WINTER BUSHCRAFT CAMPING INSIDE A TREE with Winner of History's ALONE

Hey guys, how you doing? Joe here. I got a special guest. We got Jim Baird. Heyo from from YouTube's Jim Baird channel and Histories Alone, so we got. One winner of alone and one loser. We're gonna camp out tonight. We're just looking for a specific spot to find somewhere with deep snow. We have a cool shelter idea in mind. So stick with us. So we've come to this clearing here. This is what we were looking for. So we had deep snow. We're in this little bit of a field. We're thinking. You know those those survival manuals you always see. You can dig down into a tree. It doesn't really look. It doesn't really look all all that good, to be honest. Like we'd have to trim. I'd say we would trim on this side. Keep the back side pretty full, eh? And then have like dig down, and then have maybe we could even build like a bank here of snow all around. That would kind of help too. This would be perfect if the snow was this tall. Yeah, you know what I mean. Definitely. But maybe we can just shovel all that snow up on top of it. You know what I mean? Yeah. And just take all the. I mean, it's going to be a lot more work, but we're actually going to have a shelter that'll keep us warm. I think. Yeah, I think so. We can find that for sure. Yeah. I'm into it if you are. Yeah. Like I got a shovel. I don't know what better options do we have around here. Like this is like if we get in there and we leave kind of these boughs down here and we get all those little sticks. You know, and we like. I mean, there's a pretty big area. There's definitely a big area. We can even take out that tree. It's not an issue at all. Yeah. Yeah, I'm into it. Yeah. Okay. Cool, man. Cool. We gotta go grab our sleds now. That's right. Yeah, we're on the scouting mission here. We didn't want to bring our sleds back without finding a good place to actually build the shelter. Joe's idea, very wise, wise woodsman idea. Every now and then I give that to you for sure. Yeah, you got it. It already looks like a fort. Look at it in there. It really does, man. Yeah. Look. The more I look at it, the more I like it. I've done this one time before and it turned out pretty cool. So, yeah, I like it. It's the kind of thing that you hear about doing, and you hear about skiers. They'll be skiing and they'll fall into basically a hole where the spruce tree is, and they get stuck in there. They can't get out. So this is basically what we're gonna turn into a good shelter, and it's not something you always hear people talking about. But it's not something actually see done much. I've never done it, so I think it's gonna be cool to to try it out and sort of judge how it would work as a pure survival shelter. It already looks like it's kind of cozy. Yeah, definitely. I'm into it, man. That's about as technical as I get there. Yeah, it's very technical. All right, we're gonna go get our sled. We'll be back here in a hot minute. So this is what Jim was talking about earlier when you kind of come by a tree and fall in. These are all actual trees just buried by the snow in here. So all the snow. Right next to them is very soft and sinky. Jim, what? Look at the size of that tripod. Big tripod for a big guy. Like, holy smokes! Well, the bigger the tripod, the bigger the bushcraft shelter. Yes, exactly. Know what they say about guys with big feet? Yeah, they wear big shoes. Yeah. He is my Sherpa, Sherpa Jim. Home sweet home. Home sweet home. Yep, home sweet home, but it's gonna take a little sprucing. Basically, going to. Maybe we put a bow bed in there too. You're thinking. I do. Yeah. So I forgot my sled. Jim was nice enough to let me throw my duffel bag on top of his. I don't got much gear in there. He brought the majority of it for us. I'm definitely sweating them off. Yeah, I don't have much on. I do have long johns on. Me too. I'll probably get rid of those soon enough. All right. I'm gonna get my shovel out and my saw and my axe because that's the first thing we got to start doing: clearing off and digging out. Clearing off, digging out. It's nice when you don't have to like. Fight the cold all the time, like the brutal fingertips, and like, do you undo the white one? Yeah, yeah. Do you ever wish sometimes when you trip, it's almost too perfect that you almost wish for crappy weather just to make like more interesting for the video or for whatever. I am so extremely happy when I come home from a trip and I have endured hardships because that video makes it so much better. Dude, like, like even that stranded thing with the forest fire, I was like, at the time I