How to Set up a Group Tarp Shelter

Hello folks, as promised Mr. Mike is here and we've built a tarp shanty village, a little hobo village like we like to do, peasant style. Stick along, we're gonna spend all day out here, spend the night, cook up a pork roast, some potatoes, listen to Scout cry. Good times. Good job Michael. So it's April 10th today and we are having a snowstorm. It's very cold and it's snowing constantly so we're lucky to have scouts all covered in snow you can see them we're lucky to have this tarp shelter set up we got out here maybe an hour ago it took us about an hour to do this find us walk in find a spot set up these shelters so we're doing all right we got good blockage from the wind we're doing a double adirondack shelter configuration again but this time we're leaving it open like a v last time we had them face to face and butted up against each other this time it's open like a v the back behind me is closed off the front is very wide open with tarp above as you saw and we'll have the fire out there we're gonna need a fire for a lot of things today stay warm dry and cook our food so just laying out my ground trip and ground tarp scouts gonna sleep on this side with me Mike's over here so I'm gonna get everything set up right now get all my gear out and kind of make it like home yeah it's not too bad it's a little chilly leave my Arc'teryx hardshell alone Scout but some weird weather today we came out here and it was windy and snowing and now i don't know what it's doing is it raining yet freezing rain right now and you can probably hear it hitting the top here but it's warming up so it's going to turn into rain there's a big mud pit in front of us now so i'm going to sit in here we've been collecting wood go on bud we've been walking around collecting a bunch of firewood because go on bud because we need to uh slow roast our pork roast so i'm just going to sit in here now and make some feathers because that's what i want to do make some quick feathers i let mike use my new battle horse knife and I'm using my Charlie Gasconade we've got a good base for our firewood we'll probably have to end up getting a little bit more but we got in there a red oak scout elm and ash nice piece of ash so it's almost three o'clock we're gonna start the fire you want to get a good bed of coals going for supper and uh we got enough firewood oh my goodness we got enough firewood to keep it going for a bit don't mind Scout so i'm going to start it like every every time for the fire steel and wood shavings maybe not i'm gonna start it this is my first day mike's gonna start the fire can you teach me how to do that love the love the plane he just didn't have the right knife That's the problem. We're just moving our firewood on inside because it is raining now testing so to go with our amazing pork roast that Mike brought we're gonna do some red potatoes with shallot bought a shallot with it but we're also going to because last my last video and I ate the leeks and I ended up throwing away the leek leaves and Everybody said that I should have eaten them. So that sounds good I just didn't even think about it, and I will do that I'm gonna cut all my leek leaves up with my bulb my little bit of bulbs I put those in my potatoes as well. Did you bring salt or pepper? No? More mud. It's a little muddy today boys and girls. Oh wet too So that's my greens and it will go into my potatoes. It's a good thing We got this because Mike Mike didn't bring the salted pepper. So what are you gonna do guys? What are you to do? Oh? so much smoke We're just making a spit for our pork roast, I'm cleaning up all of the bark off of it to make it as sanitary as possible and we're going to actually, the pork roast is big enough where we can actually skewer it right through and not have to sandwich it in so this is going to get carved to a point and stuck through the pig. How are we doing this Mike? Stick it straight in. Is it in yet? Yes it is. Okay, I'll just push it further. Can you feel it? I got it now. That's gonna be slow Smoke roasted, it should be good, it's tight on it, the reason I did it cuz it's strong this way, right Radially perfect, I think it won't, I don't think there's any issue with it falling, no, and if there is, we'll fix up what we're doing, it's no big deal, nothing's ever good enough little smoky, the wind keeps switching direction on us, it's a little touch touch smoky in the sauna here, we had to put a skewer going through sideways on the pork to keep it from rolling the pork would continuously roll on this on the spit so put one skewer on the top of it and it held it in place, right now I might have to do something a little bit later when it gets more cooked and see how it goes, but the fat starting to drip off a little juiciness going on and yeah looks really good, looking forward to her, the wind to kick up and get windy, that's That's what I was waiting for. So we have a dilemma. Big one. It's 5:08, and how many beers do we have each? Three. We have three beers each and they're good beers. One is what, 9%? Yep. So the tall boys and they'll last us, but there was only three of them each and it's five o'clock. We have nothing to do. We're waiting, we're watching our pork drip juices on the fire and just salivating sitting here. So as I'm sure Scout is. You know, I think I'm going to do it. I think I'm going to make an executive decision and drink a beer. I think you should. I'm going to do it. Savior of the day, Michael. Michael says we should split one. Smart. Two and a half each, not two. There you go. Math. I just kind of want to sip on one, you know what I mean? Right. How's that rain chilled beer feel? Cold. There's a random bug in there. A little bug in the beer. A little beer bug. This is... Collective Arts. Ransack the universe It's a 6.8 Strong beer IPA The only kind Hemisphere IPA I'm not sure what that means I think there's just hops from the northern and southern hemisphere I don't know how to I don't know how to gauge Pour more Alright cheerser bud That's really good A little fruity and tart Citrusy yeah thanks for tuning in to joe's beer tastings galaxy and mosaic hops washington and australia i really don't know what to say well that pork's been on there for about two hours now should be almost done we got our uh foil dinners there behind my feet i'm just trying to warm my feet up because i am pretty chilled right now uh just being wet all day and the temperature dropping sitting here not doing too much but almost time for food she look done it's done oh she's done man yeah hey yeah oh there's a smoke ring 100 percent dude where is the camera yeah she's done man she's done beautifully phenomenal have you had it yet yeah it's ridiculous so we always get steak and we want to do something different this pork roast was a great idea slow cooked two hours got a smoke ring on it there's more than we can handle for what nine bucks you said you paid for it so Scout is gonna get quite a big hunk of pork hey bud oh man well we've eaten and we have another predicament the Scouts starting to shiver he's soaked he's full of mud and water and he doesn't have a sleeping bag so who knows who knows if he'll be dry or not we're trying to decide whether or not we're gonna stay here or go sleep at my house tonight Mike came from his place a couple hours away with the intention to camp. Am I in focus? Is this in focus? Are we in focus here? Is that your face? So what are we gonna do? What are we doing? It's still raining hard. It's not supposed to stop. I don't hate the idea of going home to be honest with you. No. I could go either way but my house is dry and not full of mud. We have two more beers and now you're laying in the mud. Let me show you what Scout looks like here real quick. Just to grasp the reality of the situation. so so there's the scooter waiting for more meat he's been getting a lot of it already but if you look this is no longer just mud it's water and he's laying right in her stand so he's a little little muddy and wet my concern is that he's gonna be too cold tonight maybe I'm just using that as a little bit of an excuse to go home as well but what do you think call it sleeping pad part everything I was telling you Joe that my only regret is blowing up my sleeping pad I have a huge one but I wouldn't mind staying if it was gonna stop but it's literally supposed to pour right through till the morning so we have to leave in the morning in the rain anyway yeah there's no shame in calling it in sometimes I have zero shame no zero shame no honey come pick us up my conscience is clear hey buddy you happy with our decision Mike absolutely me too I will sleep tonight yeah go home have some have some beers maybe watch Star Wars kick it back yeah not too shabby it was a good day oh good day I imagine the rain would have made the creek rise because it's been raining all day I'm just hoping it doesn't go over my boots not too bad good to go just mad dash the stump just in case you thought I was exaggerating with the temperature that's an icicle on that branch this is not the beginning of of April anymore. Man down!