Winter Camping in Algonquin Park -37c

Well, we're in beautiful Algonquin Park once again. This is day three of a four-day snowshoe sled pull. We came in two days ago, and it was super cold. The highs of both the prior days were negative 20 degrees Celsius. That is what Fahrenheit? Negative 2. Yeah, negative 2 Fahrenheit. So at night, the first night dropped down to negative 37 Celsius, negative 35 Fahrenheit. The reason I'm telling you this is because our cameras really wouldn't work We kept the batteries in our pockets and not only did that not help the cameras are too cold to touch It's hurting our hands. So a lot of things went this trip kicked our asses. That's basically it So I'm going to put this as an intro vid and then I'm going to show you the clips that I have Not very many at all. We didn't get anything yesterday, but that's how it is. Today's not as bad It's supposed to get down to what was it tonight? negative 30 or so, around negative 30, which is still real cold, but we're going to cozy up in here and have a good night of fire in the woods, so hope you guys enjoy the video. We snowshoed in for about an hour and a half today here in Algonquin Park, we're doing the Minisink Trail, and set up camp is about 4 o'clock now, it's cold man, it's like, it's supposed to get down to negative 34, so I'll see you tonight, it's probably negative 30 already, it is cold, with it before the wind chill, so we got all set up and we're just getting firewood and hopefully we'll be able to get enough to last us for a couple hours We've got all our firewood stacked up for the night. We're just going to wait until about 6 o'clock before we start cooking dinner and whatnot. It's getting real dark real quick. Well, we're both feeling pretty good now. Not too cold at all, sitting by the fire warming up. It could also be the rum, though, not the fire, but who's to know? We got down to negative 37 last night Celsius, which is negative 35 and our rum froze the alcohol or sorry the MSR stove that's supposed to work in extreme cold failed, so we're using a fire which still works in negative 37 degrees and we're just gonna get up some water for oatmeal and hopefully pack up. It hurts to use my hands well after being in the woods for three days and two nights of real real cold weather we came across this cabin it's a godsend. We're going to spend the night in here and dry our sleeping bags out. They're all wet with condensation and whatnot. We've got this nice cast iron wood stove. We're going to pump that baby full of firewood. Just eat like kings and relax. This is our last night here, so it's kind of like a reward for our hardships in the woods. It's just so every time I go camping, the exception of backpacking, you can get away without using a knife. I got this Selilo bushcrafter used as a neck knife for this trip. I can't even remember bringing it up, pulling it out once, using my axe for everything, making tripods for cooking over the fire, splitting clearing brush for my tent everything it just it's just much easier to use in the winter time for me on a backpacking trip I would use a knife because I'm not bringing an axe it's just plain simple this is a Wetterlings 26 inches an old one it's done up real nice I like it had it for a long time it works real well for me I ended up tying an orange lanyard I am NOT an advocate of lanyards at all but I dropped this in the snow quite a few times and I'm not worried about it the lanyard shows up it's all good um mitts and gloves it was a system this time um it's been so cold that you cannot wear not wear gloves it doesn't matter you can't not wear gloves for more than five minutes and your fingers are numb they hurt so i have these uh surplus mitts they're really good thick leather they work for um just generally having on working around the fire moving the grill that kind of stuff but when you need um to have dexterity which you do doing zippers and packing up camp we moved to camp every day, had these North Face gloves. They're fleece and they got a little bit of grip on them and they work real well. Putting that on now, I haven't had it on in a couple of hours, that's freezing cold. But you get going and it gets warmer or whatever. So basically two sets of gloves for something like this I think is ideal. We're really starting to feel the warmth now. We've had this wood stove kicking for a while. We've got our sausages on here defrosting. snow melting ice melting over the Nalgene, we got our butt wipes which are baby wipes but they froze all the ice de-thawing there. We are really comfortable now in here. Well here we are getting packed up ready to leave we got some oatmeal to eat still. We stayed real warm and real comfortable last night real dry and we gotta pack up, walk about five five and a half clicks to get out and uh that's it these four days three nights a little weather recap um the whole time we were out it didn't get above negative 20 celsius as a high in the daytime first night negative 37 second night negative 34 third night negative 34. and today now that we're driving out it's negative 11 which is like perfect weather to be out in but whatever it's all good I had a great time learned a lot and if you want to stay tuned for some dumb dumb moments from Kyle and Joe Yes I've been ready. Are you ready? Two for two. Okay, just saw it. Nobody's paying nobody's paying you to talk Nobody's paying you to talk. Yeah, I'm trying to Yeah, I ******* noticed that! You warm now Kyle? Finally, yes, it's great