Winter Pack Out

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afternoon guys welcome to Pathfinder yurt I've had quite a few questions lately

concerning winter pack outs and things that nature so I thought maybe what I do is I kind of walk through the basic equipment that I brought into this year with me and the basic equipment that I would take if I were going to do a three-day or even maybe a little longer extended stay in a winter type environment the first thing that's really important to understand is you know is that this equipment will always incorporate you know at least the five Cs beyond that the ten season survivability is basically an emergency kit for you to take with you if your rec reading in the outdoors especially if your skill levels are a little you know minimal or they're not quite where you think they should be then those extra five items will help you get through I generally will carry most of the tendencies with me any time I go out there maybe a couple things in here that you don't see that aren't involved in this kit but it will be because I don't think I need them or because I can do without them so understand that before we go through this and the other part of kit mentality that I have when I think about the things that I'm going to carry in any situation is I'm always going to opt to be tool heavy okay what I mean by tool heavy is if you understand how to make things out of what's around you and you have the tools to do that then you always are in a better position so if I'm going to be tool heavy that means I'm probably going to have a knife I'm probably going to have an axe or a saw I'm probably going to have a multi-tool and if I have all three of those things there's not a whole lot of things I can't make with natural materials if I really need it again thinking about the five C's that I don't want to have to make out of natural material if I really have to get something done quickly I'm going to carry those five C's but I'll always go too heavy to err on the side of having more than enough so the first thing I want you to look at on this and I put the stuff on Iris's boat cuz she's not in here right now she probably will not sleep in here every night with me over the next month or month and a half but I'm going to try to do my best to live out of this your understanding now I have to have an internet connection to be able to upload these videos and I'm not sure that I can get one inside this year I'm not sure if the wireless that's located probably five or six hundred yards from here will work or not but I haven't tested it yet either so let's look at this wool blanket um

wool blankets are an asset in a situation that you can possibly go into will blanket that's a good wool blanket that's hand loomed that's what without a virgin wool it's very very expensive this is a CJ wild or CJ wildy blanket and they are no longer made anymore you can't find them used sometimes but they are very expensive they're not what I would consider common man by a long shot a good wool blanket is hard to find you can find some military hundred percent wool blankets but they will not do what this will blanket does this is one of those things where you spend the money one time and you forget about it this blanket is as good to me or as warm to me as an MMS sleep system for the most part other than the fact that it's not completely waterproof but I've slept in this thing below freezing before with no problem it's held together with a couple straps that go on my Duluth pack so it can be put on the top or inside the Duluth pack and I've got a couple of steel rings on here in case I want to carry in tump line fashion okay as I said again tool heavy right okay so what I've got is I've got my 19 inch hunters ax s a wetter runs and acts as an axe as an axe as an axe no it's not okay get a good axe there are several good ones on the market sa wetterling's is a good axe obviously grants for Brooks is a good axe snow and Neely makes a pretty good apps any of those axes will suit the purpose that you need but in a wintertime environment a folding saw is probably not the best option an axe is a better option because you're going to have what it's frozen or it's been told for a long time it's going to be a lot harder to cut with a saw that's going to be with an axe multi-tool I always carry my Leatherman core Pathfinder knife with a large fire rod attached Pathfinder spear point slid into the sheath okay it slides right into the backside of the sheath right here it's got a pocket in there it's almost made for that if it's there perfect goes on my belt gives me several tools in one I've always got my repairing Eagle two realities right to the back so I've got that needle with me all the time I've actually got some repairs I need to do today on a wool sweater okay let's go into containers okay containers I have this MSR Sego container seen this in quite a few videos I carry all the time anything that I've got to the container is going to carry something it's not carrying water should be carrying something else inside this one I have a shard of cotton cloth that I can use to make char cloth with if I need to I have one two three four five six film canisters in here they have spices in them and those spices are not only for spicing up my food they're also medicinal so think about that when you're putting together your spice get things like sage things like cayenne pepper same things like garlic all of those things things like cinnamon they're all medicinal so make sure those are the things that you add to your kit I also have 2% tincture of iodine in here a big water steel wool and a spare lighter so that's basically my cook slash part of my medical slash part of my fire kit all in one shot okay God design 32 ounce bottle understand very hard to find right now this is a straight walled one I know these are tough to find guys but they'll be back around sooner or later Bargo titanium top with that I can cook just about anything I need to cook with those two items I have to sharpening devices out of carry with me all the time Lansky's diamond rod Baca file coarse medium I'm sorry fine and medium you sharpen my tools with a titanium spork I've got one heck I pulled right here it's got a toggle in it and that's used for a lot of things I've showed that in a few videos lately in the 21st century long winter series I can use this to remove my god design bottle from the fire I can use to clean my 12-gauge with I can also use it for a trap if I need to just a very handy little item to throw in your pack and carry doesn't weigh anything doesn't take up any room and I've got a spare a heck of cordage that I carry with that those go in the top pocket on my pack so they're readily available all the time then I carry a full roll of Bank line this is 165 pound test

