Camping With A Subscriber in a Canvas Tent with a Woodstove.

I'm going camping. Good. This is perfect. All right. Hey, I'm camping with Joe Robinette. How are you guys doing? This is a new video. This is Scott. This is my new buddy, Scott. We've met once before. Scott's a subscriber. He sent me an email. We live relatively close to each other and wanted to get out camping, so we met up for a beer the other night. Hit it off. A couple. Yeah, one or two. Hit it off and decided to go camping. So tonight, we're going to spend the night in a snow trucker canvas tent. Yeah? Be cool. So it'll be the first time I'm using this one this year, and yeah, it should be good. Let's get it started. So my tent has an 8x10 footprint. Our plan is to put it right here facing the sun, the door facing the sun. So I'm just kind of clearing away a little bit of the sticks at first. It's not really that necessary because the bottom is open. There's no bottom on the tent, but just, yeah, just get a couple things out of the way. We're going to set up here. It's very easy to set up, very comprehensive. I really, really like this tent. got so what we got here is a snow trekker tent i cannot remember the exact model for the life of me it's eight by ten maybe i'll put it on the bottom of the screen so i've got it in a stuff sack this is a 35 liter stuff sack it did not come with this but um it fits into it well and i like it i think that it's about 12 pounds i thought i read 15 but it feels it doesn't feel quite like yeah right you're holding it before so this is uh let's lay this out it's so clean it's pretty clean So maybe go walk back There we go, so there should be like a little thing on the top pull that like maybe back towards that tree there Yeah, so that'll be the very back. Okay, perfect. So you guys have seen in the past. I've used Like a pyramid like a teepee style Canvas tent and that's pretty cool I think I was telling you about it, too But the downfall was that the pole was in the middle and the stove goes in the middle as well And then you lose this whole big space it like basically Obviously the middle of your tent right so you're losing walking space if you have your dog with you It's kind of sketchy you don't want to brush up against it or whatever so this uses poles as like that you bring in as opposed to a pole that you cut yourself considering all the gear actually i was shocked at how light it was yeah me too and then like think about it we're carrying a sand hand bomb in this but in the winter time you know we're on sleds yeah no i'm shocked when you said what it was and how heavy it was so the poles are relatively easy to understand basically there's one pole that has two open ends see this one's open this one's closed so you know this one is going to be on the ground all the ones with the closed ends the closed end goes on the ground one closed one open again oops so you the one that has two open ends you know is gonna be a cross piece because it has to connect to the legs that you're making and then it goes into these so it's got two short ones and then a long one it's like a Y two short branches in the long one the long one goes across to keep it uh across basically stick with me boys and girls so there is our nope there is our cross piece there and it's a bit shorter than the others if i'm not mistaken it is so we're gonna grab two poles yep and then throw them on here put the on the two shorter spots the open end does that make make sense? Yup. Just saying words. Somehow I understood that. Nice. Yeah. So maybe you go up there. That one's got a butt head. Aw, come on! Dammit! It rubs. Nothing. Like I said, stick with me boys and girls. That's why everybody loves it, Joe. No editing there. Happy editing on this one. Okay, we're doing this for the first time. Alright, so that's as easy as that is, even though it took me a little bit. So you can really see the size of it now, and it gets a little bit more taut, but that's a good, decent size. Take it outside here, and basically just scrape it over the top, and really, remember that thing I told you to look for? Yeah. I just want that to go in the top corner, basically. Basically just drape it over the top, and really, remember that thing I told you to look for? You just want that to go in the top corner, basically. Now this is the, is that the snow pipe, or is that just a van? That's just like a van, which you're going to see up there. This is the front site here in the morning. So I'm going to go over the top. Oh, this is so much easier with two people. And then in the bottom corner, just tuck it in. There's like a little, like, yeah, heavy-duty part. It's looking pretty good already, eh? Absolutely. You know what? That was really easy to do. Oh, very easy. Yeah, take-up, set-down, set-up, take-down, five minutes. Then we just got to make it taut. Yeah, it's light. It's light. Great light. If you want to see Joe in action putting this together, I've been trying to videotape him filming himself, do this, and see how he works. I've always been fascinated about how he records his footage, so I've been recording him recording his video. So it's really an absolute pleasure to be here watching him do it, so it's pretty cool. Oh, Scott. So