Minimal Gear for a Winter Survival Overnight-Load-Out and Survival Exercise Plans

How you guys doing? Thanks for joining me. I just spent about the past five hours driving up here. This is my staging point, my normal place I come to, my buddy's place up near a lot of accessible places for me to camp. So, it's been snowing, snowing all day, lots of snow outside. Predicted to snow today, tomorrow, the next day, lots of snow. This trip that I'm about to do tomorrow, so let me tell you a little bit more about it. So normally I come up here and all because it takes so long to get up here I don't really want to start my trip tired and after a long drive, so I stay here the night It's good to catch up with my buddy And then I head out the next morning whether it takes me two hours to get where I'm going or 45 minutes That's what goes on so tomorrow. Excuse me. I'll get up and drive about the 45 minutes from here to the property That you might have seen a couple couple videos to go Martin's place where I'm allowed to be lots of different options for me to do things there well my my goal for this trip is to live out of my my Centerline Systems mother carrier and G roll so if you guys don't know about these you can check them out Centerline Systems this goes together right so this this buckles on to this I'll show you that at the end of this and I carry it all over my shoulder with a strap so that's a pretty small load for a winter Canadian winter overnight I have no sleeping bag I have no sleeping pad all right I just have what's here in this kit I'm gonna break this kit down and put all together I show you how I'm going to carry it also I have things next to me like my snowshoe my gaiters and my boreal shirt that I'm going to be wearing my boots and all that so I'll show you that too this is gonna be a pretty decent trip I am only going overnight but it's going to dip down to almost negative 10 it's going to be negative 9 Celsius at night with tons of snow so that's pretty pretty cold for not having any kind of sleeping bag or sleeping pad or anything with that again I'll be relying on fire and we'll be relying on building a shelter that traps the heat only using what I have here and natural materials I've been wanting to do this type of video for a little bit here and with the snow coming down and all that stuff had the perfect opportunity so we'll start with this one first this is the mother carrier from Centerline Systems. You can take the strap off of it and just strap this to your backpack using the MOLLE. I've done that. I did that in a past video not too long ago actually. Look at that on there. This thing's stuffed full of gear so it's kind of really hard to do things but anyways so that strap comes right off. Like I said you can use this on a backpack. My heavy cover canteen is titanium full of water. That's the only water I'm going to have. I'll have to melt snow for the rest of it um i've got my canteen cup in here as well again it's jam-packed in here in here okay let's take some stuff out first so in my front pocket here there's gonna be a pain to put all back but i've got three things keep it all folded as i take it out i've got two emergency space blankets these are like the i don't know five by seven ish right unused and then i've got a And a MyTrail poncho. This is a silnylon poncho from MyTrail. And that's like, I don't know, maybe 4x6. I can use that as a tarp. So that's very, very small, thin. Sits in there. It might even be 5x7. So that's the front pocket of just the mother carrier itself. The canteen carrier itself. That's empty. The side has these pockets. Remember, this is all I'm carrying out here, right? So I've got Cliff energy blocks. There's chews in the side. I've also got a base pro bar it's a mint chocolate it's got like 20 grams of protein so something decent and I've also got a granola bar that's all on the one side oh sorry and a Jiva cubes coffee thing and a lens rag for my camera the other side a baby bell a hefty amount of jerky it's pretty good uh costco jerky and that's it on that side now the canteen cup can come out super easy got that in there to boil my water in so that'll be my my water collection system along with the lid lid goes in the back and then i also had this lipton soup i just have to figure out where to put it it slid back in the back at one point but again this like i'm saying this is packing this thing to the gills and being honest so it's it's full but so all of this stuff right here that you see was just in this mother carrier the canteen thing itself so i'll get this off this side and And we'll open up the next part, which is called the gear roll, or the G-roll for short. The G-roll. Okay, so you can see this thing is pretty hefty as well. I've got my gloves attached to here. These are my Hestro Fall Line gloves. I do not know if I'm going to bring just these gloves because they're attached to this, or if I'll bring my new gloves as well. It's going to be cold and wet, so I might bring these. I really haven't decided yet. I might bring both. I don't know. Either way, whatever. I've got these gloves attached to here by carabiner. I've got my cool little scout pendant I got a subscriber got Commissioned for me a while back very nice of them. Very cool. I love this thing. It's got a pace beads on it, too No, it doesn't Okay, so we'll get this thing opened up before that I'll pull out my axe. This is my main tool I don't have a knife on this trip. This is my Grasshoppers Brooks outdoor axe I got a little fancy rubbed it down with some beeswax and burned it up a bit they normally don't do that but I thought it was kind of cool I charred the end that is not black spray paint or marker or anything like that it's just charred I charred the top a bit and rubbed the crap out of it with beeswax so I just heated it up a lot rubbed beeswax all over it