handling device part of the 10 C's you know I discourage flashlights I always say carry a headlamp carry spare batteries in your bag make sure that you've got that in case you have to have for some reason you've always got a light you know I discourage people using these unless they absolutely have to but there are times that you just absolutely need a headlight and when you need it you'll have it when it's roll of Gorilla Tape always duct tape is in my bag in some way shape or form a lot of people have asked me about this tape that's on my axe handle here okay what material is that what is that it's friction tape life you'd use on a hockey stick it's just to keep me from slipping off the Santana look it's wet and also to keep me from getting blisters but it does a real good job of gripping on the sax that's why I put it on there it's not the die axe handle crack or anything like that fire we went over this fire kit in the 21st century long thinner series it is a very inclusive fire kit for a small package it has the rubber bands on the outside of that which are flammable it also holds it shut it covers up the hole to make this a chart in if I need to be it also has a couple of wet fires in here a lighter a Ferro rod a frozen lens and some cotton cloth to make char material with and some steel wool so there's a lot of inclusive fire material in this small kit on top of that I carry a small rag that's got chopped up grease wood in it again I've got the cotton material there I've got cords there and I've got the grease wood there so I've got a lot in that little bundle but this gives me just a little umph on my fire if it's cold and wet and then I carry a chunk of tender fungus as well again you can never have too many ways of starting fire I always have at least two lighters in my kit I have one in my seagull I have one in my Altoid 10 fire kit right here that's two lighters plus if I have one in my pocket that's three I carry my journal with me all the time and I write in the rain pouch and then my backpack okay this is the bushcraft model backpack by Duluth it's just a big bucket style pack and that's what I like it's got a sleeve on the outside for an accent for a shotgun it also has two outside pockets to be able to get to my water bottle easy and my cordage and supplies like that really easy everything fits in this pack with no problem so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take you over to the other side where I've got my clothing which is what takes up the majority of this pack because this blanket takes up half of one side a mesh bag takes up the other side of clothing now as far as foodstuffs go what would I carry for foodstuffs well I probably have very minimal food with me I always do take food of some kind I've got my spices I usually would have a quart freezer bag of some kind of cornmeal malted rice some kind of a rice meal or something like that or just regular flour and then I would have you know if I can find a bag of jerky I'd take a bag of jerky with me or maybe even some salt cured bacon salt cured bacon was a really good thing to carry in your pack because it doesn't go bad and especially in this kind of weather and then you can cut it up and it gives you a real good fatty food in the morning to get you going and keep your body burning that fuel all day long so let's move over to the other side we'll talk about clothes okay so we'll move over to the other side of the yurt here and talk about clothing for a minute again we're talking about a three-day plus type expedition or hunt something like that I've got a thermometer laying here in case anybody's curious it is 59 degrees in here right now and I really don't have the stove stoked up too hard I keep this thermometer here just kind of regulate and monitor my temperature with my stoves I don't want to over burn wood for no reason I just want to keep it comfortable in here so talking about clothing for a minute I'm a big advocate of wool especially in a wintertime environment you know wool is going to be the king wool retains 80% of its insulating value or more even when it's soaking wet so wool is always going to be the ticket for me I've got this Columbia 100% wool overcoat and I've got a pair of pants that go with that right here that I always have in a mesh bag in my pack in case it really really gets cold I've got another piece of cotton material here that's just a great big rag sometimes I'll wear for a scarf but it also again more bandages more char cloth things like that an extra pair of wool socks a set of wool underwear buy wool power these I love these things I mean you can put these things under a pair of

