Overnight Alone in the Forest

a much needed rest. It's almost five o'clock now. I don't know what time it was, but I think that was a few hours. I now feel much better. So what I want to do now is I want to bring this piece of red pine, this substantial piece over to my camp. Oh, it's pretty rotten, but I need something to work on top of. I need to buck all those pieces up. So I'd like to have a working bench. This red pine's been on the ground. It's rotted like I'm saying. I want to probably take, I don't know, eight feet of it. That way it's stable enough where it's not going to roll around when I'm using it. It's pretty humid out here. There's a nice breeze, much breezier than it was before, but it's very humid. It's not as sharp as some of my newer ones. It's more blunt. This is the first axe I bought, I think, ever. 19-inch Wetterlings. I was getting into bushcraft. 19-inch Wetterlings, large hunters. It's got a large, big wedge on it, so it's not as slicey and dicey as some of the transfers or my Sandvik even she works eaters said enough wood chopping do i do enough wood chopping in my videos i haven't been told that before not at all oh man look at the lighting look at the lighting right now about perfect eh, here you can see what i mean this is a red oak this has got that that white dusty bark but look at the red on the inside look at the contrast look at the contrast boy sorry look at the contrast right look at how how much decay look how much decay is on the outside right about uh eighth of an inch but then once you get to the wood that's when you can really see the grain and tell that it's still quality if you ever had like oak flooring in your house or whatever that's the same kind of look it has there's long that long grain i'm getting absolutely swarmed right now i don't know if it picks it up the camera there but there's mosquitoes and black flies and the black flies are just starting to bite mosquitoes have been biting all day i'm gonna probably get that fire going have a little smoldering fire inside underneath my tarp shelter there um just to keep the bugs down for a while i'm not really hungry that nap and that was good i got gassy from those uh those pillowheads very gassy come to the outskirts of my pine my red pine stand and i found a white pine These white pine have a little bit thinner twigs. These are very, very dry and have tiny needles on the end or tiny twigs on the end. So I'm going to gather a bunch of these to bring over for my kindling. It's all about using the easiest stuff around you. I'm not going to have to walk far for this at all and I don't want to split down my oak too much to make too many shavings and stuff. So just grab a ton of these. This will be a few levels of kindling for me. So this dead oak has another tell and it's this bark that just peels off very easily if you look under it's got these dots This bark if you've been watching my channel from the beginning, you know has Oils and characteristics that birch bark has as well So what i'm going to do is it doesn't come off as easy This is actually very easy to take off this specific one. It's not always this easy but i'm going to bring this back over to my My shelter and i'll show you how well it lights and has oils in it and it will burn and ignite my fire this will be my my birch bark substitute i still do have birch up there but i thought why not there's all this around it's kind of something different a little different to show so we'll grab this still use a match it will light off a fire still but i have my match i just have my fire still packed away but my match is gonna ignite this but we didn't see you there this tree is a nice backrest except for the limbs jabbing me in the spine okay so what I see a lot of times the biggest problem people have lighting fires no listen I'm lighting fire with a match here okay there's no nothing primitive about this but the same same situation same deal applies people that you can't even start with something this thick this is pine this is white pine super lightweight styrofoam y and I would still not some start with something that thick you want to start with stuff this thick the very tips of the pine twigs or the very tips of the maple or whatever you want to use use the smallest diameter that you can without any if you can't find that then that's when you split down you know you make these tiny little pencil lead shaving pencil lead and pencil diameter stuff so even though I'm cleaning all those off all these are getting put in a pile I'm still gonna use this that's my secondary tinder right so easy it's breaking there's nothing to it but I'm I'm gonna put that in a pile bigger than the tips. That way I have different levels of kindling, expert level kindling unlocked. Anyways, I'm probably telling you guys things that you already know, but maybe this will help a few of you. Just tiny, tiny, tiny. And then what I am gonna do, because I'm lighting it with that oak bark, that birch bark