Solo Overnight Camp in a Thunderstorm - The Mist Rolls In

Well I hope you enjoyed part one of that video. I had a great time. Part two to follow real soon here. I have a three hour drive to Sean's house and as you guys know I've been driving a lot lately back and forth from these camping trips. Sometimes I have to drive seven to ten hours. Last month I started listening to Audible books and they reached out and they actually wanted to sponsor a video. So this video is going to be sponsored by Audible. Thank you very much Audible. I downloaded the first Lord of the Rings to listen to on the way up here. It's a long one so I'm still listening to it on the way to Sean's house. house but what I have been figuring out is I don't have to bring full paperback or hardcover books anymore to the woods I can bring my phone a charger and an Audible book and listen to it by the fire or as I'm bored in my hammock or anything like that you obviously don't have to like Lord of the Rings you can do any kind of book any genre I actually also downloaded this this other one called Life Under Open Skies it's a bushcrafty style book by Tony Nestor it's not like an instructional book more as like his life story he talks about growing up and being restless and finally settling down and wanting to go um actually doing these month-long trips where he's only bringing a knife and a pot and like a bag of rice and stuff and he takes on students later on and stuff really cool uh the narrator reads it really well as well so any of the books that you download you can keep for free whether you continue with the service or not phone your tablet um iphone android all that fun stuff they have a ton of selections comedy sports everything i'm even going to get some stuff for emerald when we're doing our drive so she doesn't get too bored now audible is actually offering my subscribers a free book so you have to use the promo code audible.com/robinetteman you can um sign up get a free book it's through amazon it's for it's it's safe there's no worries and i did on my phone in like a second okay on to part two i hope you enjoy it this is awesome oh my goodness there's lightning and thunder all around me the wind just kicked up the rain's kicking up this is awesome oh man my fire's swirling around so i got this little space here that's dry it's not getting rained on i gotta get my i gotta prepare my food my coals are almost ready these cedar coals are not gonna last long so i want to on top of it it doesn't take long to cook my lamb chops i'm sure i've not cooked lamb chops but they're small so i think it will be fine don't think that i'll have to cook them for too long so these pulls will do oh my broccoli can't forget my broccoli got some broccoli guys healthy healthy i got i think four lamb chops in here we saw some lightning you hear that yeah uh three three decent size lamb chops my grill uh against this rock and one rock in the fire itself oh man it's raining it's raining boys and girls okay good amount of heat there put my grill there it's getting put out by the by the rain we shall see i'm getting doused here this rain is pretty heavy easy almost done these are looking good okay i hear a bird chirping now and And the rain may be slowing down. As I say that, it thunders. The bird chirping threw me off. Okay, I think these guys are done. Okay, let's get this fire going again. So slow because it's dark. Come on, focus, you son of a gun. Focus. There we go. Okay, let's try these lamb chops. So last time I was camping, and I showed you guys I ate that lamb. It was the first time I had lamb that ground up. But it made me really desire to have some lamb chops. whatever i've been waiting for that's really good that's super tender such a good texture i've been waiting all day so i have two beers the other one is a nine percent and they're king cans right they're tall boys not not king cans tall boys this one is 4.5 it's called wellington spa special pale ale from guelph from guelph ontario well cheers guys cheers stan very malty very dark the key to maintaining a fire in the pouring rain it's just having something to block it with which is basically other wood so i'm blocking the underneath fire that's growing in there with this wood kind of shielding it and then it'll keep growing up get stronger i'll keep shielding it so you can see it come up already it was struggling for the longest time um and we'll keep shielding it from the rain coming down with with more wood the fire will burn up so on and so on oh we got some major poolage it's gonna fall it is sloppy out here boys and girls i'm nice and dry under this tarp in my in my elevated bed what i thought an elevated bed eh so i wanted to do a little bit different trip this time it's been cold it's been winter you know what i mean so that's the time i do my more bushcrafty type things where i'm out building a shelter last time we were with sean building a shelter at his place even though it's spring it was still cold you know i mean we still had winter gear but that's getting old not only from me but from other people on youtube in the same genre just seen a lot of it um just building and like the camp kind of stuff it's getting a little played out i don't want to do that right now my desire is my goals for right now for videos and for trips are more um distance kind of stuff like this i walked for three hours to get here you know what i mean so it is a little bit of a distance but i have