was like, no, no. I come home. I was like, in the in the in the plane, I was like, toss. It's going to make some. It's going to be so much better. The problem is whenever I whenever I let that thought creep into my head, it's like disaster strike. Yeah. You know, this is what you asked for. You know, this is almost too easy with the wind, blizzard experiences. That's funny. So for those people who don't know, Jim and his brother Ted won what season four? Season four, yeah, four of a kind. The brothers, and that was the the season where they teamed up. You guys had to find each other, right? Yeah. Well, my brother was sort of stationed around the coast, and I got dropped off about ten miles away from him. And I basically had to follow a compass bearing, just surviving on whatever I could eat, wild mushrooms, slugs. Oh my! For eight days, find my brother, and then once I found him, we survived together for a total of seventy-five days. And eating more or less fish bait and whatever was edible was technically so like the grossest stuff imaginable. And man, it's just great off the wind. So you know, I did learn a lot of interesting stuff about like what survival is really about and stuff like what I kind of started explaining to you before about. You know, you think you you go out there with a plan A, and you end up with plan Z. You're right. You know, and then you start to realize. I mean, you wish you're doing better. You think maybe somebody at some time period would have the skills to do better, but you do the math, and there's only X amount of calories in your area, and it becomes just a slow game of decline. Yeah, a little bit, a little bit, you know. But anyways, yeah, we'll get into that. See more detail. I'm super interested to hear about it too, because my experience did not let me feel any of that. I was just in and out, but yeah, you're the worst. They might as well just like whip you in a garbage dump. Probably would have been better. I would have more to eat. Yeah, I've got this little stovey that I can kind of get in here. Uh, in this tight spot with I got my glasses on still just in case. I gotta get these snowshoes off soon, but we'll see. Now I imagine this is going to be stuck into the ground somewhat. Oh, more than somewhat. Oh, he's. That's okay though, eh? Yeah, it's totally fine. Yeah, we just pull it over, even. Yeah, do that one of these, and it'll still help a bit. Oh look! It there. We're done. Created a bunch of space. Yeah. See, that's perfect for this, eh? What's this? Yeah. Ideal. Yeah. Should I go cut some more bales from around? Sure. That might not be bad. No, yeah, because we're gonna want some on the ground too, I think. Cool, man. It might be a little tight. That's all right. Okay, that'd be kind of cool. We'll figure it out. I'm sure. Definitely, dude. I just put some in my winter tent, my canvas tent. It makes it smell so nice too. Right. Yeah, balsam is no good for that. All right, so it's coming along as you can see. Like there's a good space. Actually, there's probably two good spaces knocked out here. But check this out. We got some decent firewood hidden way back in here. You'd never get to it unless you're doing this. So we're gonna get that piece of firewood out right now. I'm super happy I brought my silky saw because it's making quick work of this in here. Like the other saw would work fine too. It's just less intrusive. I can just get in and. Not at all. It's just real. Yeah, it is. No doubt. That looks decent. Like has some weight to it too. This wood might be a little bit punky. That's all right. What do you think, Joe? It's all pretty much squared away as as far as removing the the branches that we need to. We got some decent space in there. Yeah, we got a lot of space. I think that's kind of like definitely going to be good for a spot for us to to sleep in there. So now it's going to be kind of using snow as insulation and kind of using the branches and and building onto that structure a little bit and doing some shoveling. Yeah. What do you think? We should we should probably pile some of these and that on top of there. Pile snow on there too, right? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I almost wonder though if these would be better to use for on there to keep the snow in. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Maybe we use both. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We can even just yeah. That stuff probably won't work. Won't do too much. The twigs probably won't do too much. I imagine that these are the ticket. Yeah. Definitely wearing like bright blue. They're always like so far. Why is it hiking? All right. So we're gonna get rid of these twigs because general consensus is they're not gonna do as good a job as the boughs to keep the snow on there. Probably toss them over here and call it good. Yep. We still use these for kindling. Potentially, put it down. Underneath us, we're not going to shovel the snow out because it's pretty tamped down in there already. And the fact of the matter is, once you start shoveling snow out. It's a good chance that you're going to come to uneven ground anyway, so we'll just build our ground up. To make it even. It's tough to. Film sometimes. I think we're doing pretty good though. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh my goodness! I'll share some of that clip of you of me getting bows or something. Perfect. You know. Yeah, we can do a little Google Drive thing. Yeah. Yeah, hour drive. Yeah, yeah, exactly, dude. You know the problem is the snow's gonna fold it down. Yeah, I don't want to lose too much space. Yeah. You're right. The snow will fold. Maybe we don't need to put snow on it. Maybe the valves are enough. I think that we should like we don't need to throw snow like right up here. Right. But if we pile it up to like here. Yeah. Cool. It'll make it. You know what I mean? And then also give us something else to film too. Yep. Oh, there's my saw. Perfect. Look at that. Yeah. All right. Cool. Cause you see when you get in there and you look to the outside, how there's kind of like. Like it could be to like sort of here, you know? Right, that's what I'm thinking. I hear you. Maybe we pull these down a bit. Oh, I like that. This kind of. I like that idea. Throwing it right on top, maybe. Yeah, that's pretty fancy. Look, that looks. Yeah, and then that even if we don't put snow on it, it's fine. Yeah, yeah, that looks good. Yeah. I'm into it, man. I'm into it. Yeah, he did a quick, quick work of these valves with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's a nice. Yeah, he did a quick, quick work of these valves with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's a nice. You know how some of them are just all whipping nowadays, paying like a like a jungle machete. Yeah, so they're too too long and just so that one's nice, short and thick. It's like basically like a huge knife, more or less, right? Well, I guess that's what a sword is too. We got you. Picking up a foot, Dad. So you're allowed to bring like a fire steel on a loan, right? Uh huh. So me and my brother sourced fire steels that were like an inch thick and seven inches long. Nice. Did you lose it? No. Well, and we made like we used like mighty putty to make like huge grips and like ran things. It just looked so utilitarian. That's awesome. And the British guys are like, this is a bloody club man. He's like, we're changing the rules. Oh yeah. Yeah, they change the rules. Like the fire steel. Yeah, like our fire steel was like literally, you could have put it in a sock and knocked someone unconscious. Right. So my problem with mine was they were very specific on how much rope you could bring, how much cordage you could bring. Yeah. So I was trying to do everything like super by the book, and I didn't want to have any kind of lanyard on my. Uh, partially because I thought that that would be a useful cordage. That you know what I mean? Which it would have been. Yeah. Um. So I was trying to like play it real, real by the book. Like, I had a picture of my family, and I had it in a ziploc bag so it would stay dry. And I even asked them if I was allowed to have the ziploc bag. Right. Right. Yeah. Meanwhile, they're so they're so freaking anal about that. Meanwhile, someone who will go unnamed, hid a huge slab of birch bark inside his quiver. Really. Inside his quiver, cut a birch bark from home. Yeah. And lined it with it and brought it and got away. Would have got away with it, but someone he told us we some of us ratted him out. Oh yeah. He tried to put put a bivy bag in a sleeping bag and the same thing without telling them. So we'd have both too. We ratted him out on that too. So when when I got my they sent us the backpack, you know. Yeah. Yeah. So they sent us one, and there was a lighter in it. Oh man. Yeah. I guess it could have just been from other travel, but we're we were like, whoa. Just a setup. Yeah. Yeah. Sketchy. Oh, there was like maxi pads in it too. So it's probably Mitchy. We know it was a chip. It's probably Mitchy's, but check this out, man. This is looking real good now. We got a bunch of boughs on there, and I guess this is what you could do too if your spruce wasn't substantial enough, right? Yeah. In