Scott's doing this on the other side. But basically, it's super easy, right? you've got these two sleeves and you've got your pole and the pole pulls apart in the middle done elastic on it slide it through and you've got this little like leather um with a grommet in it and your tie out attached all you're doing you're sliding that on there in the middle pushing it through and now you can make it super taut we do have to go around and cut some um some stakes to stake out but that doesn't have to happen right now this support stick goes from the top grommet down to the bottom there's a grommet there as well and then now you have almost pretty good walls by doing that you can see here's a skirt on the bottom and in the winter time when there's snow i'll be definitely burying it under the snow but i believe now because there's no snow we're just going to tuck it under no rain or anything like that can pool into it okay we're just going to cut some stakes stick this bad boy out Are you going in, Scott? Check out this bad boy. Breaking my stuff? I hope that's not a sign of things to come Take a guy out, man. It's awesome. Pretty tall? It is. Oh, I zipped that up. It's not very cold. Very nice. Yeah, so the stove will go right here. We'll clear away the leaves on the ground because the residual heat from the stove will catch the leaves on fire. But we won't let that happen. I wonder, Joe, if you could do this without the frame. Is this why these are here? I thought of that when I saw it, maybe, because if you got it tight enough, I don't see why not, really. I mean, the frame's pretty light. The frame's pretty awesome, too. Yeah, I think you could. I really don't know. I used to have a pyramid tent, not this kind of tent, but a different one that had a thing at the top where you could tie it up. Same idea. So just tying the door open, tying both those doors open, we get light in there. It'll be easy to put our stuff in there, clean it out, and see. I'm sure some of you guys will remember a few years ago. I had a another snow trucker It was the first one I got got from buddy Cliff Thank you again a whole lot for that, but that one was like a 12 by 16 if I'm not mistaken, so this is much more Manageable size for going on extended trips and stuff the other one was awesome So it was more of a base camp, and I believe actually that was the model name was the base camp It's so cold, right? You know what? That wood stove is actually hot from sitting in the sun. Okay, so we got the Trekker model wood stove. It's one of the smaller ones, but it will be plenty for this tent. You can see it's gonna sit kind of out a bit. We'll figure out the best situation for it. Find out how it's best situated. Cool thing about this is that all of the components fit inside of the stove to store it with to move around with your piping, your spark arrestor or my spark arrestor not yours, my elbow piece inside here there's fire bricks because you're not supposed to really have the the fire right on the on the box on the bottom of the box because it will warp it but I'm actually going to be getting from Canadian Outdoor equipment very soon a false bottom that I can put on there with holes so I don't have to put the bricks because the bricks are a pain in the butt when you want to clean out the ashes if I'm having fire with like a campfire outside I would cut them even smaller than this right so I feel like it's a decent length to get to get them in so you are actually able to switch this up depending on setups because sometimes things are different like the way you have to set things up are different so you can actually use the piece of the damper not flue damper first or you can use the elbow piece first depending on the situation but it looks to me like we're going to be using this piece first there's like corrugated parts we want to try to match up yeah see this is much better already actually i can move this the elbow piece moves independently that goes there i believe this would be the next piece we can put this on the other side right that takes up a little less room that's not so bad yeah that's not so bad okay now we gotta go outside and make a tripod because the rest of this will not stay up by itself and i don't want to leave it uh hanging and putting pressure on the rest of it so go make a small tripod okay well we got this all set up i feel like something's not right here i feel like it shouldn't be getting this big at the end but for some reason i had to set up at my house i just took it down today it did not look like this but this is how it is now so we're gonna we're gonna camp like this figure it out later it'll still work fine it just looks a little weird to me but and i'm sure if i just played it off like it was good to me somebody in the in watching this would know and call me out on it so we're going to put it all out in the open it'll still work it'll still work right well that's all squared away our next duty is to get some firewood i said duty i have a tomahawk scott's got a folding saw and i've also got a full size axe in my pack you bring an axe too yeah a hatchet so we got some tools let's go collect some uh some firewood there's lots of down stuff lots of solid oak around and stuff