New Land New Bushcraft Gear, Bam Son!

Hey guys, thanks for tuning in. With Buddy Scout, we are in the woods. We're about five hours north of where we live. I drove up yesterday, stayed with a buddy last night, and today we are at a brand new property. This is a property that someone, a subscriber, is letting me use. I got an email about a week ago saying that this gentleman, Martin, owns a bunch of property about five hours north of where I live, and it backs on to hundreds of acres of crown land so that's where we are right now just walking along the trail trying to get back into the real woods here so we're going to spend the day with Scout my dog exploring this new land trying to figure out where I can come and do a hot tent camp and then also a super minimalistic camp where I'm cutting down boughs and building shelters and living with minimal gear stick along for today come with me I think you're gonna enjoy it I got a brand new backpack on from the Hidden Woodsman, I'll show you that. Got an axe, got some chili for lunch and some coffee should be a good day I'm on the trail right now so the snow is hard packed but even watch when I go off the trail a bit it's still pretty packed it's uh there's only maybe six or seven inches of snow now see it's still hard packed over here you can can punch through like you see after all that super cold weather for a while we had we ended up getting some warm weather and then rain so kind of packed everything down makes it easy for walking that's for sure I don't need snowshoes I'm not too far from that same area I was out on my solo snow snow storm video when you saw how much I needed snowshoes there right now I'm able to walk on top it's uh it's nice it's good snowshoes are fun until they're not anymore here's a perfect example i'm just walking one foot normal walking along and i get a post hole like that which is almost a foot deep there so martin and i already walked martin's the owner of the property already walked around and he showed me basically the layout of his land didn't go up into the crown yet there's no point in it just yet because there's so much of his land already but uh i'm gonna take you back up into here he showed me a cabin told me i can use it If I want to which is very very generous very nice of him. So go check it out. It's locked up right now I didn't take the key from him. Not today. Today's just a recon mission Scout it out and see what I can do in the future here I'll take you here into the bush proper right behind me. I'll check it out. The sky is nuts today. You see that beauty Beauty. Oh, man, it's super dark in here. My eyes have not adjusted yet it's very bright out on the snow obviously and we're into these white pine here very very nice there you are so it's just in progress still pretty nice wood stove in there and uh some couches and stuff pretty cool it's not as rustic as sean james cabin but uh very very generous of him like i said to let me have access to this and uh in the future you'll probably see that maybe with the family or something we're gonna keep on walking back onto the actual forest now I'm getting a little warm. A touch. I brought my wool blanket for Scout to lay on while we're out there, hang out on. It's kind of heavy. Just a little heavy. How you going? Oh, it's a nice day. We started out, it was negative 14. About by 2 o'clock in the afternoon, it's supposed to be negative 5. It is 11:45 now. Water. Water is good. You want some, buddy? On the hike. It's kind of cool. It's kind of cool not knowing the area. Very cool not knowing the area. But being able to get a feel for it and know that I'm allowed to be here. allowed to do whatever I want here pretty cool pretty cool feeling I was actually in the market for property me and the wife were looking to buy just so I can shoot videos on because I don't have a I don't have a stationary place you see where I can shoot videos I don't have a Lily survival camp I don't have Martin's bushcraft base camp I don't have bushcraft heroes treehouse I don't have the ripoff artists bushcraft camp i'm just traveling around doing different trips different places and i like that and i will continue to do that but i'd like a stationary camp a camp where i can have and come back to and feel like home and stuff like that so yeah it'd be cool to have that here so i'm thinking somewhere out here in the open would be a great place to put my woods my canvas tent with the wood stove maybe tuck it back in like next to the trees there i'd like it to be out of the forest in the open and with as least snow underneath it as possible so that it doesn't melt down too much but like this is perfect look at this area this is an awesome spot great for the dog he could just run around i could see him forever that's about perfect right here maybe almost a foot of snow pretty level though i could even move the snow where the stove would be there's not a lot of firewood there's all these pine and not much of it is dead so this is a great spot for a canvas tent but we'd have to find firewood and I believe Martin said if I walk that way there's a bunch of hardwood so let's go try let's see how far we'd have to walk that way in order to get firewood enough to keep the tent warm okay this is pretty cool this is giving me a great idea for a shelter can you guys make out what this is a bunch of spruce trees all in a little clump here they're a decent size too so i'll make sure it's okay with martin but in the future maybe i could try to get in here and make a shelter in here by trimming away a lot of