this shelter type situation, if your snow is not deep enough, your spruce isn't substantial, you can cut boughs and put on. Yeah. Like we're doing, and this is very easy for for someone to do, like without even tools. You you could rip off boughs, you know, if you had to, if you were in a situation. It's it's I think Joe a good way to say it is that. I think a good way to say is it's not always like what the survival book show you a perfect case scenario. Definitely, where you have this perfect snow cave around the spruce. So we're having to use more boughs and snow to kind of create that perfect scenario. You know, indeed. I think I run into that more times than not as you get out there, and nothing's like how it looks in the book. Nothing's ever ideal. Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool, man. I'm gonna go in there see if you guys can see me. Man, it's warm. I got my T-shirt on. All right, I'm gonna head in. We got our snowshoes off now. We've trampled enough snow down, so that's always fun. And in here. We can walk fine. Where am I? Can you see me? Hello, hello, man. It's it's spacious in here now. I like it. I like it. We got a little fire. It'll be fun. Like home, like home under a tree, overnight bushcraft camp under a tree. I'm into it. There he is. It's looking pretty good. That's my thumbnail right there. Sure you took that hat. All right. I dare dare not walk around. Boom! Boom! Some deep stuff. And then that's the back way in. Meatloaf. My dad actually uses that line again. Oh, still, he's like, I'm like, mom, like, where's that coffee? He's like, how about some meatloaf, kid? That's awesome. That movie's hilarious. It is quite funny. What is it, Step Brothers or Wedding Crashers? Yeah, yeah, Meatloaf. Totally a guy human. Totally, yeah. Like your wife doesn't think it's near as funny. Not near as funny. Yeah. No. She'll put up with it, like she does me. Well, 'cause it's all about just swindling, like women more or less, right? Like you get, it's like totally chauvinistic. I guess if you think about it. See that's a good thing. I don't think much, right? Yeah, so that's the best way. Way less stressful. All right, so we're gonna build up a little mound. This is already looking good. Yeah, and the snow can kind of sit on it as opposed to just falling through the falling through the cracks, as it were. Like I did in school. Yeah, me same thing. I was like, in school, I was like, I was always smart. Or I, at least I thought I was. I I was real bad in math, real real bad. Yeah, me too. But like English and stuff like that. I don't know if I'm actually bad at math or whether it's just so boring. Yeah, that could very well be it. It's like when I really would try to pay attention, I actually figured it out. But usually I'm like I'm trying, and next thing you know, I'm like staring out the window. Right. Well, that bird looks like it's having fun. Yeah. So we're starting to be able to put it on top of the bellows now, it's actually holding it pretty well. So not there. Okay, we'll try it there. Just clear off a spot. Well, look how good it's sitting. Yeah, so it's sitting right on top of the bellows. So we're gonna start kind of. Maybe doing a little, a little work to, to build it up. Sort of to kind of create a bit of a wall, I guess. See, it's deep already over here too. The snow was just deeper over here. Got a decent platform over here. Look at, little spruce cones. Hello. All right, we're gonna go report. We're gonna look on inside and report. That sun is magnificent. Okay, it's uh. Well, that side, man. There's a wall. There's a definite wall. About two feet high ish, boughs and snow. Obviously, better than how it was before. Better than how it was, but like it's at like it's not really gonna honestly give us much protection just because it's so low. Yeah. But like I think that we are super protected from above. Yeah. Like it's it's bare. There's barely any snow on the ground in here compared to out there already. And I don't even think it's gonna snow tonight. It looks amazing. Look at that. What a cool spot. It's pretty fun, Joe. Yeah. Yeah, I'm having a good time, man. Look, it's chill out here. It's it's calm. I just. Good that we finally got out, eh? Yeah, yeah. It's been a long time. Wait, we're gonna cut some dowels for our floor in there now. I think we're all done with the. Building up all on the sides. Just got to build up our floor, make it a little bit more even. Get up off the snow. Think Jim said he only has a small thermarest, so I have to build it up. Gotta find some spruce though around. It's way way more. Bowls