like that so it won't be an issue to get a lot of firewood like this right here boom firewood oh scott's busting my chops already we're gonna be just fine friends all right so here we got a piece of oak it's somewhat deteriorated but like you've heard me say probably a hundred times the outside of the oak doesn't really matter it's what's on the inside that counts you know so i just got my little uh cold steel trailhawk we're gonna take some turns throwing it later on but uh until then let's actually use it for some firewood prep see look Look at that. Oh yeah, it's just solid inside. It's a bit bouncy. This isn't like using an axe on a solid piece of wood. What's that? There's so much wood we can just break up. Yeah. So Scott and I are both from southern Ontario here, and we were talking about how growing up here, you're always wanting to get up north, right, and go to the real woods, the boreal forest, and the Canadian Shield and stuff, but there's always something about coming back down here, about the Carolinian forest, about the hardwoods, about how flat it is, about the soil. just home and I like it just as much now just as much as up north which if you would ask me that before later earlier on in life it would have been a different story so we got this hardwood anyway it's my point down here lots and lots of hardwoods way more than up north so this is some kind of fruit wood it's a little bit decayed so it'll still be pretty good I got the old grandma's axe out with me this time it's nice and orangey very pretty am I too tall for you you're too tall for me you know what I mean am I out of your shot you're probably you're like a giant no you're good okay look way up all right buddy we were talking about our knives kind of showing each other our knives and we were thinking oh why don't we show show the folks at home you know absolutely the folks at home because i knew joe joe had a knife or two so one or two i do have a knife yes so why don't we look at yours first all right mine's a bark river bravo i wanted uh joe's opinion on if you approved it or not i like it a lot what i like You shouldn't worry about my opinion. What I like about it a lot is the convex and the blade shape. Let me get this real quick on here. See that? It's a real convex. There's no, like, micro bevel or anything like that. And look at the size of the blade. What do you think that is? It's a quarter-inch thick for sure, but, like, five inches? Five-inch blade, yeah. It's a nice knife. The only thing I really don't like, if I'm being honest with you, is this exposed lanyard loop because sometimes I like to use my hand to split or whatever but obviously you could use a piece of wood instead and just hit it and that would hold up better than hitting the handle right I like it I like it a lot, look at that balance, that balance okay yeah I like the thumbnail, I'm sure there's a specific term for it but I like being able to grip it there, jimping, jimping yeah there you go so yeah but I do like the comfort of that for me It works this way as well because when they described this knife the intention of that was to have your thumb like that Oh on top. That's what they say. Okay to be able to Just love it this way It's just comfortable for me it works and then for the fire steel. I love using that those Well, you know what it has a nice little case here so I never lose it right oh oh i see this guy over here can't be without your fire steel oh okay we're never camping so what i have so this is this is mine this is the Joe Robinette knife which Griffin is my son Griff I'm with Joe Robinette he's a big fan my my son can't believe that i'm actually on a trip with Joe let alone uh talk about knives in the right so this is very cool well maybe we'll have to uh hook him up we We might have to get Griffey out on a trip. Oh, wow. Yeah, so that's from a company called Weber Handmade. It's a gentleman named Weber Handmade. I don't know. It's got your emblem on it. It has my emblem, yes. Have people seen it? Yeah, I think so. Oh, yeah? Very cool. I don't know if that knife is actually happening now, guys. I'm sorry. I haven't had any communication with the maker in a long time, so we shall see. But if not, another knife will be in the way. Are you the Micarta? Mike Carter? Yeah, I like Micarta a lot. I like G10 and Micarta. This is Micarta. It has a little bit more grip to it than the G10. Yeah. I like wood too, I like wood too but the Micarta is pretty nice so that's like uh my idea of a all-around bushcraft knife you have a comfortable handle and a stout blade you know that blade's not going to break at all there's no fine tip on it and it's a nice scandi so it has a lot of meat behind the edge no very nice do you have a couple yeah i don't just have uh you just have this one i have this one too so this is the other end of the spectrum this is a Deering uh Woodchuck so that's a convex like yours okay see how it goes all the way down there right yes and then right and that's thin that's like a one eight or five thirty seconds yeah and then if you look at the the the pins on the side it's all jet black right you put the jet black pins on it so it kind of all matches yeah yeah you can barely see them yeah it's kind