Bushcraft Instructionals; Camping Overnight.

Seems as though every time I enter the woods I get a feeling of relief, of relaxation and anticipation for what I'm going to be able to accomplish today or whatever given day I'm out there. We just entered here now and it's going to thunderstorm today. It's been calling for it in the afternoon, it's about 1230 right now. Just had lunch and got dropped off here. So I'm a little anxious to get my tarp set up so I can start gathering some fuel, some wood and keep it dry while it starts a thunderstorm as you can see here we're in a hardwoods forest in the springtime the leaves aren't out yet some trees the leaves are starting to come out the buds and it just started raining so first order is get that sharp shelter up I've been planning on doing this overnight for a little while now and as you can see in here the winds picking up it's actually it's gonna storm but sometimes you don't really have a choice you know if you want to get out get out if you only give there's a quote by Ramirez if you only get out in nice weather you're missing out on three-quarters of your time in the woods or something along those lines and I agree with it so I'm gonna camp in the rain maybe. Maybe it'll hold off hopefully but we'll see. My plan of action today is to get my tarp shelter set up get a bunch of firewood gathered up build up my camp go hunt for some wild leeks maybe pick some basswood buds for supper to go along with supper and just kind of hang out by the fire and read a book tonight so we'll see how that goes. We've been hiking around the woods for little bit now trying to find an ideal spot for a shelter and this seems to be like it to me if you look around we got a big open space right here where there's no trees all right in here and if you look up there's no deadfall that's something you really want to watch to make sure there's no limbs almost gonna fall off in the wind that no dead dead trees could snap off in the wind nothing hanging which looks to be pretty clear here if I look if I put my tarp shelter where I'm standing I look up there's no dead trees and barely There's there's a good opening there so more so than in the rest of the woods if you look over there It's all closed in another reason that I chose this site was because of the availability of firewood So got some laying there, which is gonna be a good starter pieces Dead one back in there a bunch of dead ones over there and right where I'm set up There's a couple small maples standing so I don't have to walk far to gather a bunch of wood I'm gonna get together quite a bit of wood for tonight I wasn't expecting that. It actually started sprinkling on the way in, so that's good. Just don't leave that alone. Go get it. Okay, so in my backpack, I'll show you what I carry for an overnight trip, for an overnight camp. The way I pack my backpack is specific as well. So on the side, I've got my boy's axe, just on clips. It slides into the pocket on the side. Really good tool, really good useful tool, especially for an overnight camp. I can gather firewood easily. I can help drive stakes into the ground with it. I can help build fire reflectors, and if I was building a shelter, this would be even more useful. I can do everything with this. I also brought my knife, because I like playing with my knife. It is what it is. Okay, so my backpack. First, we'll do the top compartment. I've got a book to keep me busy at night. A heavy-duty plastic bag, which we'll collect water in for later. a first aid kit and with a little bit of survival kit inside of it like a space blanket stuff like that go on put my lid to my cup and very important toilet paper i bring baby wipes and normal toilet paper it helps a lot believe me if you haven't tried it try it and i've got my headlamp and a patch kit for my um my sleeping pad headlamp so in my main compartment i pack it like i said in a specific certain way so the first thing to come out is my rain gear like I said it's supposed to thunderstorm I'm going to need this and if I needed this I don't want to have to dig everything out over the bottom of my bag to get this at the bottom I want it on top accessible easy to get to my tarp this is a nylon tarp a 10 by 10 you can do a lot of different configurations with a square tarp I am a high I highly believe in square tarps especially over rectangular square tarps or oddly shaped tarps. You can do so much more with a square tarp. My line kit, I got some 550 cord in there. Next up, because if I'm hiking around I want to be able to get my water pretty easily, my pot and my water nest, my water goes in next. My food, it's got some Mountain House, a couple snacks for tonight. I'm gonna plan on getting some wild leeks and a little bit of different wild edibles to add into that. A sleeping pad, this is a Therm-a-Rest NeoAir, great pad. I don't have pine boughs, spruce boughs around here to make myself a sleeping pad, and sleeping right on the wet ground is not a good idea. So if I did have those resources, I'd be using them. I don't, there's no conifers around here like I said, so a sleeping pad is a must. Primaloft jacket, my sleeping bag, it's a down sleeping bag, goes down to positive three Celsius. Celsius. And on the back, against my back, I have this piece of Reflectix. I use this as a sitting pad in the daytime and a ground sheet at night. So it covers about three quarters of the size of my body and I can fold it up and use it as a chair with a backrest. I'll put it against a log or something like that. Really, really, really useful piece of kit. And it weighs nothing and it just slides