than this. Oh, this is perfect! I can get a bunch of ballasts from this one, and I don't have to. Take them off a live tree, or take down a tree, kind of like. At the tent the other day, when I was getting that log. I was able to just take it off the ground like this. There's been a lot that have snapped off this winter. Due to heavy snow loads and wind, so if we look around. Shouldn't be too hard to find some more of these too. They're just small bows I'm getting off them, but that's okay. We're just trying to make a bed. Floor, make it nice and soft. Anyway. It's so packing, eh? That's saying something. Yeah, it must depend where you are. It's not too bit too deep or on the spot. This looks nice and cozy. It's like home. I like it, man. This is fun. This makes me feel like a kid. Oh yeah, totally. Except you're better at it than when you were a kid. Yeah, definitely. It's always deceiving, man. Like three huge armfuls each, and it's like, nah, no, no. Yeah, definitely. It's always deceiving, man. Like three huge armfuls each, and it's like, nah, no, no. I like these ones you got. Mine have like half a tree with them. Too much stock. Right here, you know. Yeah. Just cuddle up, yeah. Spoon, I call big spoon. Yeah. Yeah, this is nice. This is comfy. Like you could totally. Go all out and build it up. Of course, we could wrap a tarp around three sides. We could wrap a tarp around three sides and have this over here. You'd be completely enclosing. No concern from above. Right, like if it was dead of winter. Right. Yeah, man. And then this will be here too, and get snowed on actually with the extra bows and stuff. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool. That's what I meant to do. Yeah, the whole plan the whole time. Things are going pretty good. We are being successful in gathering our bows. There's a lot of building going on. Check it out. Got a decent amount of bows in there. Starting to look really cool. Back up and show you the whole thing. I think we're gonna have to start getting some firewood soon. Jim's gathering another big armload of bows. From over on the other side. And we do already have some wood, but I found a nice dead standing piece of what looks to be maple. It's definitely hardwood, so we'll go on behind there and and grab that. But even other than that. From all the trimming up, we've got this stuff. Should be a nice night. I am just so comfortable out here. I'm talking like I can feel the sun on my arms. It's it's gorgeous, gorgeous day. All right, let's go get that wood. We're packing the snow down. It's like a highway now. Yeah. Right, actually, yeah. Solid maple, awesome. You can see where I'm standing right here. This is kind of like our doorway. This is part of the reason we kept. These limbs on is obviously not doing anything for wind protection for us or snow protection. They're there more or less to just have the illusion of an entrance and going this way. That's all fine and dandy, but it's really not necessary. What's more necessary is a spot to have a fire that's close enough where we can sit on our gear, relax, cook, and still be safe. So I think what we're going to do is remove these limbs, and go up high. Remove the limbs as high as they can, so that we can sit here. We'll put some more bales out here, kind of on the edge of our of our camp, and then we'll have the fire right out in front. Look at that silky saw, man! Makes short work of this stuff. I heard some people bashing silky saws about being. Uh, easily breakable, and I know they are. You just have to know how to use them properly. You don't go all the way to the end. You just use, say, say your silky saw is this big. You only go to this to the end there. Leave a lot of space at the beginning so you don't accidentally jam it. And snap it off, but they are worth their weight, man. Cut much much better than a Laplander. No. Competition. Da da da da da da da da da da da. Jim's got wood. A shot of me getting wood. All right. So as you can see, we clear above now. It's all cleared away. I believe I'm going to make a little bit of a snow wall there in front for the fire. This is like an epic dry piece of hardwood right here. Looks like it. That punk will draw. That punk will burn after anyway. Stuff's punky, yeah, but it's better than nothing, you know. Yep. This one I found was like a Y stick hanging in the V of another tree, and the bottoms are already cut off of it. That might have been me. Yeah, it hangs. I cut another. Like maybe that's just the difference between me and you in height. I think probably is. Yeah. You ever have those fires in the winter time? You