of nice that's my newest knife yeah the floating liners too so those are black liners white liners and then the scales pretty cool very Yeah, yeah, I'm a fan of that one. That's my newest knife. I like that one a lot Still still learning it knife talk with Joe and Scott Nice awesome. I got a lot to learn. I gotta work on my collection. I gotta figure out which one I'm gonna put on my belt Just grown-ass children in the woods Scott's out there collecting some firewood. I'm gonna set up my sleeping gear in here, and then we'll switch out so we're not kind of Trampling all over each other in here. I've got a negative seven degree sleeping bag It's only gonna get down to right around the zero tonight So having the fire going all night in the wood stove is not a necessity Oh look two pillows falling out of control probably won't stoke the fire after we fall asleep I know I'm not If Scott wants to that's up to him so i got a small rubberized tarp on the ground just for basically staying off the mud once that um wood stove starts kicking it starts getting warm in here it's going to get pretty muddy so got that i got my reflectix to keep my um my my seat pad pretty clean yeah it will be a only goal is to be a very comfortable night on the back there and i'll just put my reflectix up near the head where I don't have any coverage that looks good to me and two pillows such a nice guy I am I thought you could use it as a pillow you know Joe's stuff is set up back there. He's got his kit. This is mine. What kind of sleeping pad do you use? I got an Exped SynMat, it's called. Well, that's a nice one. So it's a nine. So it's a little longer. I mean, there's different sizes. But this one's got some insulation as well. So it's got some down stuff in it. I got, what I'm using for a ground sheet is my footprint from my MSR Hubba Hubba. That's your gray part there. That's not part of the pad. Oh, okay, I got you, yep. So I just wrapped it in there just for. Perfect. So that works out well. That's my footprint and this pad, this is usually Griff's job or one of my kids, I try to let them do it, but it's got a little pump in it, I don't know, have you seen these before? I have a different X-pad but I don't have the pump in it, no. Yeah, this one's got a little pump, which is cool because I think this would take a while to blow up if you had to blow it up using your lungs, right? So there's a sponge in here, you can see it and you gotta let it fill up a little bit. So once there's a 2-way valve in there, so you just put your hand over like that, and it pumps up. That's pretty cool. It is actually, yeah. So you just do this. And you practice your CPR at the same time. Exactly. Fourth and five and three. Is that a sleeping bag you have next to you, is that a Phantom? Is it a... Mountain Hardware. Red? Yeah. I have the same one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's, what the heck is it called? It's a Phantom. Is it a Phantom? Yeah. Okay, I do have the same one. I love it. I know. I love mine. I mean, this was my big purchase this year where I had a synthetic, I had my original sleeping bag, which was fantastic. I literally bought it, I mean, when I was 20, I'm 46 now. So, I mean, it's a warm sleeping bag, still works great, but it doesn't compress really small, right? So some of the trips I was doing, it's not going to work for what I wanted. So you start, I mean, you just got to research them. and this is, I think, the smallest bag you can get for minus two. Yeah, 100%. It's a great bag, and it's rated perfectly, too. It's not, like, a wrong rating. No, you know what? That's a good point because we went to Bruce Trail on Easter weekend this year, and my kids have zero sleeping bags, like, as in zero temperature. And so I told them, I was like, I look at the weather, I'm like, you guys will be fine, you know, it's not going to get below freezing. So one morning we wake up. I mean, it was a gorgeous morning. there wasn't a ripple in Georgian Bay we literally we backpacked to um a Storm Haven yeah yep so we you know we're on the uh the platforms of Storm Haven and i wake up and i i go out to the water and i can see the puddles on the water frozen now i was fine because it was obviously this was a minus two but my my children were too happy moral of the story screw the kids as long as you're warm, no, but yeah, that sleeping bag I would recommend that to anyone that is a fantastic sleeping bag, well worth the money, like you're saying it is an investment, but you're gonna have that, like you said, you had your last one for 20 years, you know, I mean that's not something you have to replace next year as well, yes, it's a little damp whatever it's meant to handle that, right? There's not so many dead trees in this wood We found a nice oak We're going to take some practice shots with the old tomahawk Got her show me up. Oh nice It is fun, and they're actually Actually, pretty good for actual tool. I swear that was me that threw that one. I promise. You gotta get one, you gotta get one on camera so you people believe me, all right? No, no. No, no. No! Okay, I'll just have to do it again. Now you gotta do it again. You ready? You're right, I was putting too much oomph into it. Yeah, that was