my backpack i'm not making a camp really i'm hung a tarp hung a hammock low impact i did i did build the fire pit you know a little bit more impact than a traditional backpacker or hammocker probably but i do like incorporating all the things into it as well um yeah so this was like a low impact one backpack just hike out kind of get out there to experience um the springtime and i am obviously just loving it okay this beer is growing on me it's just not what I'm used to. It's dark. It's like a darker taste for sure. Makes sense, right? Sure, Joel. Sure, bud. You know, I think I might have been laying in this hammock the wrong way the whole damn time. This seems a lot better. There's not much material on this side of me and not much material down by my feet. I'm much flatter. I don't know. Maybe it just took that beer to make me think in a different make my mind think a little bit differently but I think that this is the way that it should be i'm much flatter much more comfortable this way one with the liquor let the liquor do the thinking let the liquor do the thinking randy the rain has slowed down for now so i want to put my broccoli on a couple crowns of broccoli i'm just going to throw them inside my heavy cover canteen which right now is on the fire um getting warm the water's trying to boil right now so i did drop the ball on the butter you know broccoli without butter is kind of weak salt would be great too but healthier this way it's a good amount of trees all right we almost got a boil here you can see a little bubble starting and stuff it's a touch smoky here I think I'm gonna run out to the river and uh see what the sky looks like it seems like it's clearing up. Look at this fog. Oh my goodness. This is a decent fog, man. Look at this. The river's there. You can't even see the rapids anymore. I'm getting to freaking go through some awesome stuff this trip, man. That's awesome. Awesome. Did I say it was awesome yet? Awesome. Awesome sauce. Awesome blossom. I don't know, man. The sky doesn't look so bad. It's not half as dark as it was it's still raining it's not raining half as bad as it was either though what are we doing oh man this is cool okay I better my camera out of the rain broccoli is done strain out the water because water is not valuable for me right now I can I have a filter that I can use so I'm not it if I was boiling water to drink water if I had to do that I'd keep this broccoli water and make a tea out of it or something with like a tea bag but i don't need to so i won't i'd rather not have broccoli water like my potato water or sausage water it's a theme it's a theme here if you couldn't tell anyway nice and done a little warm touch warm stuff oh those are good nice and soft nice and soft yeah butter and salt though all day would be uh highly why can't i talk Butter and salt. Oh, this is good. The rain keeps letting up and then coming back in full force I think it's gonna be an all-night thing But it seems as though the thunderstorm part of it's done Which is unfortunate because I was kind of wanting to lay in bed I had this whole like romanticized thing laying in bed listening to thunder and seeing the lightning and stuff But I'll take what I can get it was pretty cool earlier. Well, I don't want to jinx it, but I think this rain is done It's like a new day out here man. It's getting bright out again still raining barely let's go walk down to the river and see if it's just dripping off the trees or actually raining but I'm not complaining I was prepared for a thunderstorm all night but gotta be honest with you I'm cool with it not thunderstorming too cool with having a nice easy night now yeah no it's not even raining no ripples in the water it's not even raining it's just dripping off the trees let's go see if we can see those flying squirrels or sugar gliders or whatever the heck they are this is the tree here trying to be a little bit quiet coming up to it I'm sure they went back in it when it started raining there it is see see his tail see his tail see how flat it is it's got oh yeah look at his sides too that's gotta be a flying squirrel oh yeah he definitely lives in that birch tree in the hollow in the wound in that birch tree that is too cool man right in there he lives I'm gonna leave them be there was two of them in there earlier they might have babies regardless i have no reason to disturb them anymore i wanted to get them on film and i did which is unbelievable actually to come back they definitely live there very cool this is an awesome spot man i'm like beside myself with how cool this area is never been here before been to areas very similar and very close never been to this specific spot it's all about broadening your horizons right i'm so lucky to live in ontario honestly canada in general but Ontario even though I have to drive five six seven even sometimes ten hours to where I want to go it's still all accessible most of its free and just I love it that it's perfect we got we have four seasons yeah especially for my trips you know what I mean my videos and stuff like things can get old you know I mean even with that that bushcraft style stuff for the for the winter and fall it gets old now it's spring I start canoe tripping summer canoe tripping backpacking and back into fall it's good i can kind of change with every season hopefully not to not get too stagnant it's a new day i've got to make the most of the time i have left with daylight and no