dig it down, and you build a small fire, and then you end up laying longer pieces, and the middle just sinks right down. Just sizzles, and there's no coal. Right, and the other sides are just up on the wood. It's horrible. Yeah, it's terrible. It never works. You have to like the only way you can do it is if you lay down a bunch of logs side like yeah across like this and start on top of that to get it that that length from the get go. Yeah. And then what? Just kind of like. Lean up against these trees, I guess, eh? Yeah. Sit down. Lean up against the trees. All good. I'm a warm Joe. Yeah, I'm thirsty. You got water? I drank it all. Yeah, me too. Let's get a fire going. All of it. Yeah. All right. We're doing pretty good. As you can see, everything's pretty much fallen into place. Our wood situation is pretty good. Shelter's awesome. We built that back wall for the fire in about two seconds. So I think we're gonna get a fire going and start melting some snow because we're both parched. We good. Kicking up too right now. That's what that brace is good for—not smothering it. Leaning up against there. That's one thing no one ever tells you, eh? What's that? The brace. Yeah. Life saver. It's like a must. It's a must. And the platform too is huge. Winds kicking up. We should go up no problem. Back these matches before I forget. Joe Robinette specialty one match fire. Stick with me, bro. Terrifying, you know. It's like one thing you're supposed to always be able to do as a woodsman. The one, yeah. You're right. You got to protect that flame, bro. Protect that flame. Light a one match fire, you know. Science. Yeah, it was a bit. How's that? It looks good. If you can plot, if you can bend it up a touch, it's even better. I think there. I think you're perfect right there. That's some high high efficiency bushcraft, bro. Thanks, buddy. The set one back here weighs so that Jim can go in the front. His is much bigger. Therefore, more important, can do more wood. I mean, sorry, more water at a time. But also the snow is going to be pressed hard against the bottom of the pot, and it's less likely to melt the snow away and then create an area where the bottom of the pot gets too hot and it warps the pot. Because ideally, when you're melting snow, you want to start with a little bit of water. We don't have any because we chugged all because we're so thirsty. So I just made sure I packed that down in there really tight, and then I'm going to stir it, and hopefully I don't burn the pot. You ever done that before? I have. I have too. Definitely. Yeah, and it was like my mom's fancy small cottage, like on the stove over at the cottage in the winter, James. We'll be drinking water in no time. Paul Bunyan making his toothpicks. See, we don't have to use the saw. Oh, look at that! Well, we've been cutting wood for some time now. I think we're both. Ready for a break of sawing and splitting, so we're gonna set up our. Our camp, sorry, our sleep stuff. I got a bivy here. That I'll lay everything on top of. I get it all in there after. But I got my top quilt from UGQ outdoors again. This is my like negative 18, so I'm gonna be toasty toasty tonight, and then my Thermarest Neo Air X Therm. It's getting to be supper time, so I got my ribeye. I know it doesn't look great. It looks kind of green, doesn't it? Look green to you? Looks a little green, little tinge there, little tinge. Anyways, I I know it's good. So we're gonna put some steak spice on that baby. Jim's working on the fire right now. We're gonna get some hardwood coals going. Our stick is burning. Our stick is burning. I moved it to the to the side momentarily, but yeah. So pretty soon. We got steaks rocking for supper time. We're losing light. It's probably close to six. I would assume. Maybe a little bit before that, but. I'm getting hungry. Me too. Keep this away from dripping on my stuff. Oh yeah, buddy. Steak spice up in this. Yeah, I'm just gonna put another one of these things through here. I'm gonna have to come over here so I get it in my shot too. Yeah, no, it's all about my video, man. Come on, it's doing for my kid. And then I'm gonna just. I'm gonna just thread this bigger stick. Behind, underneath all the little loops I made in there. Yep. Trying to mangle it too much, which. So I've done something very similar before with fish. I put in the sideways butterflies after, like I I'll stick it through the stick first, and then put those sticks in after sideways. To kind of splay it open. Oh, nice! Yeah, yeah, same idea. Same idea, I think. It looks very similar. Dude, that is gonna be awesome. Just straight heat cooking