these uh small dead branches you know what i mean and making like a spot where i can make a little lean to and use a lot of these boughs and branches for the actual uh materials to make it there's no snow on the ground in here at all it looks pretty insulated they're pretty cool that would be a cool shelter the possibilities are endless this is awesome all right get from here get from here no the other way buddy go on the other way there you go homie a little icicle hanging from your beard there buddy there you go eat it up Num-num-num-num-num-num, you good boy So I'm sitting here on the snow, just catching my breath. I definitely pulled a Joe. I didn't format my card, so I was shooting that last clip about that spruce patch behind me. After I got done, I looked at my card, it said memory card full. So I had to hike like the full hour round trip back to the car, half an hour there, half an hour back. I left my camera here, I left my backpack here and everything and just skirted out there as fast as I could. to get my backup memory card. So, now I'm back, I'm all warm, the sun's coming out pretty good. I'm just gonna recoup here and then head up back into the woods like I was saying I was trying to do. Same thing, just an hour later. I know I was staying back there for the tent, but really, anywhere around here I'm allowed to be, ah, just stupid snow, and the hardwoods are right there, so I would even be more inclined to maybe post up, just like with the woods, with the canvas tent, next to these spruces and have my firewood right there easily available. So right around this general area, I got two potential camps already in the works. Look at that, right away, a nice solid deadwood. Good firewood excites me, it excites me. We got some brambles here, maybe a raspberry or something like that, blackberry. We got maple, red pine, red pine, oak, red pine, Red pine, lots of pine, so just really quickly glancing at these woods, I can tell that they're not very old. None of the trees are too big, this is probably one of the bigger trees. This is a pine, they grow quick, maybe more than 50 years old, but a lot of these smaller trees, or a lot of the other trees are smaller. The oak are slower growing, there's some oak, some elm, some beech. So it's telling me that these woods were developed, cut, or burned or something along those lines not too long ago lots of wood though lots of wood lots of deer activity holy crap there's a little rub nothing too big and it's pretty low as well antler marks over there still lots of tracks it's a nice american beech adding some color to the otherwise white and gray winter forest these woods just keep on going man pretty cool they're starting to open up a bit the trees are starting to change too there's an ash which all in my area those are dead from the ash emerald ash borers emerald ash borer nice nice uh red pine there and a decent sized birch huh some Aspen some bigger pine this is a decent forest guys not too much undergrowth well right now it's all covered in snow so I don't know but it doesn't seem like it ah they're coming up Mill house a bit over here Pretty impressed. Oh my goodness check out this gnarly burl. Holy crap. Look at this thing the size of the tree It's on. Little baby. Oh, what do you think Scout? Is this a good place to stop? That's for you. Here. Up. Lay down. Good dog. There you go. No, no lay down. She's gonna lay down next to it. Guarantee he lays down next to it. This is my new backpack from Malcolm at the Hidden Woodsman. This is the Day Ruck 2018 version not a Joe Robinette edition nothing like that We're not doing that this year just a Day Ruck Malcolm was nice enough to send me one of these to test out to play with and to promote Yeah, he does a really good job on his stuff He's changed things up a little bit all the stats are on his website and stuff, but this is like a little bit thinner maybe not 500D again. Go check his stuff out on his website. He knows what he's talking about, a little bit thinner he's got completely bright orange on the inside for everything I've got a legit ax loop right in the front but Molle on the sides, on this side this is from my original Direwolf my like 2016 edition so the colors a little bit different this has something fancy in it a little treat from Mr. Merton this is something I haven't had before called Super Continental Ale, should be pretty decent I assume it is 5.5 so it's not too strong I'll be able to drink that today and be fine pretty cool pretty cool that's big enough to fit a 650 mil beer in or my 10 centimeter Billy can see where Billy can a couple cans of beer analogy in a smaller water bottle would fit in there and on this side I have my mother carrier can't my mother canteen carrier I plan on doing a trip out of this so this will be like this comes with a roll that fits underneath it show you up close actually so this is made by Centerline Systems i've had this for a while i just haven't used it fits the canteen in there has a bunch of pockets has straps on the bottom to put a gear roll or a G-roll it's they call it a strap over top pretty pretty sweet thing i got some stuff in here already just like in the pockets i won't go through it right now actually because i'm going to do an overnighter just out of this and the g roll in the winter time that should be pretty awesome video moving on Malcolm's got a pretty sweet new patch a little rubberized patch he's sewn mine patch on there for me he's got straps on the bottom straps on the top you put uh like a jacket up here a bedroll on the