substitute, I am gonna go out and grab more milkweed stalks to put down actually first before these little twigs, just to give it as much chance in the world as it needs to grow. Obviously, I don't want to use more than one match. It's not a survival situation or anything like that, but I don't want to sit here with a book of matches trying to get a fire going when it's not even raining. That wouldn't look very expert level, would it? So, all about making your life easier, like I was saying earlier. That's what this trip's about anyway. Don't go off my last video. Okay, this wind is kicking up too. It's coming at me this way, which is good because my bed is here. My bed roll is here. My fire is here. Just parallel to the fire, so. Anyways, I've got enough here. I'm gonna go out. I'm not gonna bring you with me. You already know what I'm doing out there. Grabbing the milkweed stalks. I shall return. All right, so I've got my two sticks. I guess I'll put on this side so you can see as a brace. I've got my oak bark. Half of it blew away in the wind. And I got the wind at my back. So the wind actually just kicked up pretty good here I'm gonna try and block it as I'm lighting my As I'm lighting my fire Mosquitoes all over again the same thing with this the very fine kindling I'm gonna break the tops off and that's gonna go down first See the black smoke just how it's got like that really super orangey flame and the black smoke smoke and it's burning pretty good Just for oak bark. It's not any kind of birch or anything like that as I've said That's a pretty good burn with black smoke off of just a little bit of thin bark Something to keep in the back of mind anyway another trick another trick another trick is not leaving your matches right in the fire That's a good one to know stick with me boys and girls and we just get progressive Progressively bigger crisscross them applesauce them. Well, what do you think? That's alright a pretty cool little trick it's not as good as birch bark what you saw how oily and how orange the flame was GoPro action it's not a GoPro Joe I like being outside and not having to work my butt off you know something fun about it something really fun about it you can see what I mean my bed is here in front and the fire is just completely blowing that way that's how you want your setup it's getting to be that time I have a surprise mainly for myself but I'm sure guys will be interested in it too i gotta go out and down to the river to go get it so let's go to the river so what could i possibly be going down to the river to get bonus points if you get it three two one it's beer no beer we're this time we got beer sticks holding her down oh buddy let's Let's hike back up and I'll talk all about these bad boys. I'm back, back from the river. Okay, so I have sand in my mouthpiece. Is this in focus? This is not in focus, is it better? All right, I have two of my favorite beers by two of my favorite breweries in Ontario. I have Sawdust City Twin Pines, that bad boy. What does that say right there? What does that say? 8.8%. Bam, son. Got Twin Pines Double IPA, Extra Strong Beer, Double IPA, she says. Sawdust City is out of Gravenhurst. You've tasted our Lone Pine IPA and you've experienced being slapped across the face of the pine bough, quote unquote. At first it surprised you, then it grew on you, and before long you couldn't wait for that truculent tree, truculent, T-R-U-C-U-L-E-N-T, truculent tree to do it again and now as you stand there in disbelief you see not one but two mighty pine looming before you are you seeing double indeed you are twin pines is everything you love about lone pine but with double the pleasure huge amounts of hops and balance perfectly mounts perfectly with massive amounts of malt making twin pines double ipa one dangerously delicious ale you've been warned twice she says growing her in only been five months okay second second up for your viewing pleasure is octopus wants to fight this is a staple our pet octopus is a bit of a jerk he's that guy who has a couple he's that guy who has a couple that either tells you how much he loves you or threatens to fight you so we brewed this IPA with eight varieties of hops and eight types of malt we targeted 88 IBU and 8.8 percent to appease him sadly when he found out that we fabricated all of the above info it only made him more volatile we're starting to realize that octopus was a poor choice for a pet uh it's not 8.8 it's 6.2 right now this this batch at least um ingredients water malted barley hops yeast doesn't say much more than that serving temp three to five so i think i'm gonna do the Twin Pines first off starter off hardcore you know 8.8 as opposed to the six point whatever i just want to get the sand out of my mouthpiece you know really more than anything i saw a comment that says i wonder just how much he gets paid by the liquor company notice he reads every ingredient all about the the liquor and the beer before he drinks it i wish bud i wish