Overnight Winter Camping Trip

If you've been watching my channel at all, a couple videos ago, I told you I was going to come and do this camp with a bunch of guys. With Sean, Mike, Dustin, Doug, and myself. Last night, we all met up at Mike's house, had some fun, but I ended up injuring Doug's eye on accident last night. And I threw a stuff sack to him in the paracord. The knot on the paracord must have cut his eyeball or something because his eye got all jacked up overnight. And we woke up this morning at Mike's house ready to come camping He couldn't even see out of it so he had to bail And also I said that this is gonna be a hot tent camp We're gonna have two hot tents camp out here with a bunch of guys. Well, you can see I'm not cold It's not it's like plus three degrees right now. It's gonna get down to maybe positive one tonight Celsius So we had to switch things up I didn't carry in or I didn't pull in a sled with my gear have my big canoe bag and it's full very full so basically I'm tarp camping I'm going to set up between this tree and this tree I'm gonna have to pack the snow down or shovel it out it's I don't know about a foot there so and it's very wet very wet snow it's challenging this is challenging conditions more so than if it was just very bitter cold I prefer it to be cold I know I'm gonna get a lot of people saying you're not supposed to blow in these in the winter time it'll freeze on you well I've done that for five years straight and regardless if it freezes or not I'm still alive doing fine my last Thermarest I still have it's still usable that's the one Thermarest NeoAir this is a Therm-a-Rest NeoAir XTherm this is the first winter with this one a little lightheaded a little numb on the lips when i get to camp one of the first things i want to do is let my sleeping bag loft up i want to take it out of its compression sack open it make my bed and let it loft up during the day so that i'm not going right to bed at night and having it all compressed still and not having its uh proper warmth this time this trip i have a negative 10 sleeping bag negative 10 celsius this is a Mountain Equipment co-op something like that anyways it's a good sleeping bag so i'll put my mess my uh five by seven nylon down first sometimes i'll double it up if i'm worried about it i'm not worried about it tonight and i really like to have the extra room the floor room that i can have some of my gear next to me and stuff without having to rummage through my bag this trip should be good not much planned more of just like sitting around and camping and having some campfire cooking some good food having some good beers just kind of hanging out by the fire so uh i don't know how long we're gonna stay it might be one night might be two nights we're gonna make that call tomorrow just having fun so that's my sleep system all ready to go nice, what model is this the Hilleberg something I can't remember, enon, no it's the uh it's the one man without a the vestibule yeah Una. Una. Popping tags. Oh snap. Yeah so really you could put two guys. Well me and you. Right. Working so hard. Joe just sticks his head in Max like he's like part of the scene. Just stick there. Get through that. Nope. All right so yeah nothing new. You know the gist. Sean works. I talk. I've got a small steak to eat for dinner. I have to hang it up. It's nice and frozen. So I want to thaw it out. I think this This is gonna be pretty sweet. Hanging meat, you know? Ba-bam. Don't let your meat touch my meat, bro. That's all right. Any gang signs? Dump my blood. Yeah, exactly, Mean Streets, boy. Boy! It's like that music thing that, it's like something, meat touch my nose. I thought you had your tongue out like you were trying to. Taste of the wiener water. You didn't save the wiener water? Oh no, I chugged it over there. You should've had that. As you saw, I've got my tomahawk steak cooking, And as I'm cooking that, I'm going to fry up some zucchini with onions and garlic and maybe have that with it. It's kind of fancy, you know? A little bit more than just meat for once. The all meat diet. Oh, look at that piece. Still gotta cook that up a little bit more. Maybe I'll get some steak drippings in there. That'll be bonus. You know this saucy ass guy? I could tell you were dedicated to that. I was thinking that actually. Seeing that over and over. All colors on point, boys. Yeah, oh, yeah That's all right. It's worth it. What is this steak? I feel like that saucy salty guy Somebody'll get it. Somebody'll get it. Yeah, look at this. I just started. We just started look at this this look how good that is Nice and pinky. It's like perfect actually generic pasta sauce for the win This guy. What's that the steak doing for you? How much left of it? We're down to a half a pound from two and a half pounds You warm tonight All right guys good night, it's gonna be a late morning. I'll sleep it in calling it now. There we go at home I'm gonna strip down Probably just to my boxers because I have such a warm sleeping bag and that's how we'll spend the night There's that bug on my face. Good night brother of snoring bear I'm saying the spritzel has something to do with the special integrity when it's that thin. Gotta go get some water. I've been able to just drink the water that I packed in up until now, but I'm just cooking breakfast and drinking up my water. So gotta get some more, and we're lucky enough to have this little stream running through. The water's a little tanniny, but that's okay. There's some snow fleas in it too. Nice. I think we're all gonna start packing up now nobody really said anything we all just started packing up so uh it is oh it's 10 o'clock it's time to go we gotta i gotta drive all day and stuff so maybe i'll take you over to my camp and break down camp a little bit these snow anchors really work it's really easy to do these snow anchors a lot easier than trying to spike into the ground or stake into the ground or into the snow like i find how about this life hack scrambled oak when you're deflating your sleeping pad lay on it and your body weight will do the work for you it's a hack a life hack get the remaining air out of it and this is insulated it has R-value it doesn't say but I think it's right around five point seven or five point nine it's five point something anyway so when that's rolled up it's pretty small and lightweight too and I can get that smaller if I really tried we're leaving yep well I dropped those guys off a while ago I've been driving for a few hours, stopped to get some gas, driving through this crazy fog right now. I'm hoping it clears up pretty soon. I'm going to be at home pretty soon. Thanks for watching, guys. Stick along for the next video. I'll see you soon.