down next to my back, like I said. That's it. That's all I have. Oh, sorry, I have the Silky saw as well. That's all I have for tonight. If I could use the same exact set up for a week, I would just have to bring more food. We'll be setting up between this tree and this tree. So I want to clear the area of all the sticks and debris that might fall from the silky mat. I need to get some stakes cut before I set my tarp up. Cut stakes this way with a little bit of a hook on them. It's a little bit easier to use setting them up. You want to cut your stakes a little bit long. You can always pound them into the ground more if you need to or cut them shorter if you need to I'm just scoring them with my knife right now and breaking them nothing nothing super hard, go on, go on, so that's one stake, almost done the ground is so soft right now that i don't even have to put a point on them, okay, make a few more of those up, as a rule i normally put it about chest height but i'm going to set it up a little bit higher today, so i'm going to go about face height and the knot i'm going to be using is called the top line hitch. So the way to tie it is you fold it around the tree once, you wrap it around the tree, and then you pinch it where it connects, okay? You're going to take the tail, run it inside once, inside twice, okay? And grab the outside and put the tail through outside once and pull it through. Okay, so what that does is it creates a tensioning knot where you're able to loosen it or tighten it as you want, okay? And that comes really useful and then that stays, all you have to do is push it and then that comes really useful in getting your tarp as tight as you can, one more time around the tree, pinch it, tail goes inside once, twice, comes outside once pull it tight and you're good to go, you never really want to just throw your stuff sacks on the ground or anything like that, it's really easy to lose especially on the green, i just stuff them in my pockets until later on until later on i'll put them in my backpack so the way that this shelter sets up is on a diagonal. That's why I like a square tarp. so you're going to fold a corner over the top and you're going to pull it out until you get to the second, sorry the third tab. So there's tabs every so often. This is the third tab. After I've got the toggles in it's time to tighten up the line pretty tight. You can see I did set the tarp up in the right direction. The wind's blowing it this way. That's what I want. So here you can see why I cut the peg the way I did it's got the little hook on the end so what I do is I hook the hook through the little tab there and that way you don't have to use any any cordage to secure it so I'm gonna want to take it down right close to the ground now both the hook and the main part of the peg are into the ground there's no way this thing's coming out as you can see we're almost done putting our shelter up got the main part of it set up we just got to do the sides it's gonna wrap around like a three-sided tarp so the shelters all set up I've tied a piece of paracord to the very middle tie part in the back and this is gonna really tighten up the tarp and bring the whole shelter together so ideally we'd have a tree right behind it or you can put a stick right behind it tie it down and tie to that but there's a tree just off to the side we use that so I'm going to use the same taut-line hitch but I use pretty much 90% of the time for my shelter up and that way I can really tension it good. When you get proficient with these knots and time in one second, that's already done. You can really see it opens it up. So you can see it's set up. Plenty of room for me and the dog in here and at night or if it starts to rain, I can pull down this part, take it down and I'll have even more protection from the rain or the wind. But I'm going to leave it up right now. I want to build a fire in front later on. This weather's really tricky one minute it's gray outside starts sprinkling rain and and and it's windy and the next minute it's sunny outside I actually had to strip off a layer I was too warm so we're gonna play it safe bet on it raining because I imagine it will before that happens I want to get my firewood ready I want to get some firewood collected and under here so that it's dry I'm not gonna start my fire until later on tonight when I want to cook my supper there's no point in keeping a fire going it's just extra fine extra energy to spend so So we're going to go around and get some dead dry standing wood that's really important especially for wet conditions like this and we'll be able to get a fire with that. I'm going to have a surface to work on like this log. I've got this log here so I can chop on it and do some fire prep on it. If you don't have a log sturdy on the ground you have a chance of slipping or messing up or putting your axe into the dirt which you don't want. Let's go. Also, very important thing, take off your axe max when you're chopping. Don't chop with your axe max on, not a good idea. Also not a good idea to throw it on the ground. I put it in my pocket the same way as the stuff sack. So I found this top of a maple tree, it broke off, it's all dead, nice sized manageable pieces. So we're just going to clean it up real quick, get the pieces off. We can use a saw or an axe for this, or just break it, I find the axe to be the most efficient. When limbing a tree like this, you want to go with the grain, not against it. First I'm just going to get rid of this one that was in my way, right off. Like I said, you go with the grain. I want to always be mindful of the