you think the LCBO just sending me checks here right all right and another thing i wanted to get off my chest you guys see me drinking in almost every video that's like once a week maybe once every two weeks i don't really drink at home too often i have a beer every now and then but um i do enjoy a beer while i'm out so for the children out there it's not a cool thing it's not something cool i wouldn't think you're any cooler if you are drinking or if you're not it's just something that i would like to do out here cheers that's such a good beer old Twin Pines i actually went to the the brewery to get it in Gravenhurst they don't have them in the uh in the liquor store by my house my plane's around do you hear him do you hear him now i'm over here if you're missing me maybe i should only brought up the one beer so far right now to keep the other one cold but okay i think i gotta do supper it's uh it's like 6 30 it's about supper time i burned my other fork or spoon or spatula or whatever i made so it had resin in it anyways i didn't really want to use it too much for eating so um here's a piece of maple part super hard dense i'm going to do the same thing i'm just going to make like a little straight like a chisel point on the end it works really well for eating i'm going to cut it cut it again with my saw because the end is all very splintered and obviously i don't want that uh while i'm eating as a utensil i'm telling you i know i already told you guys is this little saw on the Swiss Swiss Army knives I've had it on a farmer and this bushcrafter now it's a good little saw you're not gonna be doing your firewood with it at all but for notches or for like making traps or a bow drill kit or even just little stuff like this little crafty stuff perfect it's not a garbage saw that's definitely it's not a wire saw it worked almost through takes a while no joke oh i'll take my butter my melted oh no my melted butter and garlic and add that too oh and my jerky oh things are looking up boys and girls no peasant life anymore all right so i got rice jerky butter garlic i'm not gonna put my M&M peanuts in my rice not this time well fire is hot imagine that so i got that in there i am gonna put the rest of my butter in because i don't need it for anything else now throw my garlic hunk in there just like that too i tend to uh normally put too much water in not really on purpose just pulling a joe every time but uh a good trick is if you throw it back on the fire without the lid on the water will evaporate you leave the lid on and the water the steam come hits the lid and drips back in as water right if you leave the lid off then the water evaporates and it gets to be good that's how i've always cooked this rice just always too much water and then boiled it out it's always worked fine for me it's no big deal i think what i'll do is throw my jerky inside it once it's done i got some actually maybe i won't need salt if the jerky's in it jerky's pretty damn salty in general but i think i'm done my spoon just that chisel end one ends more of a scoopy kind of thing nothing fancy you know i'm not Zed over here carving kuksas and spoons like a pro what up Zed much love all right let's take this uh yeah i'm loving this sheath super simple anyways let's take this uh rice boiling rice off of here and see what's going on i didn't bring any gloves and the titanium tends to get hot so i normally try to leave the handles hanging off the fire but i think it's gonna they're gonna be pretty hot right now so but i think that means i already burned my hand on it oh man i think i might oh man these bugs are getting me they're getting me Bob i think i might cut up my garlic in here now i just wanted to plop it in at first to get the the whole thing full of the garlic flavor oh she's she's a touch toasty bud oh my goodness gracious i can hear a dog or something maybe it's that cow again all right cut these oh she's soft that's perfect soft garlic garlic yeah it's a dog i hear a dog working out there all right quality spoon it's almost done i think right now i will throw my jerky in as well because it's almost done might be a little weird i don't care i don't care if you think i'm weird best jerky man awesome subscriber sent me some christopher i do have more stuff at home if you guys have sent me something i haven't mentioned it at all i do have it at home i'm going to be doing a video on it i just haven't got around to it yet but i do appreciate it and thank you this is done this is done all that water is gone now oh she's done bud you know what let's go sit on the cliff have a little view for our dinner sounds like a good idea what a view it's like the uh the bend the grand river not the grand river grand canyon there's a grand river though just like the grand canyon here same deal scorpions this is a nice spot very nice spot thank you to clark for letting me know about this place for sure but i know some people are gonna comment or wonder about my tarp setup