bottom whatever loops on the inside for saws it's bigger too it's like 30 liters now it's a nice pack man it rides nice the back is um all mesh now he's got lots of padding and stuff so he's doing a good job love supporting Malcolm and he supports me and it's uh pretty good a little relationship we have going let's get a fire going i see a bunch of oak and poplar and a couple other things right around here that are dead that i can chop up with my axe let's do that want to get some wood do you want to help me get some wood oh get that wood that big boys my kleenex away love this little merino beanie this is icebreakers and i've had it since way before alone i seem to lose it every year and find it again i can never get rid of it i'm gonna put the old sunglasses on for the wood processing keep these uh tester gloves on my belt with a carabiner i got some heavy duty uh little grommet on it so like metal reinforced i really like it check this out this really sucks tell me if this ever happens to you guys in the winter time my finger um cracks and bleeds like crazy where is it can you see it on there i don't know if you can see it if it's coming through but dude that it looks small but that is split wide open it sucks so bad especially when i put my glove on it like there's like uh fuzz on the inside so it sticks to it and rips and everything i've been putting a band-aid on it with like um vaseline and like polysporin and stuff trying to get it fixed i fixed the other thumb but this one's pretty bad right now let's go okay buddy if you're cold go on the mat on the on the blanket okay oh this axe you might have seen this in my last video or my um snow storm camping video this is the stereotypical bushcrafters axe sorry one second he's crying too much come here bro lay down stay down as i was saying this is the stereotypical bushcrafters axe this is the second one i've had of these it was one of the first axes i ever bought and i dinged it up real bad on some oak and I thought they were garbage ever since then, but that was like 15 years ago. Finally got this one not too long ago. This one I got from the Canadian Outdoor Equipment. Got it from Tim. He's an awesome dude, and it's a really good store, so I highly recommend checking those guys out. Canadian Outdoor Equipment, Scandinavian Forest Axe from Gränsfors Bruks. This is like, in my mind, you know, the Lamborghini of axes, right? It's a lot of money, and it won't do you any better than a Fiskars axe, but I really like it and it's all about preference so let's get to working with this bad boy I'll put a link to Canadian Outdoor Equipment in the description I get a lot of stuff from those guys they hook it up I got this poplar I found nice and dead, we're ready to chop her down I want to make sure I put my axe mask in my pocket because it's brown right now it's not such a bad time of year to put on the ground but it's a bad habit so put in our pocket a light saber okay granted the wood was deteriorated it's not punky alright thanks for dealing delimit for me there de-limber dog come see the amazing de-limber dog cries and de-limbs logs like nobody's business get it get your stick be cutting on each strike each time anyways this wood's not not bad so i'll bring these two back over that little camp and uh get some more good boy look at you doing your job go back to camp drop it good good dog get your stick what a good boy you are this might look small but this is going to be the toughest one yet out of all the trees i've got this is a oak i believe white oak there we go you can see from the grain on there it is oak i'll get that one down too i get the axe question all the time like uh what do i what acts do i recommend what's my favorite axe and stuff and it's such a broad question there's so many parameters so many variables um for a good all-around axe like i like it's either going to be something like this like a boy's axe or a 19-inch axe and you don't have to be it doesn't have to be Gränsfors or Wetterlings or Hultafors or Fiskars or Council Tool the best bet what i've had the best success with is getting old heads re-handling themselves or getting a buddy to re-handle them on a decent handle the only thing you're really looking for is a quality head and what i like to see in an axe head is a thin axe head swedish steel is always good this is like a tomahawk style but i prefer like the more american looking ones the dayton patterns the dayton patterns and stuff like that but yeah anyways all around axe 19 19 inch or 25 26 inch but there's tons of different uses for different kinds of axes it will break chopper go excellent is so easy nice to use not using your axe there's no reason not to just kind of throw it in there that way it's off the ground you know where it is it's good to go sheath is on it axe mask is on it i mean i need to split these pieces up i don't really have like a working log to split to use my axe to buck it up so they're nice and easy to break this tree will will come in handy. Leave it. Leave it. As long as Scout doesn't steal all of my firewood. Pretty handy. Again, that's just poplar, right? Gotta be realistic here. It's not oak. It still works, but it won't be that easy. So you guys who watched that last video with Griff and Scott, what do you guys think about that video anyways with Griff? Hope it came through alright. I saw some good comments and some negative ones, but anyways. When I went out with those guys, you might have seen Griff using my new knife, my new Adventure Sworn knife. and I kind of showed it a little bit