dog, or if there's other people around. Dead seasoned maple, like I said, not the hardest wood in the world, but it's nice, it'll give you good coals. It doesn't take a lot of energy, it's pretty straightforward and quick, that's why I like the axe so much. Sometimes you can read the wood when you're splitting it, say there's a V here and you're able to break it with your hands, you know, you pull it down, it's really, really easy, it doesn't take much effort at all. I'm just breaking these pieces up by hand into rough shapes, I'm going to stash them underneath the tarp for now and go get more wood. This is definitely not going to cut it for the whole night, at least until I go to bed. I just want to get it protected from the rain. I was fortunate enough to be able to grab a big piece of red oak. Red oak splits like a dream. It's really hard, dense wood, it'll burn forever. And this is a nice manageable piece. It's about forearm thickness, maybe a little bit bigger at the bottom. But it's a good long piece, it'll give me a lot of firewood. I might be alright with just this and whatever else I grab. The sky's looking pretty good. It's blue for the most part. I'm gonna leave this for later to process it for later and we're gonna go get some water the water is about a three kilometer walk from here maybe two to three kilometer walk it'll be four kilometers by the time we get back at all at least so we want to do that before it starts raining if it does rain I'm hopeful that it's not going to but either way whatever okay I'm down at the water here it's just a small Creek I got my plastic bag there's a heavy duty plastic bag we're gonna collect the water and save it for later All right, go ahead, Spilly. Get it. Get the stick. Get it. Get it. You can do it. It's a little too big for you, bud. You can see the water that I collected in this plastic bag. Probably brought about a liter and a half in there. It's not too dirty. There wasn't a lot of turbidity in the water. So I'm not going to bother filtering it before I boil it. If I was worried about it, if I was concerned about the dirtiness of the water, I would pour it through a bandana or something like that first and then boil it. There's our first wild edible and my favorite, leeks. you can tell it's a leek they're one of the first greenery like this to come up in the spring other than the trout release here's a comparison shot you can tell they're way different the trellis have the spots on them the leaks are really green and also if you rip it the leaf it smells like an oniony garlic uh very very good and my most favorite wild edible ever so basically all we're doing is trying to get underneath the leaks uh the leaks the part of the leak we wanted the bulb at the bottom so we're just trying to pry them up and try not to separate the leak from the bulb there's some there and try and get them up all intact without breaking them so not too much digging is necessary just enough to separate them from the soil there's a bunch there we're gonna collect uh you know what that's probably enough right there i'm gonna leave the rest of them there so that they'll germinate for next year the leeks come with this like casing on them it's like a a slimy kind of casing with the mud on it so if you just pull down from the mud the casing comes right off and it's clean and you can actually just eat it right off the bud that's not my preferred way to do it preferred way is cooking it and that's what we're going to do later got some basswood buds here um they're really good edible they're starting to go to leaf which is fine they taste almost like a like a celery at this stage when they're a bud they taste more like a cucumber um but they're good and uh there's plenty of them i can't stress enough though don't go around eating buds off trees don't go around eating roots don't go around eating anything unless you're 100% sure that what you think it is it is i know for a fact this is basswood the buds grow on a lopsided uh angle and they're red right now they're not too red but they're growing out uh the leaves coming out that's why i know for sure this is basswood smooth bark real light wood I know for sure it is so you can pick them right off and eat them I'm gonna pick a bunch and throw them in my cup there like I was and supplement my supper with it here we have a sassafras tree the root from this tree is useful as well you can use it as a tea it tastes very very good it's like a root beer kind of taste has like a nice orange pink color to it so just gonna dig out I already started digging a little bit dig down until you can find a root and there's a root there just give it a yank should break off and to test it the way to make sure it is actually sassafras root from the tree just give it a smell there's no mistaking it it smells like it smells like root beer honestly like an old Hires root beer and that's that so we're gonna throw that in the pot and dig that up for our tea for later on tonight I was able to find a bigger root that's gonna make a lot more tea so just with a 90 degree angle to your blade just scrape this outside off you're gonna get all the dirt the mud all that fun stuff off with it I'll just do it rough for now I can clean up later back at the shelter but you can see how easy it is and honestly if you could smell this there's nothing like it it's it's it's very very very good and it tastes very good as well and I think we're done for foraging for today we're gonna go back and build up the shelter a little bit more and cut some Firewood. Being out in the woods like this today really relaxes me, really calms