rain i'm gonna get some more firewood the cedar burns up quick it's abundant very abundant use my axe to get them i'll have to use it to buff them up though humid at all i decided i will try to give the old bow drill a shot even though there's no use i've got my fire but it's just practice and fun something to do so i've made up my bow i could not find one with a y at the top like i normally like so all i did was notched in a stick did a jolin and that's going to rest right in there spindle fits up to my bow it's a little loose but that's okay because i still have to burn in it's going to lose tension i'll have to tighten it again anyway trying to keep excuse me trying to keep this stuff off the ground i've got a rock here that i'm going to do my bowing on top of so i just want to test it out and see where it's going to be the most useful and comfortable i almost can't even use this rock it's too short i don't want to put it directly on the ground right because it's super wet i'll use my glove maybe you see that yeah okay so before i burn in i need to make a little divot for my spindle to sit in. You can use your knife. I like to just push in the spindle very hard because then it's going to create a perfect seat for it. The spindle's going in. I'm actually going to try to use my heavy cover spork for my handhold, just the spoon part of it. We'll see. It might slip around too much. I'm not sure. Yeah, my string is way too loose. I can feel it. So quick fix. Okay, it should be a lot better now. Okay, this time we should get some smoke. Oh, can't do with this fork it's getting super hot you see this smoke coming up that's a good burn in it's charred super charred it's not glazed at all this is gonna work okay it's time to cut the notch you can see here how it's charred you can hear it it's not glazed at all which is what i'm going for so my notch is going to be like a slice of pie i'm just scoring it so i know where to to notch it Okay, you see how I'm doing that just working the knife and the board back and forth I'm kind of holding the blade instead of the handle a lot more power and precision that way And I want to make this smooth so that the powder can slide down it down the notch and form a number I'm not far enough in yet either. That's got to be widened to touch just a bit though I don't want to I don't want it too wide because it won't be good the spindle will pop out It might even break out you can widen underneath to give it a little bit more airflow. Okay, that looks about perfect to me Okay, so yeah, I'm liking that liking that a lot. It's like it seems like a good set already I've got my spindle off the ground. It's on my pad I'm going to have to tighten my bow string and I might be able to use this It was getting mighty hot. I can actually probably put my glove on and use my that's what I'll do I'll put my glove on use my other glove for that and then I can still do it won't be too hot I'm always thinking Joe sometimes it takes me a while Okay, just got to make sure I actually do need to tighten my bowstring. I'm gonna try it. I'm gonna try it even better We're gonna use the titanium Heavy cover lid it's gonna be dry and then that'll catch my my ember on there as well if I can get an ember easily, maybe I'll go and collect a tinder bundle and and blow this into flames, like do it again. I'll make another ember and do it again. I gotta move this tripod, I think. Might've smothered it there. Well, that's a good coal, petered out, I think. Okay, I think I'm gonna be able to get, put my spindle on the ground, I think I'm gonna be able to get a coal here. So I'm gonna go try and scrounge up a tinder bundle, which may be hard because of obviously the downpour we just had. So it's amazing, after that big rain we had, This is still dry. This cedar bark is still dry. I've already been able to get this much. I just gotta gather some more. So I'm taking my knife at a 90 degree with the blade. I'm sure you can use the spine too. Yeah, you can use the spine too. Can you see this? I hope that that's a coal. Sure looks like it from here. See it smoking? Yeah, yeah boy. Okay, so I've got my tinder bundle that I made out of cedar bark and cedar shavings. wait a second so i can catch my breath probably gonna move the uh the camera as well so i'm not in really any kind of rush right now bam son i think those shavings are almost important with the uh with the cedar bark because it doesn't really like to stay lit it goes out pretty easy but the shavings will catch fire now and stay lit where you then you have your two seconds to get your kindling on there but that's why you're prepared in the first place before that but bam on-site bow drill not too shabby pretty happy about that one okay guys so what kind of tree did i do this all out of i told you this twice a scientific name turned out to be a really good set doesn't always happen that easily i really only had to drill maybe three or four times with the same hole same notch didn't have to fix my spindle sometimes you have to adjust all the time everything sometimes you have to get different spindle different hole but this is really cool first frog of the year leopard frog i believe peace bro good little system ah i didn't use the um the Sawyer filter all winter because i didn't want to freeze at night lots of times i couldn't access water either melting snow or boiling river water but canoe season is upon us shortly oh i'm losing light sun's going down