Hot Tent Camping in a Snow Storm | Campfire Cooking

Well, she is coming down. It has not stopped snowing all day, which I knew that was going to be the case, so I don't know why I'm like, oh, it hasn't stopped snowing all day. What was weird was, it's Saturday, I've been out here since 8am, I've not heard a peep, and then literally 5-10 minutes before it gets dark, I start hearing gunshots all around me, so it seems to have stopped now, so hopefully they're not coming my way. I don't know what they'll be out, maybe grouse, something like that, who knows, but I've got my pork chop, I've got the stove in there absolutely ripping. It's too hot in there almost, like, you can probably see, I don't know if you can see, like, the condensation under the tarp, that fire is just catching underneath it, so it's getting enough heat. It's the stove in there, but it keeps sounding like footsteps when it's burning. I keep thinking someone's going to pop up behind me, which, I'm not on a trail, I'm not in a campsite, so it'd be weird right now with how dark it is, but anyway, yeah, it's almost too hot in there. Well, it is too hot in there. This is the Luke's Mini Peep 2-person tent, and honestly, it's a little too small, especially with the stove in there. I mean, you might be alright if you're shorter, I can just about fit in there, it's 6ft, but it's tight, and with the stove, like, there's no room anywhere for my gear, that's why I've got the tarp, so I can sort of, like, put my bag and stuff out here once I go to sleep, but yeah, it's been a nice day, good day, good day. Fire's going, like I say, got my food, and I'm just going to chill out, relax. Stupid chair, it just sinks every time you sit on it. Sinks in the ground, poor thing. Did I mention it's too small inside that tent? It's too small in there already, then you throw in snow and freezing rain till 1 in the morning, plus with the stove, the heat rises, so it all captures in the peak, so everything up there melts and just slides down to the bottom, so it just gets smaller and smaller and smaller in there. But anyway, don't do too much hot tent stuff, I'm not going to lie, the carbon monoxide thing always freaks me out. I will admit, like, they're good for days like that, yesterday, when it's raining or precipitating and it's cold, like, to be able to dry your stuff out, be inside and get dry, because it does get warm in there, but, it's a double edged sword, for anyone wondering, because it's like, I always sleep cold in there, and I've got, at this stage I have 4 different stoves for hot tents, and I have a couple of different tents, and no matter what, the stove goes out. Once you go to sleep, the stove just goes out, and you either have to keep waking up every 30-40 minutes to relight the stove, or you're going to be cold, because, you imagine, like, yesterday I was out all day in 26 degree weather, and then the low last night was 18 degrees, so I go from 26, but then I go in the hot tent where it's like, I'm sure it must be like 70-80 degrees in there at times, sit in that for 4-5 hours, then go to bed, then the stove goes out, and then all of a sudden it drops all the way down to 18 degrees, and I feel much colder, compared to if I just, you know, slept out before, or just not had the stove going in the first place. So like I say, it's a double edged sword, really. Because I always get that on my tarp camping videos, I always get people asking me, or people with the snarky comments, like, I don't understand why anyone would do this, why not just bring a tent, blah blah blah, it's like, well, because when I'm in the woods, I want to be in the woods, you know, I want to experience the woods, the wilderness. If I wanted to sit inside a little box that was warm and comfortable all day, I'd stay in my house, I wouldn't go and spend X number of dollars on one that I could take outside with me when I would pay bills and a mortgage. So that's why I like tarp camping, because you get to be out actually in nature. Whereas some people seem to think like, well, they're going to go in the woods and I'm going to set up my tent, and I'm going to sit inside my tent all day, it's like, well, yeah, anyway. To each their own, I guess. To each their own. But other than that, it was a good trip. Good trip. There's not as much snow here as there is out there. Like, I'm sort of on the transition between this stick of pine and a hardwood forest there, and I sort of chose this A because it's a bit more sheltered, and B because all the little pine twigs that are around I know would light very easily even if they got wet or damp or snow covered or icy like they did last night. But once you go out into the hardwoods where it's a bit more open canopy, there's a lot more snow. Probably about a foot of snow out there. Anyway, it was fun. I enjoyed it. Hope you guys did too. And yeah, I will see you on the next one. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already, and apart from that, take it easy.