me down. I'm not worried about bills I have to pay and stuff I have to do, you know? It's a relief, it's a relaxing kind of thing for me. Got into the outdoors a long time ago, maybe, well, I was always into the outdoors, but I got really interested in going out and learning skills, learning bushcraft about 10 years ago. Worked on my game a lot. went to a couple, probably three classes with really, really, really good instructor, Terry Barney. Learned a lot. Now my bushcraft really has turned into more of adventure. This kind of stuff is fun, but it's not really adventure. My adventures are going canoe tripping, going backpacking multiple days. I have a canoe trip planned for May the 12th. We're going for six days up north in Killarney Park. We're canoeing, we're fishing, we're hiking and we have to carry everything we own on portages. Portages, if you don't know, you carry your backpack, you carry your canoe over about three kilometers land. It's difficult, it's challenging, it's rewarding. You get real beat up but I love it. So that's the direction my outdoor pursuits are going in these days. Four posts. I'm going to sharpen one end to a point. I'm going to chamfer the other end so it doesn't mushroom out when I when I hit it and they're gonna go in the ground and I'm gonna create a fire reflector the fire reflector is going to bounce the heat back towards me from my fire instead of having it dissipate the other way now I'm not gonna rely on a fire for warmth tonight when I'm in bed the fire is for cooking for company when I'm laying in bed reading a book but when I go to bed I'm gonna let the fire die out I'm not gonna rely on it for warmth I got my sleeping bag and what not for that so basically the rule is you want about a good step away from your shelter for the fire to be so the end of my shelters here here's a good step for the fire to be and in that case I want the fire reflector to start a back a little bit so I'm gonna probably start it right about here or to space them apart I just want to put enough so that I can fit some big logs through so I'm about the width of my axe head I'll put it apart some wood for the wood for this fire reflector it does not have to be good wood at all this is off the ground it's all rotted and funky and that's totally fine I'm not gonna waste my energy chopping through solid pieces of wood that I could use for firewood when I could just pick up stuff off the ground so this one's going in first done super easy set it in there now the other ones are gonna lay on top of that one now there you can see that fire reflector is done that took all of ten minutes no big deal scope for size comparison it's getting warm I think I'm gonna be lucky with the weather when I was setting my shelter up I was saying that I wanted the wind coming from my back and that's true today in anticipation for the thunderstorm that I don't think we're getting I didn't want to be getting rained on from the sides normally and ideally you want the wind running parallel to your shelter so sideways so that the smoke from your fire really is just taken that way what can happen with the wind coming from your back is the wind can come over the top of the shelter hit the fire and swirl in and obviously if the winds coming straight you it'll blow the smoke into you I'm not too worried about that tonight like I said because I'm not gonna be having the fire going all night just until I go to bed really not an issue and to be safe from the thunderstorm I wanted my protection coming from from from the wind way so just something to keep in mind normally you want it parallel sawed a couple pieces of that red oak that I got earlier here here it's really dry and dense wood so it feels dry on the inside which is good. The method of fire I'm going to use today is a split wood fire. It's my go-to method. I can get a fire going like this after all the prep is done in seconds. The prep takes a little while, maybe 40 minutes if I take my time, but I get it done the first time and there's no question if it's going to work or not. So get this prepped out. So I've got my wood into manageable pieces. I batoned it all down. Now you want to get it even smaller. A real quick way of doing that is just bury the tip into the wood lengthways and split it like that now wood selection is really important for this some woods chunk out some woods don't have a straight grain go on go the straighter grain the wood like maple or oak uh the easier it is obviously and this just takes a couple seconds there's nothing hard about it after you've made your small kindling size i'd call it pencil lead or pencil thickness you got to move on to the curls shavings or feather sticks whatever you want to call them I don't worry too much about leaving my curls on my stick making it a feather stick I kind of just collect them in my hat there and you want lots of little I usually gather about a hat full of shavings and I want them to be small and airy with lots of curls I've just been bucking up some of this red oak for my fire later on into pieces about this size I'm gonna have sort of a long fire so they don't have to be too small I'll measure out the same size that I want, about that. I just want to go over a little bit of axe use with you guys. Sometimes when I'm bucking up logs with my axe, I put my foot on the log that I'm chopping with, hold it in place so it's not bouncing around all over the place. But I want to make sure that I never advocate chopping towards yourself. So you see a lot of people when they're chopping wood or trying to split it, buck it up, parts like that to create the V-notch, and