Packing for a Trip the 3 C's Concept

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning guys Dave Canterbury the pathline school what I thought we'd do today is have a little discussion basically about camping how do you pack for a trip for camping and the reason I'm bringing this up and the reason I'm shooting this video is a lot of people ask me what I packed and carried for the advance scout last week that we did the documentary on and you have to excuse me if my mouth freezes up a little bit here it's pretty cold outside today so what I want to talk about is I want to talk about how do you decide what you're going to pack for any trip whether it's a camping trip which really the advance scout other than the fact that you have to bring food back so you have to be able to hunt trap fish etc and forage and things like that at that skill level to take that class the portion of the camp should be exactly that you should be camping you should be smoothing it so let's talk a little bit about today about let's talk a little bit today about smoothing it and what I think you should think about when you're packing your stuff so that you can smooth it or more smoothly and there's three things that I take into consideration when I'm putting together a pack and believe it or not weight is not one of them and I have three C's and they're acronyms again because it makes it easy for me to remember and easy for me to teach and they are core temperature control comfort and convenience and those are the three things that I look at when I am packing a bag and part of conveniences and comfort is how heavy is that bag so I look at those things but I don't worry too much about weight my pack weighs 45 pounds 50 pounds then either I've got too many convenient items in there or I want to be too comfortable or I'm out of shape it's as simple as that and I need to suck it up and get with the program physical fitness is a big portion of what we do I'm going to put this video in the bushcraft series probably the basic bushcraft series

I think it plays well into how we think about packing our bags for a bushcraft outing or a camping trip as I said and wood crafting Bush crafting and camping are fairly synonymous terms as far as I'm concerned nowadays so let's look at first of all core temperature control what am I talking about when I say packing for core temperature control that means I'm going to pack the five seasons of survivability those are the things that most directly affect my body's core temperature and those are the things that are the most difficult to recreate from natural materials so I want those items to be my emergency gear that are going to be in my bag so I'm going to have my cutting tool I'm going to have a container and again let me unpack some of the stuff for you as we talk about this a little bit I've got this on a pack frame and I've got a rubber this thing's really packed together tight but I've got a rubber cover on top of this pack that's basically just made out roof sheathing material and it protects the garbage bag from moisture from getting wet and I've got a pack strapped to the side here and this is the same type pack frame that I use in a lot of my videos from bull pack this one was just specially designed for me with canvas instead of nylon okay so let's talk about cutting tools or cutting tool is going to basically be our knife the one that we carry on our belt that's part of our CTC our five C's is part of our CTC a container I've just got a pushpot a cook pot this is a Swedish cook set and this is just my pot this is what I'm going to use to boil my water to disinfect my water to keep my water warm so that protecting my core temperature the other thing is you know I'm going to have cordage in there I'm going to have a combustion device of some type of ferrocerium rod probably the biggest one I can find and I've got that in here and then some type of natural accelerant or sure fire so I'm going to have either mini or micro inferno I'm going to have some fat within there

and Vaseline you take a choice they're not all you know the best thing that you can carry in my opinion many infernal microphone is the best thing you can carry but opinions vary so you carry what you're comfortable with so I want to be able to start fire and then I need something to be able to reflect heat or to build a microclimate so a trash bag and a space blanket those are in the very bottom of this bucket at the moment all right so that's my CTC items those are the emergency items that I'm going to carry with me to protect my body's core attention what goes along with that is the clothes on your back you have to make sure that you're dressed for the seasonality and any seasonal changes that you might expect it could be at the advanced scout

it went from fifty degrees one day the first day we were out there to pouring rain of 40 degrees to sleet and snow and 20 degrees to two back-to-back days of 15 degrees so you had about a 45 degree temperature swing there and you've got to be prepared for that so your clothing that you pack has to prepare you for those temperature changes and right now I'm wearing a pair of month Arctic pearl boots and I wear muck artic rose 90% of the time in the winter now I wore the muck wetland boot which is a little bit lighter boot than this at the Scout because I knew temperatures were going to be pretty high a couple days and I didn't want to sweat too bad because then I've got to dry my feet out so I wore a little bit lighter boot but I wish I had these Arctic pros on the days it was 15 degrees when I was walking around the woods hunting scouting all day so Arctic throw boots I've got a pair of merino wool undergarments on top and bottom an Under Armour type wicking shirt underneath that and then the luster River bushcraft wool pullover on top of that and then I have canvas pad on so that gives me some versatility to be able to take things off put things on open things up all of those types of things to control the heat and then I've got a good fur hat on I've got a set of wool gloves on and I've got a set of ferment ins right here there may I be ver so I've got my extremities covered as well and that's important a lot of people don't understand that even though you have to protect your core temperature part of that protection comes from your extremities because your blood continually circulating throughout here is colder than a temperature here and if you compound that by cold weather and exposure then that blood that comes here from your core it's going out here and being cooled down brought back to your core cold and it takes that many more calories to heat that back up and to keep your core warm so you need to make sure that your extremities are protected as well so once we've got that taken care of then we look at comfort items and our comfort items mean what is it going to take for me in my opinion to get a good night's sleep beyond an emergency scenario what's it going to take for me to sleep because that's the most important thing for me if I'm going to be a longer-term situation in a Wilin environment I want to get a good night's sleep well that's going to involve probably a ground pad number one to help me battle conduction from the ground it's going to involve a larger tarp like this large oilskin tarp that I'm sitting on right now which is an 8x8 oilskin it's going to involve probably an ax as a redundant cutting tool so that I can cut bigger wood if I need to make a longer fire or a different fire type configuration that's going to take larger wood or I want to shore up my bed by putting a couple of logs in there I can't find deadfall so I can pack leaves in there for insulation I'm going to need an axe so that becomes a comfort item and then whatever my sleep system is and in the bottom on the bottom of this bag on the bottom of this frame I have a thirty liter dry bag that contains the bivvy sock and the block arctic bag from mms mmm SSS Sleep System military modular Sleep System that will keep me warm below zero without the green bag as long as I'm dressed properly I can strip down to the merino wool - 33 degree underwear that I've got on the long pants on the top crawl into this bag as long as I have a good pad and a good shelter okay either in a V or with a fire in front of it and an open front and I can sleep at zero degrees with that no problem no problem at all I have a hundred percent confidence in that okay so that gives me more of a comfort item now I'm smoothing it a little bit now I got a good comfortable night's sleep

