Exploring the Whelen Lean Part 2

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morning guys want to introduce you today to the black rat snake and these are very common Eastern woodlands snake you can see that he's got a black and tan mottled pattern he's got some tan and white on his belly and some checkering there this is about four and a half foot adult male specimen and they get about six feet long this is a beautiful snake very docile you can see he's not attempting to bite me in any way shape or form we're going to turn him loose here in just a second let him go back to his natural habitat but I wanted to show you this guy and show you that he's pretty docile and you know snakes are a good thing to have around the environment they control the rodent population and things like that which means they control lots and lots of diseases so a lot of people just arbitrarily kill snakes on site I think that's pretty ridiculous because they were put here for a reason and having them around is a good thing as far as like I said controlling the rodent population disease controlling things like that

you mice carry the hantavirus and all kinds of other stuff and this snake controls the population of that road morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury pathfinder school I thought would you today is come out here in the woods that set up the wheel and lean and a little more of a woodland configuration where you're not in the open you have to use poles necessarily for set up and show you how to set this thing up very similar to a normal tarp I'm going to try to do that in real time for you so you can see how quick it is to set this tent up stay with all right so once we've got our canvas laid out here there's a simple West deciding how high we want our ridgeline to sit I like mine about this eye and I'm just going to take a half inch and this tree real quick so I got something out and self height on this side go to the other side here this is where I'm going to draw it tight I'll pull it over on this tree get it to the heights I want it pull here draw it in just like that again I like nos they're easy to get undone now I can spread this ridge line on the 10th across here wherever I decide I want that tent to set then come back and pull it off the ridgeline and stick it out I got a couple small push it in the way I got my axe take care of that now at this point I really have a shelter already typically I come into camp I need to get in something I'm good right there

you can see when you plot this over you really almost got this thing closed in if it was going to rain ain't getting wet in there you know what put it out here in the front we will feel for my god if you want okay so by putting a couple poles in here and just roping those poles over to the tree I can't control the pitch of this easy enough I need to depending on the time of day what I'm looking for or I can take those poles that if it's going to rain and drop that flap straight down like this and that's going to give me twenty protections in the rain and then all I have to do is toggle these wings right here with a stick which is very simple to do

and then I have pretty much a closed-in tent type configuration so understanding that this is a very large piece of canvas probably 15 feet at the winds this is a large enough canvas for several men to sleep under at the same time in a deer camp or base camp scenario one guy can carry the canvas and the ropes and the steaks and maybe his personal items split the other items of food utensils cookware camp tools things of that nature can be split up between the other guys so the one guys not carrying 60 pounds of gear he's carrying 25 or 30 which is about the norm that most of the old-timers recommended for a single tramper 30 to 35 pounds is a comfortable load 35 on the beginning of the trek down to 30 after food consumption and things like that

by the end of the truck was a comfortable load for most guys to carry you've got to understand that a lot of those guys that we're talking about that wrote articles that are well-respected today in books and things of that nature like nesic people like that a lot of those guys were you know Warren Miller like a hundred two hundred and thirty pounds and five foot tall or 5 foot two so they didn't have a lot of bulk to carry weight I've talked to Peter already about dropping and convinced it condensing this down to a single man type shelter I think this Whelan is a very adaptable type tarp and if it had a six or seven foot Ridgeline and everything else were proportionate to that you can get this thing down to about seven pounds of weight then you'd have something one guy could feasibly carry I'm a strong believer that canvas or oil cloth is absolutely the way to go over SIL nylon over the long term if you're going to use your gear a lot you want canvas over cloth not SIL nylon if you're going to use it on weekends only or for just overnight trips things like that a few times a year so my line will define if you're going to use this stuff all the time in harsh weather conditions and for longer periods of time all the old-timers will agree you want canvas pull up

well I appreciate you guys joining me out here today for the second part of exploring the Weiland lean a little bit different configuration set up in the woods with just ropes for the most part not so many poles and pieces I appreciate everything you do for me for our school for our family for our business for all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends I'll be back to another video as I can thanks guys