that's a good idea if the piece is big. But in this, it's about forearm thickness, you don't really need to do that. And this way, you don't put yourself in harm's way. Keep hitting, my back leg is one of my dogs the other way, go on. Keep hitting it the same way until it splits. Sorry, until I get through it. No hard, not a lot of energy to spend. And safe to keep yourself out of harm's way, especially out here. You don't want to get an axe in the boot or the shin, that's not a good idea. Okay, I've got this piece of tree, probably maple, I'm going to make a pot hanger out of all the components out of this one piece using just my knife. So you want to get rid of these little twigs coming off. What you're looking for is a hook. So from the top down, this looks like a sturdy one, this one looks a little bit better. So what I'm going to do is just baton, cross baton through right below that branch that's going to become my hook. That'll be the bottom of the pot holder, my baton. So, got that piece. You want to cut the part that's going to be your hook short, okay? However long you want it. It doesn't need to be too long at all. Probably there is good. And I just cut it out. No need to baton it. Okay, so that's one piece done. Then you need to make a stand for it to rest on. And it should be about that long anyway. so all you want to do to the tip is to make a flat point where the notch is gonna rest and we'll make notches on the pot hanger itself here in a second I'll get a close-up of that score an X with your knife then you carve out every part of the X except for the top corner so it looks like a beak like a bird beak that's gonna be your notch so the potholder the long piece just gets stuck right into the ground like that and the potholder itself just goes on there it's 530 now I'm getting hungry so I'm all set to light my fire now you can see I split one of the pieces of red oak and I put it down as a base you never want to start your fire on the ground it's just not a good idea I also have a brace here and that's gonna come into play in a minute and I'll show you what what happens there the method I'm going to use to start my fire is a fire steel I keep it on this lanyard attached to my belt loop and in my pocket I can get a fire going with this all the time no matter what so let's do it got our shavings load of shavings there and i got one one uh feather stick which i was going to keep the shavings on but i'm going to cut them off at the last minute here and just strike them as is so another good thing about the the platform on the on the ground is that it's a good solid piece to to strike your fire steel on i don't hold my fire steel back and do it like this that's ridiculous you can be there all day You need to plant it right in the feathers right in the curls and strike down hard. Okay, we got a fire I'm gonna put our shavings on top Here's where the brace comes in Because you take your thinner pieces your pencil lead pieces and you lay them all across and brace them up on the brace So that there's air underneath Okay, take your bigger pieces and you lay them crossways across the top of it And I know it looks like a giant mess right now smoky but in two seconds that thing is going to be rip roaring it's already starting to go and there she goes so there we have it potholder in use got an improvised bail on there with some wire and a stick and my freestanding potholder down into the ground like i said earlier so when i cook up a dehydrated meal i got that water from the creek boiling up in there so it's really necessary to boil water or purify it in some way uh boiling is a foolproof way to do it. You don't want to be getting giardia out in the woods, any kind of pathogens like that. Even if I was far up north and getting water from lakes, I would still be boiling it, as opposed to getting the water from the creek here. There's beaver up there, and you never know. Just be safer and boil it. I would never drink water without boiling it. It's super important. For supper, I have a Mountain House chicken teriyaki with rice. I'm not a huge fan of Mountain House stuff. Normally I bring out a steak or catch some fish and cook the fish up but any kind of fish that is around here right now is not in season and I really don't want to break the law doing that. I would have ideally done that but like I said we can't be doing that at this time of year. So I've got a protein bar, a lemonade for my water and a pack of raisins. I need something to snack on and some dinner and some breakfast for tomorrow morning. I've grilled up my leeks. I'm I'm going to put them right in, along with the basswood buds. We'll stir that bad boy sitting for a little while. The beauty of these things is you can eat right out of there. You can cook it right in there, too, after you add the water to it. It's not a bad deal. I just don't really like them that much. Moment of truth. Looks like I put way too much water in there. It's like a soup, but that's all right. Got my leeks in there. The chicken. Oh, it's hot, that's for sure. Wish I could say it's all right. It's edible. It's real salty, that's for sure. That food wasn't the greatest, but it filled me up. It did its job. I'm feeling pretty content right now, pretty happy to be out here. The weather cooperated real well, and I'm real happy about that. Having a nice cigar after supper and just relaxing. I'm going to go grab some more firewood, just some kindling stuff. All right, look at this. What's that, Scout? What is it? What is it? What is it? That's got to be a raccoon tree or something. All that stuff hanging over the