so those things dictate what's they'd be comfort items for me what's it going to take for me to get a good night's sleep once all that stuff is packed up now I'm looking at convenience items how much is my pack away right now I've got my core temperature covered I've got my comfort for a good night's sleep covered now what do I need it's going to be convenient what's going to make my camp life a little easier is it a redundant container maybe maybe it's just another container that you can use to drink water out of so you can boil dump boil dump and drink or store water in and it can be multifunctional in that maybe this one's got flour in it for a little extra food or maybe this contains my one pound of powder that I generally carry with me if I'm on a hunting trip convenient items like spices like this Oh base seasoning which I carry in lieu of salt and pepper because it has both so I carry this as my salt and pepper item those are convenient items may be a cooking skillet of some kind where I can actually fry food if I want to after I boil it I can parboil and then fry it those are convenient items that make things easier for me a candle lantern those are the convenience items that will pack on top and that's the last thing I'm going to pack because the last thing I'm worried about convenience is the last thing I'm worried about comfort I'm worried about if I'm going to be there a little bit longer term but my CTC items are my main concern so when I packing I think about those three C's in that order and that's how I pack my pack and the convenient convenience items are what make up the weight once I get to the point where okay I've had enough I'm not carrying any more weight I'm out of convenience items at that point for me I don't carry that much I very rarely carry a water bottle in Easton Williams we've talked about that before only because that's just I trip over water out here all the time so I don't have to carry a water bottle necessarily I do have two metal containers one one it has a tin of gunpowder in it and one it has flour in it I can always take the Gunpowder out and use that container for redundant water bottle container type thing if I need to it does have a seal on it so I can carry water over distance that way if I need to but it is covering another one of my convenient item bases and four

detecting something else like food or powder and you know things like the candle Internet we talked about that's convenience item or headlight that's a convenience item I don't have to have that but it'd be nice so those those other five C's that go along with the 10 C's of survivability are really convenience items they're not something I absolutely have to have but they're convenience they're not controlling my body's core temperature necessarily like the first five C's directly affect but they're convenience items so they go at the bottom of that list after comfort if we're talking about camping if we're talking about emergency preparedness I would like to try to carry the 10 C's with me all the time if I'm talking about them going out camping I can sell it for the five Cs as my CTC portion of my pack out I'll always have the 10 C's with me somewhere I'm always going to have that sale needle in here I'm always going to have cotton bandanas I'm always going to have a compass I'm always going to have some type of a headlight as a convenience item or candle lantern or something like that so those C's are all going to be covered in the end but they're not considered in the first portion of my pack out there considering the last portion of my pack out when I'm talking about bushcraft camping or wood craft camping type scenarios so what I generally do is I carry the pack frame I carry the bucket that gives me a big container that I can put things in like firewood carrying back to camp game carrying back to camp I use it for a trap basket I can use it for a seat if I'm hunting I can take it off the frame and sit on it it's got the 30 liter waterproof bag on the bottom of it that contains my sleep system that becomes another container I usually carry another 10 liter dry bag in my pack that's going to is going to be where a spare pair of socks generally are and then a spare pair of a spare top that's made out of merino wool then I could put these items as it gets warmer outside I can put these items inside to protect them from rain and I always have an oil cloth type watch coat for rain protection a minimum of a 55 gallon trash bag I can make a rain gear out of or some type of a rain garment those things would always be in there depending on the temperature and that's what you have to think about when you're packing what are the seasonal changes that you can expect and then walk down the list for ctc to comfort to convenience this is what I've got a pack to make my trip so that I'm smoothing it and not roughing it but understand that to really smooth it doesn't mean you got to pack the kitchen sink it just means you've got to have a few things that you know how to use well everything needs to be multifunctional it doesn't really need to have a lot of weight to it necessarily one container is good enough for me to smooth it for a long time a knife and an axe is good enough for me to smooth it for a long time so think about those things when you're packing your kit I'm sorry if I rambled on a little bit here but I wanted to get this covered and talk about that a little bit I had people asked me what I had packed for the advance scout and these are the things that I packed inside here other than that really there's not a whole lot there's a couple piece of redundant cordage there's a rolling bank line there's a couple of spare candles for the candle lantern and there is a pack of wet wipes now this is a convenience item all the way but it doesn't weigh anything so if you're skinning game and things like that and you're worried about getting your hands infected some type of an antibacterial hand wipe will help you clean the blood and things off your hands get disinfect any wounds that you might get as well as use it for your backside and that's a real convenient thing or taking you know some type of a quick down and dirty I've got to scrub my private parts because I've been out here for three days and they're starting to stick to my leg this is what you want for that doesn't take up a lot of room $0.99 so when you have a sock thought your pack

done deal it's very much convenient item but it makes it very convenient anyway I appreciate you guys joining for this video today opening ramble on too much I'm Dave camera at the Pathfinder school I thank you for anything you do for me for my school for my family my friends affiliate sponsors instructors I'll be back in another video soon as I can thanks guys

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