it. Yeah, there you go. That's how it looks from the top, and then from the bottom. Give you a shot there. Yeah, look from the bottom, then. Yeah, she's in there. She ain't go nowhere, right? So that big stick. Okay, so I'm I'm I'm not right about what I was saying. That big stick's not going through the. Well, I was gonna no, no, it's not. No, it's just going under the other little one. Okay, understood. So it's different what I do with fish, but. This is what I hate about this thing. I keep pressing all these buttons accidentally all the time. The files are in there. Yeah. Not too shabby, dude. Yeah, it does the trick, right? Not as cool as a grill, but you know. Teach their own. Actually, the grill's ruining my my bushcrafty, primitive shot. The vibes, yeah. Took me um 25 minutes to make this grill. I was weaving. Makes you feel happier. I would rather be happier for a shorter amount of time. Full scientific proof of this, by the way. Full scientific, like a whole multiple articles. You Google it. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Serious? I'm 100% serious. Yeah. There's something in red meat that makes you less depressed. I would be. Yeah. Happier. I would be rather. Like, how happy are you right now? For example. I'm ready to fricking eat that in my hands, bro. This is a bone in. It's not the tomahawk, but it's still a little bit of bone in there. See how it is. I'm sure I cooked it too long, like I always do, but that's all right. Oh yes, definitely cooked it too long. Oh, the fat. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. Raw is so good. So good. Jim's still cooking his. His was up across, ah, higher up than mine on the fire. Probably because I took all the good real estate. I got mine now. Oh, you got it. Yeah, I got mine now. How's it working out for you? Nice. Got some rice to cook up too, but gotta get this meat into us. Good. I never want to fry it in a cast iron pan. I just lose the fire thing. And bacon too. Bacon over the fire is always really good, especially the hard ones. Yeah. I don't know what time it is now. It's got to be probably around nine or ten. We just been burning wood slowly. Um, we're probably nearing the end. Oh, look at that, dude! We can cut some more though. We got some more over that. Got a little more wood for sure. Yeah. But it's getting late, and we're having a fun time just hanging out talking. Planning for future trips. Pretty comfortable out here. It is. It's. I don't even have gloves on. It's nice. I can't believe how warm it is when you're by the fire. Right. And this little this little backdrop is holding up pretty good too. Actually. Yeah. So I think we're gonna get to bed pretty soon, but don't worry, I definitely will keep you guys with us. Let you know what we're doing when we're doing it. But other than that, we're just hanging by the fire, just telling lies. My stories have been true for the most part. I don't think so. Well, folks, it's about ten o'clock. It's about time to head in. I got a lot of snow, a lot of snow on my gear over here. Got some long johns, and a puffy jacket. Oh, and a change of socks. That's all I'll be doing before I go to bed. Everything else will be fine. But. Yeah, even your bivy is just packed with ashes. I'll I'll bring it over here and show you. Jim's bibby. It's super lightweight. It fits in a a cargo pocket. But other than that, I think it's time to go to bed tonight. I'm actually looking forward to going to bed. I'm actually looking forward to going laying in my bed. And being warm and sleeping. What about you, Jim? No answer. Perfect. Just stuffing your face over there. I'm eating some. Food that I've harvested from the wilderness. Of course, of course. So yeah, that's Jim's baby. Super lightweight. Uh, probably still nylon. I'll show you in the morning how how small it packs up to. But here is our camping underneath a tree. Overnight bush camp, bush camp. You ever get the bush cramps? Hate those! Oh snap! All right, guys, I'm turning in. I'm turning in. It's bedtime. Oh night, Joe. Yeah, night, Durginbo. Good night, folks. We're headed to bed. We're gonna get up in the morning, cook some bacon and stuff. So we'll keep you with us, but. A warm night's sleep is anticipated for sure. Yeah. Good nighting. Oh good morning! How you folks doing? You slept. You slept good. You slept warm. Yeah, really good. It's like eight o'clock in the morning, maybe even past that. So we passed out around ten last night. I would say that is pretty good sleep out in the woods, about ten hours. The thing is, with the with the bivy bags, as you can see, see the frost on it. The ice