good, buddy. Of course. He's getting pissed off just like me. I gotta get it. It gets worse every time, eh? Okay, I have to take this away from Scott. He sunk it, game over, boom. All right. All right, can we cut wood now? I think we need some firewood, buddy. Gonna get this fire going and we're just gonna use some grass. So we grabbed this grass standing, not just laying on the ground. Nice and dry, I broke it up, made a little bird's nest. After that goes, I'm gonna try to stick that in there, throw this grass on top of it without getting burned up too bad. So that went pretty good. Normally, oh, let's put it out and try it again. Normally, when I'm striking stuff, guys see me plant it in and go like that but with grass it's not even that necessary really see what i mean so always want to flip upside down before it blows up too much you always want to flip it upside down so that it um it has somewhere to grow right because if it's staying burning end on top it has nothing else to catch on fire prep ready to go make sure our flue is open look at that it's smoked out in here Scott was nice enough to bring some venison tenderloin out for us and we don't want to waste it by cooking in a frying pan in the stove so we're gonna build a fire out here we just cleared away the leaves from the immediate area and build a fire out here and cook our food out here at least that portion of it because uh yeah fire grilled stuff is always a little bit more tasty than fried make a little platform some day I like the way you do that I know it seems straightforward but yeah no no no yeah you get you get the best of both worlds you you get your fire up off the wet ground so it doesn't smoke as long and then you build this coal base along the bottom too it's it's yeah it's especially for cooking it's a good way to do it and then these garlic mustard too, look at that venison here we come last time I ate venison I think it was with Sean and we were up north building something on his property, a big lean-to on his property and he brought a deer backbone and you should have seen his face, yes, how'd you like it? oh it was not great but i i was like oh yeah it wasn't bad actually we left it hanging over the fire for like hours like all throughout the day everything got so smoky and then we just picked it it was it was okay you know what i gotta like i gotta get my hair like years ago we've been hunting i've been deer hunting for a while and we used to bring our stuff to the butcher and they used to cut like uh like beef right right pork or chops and or steaks and whatever else with the bone and the fat in it the venison, the tallow from venison ruins the taste in my opinion i do not like the taste of it so once uh once i got into deer hunting years ago me and my buddy bill we just decided to we would de-bone it ourselves really yeah none of like none of the venison that we use has any fat in it or the bone because it's it's not like beef where it gives it a flavor it takes away from it in my in my opinion it takes away from it so that's why it's it's for me it's tenderloin stews and stuff like that i don't i don't do chops people i saw i think i saw sean cooking ribs yeah for sure i don't know what those tasting they're okay yeah but they're not uh the tenderloins are they're awesome yeah i can't wait you should have seen dude after we cooked that backbone we broke it and the the spinal cord it came out as like this like like solidified gel it was so messed up man You're like we're just thinking like no, you know for centuries people have eaten that like no doubt in my mind, you know The indigenous we eat No, it's not for me You know, it's funny is now the restaurant a big Fancy meal room. Yeah, they slice the bone in half roast it and give us yet I've had it's actually pretty good, but it's kind of gross when you think about it I don't think that honestly, I don't know if this is the venison Venison sucks, like with the chops and with the fat, people fry it up and it's disgusting, I'm sorry. What about like, uh. You're hunting and want to love it, but it's not good. Right, right. What about like, pepperettes, you ever get those made? I make those up. Yeah, that would be my favorite. Yeah, because you, but you gotta mix it with pork. Oh. Yeah, people are mixing, you're mixing it with pork. Pepperettes and sausages, venison and sausages, I used to make them all the time, they were awesome, but you gotta cut it with pork, it's too dry. Okay. Because venison's very dry. Okay. So you need fat in it, right? Right. So you get some pork shoulder, then you take it to the butcher, and it's like half pork, I know nothing about this that's cool I like very soon in the very near future next year next year I'm gonna get deer next year I'm gonna have my my license I said this for two years now not only should you get it but with your connections people gonna be begging you to go hunt it yeah I've had a lot of offers you know what I'm saying like that's the part where you got to take advantage of that right over a couple of hard-working men you know in the woods Absolutely. We've earned this today. Are you kidding me? Cheers buddy. Yuzu, it's a Japanese fruit inside the IPA. Really? Dude, I know it sounds weird but