i've had people before everything from thinking that tarps are the only way to go now to telling me i'm an idiot for setting my tarp up so high what if it rains the fact of the matter is the tarp is not the be all end all shelter i love it i absolutely it's my favorite i love it i love the the ventilation you get the airflow you get through it you're not getting all full of condensation and focus not getting all sorts of condensation in there um she echoed you get protection from the rain there's zero protection from bugs it's a little bit more of a pain in the butt to set up um and sometimes depending on your setup the way your configuration you need trees that what you saw me do on my last trip with the with the pole with the uh canoe paddle or you could use a stick that works and you can you can use a tarp without any trees but you're still kind of limited um so to address the rain thing it has to be raining completely sideways for it to go past that you know i mean like i have it up so high it's almost flat but it would literally need to be raining sideways i know it's not going to even if it does sprinkle like it did earlier today it was just like a drizzle not worried about it and if it does it doesn't take much to just drop down the corners and get more of an a-frame even if it is high up above you it does stop the wind when it's closer to the ground but again i'm not really concerned about it um my wool blanket tonight is going to be more than sufficient for warmth i don't need to worry about wind and when i did worry about wind on my last trip for example i was staking it down to the ground you saw that different shelters for different times of the year for different situations for different regions even i had a guy flip out on my um solo hammock camping in a thunderstorm video call me a retard and and everything because i'm teaching people that it's okay to camp in a thunderstorm with just a tarp what is a tent gonna do what is a tent gonna do in a thunderstorm what is a tent it's just four pieces of four walls of thin thin nylon it doesn't make sense like a tarp isn't going to protect you from thunderstorm or lightning but neither is a tent if anything there's no poles there's no metal poles on the tarp people are very quick to jump to conclusions and think that they know what's going on maybe they do every region is different i'm really not trying to teach too much at all i'm just trying to show you my experience out here that's what i'm trying to do i'm not an expert in anything i'm just a guy who goes out and camps really it's as easy as you want to put it I have some skills I have some knowledge but man you get that by going out you know what I mean anyways maybe this double IPA is getting to me but the fact of the matter is the moral of the story is not everything is the same things are different things are good sometimes things are good not other times the same thing can be good one time and not another time nothing is just straight across even results may vary my version of bushcraft may differ from yours oh and I would laugh my next trip will be with a friend who should i collaborate with next let me know in the comments who should i collaborate with i already know what my next trip is going to be i won't let you in on it just yet but it'll be cool and it'll be with a guy that you've been asking for for me to do a video with but who should i collaborate with what are the big youtubers let me know i'm buddies with a lot of them all the cool ones i'll go down the creek get some water wash this bad boy out again but first M&M peanuts dessert time i love these things just a handful a little handful will do you check out my website joerobinette.com if you want a scout patch bam i'm in two colors sand in there sand really works good it acts like it has an abrasive imagine uh using like an SOS pad compared to a dish rag right so my mommy my mom's always hooking me up with weird stuff got a bag of sage i swear that's what it is straight sage and she has had a sore throat she said for some time now a little virus thing going around and this has been helping her throat oh man that's sage and she says she did a bunch of research on it it is not only good for just your throat but good for guts and all that fun stuff so what i'm going to do is make a tea right now out of my hot water that i just cleaned my uh rice tank with i'm not really sure how much to put in how to i don't have a t-ball or anything like that so i'm just gonna grab a nice maybe tablespoon ish full a little bit more just drip it right in and then um after when it's done steeping i'll probably just sift it slow to try to keep this stuff out of my mouth yeah it smells really good i've had some like uh honey or lemon or something i think that'll go well with it got salt i don't think that'll work though all right might try something different other than doing what i said just drinking it with it in with the sage in it i might i am going to not might i'm