffins, big Baffin Pack boots for the longest time. These are a newer version of the ones I've been wearing you can see what the downfall would be right it's huge it's cumbersome it's heavy and you'll sweat yeah these are furnaces on your feet and for that reason I've continued to use them another downfall about them is how big the sole is that barely fits into my barely fits into my snowshoe binding so this year and then this is it this sole the inside of them this is the one I had previous it's like this like reflectix material and they do tend to get really sweaty and they keep if you move around you warm up and you stay warm but when you get to camp at night if your feet have been sweating all day you're just sitting around there it's really bad you get cold and frozen it's not a good call so what I think we want to do this year is buy a pair of Salomon or maybe even Baffins if they do have them the hiking winter hiking boot small ankle boot and I'll use a barrier sock with that and I do have booties I have down booties oh I'm gonna go run and grab them I'll show you so I got these last year at MEC Mountain Equipment Co-op they're down on the bottom they have a rubber and they pack down to nothing and and they weigh very little so when i get to camp in this winter whether it be if i'm cold camping outside under a tarp or if i'm hot tenting with a wood stove i want to be using those boots that i was saying the smaller hiking boots the warm ones and then changing into these when i get to camp i'll change my sock out and i'll change these and i'm going to try that uh method this year for the whole winter and see how that goes because they're like little sleeping bags for your feet Because I don't want to wear those big furnace things anymore. It's just too much. It's too cumbersome. It's hard to walk. So, I do love them. And I think for like hunting or ice fishing or going on your sled, your skidoo, your snow machine, I think that these would be good. You put all the survival kits in the pocket, which is, oh my goodness, I have one. Oh, that's just a flashlight. Anyways, what do I do? I have an emergency blanket in there, too. Nope, it's just garbage. Look at that, it's a wrapper from years ago, learned all sorts of stuff. Okay, last thing, last thing is a jacket or a coat, I have two different options of down here, I like it down, so I'll wear, I'll bring on winter camp, I'll bring like a sweater like this and then a wool shirt like my fall raven granite shirt, which is like a button up wool shirt, but then I'll bring also down, I call it my puffy coat, I'm sure a lot of people call it a puffy coat. This is a Mountain Hardware Down Vest that I'll use sometimes. Obviously it's not a full down coat. This is like 700 fill, I think this is called the, I don't remember, Mountain Hardware Puffy Coat. And then this one I've had forever. You guys have seen me use this a lot of times, this is my Uplink from Mef, this is actually the Uplink 2, this one has the hood on it. And this is synthetic, this isn't down, this is like a synthetic down material insulation. It is my second one. It works great. I still have the first one. I wear it even more. Full of patches. Yes, full of patches. Full of patches. Great, great pieces of kit. So even if, and they pack down, that's the thing. You can use it as a pillow. It packs down into its own pocket, which a lot of them do. And even if you don't do it like that, if you don't transport it like that, this fills the crevices and the cracks in your backpack very nicely. And it's always worth bringing. It really doesn't take up room or space and it can save your life, literally. It's a very good piece of kit to have. That was a lot. Covered most. I'm sure people will point out things that I haven't covered, but that's okay. Okay, well, I hope this gave you guys some ideas of what to get yourself, your spouse, your significant other, your friend, if they're into camping or cold weather, being outside. Upload the video, you can watch it and it'll be good. But, yeah, let me know if there's any questions. Let me know if you enjoyed this video, if you liked this type of video, if it was informative for you. I had a lot of people asking for it, so I figured let's do it. It's a crappy day outside, super windy, I wouldn't be able to get anything past this microphone anyway. Thanks for helping me, honey. No problem, babe. We'll see you guys on the next one. See you guys on the next one.