then thought I'd talk about it a little bit more right now I told you guys I would so I had this almost exact knife years ago and I brought it on alone with me the only difference between that one and this one my old knife had white G10 scales and these are ivory paper micarta if I'm not mistaken still very nice very similar and then the blade was a quarter inch longer on the other one look at the taper though look at the taper on that bad boy that coming up it's one eighth tapering down to nothing almost pretty fancy so Adventure Sworn love those guys been a big fan for a long time that bad boy out pretty sweet knife i got a really nice sheath with it and a matching fire steel with a piece of shock cord around it fire steel is pretty fancy nice I was griff using that I haven't even used it yet so that other knife had a bad ending the one that was this one was made after had an unfortunate ending so anyways thanks Cody at Adventure Sworn for hooking it up I got a fisherman knife which is a fillet knife that matches this as well at home so I'll be bringing that out in the spring and stuff this wood's very deteriorated I'm just making some curls off of it to throw on top of fire. Well, that's my first time using it Not having any problems getting used to it by any means so nice knife love their work always have I actually have a knife collaboration in the works with them we're gonna make a Scout model and for sale, but that's not gonna be for some time. All right, that's probably decent I'm gonna start this bad boy up. Let's get this thing going. I got some fine birch bark and I got some thick birch bark I'm gonna use the fine birch bark to start it thick birch bark as part of the platform then add more on top with the shavings should go pretty good I'm gonna put it up with those shavings almost screwed her up as hard as I try one more thing I should point out I got is a sit pad pretty cool one from Phantom X the same guy who does my or did my silnylon pouches it's got this like cordage webbing and velcro with padding inside I got this like maybe a year ago he sent it to my house I've never used it thanks buddy so yeah anyway sorry you actually used it last last video with Griff before that I hadn't oh I was holding on to the old blue foam pad no holding on to memories all right the fire is going behind us if I'm being honest I've had a hell of a time keeping it going I don't know why maybe it did rain for the past couple days before I got here everything's soaking wet but anyways it's time to make up some lunch I've got some dehydrated chili. My wife made the chili and I dehydrated it. I've got a couple more at home in anticipation for trips to come. That's a good amount of dehydrated chili. So there's mushrooms, beans, onions, hearty, hearty, hearty chili. And also, to go with it, a little drop here. We got the old parmigiano. Somebody touch my spaghetti. Somebody take my parmigiano. anyways so that would be good good lunch I've got a scout a can of dog food so you can have that what else I got in here just things like some chips a bag well not much that's about it actually I'm excited to eat I was watching the guy who makes these centerline systems or who owns it say people were having a hard time getting the canteen part out of the carrier once the carriers full gear like I have on the sides he had a really cool solution you just kind of pull it so it goes on the side comes right out and then the same thing for putting it in if it's flip gets caught it's not even hard anyway but sideways to put it in so you just like it sounds you know you turn it sideways and then you put it in anyways pro tip thing's got a little lid holder behind it too again i'll go in more detail into this once i do that overnighter see if i can't get this in here somewhere but bam a sun a rod darter boiled up don't know if it's all going to go in here this is like one and a half serving but oh yeah she'll go she'll make a turd there we go nice so that will fluff up fluff up's not the word really bulk up a hearty lunch a hearty almost supper i'm not going to put it right on the fire or the coals i'm just going to put kind of next to it so it's going to get some residual heat but also stay very warm and maybe go a little bit quicker rock and bed of coals now i found some cherry some choice cherry some cherry cherry as it were here's a little look inside the uh the old day rough 2018 version it's got a zippered pocket in the front sit pad pocket in the back padded two saw pockets or side pockets whatever you want to use them for two flaps that come over top kind of my water bottle is kind of weighing it down that's why it looks a little weird but yeah nice and square i think are about 30 to 35 liters it's my second time using it i only used it the other day with griff and scott so so far i'm pretty impressed um it can fit lots of gear i can definitely do an overnighter in that and that will come be to come come to be soon it's a new year new gear bam still getting cooked from sitting where it is oh it's hot residual heat yeah with love oh it's done oh buddy she done the water to chili ratio is about perfect look at that too shabby guys i am hungry i'm gonna dig in scouts really want some so i'm gonna have to fix him up his uh dog food before i eat but that's okay she'll cool down a little bit while that's happening i like to leave it i used to mix it all in but now i like to leave it at the top so i can taste a super cheesy bite super cheesy bite of the parmesan somebody touching my spaghetti you know you know i pulled the