it's probably one of the best beers I've ever had in my life. Is it tasty? It is. Is that a good wow? No, it's good. No, no, it is. Yeah, yeah. It's good, eh? Never heard of it. No, me either. Yuzu Pale Ale and it's from Radical Road which is from Toronto I'm going with a Walkerville Geronimo IPA which is a local brewery can't go wrong Windsor Ontario yeah yeah I can't believe I only brought one beer it's lies you know they're okay you kidding me coming out with Joe I'm prepared man is this what the world thinks of me it broke my back getting here all the beers it's a good thing we both have a good taste in beer absolutely not drinking that Bud Light nonsense don't you need more gear I'm like I don't have room I just gotta screw the gear we need the beer it's been a fun night buddy we're able to pull this off yeah me too yeah yeah it's been great looking forward to the food and sitting in a warm tent yeah the tent is nice and warm right now we got the thing cranked so and we I'm gonna be talking to Joe get him committed with some beers over some bikepacking trips that we're gonna do sounds so fun dude you guys see did we talk about that already no we talked about Joe bikepack go ahead I've gone on a bikepacking trip and we're at our house today at my house today and you can't just skim by the bike pack how long was out what's the duration of your bike packing trip it was a seven day 500 kilometer 500 kilometer bike packing trip okay that's a part that's an important part of the story and joe's all over that he says he's ready to go like right now so um anyways yeah it was through central right up your alley we went through um central ontario it's called the central ontario loop trail that's That's what it's referred to as, or as the COLT. People call it the Colt. And it's online. A lot of people have had some interest in it. So anyways, me and a couple of buddies did that late September. And basically, Lake Ontario, almost to Algonquin Park and back, through ATV trails and camping on Crown land and some private parks. But it was awesome. Right. It sounds like an adventure. Yeah, it was great. And so we did that on a fat bike, which has got the balloon tires 4 1/2 inches thick or wide, as you say. That's crazy. So, they're pretty fun. They're a new thing right now. A lot of people, they're kind of just coming out for the last couple of years. Joe was at my house riding it, and I got some footage of him shredding the trails near my place with my dogs. Gnarly! And so, if you want to see Joe riding his bike, my bike, and running through the trails with my dogs, it's some pretty cool footage, and Joe hamming it up to the camera like he does, right? You're going to put that on your video? That'll be on my video, yeah. So, yeah, if you're watching this and you want to see that, click over to my video. Yeah, I'll link it below. I'm clearly all over the ice with this truck. That's alright. We'll enjoy the party. Alright, well Scott was nice enough to bring that venison. You know, it's not like bringing potatoes or anything, but we're all doing our part. So I got some potato, onion, garlic, and butter, and I'll probably throw some keg space on it too. And we're gonna do the little hobo dinners. Wrap it up in hobo dinners. Wrap it up in tinfoil. And they'll probably go on for 25 minutes maybe half an hour throw them on before the venison I imagine the venison won't take too long. Is it like a steak where you don't have to cook it all the way through? Yeah, nice Yeah, raw and wriggling. Yeah, what's taters precious? You get it? You get it? Scott's a Lord of the Rings fan too it seems. We've been drinking beer and talking and having a hell of a time but the potatoes are done and garlic and whatever else is in there and now it's time for some meat. What did you season those with? These are a little bit, this is, I gotta give props to my buddy Bill, he's my chef. Shout out Bill. Shout out for Bill. This is balsamic vinegar and oil with some Montreal steak spice. Simple enough, but I would not be doing this if it wasn't for Bill. Well thank you Bill. That was pretty cool, Scott was telling me he harvested this deer right on this property. When was that, this year or last year? Last fall. Last fall. Last December, actually. Nice. So, yeah, it's kind of fitting. Here we are. This is smart. Smart call. We are starving. One thing about this is talking all night, but we've got to vote the food. We've got to eat. We've got to eat. We've got lots. Take another one. See the size of me? All right. That's enough. Can't be having you going hungry. No, I guess not. All right. Gummy gums the beer too. Oh, wow Tender very good man. Yep. No, you gotta crack another beer with the supper time. You know what? Look at that. So I can't really oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah very much so Shut the front door Let it bleed all over my potatoes Well, I'm gonna sit here and smack my lips. So I'm gonna shut my camera off. Look back with you guys after take two now we're just sitting outside by the fire here throwing wood on it and shivering if only there was a warm place if only was a hot place we go into derp derp let's go to the tent so we've been out there for a few hours I soaked this one