going to pour it in here i'm going to sift it into here and then pour it back into my cup oh it's green smells really good actually smells like you could use some lemon lemon and honey okay so that's good in there golden goodness I got my sage I almost dumped back into my pot okay it's pretty clean pretty clean do the old switcheroo look at me go never a dull moment all right pretty clean sagey all right this should be pretty good that's decent guys straight up smoke is coming at me a little bit now I like it I like it quite a bit actually thanks mom again thank you hope you guys did something good for your moms on mother's day oh we had everybody over had a little barbecue Spent some mommy time Some mommy time Can't appreciate the moms enough, you know Legit, real talk Okay, well, this sage tea is very good I suggest you guys try it if you haven't Might make another tea after Another cup of old sage tea Well, I think I might go for a little walk Before I lose light It's almost sundown I got, can you see the sun behind me? Can you see that? I got three quarters I got an hour and a half before dark so each hand each four fingers is an hour from the horizon so we've got an hour and three fingers hour 45 minutes until it's dark and it probably won't even be dark at that point without residual light but uh yeah cool for a walk maybe down by the river see if any animals are out i've seen beaver sign i've seen beaver too all by it maybe you can go uh be quiet and see a little bit of sign or see some beaver see in the sand here deer deer hoof print it's a bunch all around sand is good for a little track trap those are raccoon i believe it's something else but something close to a raccoon otter beaver or a raccoon i imagine get that bug spray off me as much as possible wake myself up a bit you know eight o'clock at night you need to wake up all i can taste in my mouth is that sage all i can taste in my mouth is that sage well i'm getting swarmed down here by mosquitoes up where my camp is there's much more breeze and a fire so i think i'm going to go head back up there if you live in the eastern woodlands i'm sure you've seen this always on young spindly trees this is black knot of cherry Apiosporina morbosa one of the things i remember from college very well they called it blank on a stick we'll call it crap on a stick is what it looks like literally looks like a turd but it is a fungus i've tried to spark it with a fire steel before no luck pretty fibrous inside i thought it would have worked But anyways, Apiosporina morbosa. I got more than enough firewood now stacked up. I only got it's 8:30 I only have I don't know. I don't expect to stand up till past 10. I did have that nap today Maybe I'll stay up till 11 or something, but still not even three hours left I can burn two or three pieces of wood at a time and it's more than sufficient It's nice not having to huddle by the fire trying to stay alive kind of thing. Just having it for fun instead This is a good trip. It's completely different than my last trip, but a very good trip I almost needed it to reset. All I brought for warmth was my old Primaloft This thing has been with me for so very long It's one of the first like expensive pieces of clothing gear for the outdoors. I bought, you know It's never fun buying like sleeping pads or clothes or like even a sleeping bag and stuff like that It's just not something cool. It's not a knife. It's not an axe. You know what I mean? It's not a I bought a woods tool. It's a bottom garment But once you have your tools and once you you're comfortable with your stuff And you're not really searching for like the best knife and all that quote-unquote stuff You really start looking at like how do you make yourself more comfortable out there without Carrying heavy bulky stuff right like it all depending obviously on what you're doing. This is my thought process anyways This was my thought process during this whole camping thing so this is a mountain equipment co-op uplink one it's Primaloft it's got like so it's that means it's like synthetic down inside it's like a very thin nylon you can see i've patched it up multiple times it's got burn holes all in it no joke yeah i brought this on alone with me and i've had this maybe two years before that so i don't know a good good five years at the very minimum and the thing's still going strong you know what i mean it packs down to nothing keeps me super warm if i put this on and sat by the fire i can't i can't even wear this right now it's too hot and it's inside out let's put it on inside out that's really weird how does that work no i didn't well yeah i can't even sit here by the fire with it on way too hot and i don't even need to put my sweater on right now so oh and the best part is this is how i'm going to be using it tonight i didn't know if i would have to wear it or not how depending how cold it got but like most things like this it's not like special towards this or anything it folds up into its