bottom. What is it, bud? That's pretty cool. I know. Here's a downed basswood tree and this is why basswood is a really, watch out scope, is a really good tree to know as well. It's not just good for edible leaves and buds but the bark itself comes off like these stringy kind of strands and you can use it as a tinder bundle when it's dry or you can actually use it as cordage. You can braid it together. It's pretty strong. Pretty readily available as well around here. Three cutting tools with me this time as you've seen me using. This axe, I found it in my grandma's basement. I had a friend re-handle it, sharpen it up. Another friend made the mask for me. It's a no-name, but I'll take it over any name brand axe any day. I've done a lot with this thing. I really like it. My knife, good old Adventure Sworn, Mountaineer, Scandinavian grind, 1.8 thick, beast of a knife. I love it. And my silky saw. I used to think a Laplander folding saw was the best. i'll never go back to one the silky saw is where it's at i've done overnighters i've done trips without any of these and i've done trips with any like any combination of these three i do like having three i can definitely get away with just an axe just a knife i probably wouldn't take just the saw leave the saw out but either one of these two i can do uh overnighters camping trips whatever with either one of them would be fine ideally though they go hand in hand it's a piece of Reflectix has a couple uses to sit on it, fan the flames with it, and I'll use it as a ground sheet, so just a little bit of protection so that my sleeping pad doesn't get poked by anything. I've gone through here pretty diligently and taken out all the stuff that's going to get a, might poke, poke my sleeping pad, so I don't blow my sleeping pad up the full way until I'm ready to go to bed because it deflates anyways, so there it is, it's a really, really good pad and my sleeping bag i like to let it loft out a little bit before i go to bed i got my down pillow too so take this thing out i've used this every season the sleeping bag for like three years now go on scope and uh in conjunction with another sleeping bag in the winter i've used this all the time though i really like this bag i was able to find some more basswood bark uh from a dead standing the stuff i found over there was a little bit wet i still have it I'm going to use it as a tinder bundle to get this fire going again. But you need to separate the outer bark from the inner bark. You only want the inner bark. So what you do is just hold it, break it, and kind of work it like that until the outer bark comes off. You're left with this nice, dry inner bark. And that is not going to take a spark. That's not going to be your tinder bundle. You have to work this now. So what you're going to do is just mash it up and rub it between your hands. Get all the fibers loosened in it. All set. I got my tinder bundle here. I'm actually just going to throw a spark into it from my fire steel and it'll go up in flames. But you could use this with a bow drill or with flint and steel and put the ember inside it and blow it into flames. But I'm not doing that because it's too late and I'm ready to settle in now. Basswood has a great smell when it's burned, the bark especially. It's a real earthy kind of smell. It's weird after being out in the woods for a while and using the same kinds of woods, it's you just develop like a sense for what kind of wood you're using i can look at dead oak with no bark and know that it's oak just because it's so abundant around here i've used it so much start up my long fire now what i'm going to do is just add these two pieces lay some across and it's just gonna the fire's gonna go the length of the wood it's gonna warm me the whole the whole length it's a really good fire lay start it out slow because it's only 20 after seven now. I don't want to burn up too much of my wood. Another way to suspend the pot using the same two pieces of pot holder that I made earlier. I'm going to slide that in there and then take the pot holder upside down and just stick it into the ground and that's the hook on it is going to stop the end from popping up and the weight from the cup is going to hold the other end down. Pretty nifty. We're just going to rest now. I tried to drink some of this sarsaparilla tea But I've burned the crap out of my tongue. There we go. It's got a nice mild flavor If I would have dried the root better longer, it would have more flavor, but we're gonna do right It's almost 10 o'clock. This will probably be the last footage I get tonight Let's stay here till about 10 or 11 in the morning So I'll get up and make some breakfast and take you guys along with me there. Good night So a cool little trick with oatmeal packs Quaker oatmeal You can actually just eat it right over the package. Just make sure you shake it off a bunch because the flavor and stuff all gets stuck at the bottom so just rip the top off i actually leave it attached and just rip it 90 of the way leave it attached pour your hot water into it be careful not to burn yourself while holding this obviously try not to put too much because then it becomes a soupy mess but uh just close it back up and let it sit for a couple minutes and it's good to go time to pack up and head out life waits back to responsibilities and family but I'm happy to have got out for the day yesterday and the night. It's really rejuvenating. All right, guys, just headed out now. I want to say thanks for coming along again. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you learned something, and we'll see you on the next one.