time and she is good to go damper closed but we were out there just warming this place up I pre-burned off the pre-burned the stove before we came because this is a new stove uh just so we don't worry about sitting in here with the fumes but we didn't have to worry about that anyway uh the company Snowtrekker i got this from is an american company it's a family-owned company so a big shout out to those guys thanks for hooking it up with this awesome tent uh lots more used to come out of this thing in the winter what do you think about it honestly yeah it's it's how small it how small it was light to get it here and then and coming in here when we're freezing with shock. How tall are you, 6'2"? I'm 6'2", and I can almost stand up. That's pretty decent. Yeah, it is, because you gotta realize, I'm used to backpacking tents, right? My MSR tents, and getting dressed, and being comfortable in those is tough, right? So to be able to have this, and to put a stove in here, this is nice. This is really nice. Getting spoiled, eh? Absolutely. We were just talking about Scott's wife was kind of giving him a little bit of grief for coming over to camp with somebody you met on the internet, right? And I'm thinking, I was about to tell him, I said, man, maybe I'll tell him on the camera. My wife was the same way, and my mom, back in the day when I first started on Bushcraft USA, and I was telling you, I flew out to Missouri and stuff. Yeah. So I'm this, like, little skinny, white, Canadian, young, like, maybe 22, no, not, maybe 25. But, like, you know, I'm going to go fly out to Missouri to hang out with all these American dudes in the woods and like let alone my mom like okay whatever mom is just what it is i go through customs to come through and they ask me like i'm driving through to fly uh through the to the states and the border and they're like where are you going and why and i tell them and they're like like how do you know these people and this is before like the internet was huge in the and they're like serious red flags oh big red flag they're like and the only thing that saved me And this officer, this border guard next to the one I was talking to, was like, yeah, I'm on a motorcycle, to the guy I was talking to, or he said, yeah, I'm on a motorcycle for him, we go meet up all the time or whatever. And then so, like, the guard was like, oh, okay, that's kind of normal. No kidding. Thank you. Another time I'm going through, and I got all my stuff out, and I put my, I have an axe, and I want to make it seen. I don't want to try and hide it. I want to make it plain view so that they see it, and it doesn't seem like I'm trying to bring a weapon or something. so it's a lady just in the booth don't pull me in and she's talking to me and I tell her what we're doing and what we're into and she's like oh yeah yeah I bought a bunch of tuna cans just for like survival just to have some more about prepping and stuff so she kind of understood a little bit and she goes I don't know if you can bring that axe over I don't think I was like no no I do it all the time it's okay and she's like oh okay cool have a good day if you say so right that's exactly what it was I'm just like thanks And it is legit, you can For sure, it's not anything wrong But it was just funny that she believed me Like you would know better than her Of course Don't you worry I go camping It's more normal these days I'd say, meeting up with someone With like-minded interests Yes, I do agree It is bizarre You know what I mean because it's not, there's a part that's not normal about it for sure but um i had the luxury what i don't know if this is recording here, we're live, yeah i had the luxury of having a good idea what you were like because i got to watch your videos right and you come across very uh honestly in your videos especially you know if you thought if you're a fan like i've been i've been watching this for a while so going into it i've been like you know i can contact joe because i get i know what to expect you know i don't think he's faking it that well after these hundreds of videos right i don't know if he's that good of an actor well so for me it was you know fairly easy to give you a shout or a shout out or whatever and track you down but i mean uh if i were you i don't know i'm like you know what i mean that's the challenge from your from your end from your part of you right well i think like i was saying to you earlier i think i get i get literally if we're just going by emails let's not count comments and stuff i'm gonna say i get 30 emails a day yeah um some are nonsense through through like partnership through youtube and stuff but a lot are people saying they want to meet up right and if i'm being honest it's hard to uh to agree to that especially because a lot of people are far away and it's just the logistics of it is crazy but the way that people type the way that people come across matters to me i can tell if you're like if you're sincere or a normal person you know and when i got your email it seemed like you were a normal person totally fooled and and and if i'm if i'm being completely honest yeah when i go and i can check out your youtube videos videos as well yeah it kind of gives me a sense of like