own pocket most pieces of like um outer down wear like coats and stuff that have the chest pocket will do this pack right up into its own chest pocket zip up this time i didn't bring my fancy pillow in my old joro pillow yeah not too much gear on this trip though definitely enough in the pines in the pines where the sun don't ever shine i'll shiver the whole hero night through my girl my girl don't lie to me tell me where did you sleep last night all right super bonus points who sings that song filled up a whole sd card a 32 gig too who sings that song and what album was it from my girl my girl don't lie to me tell me where did you sleep last night in the pines in the pines with the sun don't ever shine i will shiver the whole night probably a lot of people's favorite band of the 90s iconic as they come go that's two trivias in this video guys two trivias feeling all trivia-y cheers 10 30 now i think i'm gonna head in soon i just put the last of the wood on the fire there wind's kicking up but obviously i'm not cold at all i still haven't had to put on my sweater or my primloft or anything like that yeah i think i'll tuck in here pretty soon i'll get with you in the morning i've got some oatmeal to cook up before i uh pack up and get out of here so hope you guys have a good night and i'll see you in the morning birds are singing woodpeckers are pecking mosquitoes are biting what a good night it's uh just past six now so i slept in pretty good fall asleep till 11 30 or so i get a fire going man these mosquitoes are getting bad this morning here the uh mosquitoes died down last night pretty good once it got dark and the fire and the wind and all that stuff the wind kept up pretty good last night too but it never got too cold i had to put on my sweater here but that was about it nice sunrise though beauty bust out the old birch bark eh about the one match I still got a book of matches but we'll try to use one match Heck that wood bro guess what's on the menu this morning you'll never guess it it's something completely new oatmeal um i think i am going to use my spork because i remembered i had it last night it's an easy this morning probably not going to film too much or stick around too much i do have that big six hour drive to get home emerald is anxious to see me as i am her and my wife so just an overnighter but i was gone for two nights right i had to drive here the day before so there's a little little bit of time away absence makes the heart grow fonder until five minutes after i'm home and then the family is ready for me to go again and i am ready to go again i said this to my wife last time i said oh man all i wanted to do last time was be home and now i'm home and i got the itch to be gone again and she says i know what you mean i said what she's like i wanted you to be home five minutes after i wanted to be gone again too she gives it right back to me man which is good that's probably why we've been together for so long but uh yeah anyways i'm probably gonna eat this oatmeal up and tear down camp can you see the glow look at the glow look at the bump on the forehead oh my goodness it's huge oh my gosh in the backpack she's empty now first goes tarp perfect size on the bottom for the tarp completely takes up the complete bottom The sleeping pad gets smashed in front of it on the bottom. Sleeping pad both on the bottom. Nothing else can fit on the very bottom itself. Alright, then we go possibles pouch, we go grill inside sleeping pad or sitting pad and that goes in the back sleeve here in the orange. Should have put that in first but that's in there now. Alright, possibles pouch. Tooth gets smashed down in there. coat in the front fry pan i'll wait to put the fry pan into the top but then we got our oh right here both pieces in my hand our uh fishing rod both pieces so this piece at the end the connector is sharp i want to put that at the top i don't want that hitting my um sleeping bag or pad i mean or tarp my reel can go in there's a slug on my reel perfect get that guy off of there reel goes in and i am going to put my chest mount in there my smaller gopro which is my sorry my gopro session not my smaller gopro i guess it is the smallest one smaller camera extra lens these are all extra things that i don't really even count all to do with uh filming my other my other tripod my fishing stuff my sage and the fry pan goes in top if it wasn't for this tripod everything would be perfect so I maybe won't carry that one in that spot slide it down the side here goes in side paracord in there I just got the old wool blanket to put in right before I put my canteen away I'm gonna probably go hike down to the water grab some to put this fire out things out good to go alright guys I hope you enjoyed that video I had a really fun time on this trip a little bit different than my last trip stay tuned there will be more videos coming soon adventures and whatnot you guys have a good day thanks for watching i'll see you on the next one