joe once again i had so it's bowl next to my food next to my gear and i forgot it so we're improvising leave it for a minute buddy look at that food not too shabby guys it's like a stew like i said it's a stew uh stew style it's gonna go in this baggie in the ground he's gonna eat out of that and i'll help him out because i'm sure it'll be a little bit difficult for him i'll rip the sides open there you go buddy, have at her, good boy, good dog Can I eat yet? The answer is no, I cannot eat yet. I need to fix this fire. Give that some air, and it should be okay. Happy to report that this sit pad is a very good fire enhancer, fire blower. Not as good as the original blue foam pad, but come on, nothing can touch that, right? It's an illegal its own. Meanwhile, scope's done. I'll help you out, buddy, one sec. Here, right here. Okay, you're done. Good boy. Here we are. Got my backup water bottle. My Smart Water filled up in a tap. Remnants of Restore Fruit Punch. Cheers guys. Still plenty hot, quite cheesy. So I've been wearing this coat, this triple fat goose coat for, since before Christmas. I'm liking it, I'm liking it a lot. I seem to bring this one every time. I'm wearing this in the city and when I go camping. I always go to grab my other mountain hardware one. I just prefer this one because it's got a big thick heavy hood on it It's not, it's not fragile, but when I do have to go on like a, or when I do go on like a distance thing, I won't be bringing this just because it doesn't pack down. So that's the trade-off, I guess. Those lightweight ones really pack down. Come on the blanket, buddy. Come, up here, up here, on your bed. Come on, come on, lay down, lay down. Let's go, come here, bud. Hey, mmm, my beer! That was a legit remembrance moment there for Joe. Remembrance? That's not the right word. Okay, I don't have a can opener. all I have is my brand new knife it's not my old Turley you know I mean the brand new shiny but make the sacrifice right smell it test we guys think hoppy or citrus I'm going citrus just by the green on the bottle on the on the label oh it's a lager no it's an ale smells like blue what booze a pilsner this is not smell like an IPA says it's a super continental ale that's decent my beers are not pasteurized and contain no preservatives nice very cool okay it's gonna go good with the chili look at my spork it's parmigiano coated bonus i brought him because i was only going out for the day and as he wants to come out and it was a good it was a good uh time to spend with him drive up here and spent last night my buddies with them and stuff so he gets a little bit more attention but this is a learning experience this whole trip right this trip is me learning about this area me learning about what i can do in this area what kind of natural resources are here what kind of terrain is here all that stuff but it's also learning that i really can't bring him on overnighters in the winter where there's not going to be like a hot tent or a place to get inside because he's uh he's shivering right now he refuses to get on this on this blanket as you can see excuse me i'll try again but let's go come up here around lay up here now come here here no come here good boy lay down down good dog but he's again he's only half on it and uh he won't stay on it for long but he is shivering anyways if i have a place to get over that like the hut then he's up off it completely off dude go do what you're doing he wants some of this but he already had his own food there's onions and stuff in here i can still bring him out for the day and i can still bring him out camping as long as there's like a canvas tent with a wood stove kind of deal where he can get out of that and warm up and stuff i mean that's okay i'm fine with that The old dog, the old 10-year-old dog. All right, well, I'm going to finish this up. I'll get back with you when I'm done. That food's good. I'm chilling down. Can you not take my firewood? Okay. And the fire's not a raging anymore, so I wouldn't grab this dead standing poplar. Get her going again. As long as the scout doesn't steal too much of my firewood. Doesn't even. This pad's pretty handy, I gotta say. Inside it. I don't remember. I probably looked inside it when I first got it, but I really don't remember what's in it. oh it's smoke maybe we can move let's just oh yeah okay okay so it's just a sheath for the blue foam pad this is not my blue foam pad it's made of a different thing i actually think it's the same kind that kyle actually i said actually a bunch that kyle had cut from an old sleeping pad if i'm not mistaken but i assume you can attach that to your backpack maybe it's cordage not really sure like frisbee it's orange you don't lose it just hanging out by the fire looking all around looked up over here and i see a perfect example of why you really need to check out your uh camp spot before you set up up north they call them chiku chiku that's known as widow makers probably super dangerous check this out that's a big old birch no sorry it's a poplar similar sometimes poplar is a soft tree it's not as bad as birch poplar is a very very soft tree broke up there it's holding up in the crook of that tree that pine and then there's like an extra branch coming down this way and then this big old pine here just kind of propped up and then there's dead poplar i'm a loose cannon i'm a loose cannon style you know there's something wrong with my camera now everything looks blown out oh my gosh but anyways my original point be careful where you are camping there's a strong