okay this dude's legit he he just wants to be out there in camp as well and he's good you know so it gives me a gauge as well so i did i in all honesty i did go and look at your youtube videos before i replied to you but yeah i noticed i only had the two views so i knew one of you had to be here right i do what i can you know thanks man it doubled my viewership doubled with your response but i have to i want you to just go you know i mean there's some crazy crazy stuff going on in the world and it's i got a family and stuff man you know what i mean you see me with that with my kids right everything exactly yes yeah you know mine obviously come across as okay this guy a family guy as well of course and you know it's crazy after i didn't even really realize it when i first because i just glanced at your videos after we were talking really quick yeah but i had one i went back after we were talking and i had watched one of your Algonquin videos with your son when we were catching those crazy brooks oh yeah with Griff yeah yeah yeah yeah so before i went to on my uh uh fall one with Doug right i freaking i was trying to just scour for fishing videos and stuff from Algonquin oh yeah came across that and watched it yeah it was really cool yeah that was that was an an awesome trip but um so yeah that's that's kind of funny so yeah you get to see you just see who you're dealing with right so that was right and that's how we and we're probably literally what 10 15 minutes away yeah we're not far so that's a that's a huge part to it too yeah honestly that's your you know your local hangout there right the craft heads and you know i walked in Jordan you know Normie there knows everybody and it's all good only three percent will get that reference yeah exactly it's starting to get less and less isn't it the Cheers reference The Cheers references, yeah. Yeah, Cheers is, uh... Yeah, I know, I'm so, like... it shows my age every time I throw those out there, right? It's, like, 11 o'clock at night. Just been talking up a storm, telling some lies around the fire here. Beer's went down real nice, and, uh, sleep is gonna be even nicer. Good night, Scotty boy. Night, Joe! It's been fun, buddy. It has. Get with you in the morning. Well, we're awake. How did you sleep, Scott? Pretty good, actually. Yeah, me too. So it's 8:30 now. Mr. Goose flew overhead and woke us up about an hour ago. We've just been laying here. It's not too cold, eh? No. It's still pretty warm. Right now it's not too bad. So I think we're going to do some pancakes. You up for some pancakes? Absolutely. If you're making them. I am. Fantastic. You going to light the fire? All right. Pancakes for this morning, as promised. We've got some pancake mix already made up. This is the just-to-add-water kind. I added a little bit of Reese's peanut butter cup chocolate chips in there. Yeah, so that'll be a little tasty treat Let me do it all up. This will make six or seven You don't even need a spatula right, exactly what do we look like over here? circus breakfast today now that we got a good bed of coals in there and that's raging up we're gonna close the door I'm gonna close the damper so that way I got a lot more heat coming off the top of my stove rather than just getting pushed right out the stove pipe so we're gonna cook with the frying pan right there let's try and do this properly Joe, make good first pancake impression you know I I can't camp with someone who can't flip a pancake. Oh, boy, you're going big, too. Oh, yeah, I've got to make two big ones. No guts, no glory. No guts, yeah. Oh, yeah, it's like an actual cake in a pan. It's like a pancake. All right, Joe, big moment, buddy. You think I can pull it off? Not only did you do it, but look at that pancake. Look at that pancake. That's right. That's what I like to hear. Look at that. All right, folks, that's the second one right there. Nice and pancake-y. I'm going to put some butter on that piece. Syrup. And syrup. I dropped the ball. I took the time to put syrup in my little squeeze container for Scott and myself. Just enough. You know, just enough for two. Just enough for two. And I forgot it in the car. How was your dry pancakes, Scott? It was very buttery. Thank God you didn't forget that. That's one thing we got. Yeah, we got butter. We got butter. Well, we're just packing up now. It's raining pretty good. So I got the tent inside the, sorry, the camera inside the tent. We're gonna dump our ashes on top of the old fire pit from last night, and then douse it with water before we go Those are the fire bricks in the bottom I was talking about Yeah, thank you. It's not pee. It did sound like this a lot last night. I don't know what you're talking about It had something to do with the beer We've eaten up our juice here to get out of here. Yeah, right. Yeah, absolutely. Wrap this up here. It's raining pretty good. We're pretty much done anyway. Yeah. Help us do everything. Yeah. So I had a really good time. Thank you for coming out. Yeah, thank you, buddy. Yeah, it was good. I'm sure we'll have more trips in the future together because, yeah, we hit it off pretty good. Yeah. So thanks for watching this video, and I'll see you guys in the next one. Thank you. See you, buddy.