no it doesn't really look like it in the in the video almost time to drink that other beer i think have some snack i found a pretty cool stream or runoff over here maybe we can go check it out before we lose too much light almost eight o'clock because my lens might be foggy this is totally different terrain than where i'm camped this is all hardwood and hilly it's really nice actually just different wow this is pretty temperatures dropping a bit merino wool beanie it's ice breakers i've had this for since before i went on alone brought this there oh it feels good feels good to rest my back this mist is all coming up into the forest now you guys ever see the movie the mist stephen king's mist awesome movie i really like it well i guess it's time for that beer it's staying relatively light it's very surprising i'm sure that i'm sure it'll get dark really soon really glad i realized that i'm supposed to lay the other way in the hammock it's gonna make for a lot more of a comfortable sleep tonight finally losing light as you can see got a good fire going in front spring peepers off spring peepers off in the distance waterfalls and rapids all around me the wind has died down the rain stopped everything's good everything's good in life all right we got uh second beer our last beer up gotta get a shed a little light on the situation right i don't need that much light there's like mist in the air i can see it now that my headlamp is on literally like tons of dew it's super wet okay this beer is called immodest Imperial India pale ale what does she say to be a modest to be a modest one must lack humility and decency with our modest Imperial pale ale we achieved just that an obscene amount of citra and Simcoe hops will attack your senses with bright citrus fruit balanced citrus fruit balanced with earthy pine notes the indecency doesn't stop there as it packs a wallop at nine percent, but you won't notice because it drinks so remarkably smooth Don't worry your modesty isn't needed here. Oh, it's perfect for me look at that says malt, Carafoam, flaked wheat, that was a big spark and two-row hops, German Magnum, Simcoe, Citra yeast California extra-strong beer, all right here we go, I haven't had that I think I've had this once with Mike Oh, pass a little head ya little heady well heady Wow, that's a beer, that's a good beer, well let's take one last walk of the night over to the clearing where the water is, see just how dark it is over there, that's the moon, we might have a full moon tonight, head back out to the clearing in a little while when the moon gets up higher so I can see just how full it is, if it is full indeed avoided getting my sleeping bag out this whole time normally I'm preaching to keep it out for hours beforehand so that it lofts up but in this case I'm not really concerned about the warmth oh I almost knocked the rest of my beer over, I'm not worried about the warmth, I just wanted to keep it dry, so taking it out now, this is the first night I'll be using this, but this sleeping bag, it's a Marmot 850 down, it's got down on top and then synthetic on the bottom where the sleeping pad goes or where the sleeping pad would touch against because it compresses there anyway, it's got, it's like a quarter zip or I get not quarter not I guess not as much as a quarter zip but a little bit of zip on the other side just for extra ventilation and then this side obviously goes down it's a mummy bag I'm gonna to use it like a quilt top quilt I'm actually going to tuck my sleeping pad foot into the box end of this just to keep it kind of like stationary on there I've got my quilt easier to get out of when I have to pee because I know I will at least three times tonight and I don't again I I don't need the warmth. Nice. Looking forward to that, man. I'm tired. Let's go check out the moon situation. Maybe I can get some of these spring peepers on camera, too. The sound, at least. I'll never be able to catch one. It is dark and misty. There is so much fog in the air. It's so wet. I hope that moon is visible and full. Here we are in the clearing. See, oh, you can see it. You can see the mist in my light. Look at that mist. non-stop oh my goodness the moon is completely shrouded in mist too i can see it okay with my eyes it's not picking it up really well in the camera it's all behind clouds and mist and stuff so no worries i'm gonna head back to camp i'm not coming back out here tonight good night sweet dreams and i'll see you in the morning oh good morning guys i slept decent it's uh it's not even seven in the morning yet 6:39, we're getting light out, it picked the rain picked back up, it rained all night long so it was nice to hear the pitter-patter on the tarp, no more thunderstorms or lightning or anything like that, just just rain all night steady so I was able to get the fire going because it kept some wood underneath my tarp last night I ended up this is my spindle I made some feather sticks off my spindle creating fire for me twice, so all we have to do now is cook up some food I left my hidden woodsman tinder pouch the one I keep my food in hanging up outside my tarp and it got soaking wet I did not do that on purpose but it's a good test to see how waterproof the bag is, looks too bad, yeah everything stayed completely dry, you see the top's soaking wet there but nice and dry, cool, well that's a very good to know, I'm gonna make one pack of oatmeal and I'm gonna make four pieces of bacon and that