it's got a good grip I'll be able to do a lot of a lot of work with this guy a lot of yeah this would be helpful anyway. Outdoor Axe by Gransfors Bruks. I got this from Canadian Outdoor Equipment. I'll put links to some of this gear, the axe, the canteen, leather, all that stuff. Okay, so the way this opens up, you do not have to open it all the way up. You don't have to take these straps completely off. You can just kind of loosen them up and there's this little tab here to stop you, whichever you like. Slide it off, get your gear roll here all spread out, sorry, all spread out. Yeah, easy access. So, right off the hop I have my spork. This is just on there, a shock cord in one of these webbings. This is a Snow Peak titanium spork. I like this one a lot. I've bent the handle on it. If you've watched my videos for some time, you've seen this a lot. Oh, I have a bonus piece of shock cord for no reason at all. I got a firesteel.com firesteel here. Nice big orange handle. Big, pretty, hefty-sized firesteel. Okay, let's open up the first pouch. I got my silky saw in there. This is a silky gomboy, so this, paired up with my axe, will do a lot for me. Remember, I'm relying on fire for warmth in negative 10-ish Celsius degree weather in the snow with no gear, with no sleeping gear. So I have to rely on fire, and these tools are not big, so they'll have to be put to their limits for sure. I'll be using them a lot, is my point. okay my big shelters my five by seven mess from bushcraft outfitters i'll put a link to that too i got a little piece of paracord wrapped around it i've used this for years it's a really good piece of gear we're going to probably rig up some kind of crazy shanty that draws the heat in as much as possible uh i got a bit of cordage here quite a bit i got a nice hank here of brown and then some of the surplus cordage that i got from the subscriber video a little bit of this stuff too because I do expect to be using a heck of a lot, tying things up in different ways, trying to draw in the heat from the fire. That's all for this pouch. I got my food. I got my homemade dehydrated chili. First off, that's going to be my food for the supper for tomorrow. I got a pad. I have to get a pencil still so I can take up some time at night and write. I don't have a book or anything to really do. So I have two packets of oatmeal for breakfast I have fire starter fat rope stick and or sorry just fat rope ends and a lighter some butt wipe some baby wipes always important those will probably go in my pocket to be honest with you so they don't freeze that's it for that pocket this next pocket I've got really crammed in there it might take a minute here so I got my compass this is a Suunto put Snoopy in the dog house who knows what that reference is to college what then I've got a little little tiny first-aid kit that I have to get another plastic bag for now chapstick tape bandages antacid gauze antiseptic wipes and just really basic excuse me that's it and then my last pocket I've got a headlamp with spare battery that's it for the G roll as far as my footwear I'm wearing my My Baffins, the ones I bought recently, I'm really liking them. The name is the Yoho, Y-O-H-O. I'd say they're good to down to negative 50, but who knows. But anyways, those are doing me well this year. Excuse me. Again, my gloves, like I said, if I bring them. So what I'll be wearing is Stanfields Long Johns. They're kind of thick. I'll be wearing a merino wool undershirt, t-shirt, a merino wool long-sleeve shirt. my ever trusty green hoodie that you always see me wear everybody asked me what this is this is a Mountain Warehouse hoodie i got this right before i went on alone and i was trying to buy good quality stuff uh yeah i don't even know what the model name of the sweater is but i've had it for a long time merino wool socks and probably what's going to save me in the night is my Lester River Oriel shirt made out of a wool blanket. This thing is a legit heavy shirt made out of a very heavy wool blanket. I'm going to curl up in this thing by the fire and really just try and just wait it out. This is going to be a long night of huddling by the fire and trying to stay warm, but this thing is going to go a long ways. I'm going to wear this too underneath. This is going to be my coat. It's going to go on top of everything already showed you my GoPro as always i also have my chest mount for it this is the GoPro Hero 5 i believe the black one it's got the lcd screen my gaiters these are neck gaiters they do well i got full raven pants my snowshoes because there will be a ton of snow it's gonna even not stop snowing uh until i get there well the whole time i'm there from now it's still going now so lots of snow anyway that's my point big little snowshoes these are Tubbs Venture 30. so interesting this should be a legit trip i've packed everything back away which if i'm being honest took a minute so let's wrap everything up this is the g-roll uh i normally or what i have been doing when i'm testing this out sliding this in after so roll it up that g-roll up easy since you're down actually you know what keep it loose for a minute okay and then since you're down that was all see there durable then to go on the bottom what i do is i'll wrap it the straps through the other straps going on here i know i'm talking in circles here i'll show you what i mean through the handle here the strap it's on there pretty good let's check it out see how it looks on so that's it that's my kit for about 24 hours give or take by the way it's like seven or eight pounds oh that's it that's it for this video pop myself in the eye right in the eye with that thanks for watching i appreciate it hope you like this video stick around for the actual trip video it should should be up this Friday, so I'll be excited to see what you think about that. Will I survive?