windstorm that's coming down and uh ruin someone's day well it's almost four o'clock my buddy gets done work at five we had about a half an hour hike up out of here so i think i'm gonna pack up get on out of here go spend the night at buddy's house then get home to edit this video scott what are you doing you're gonna cut your tongue man man i was gonna say buddy and man at the same time man money muddy cut your tongue molly stop stop that's right little punk dude how many times i have to tell you to stop licking that can if you cut your tongue you're not gonna be a happy boy all right time to pack this stuff up and get out of here this is a very good trip i'm very happy i came and did this even though we're not doing it overnight it was very telling it's a good uh sign of things to come so I know now I have about three options for videos and that's just like at the bare minimum off the top of my head just walking around looking plenty of options for like minimal gear stuff and natural shelter stuff and family stuff all sorts of stuff I know this video may have seemed a little gear oriented it really didn't mean to be that way it did turn out that way and I can see that I just got some new gear it's a new year I got some new gear in the new year this sit pad slides watch out big guy move over watch out slides right down in the back slot of the backpack it's a touch tight but she fits and it matches the color it matches so anyway like I'm saying i didn't mean for it to be such a gear video but it is and that's okay so i'll put links to the in the bottom in the description uh where you can get the hidden woods and backpack the grass vs brooks skin and even forest axe the heavy cover canteen the sit pad the phantom x i don't know if he's still making them i literally got that pad a year ago and i didn't even know i was getting it and uh yeah so we'll see anyways i'll look and see if there is a link i'll put it hope you guys enjoyed the video had a good time with buddy scout the next video i will hopefully be doing a wednesday video with my wife at home but the next trip video should be with mr sean james on an ice oh this is starting to ice up on an ice fishing trip we'll go and we'll pull sleds behind us and have a snow um snow trucker hot tent we'll pull that behind us live out there for a couple nights and uh catch some fishies and hopefully eat them up oh he laid on the blanket look at you what a good boy you took you ten years to catch up too cold to drink water dad okay well like i'm saying everything's good this is a good trip good things to come things to come with good people i'll keep you with i'll keep you with me until i get on out of here lots of words to say still never a shortage of words for old joe you know i gotta warm up my hands it's a good tip to keep this fire going or any fire you have going until as late as you can before you leave that way you can just continuously warm your hands I've probably said that on my last video but it's the truth I imagine you should leave the fire going as long as you can set up and definitely spend the night out in this thing if I needed to go 5x7 mesh tarp wool blanket I'm just gonna kick some snow on top of this guy not too much concern here pretty much deciduous and all snow everywhere That's where the fire pit was right there. Can't even tell. You ready to go, bud? Yeah? Come on, let's go. Oh, yeah, I can't forget that. So this is, yeah, this is pretty legit bush. It's not like it's trails all throughout it or anything like this. I'm literally following a deer trail. I feel like it's way overexposed now. I'm having some problems with my camera, guys. I'll figure this out before my next trip. Anyways, yeah, not bad. And then again, like I said earlier, there's that spot I showed you that was all open. that I can use the canvas tent in so lots of options lots and lots of options I gotta stop post hole in here, Scout's even post hole in a bit this is awesome I love this kind of terrain just open field some trees for wind protection look at that man super cool you need your sunglasses out here though Scouty goggles oh saw a little animal bounding through the snow Scout didn't see it or else he'd be after it what it was a little squirrel maybe can't go can't have gotten that warm today or else the post-holing would be more frequent snow would have softened up quite a bit more than it has but sun's behind been behind clouds all day basically yeah it was a clear night last night we were out walking ah walking on the lake frozen lake by Bobby's house and uh we drove The Scout was all antsy. We drove last night, or yesterday really, five or so hours to get to Bobby's house. And we get in, the Scout's like, what the heck man, we drove this long to freaking sit here? We went out and walked along the lake at night, on the lake at night. It was frozen, obviously. And yeah, clear skies, that's my point of this story. Clear skies, lots and lots of stars. But today is just cloud cover like crazy booming want some more Made it back to the cabin about halfway back to the car. That's another option there too for a different type of video, too I could always just jump on the bandwagon and do the whole cabin thing, you know, I'll get me some views Back on the trail. We're almost back to the car Crazy dogs still got that stick in his mouth drop it good boy come on leave it come on jump up buddy up up up up good boy good go big guy Joel activated guys thanks for watching the video we'll be back with another video very soon take care i'll see you next time peace bro