would be a good breakfast for Joey Oh my stomach's grumbling and I'm tumbling tumbling the bumbly Rumble in the Bronx. This is gonna go good in, I'm gonna put it inside You know, this spork is just coming in handy time after time on this trip Look at that. Look at that, how much control, ba-bam ba-bam Cheers guys. Oh, buddy. Oh, man. That's good bacon Oh, man, the maple flavor of the oatmeal just like sinks up with the bacon. So good maple bacon, buddy I feel rejuvenated energized, and out of focus. That's good because I've got to pack up and hike out of here It probably won't take me three hours to get out because I was going around and finding different spots and stuff. I'm guessing it'll take an hour and a half to two hours to get out of here after I've packed up and started walking. But that's not so bad. I actually don't have to go home today. Normally, I would have to do this seven-hour drive home in the morning. But today, I'm going over to Sean's house, and we are finalizing plans. For our big woodland caribou trip, so we've got a meet. We've got to shoot a little bit of video Preparation and gear. Oh my god. What is that? It's a freaking beaver. Oh, that was pretty cool I was talking to you guys in the middle of the bush and I saw an enormous beaver running through so Chased him out here, but he's gone. He must have went in the water already Okay back into the woods time to clean up like I was saying before I got distracted by beaver got to go to Sean's house and finalize the trip shoot a little bit of a gear video preparation video and meet with the owner of Red Lake Outfitters the guy who's the guys who are flying us into our trip deep in the into the woods of Woodland Caribou so yeah I got about a three hour drive as opposed to a seven hour drive so it's not so bad I'm gonna take my time pack up and hike out of here all this gear you see here came in this backpack and is leaving this backpack actually more gear was here on the way in this food bag was completely expanded the biggest it can go okay i do have a little garbage bag as well because i had some cans but that's relatively flat it's not going to take up much room extra i should actually put that inside my my uh food bag okay so the way i did it on the way in was that i had my sleeping bag attached to the bottom but because i've made some room with this being gone i'm going to see i smushed my sleeping bag down as far as it can go i compressed it i'm going to see if i can actually fit it inside the sleeping inside the backpack and strap my tarp to the bottom instead because my tarp is soaking wet and i don't want to put it inside my backpack really my uh bag that goes to my grill is in one of these other stuff sacks somewhere and i'm not opening it to get it out so it's just going in my sit pad for now i'll get i'll fix it when i get home i can that's going to go right in the back sleeve then after that i'm going to do my sleeping pad no i'm going to stuff my paracord down in the little gaps next to my sleeping bag okay then my sleeping pad then my hammock then my possibles pouch my food bag my lens then just odds and ends can go on the top my hat my tripod okay so that's that get that in there too i guess again this is back to the nine all right that's all good i want to get the tarp attached to the bottom okay perfect that's where I put my tripod I could see it sticking out really digging this canteen carrier too I never knew before somebody tell me I'm not a big surplus guy or canteen or military guy did they make it this kidney shape so that it hugs the side of a pack better you know I mean this contour is that the reasoning for it I really don't know somebody tell me somebody let me know you know spork rides right inside and then I can cinch up the cord right around it no worries of it going anywhere oh got my lid can't forget my lid my lid okay guys you saw it this pack swallowed up that gear no problem it's not its intended purpose but it did it just fine i'm really happy with the way the bag turned out extremely happy with how it performed i want to thank malcolm at the hidden woodsman for collaborating on this with me i think i'm going to get out of here um yeah i'll probably shoot a little bit of film on the way out it's pretty cool this whole area right here where i'm sitting is just like a night like a rectangular dry area and everything else is just drenched i'm happy with this camp super happy with the whole the whole trip actually seeing that flying squirrel was a big part of it uh saw him twice figured out he lived there experiencing that thunderstorm as short-lived as it was yeah man good time spring trip a proper spring trip too something over here making noise oh it's a beaver there he is Oh, it's a porcupine see him. He's climbing the tree abundance of animals I could hear him grunting or maybe he was chewing and still see him. Maybe he's chewing on the bark I thought it was a beaver from the noise like this like noise. That's cool. So I saw a beaver this morning Porcupine now I don't even want to leave the perfect day perfect spring day. I got to move up here It's crazy the temperature fluctuation yesterday. It was so hot. I was wearing a ridiculous looking tank top today I got a Primaloft hat and a sweater on and I'm hiking in it big difference I like today's temperature much better than yesterday's do not do well with the heat fall and spring time Absolute favorite times of the year whoo feeling the burn