actually, and that gets soaked right when you warm it up. So the bibi bags are good for things like this for one night where it's like protected. You're not worried about poking a hole in your bag or. Or your sleeping pad and stuff, but like for an extended thing, you wouldn't really want to be doing it unless you could dry your stuff out, right? Like we could we could hang this up in the in the sunlight in today, and maybe it'll dry out a bit. It probably would actually today. The other thing you could it's just it's just condensation though. Yeah, definitely. I wonder how much I wonder how much of that condensation is just coming from your body, like a lot of it. If you had a liner in your bag, maybe it wouldn't be so bad in your in your sleeping bag inside your sleeping bag. I think I think it might not be so bad, but for me it's too hot, man. Yeah, liner for unless it's like minus forty, I just get too sweaty. So I don't know. I don't. It's like my first time sleeping with a bibi bag, and I felt like a little breeze come through, and it definitely. Keeps more your heat in. It keeps your heat in, yeah, hundred percent. But yeah, like so, like I breathe underneath here and sweat from my feet, so I know that like the bottom of this will be soaked too, right? But yeah, it's definitely just condensation. Yeah. All right. Well, we're gonna get up and see what the day brings. Jim's got like a six-hour drive or something, so we're not gonna hang out here for too long. But we'll keep you with us for a little bit. I'm sure. Sorry for ruining your interview there. By the way, no, no, it's good, it's good, it's good to have. Conversation like that, in it. So Jim was just saying something to his camera that I thought sounded really good, and I wish I had said to you folks something along the lines of like winter camping doesn't always need to be this daunting thing. You know what I mean? Some people don't go winter camping because they think it has to be this big mission, and like, you don't have to be super. Crazy mindset, and the really the reality of is, if you have a good shelter, like Jim said, if you have. Adequate sleeping gear and and know what you're doing, access to fire a little bit. It's not that hard, you know. I mean, we had a lot of fun on this trip. There was never any really times where we were like worried for our health or too cold or anything like that. So it's just we were we were lucky with the weather too. But we've both been out in negative twenty, negative forty weather, right? Like we've done it, and that's doable too. Anyways, point of the story is go outside. Don't be scared. Just be safe, and your boots might freeze. There we go. Beautiful morning. Check out the frost on my bag. Bag frost. Tan lines. Baked tan line. We did go to bed at ten o'clock. Yeah, nothing there, right? Nothing. We'll get it going. Yeah, it's your prize. Oh, my gloves are kind of stiff. Picking up. Thing we don't need that stick anymore. I did not realize how quick stirring it made it into water. How how much stirring it does something. I had no idea. This is groundbreaking for me. Damn, dude. Stir it to water. Uh huh. It stays water, and yeah, and it conserve. It happens the fastest, and you conserve the most stove gas. What? But if you're using stove gas, right? Good call, man. Damn. But it's not mandatory, you know. No, of course not. But look, it freaking really did something. So sometimes when you're boiling snow water. You get a few particles. This one probably has about a full pine cone in it. And you can kind of keep them out a bit while you're pouring it. When you take a good look. Just you find it. So all you gotta do is just—that's it. It's ready to go. Spring water, yeah. But little particles, you know, they're probably. They're not maybe the best to drink. But a couple of them, listen, they're not going to kill you. They don't have jardia in them. It's just snow. It's just distilled water and. What you can do is you can just pour it through a coffee filter or something like that if you want to get them out of there. Or you can just do the plier method, the backwoods multi-tool method. Get your fiber in. Yeah. All right, guys. Well, we're gonna get out of here. Want to say thanks to Jim for coming. A good time, absolutely. So we will. I'm sure you guys will see us together again. We're both gonna be at Canucopia in March. Do you know the dates? March, no. Okay, perfect. Google Canucopia to find out the dates. If you want to come meet Jim and I, we'll both be there for all three days. Yeah, absolutely. Looking forward to it. All right. See you guys in the next one.