verse attack meds by rail rider or something like that that's quick dry and if this stuff gets wet you can try out the stun wheel pretty fast you can draw out this verse attack meds because they're quick try type material and you're good to go I've got a fur hat here that I take with me I stuff my bag in case this wool Pendleton isn't quite enough I need something around my ears I've got a mess along your bag you like stuff this stuff into in one side of my pack I have a hood here that's basically just like a coif that goes around your shoulders and over the top that you can wear underneath the jacket it doesn't have a hood on it or underneath a wool hunting shirt that just comes in real handy at night you can flop that thing over your head and it just keeps you good protected and warm it's also a real good asset when you're hunting this is just a US Army wool sweater believe it or not fellas this is actually one of my favorite pieces of clothing it's got a couple of holes in it right here that I need to repair I'm going to try to get that done today while I'm in here but if you find these at a surplus or at a gun show make sure that you look at this tag on the inside this government tag because it will tell you if it's a hundred percent wool because they're not all one percent wool so just like a military wool blanket you know if you can't find a tag on it says it's a hundred percent wool don't trust it unless they let you set fire to it and see if it will melt or whether it burns a couple extra straps and I've got here leather straps for my backpack so that I can strap a second wool blanket or my tarp or both to the top of my bushcraft pack and I do carry a second little blanket with me much of the time but usually it'll be what I would call a chard blanket and that would be a very thin wool blanket something like this brown wool blanket like this one right here this real thin it's not thick enough to really sleep in but it's a good warming thing for around the fire it's also a good secondary layer with your wool blanket or you know ground layer ground barrier something like that and then I've got this Duluth anorak for cold wet weather it seems to work out really really well I've just begun testing it hardcore but I have worn it some pretty nasty stuff so far and it seems to repel water really good and it definitely cuts the wind without question I recently obtained these article mittens that go with that back I've walnut died those are not quite as dark as the in Iraq that's okay I don't when everything to match anyway i want multiple colors when i'm in the woods and then they have a red liner that goes inside them just like the military arctic mittens have they're almost the same exact type concept you know they've got too heavy leather palms and thumbs that have an over guard over the top and then they've got the wool liners and go in them to go with this red wolf hunting shirt that i showed in the video from Duluth as well I usually carry a set of rag well gloves with me that I can wear until it gets really really cold then I'm going to put the mittens on but for the most part these rag well gloves will do you for you know some pretty cold cold weather so back to wool blankets for just a minute you know I'm a big advocate of the wool blanket I don't think you're going to find a u.s. army wool blanket that is going to be enough for you for an extended time period if it was an emergency and it was your ten seas that you were carrying you had a military wool blanket as a high percent wool combined with something like a reflective tarp like a reusable space blanket you can get away with that for an overnight emergency but to be comfortable for a three-day Scouter three-day hunt or 3 day trek into the woods you want to be you know a little bit more prepared than that and that's why I carry you know a heavy handmade wool blanket and then some type of a chard and that chard maybe some off country military blanket that's hard percent wool was thin or it could be something like you know this military this hundred percent wool u.s. blanket right here but like I said unless you can find a tag on that thing that says it's a hundred percent wool and they'll have a tag on them and they'll say you know eighty percent wool 20 percent reprocessed wool or something like that but there's still a hundred percent wool if you don't see that tag on there don't trust them to be hundred percent wool because they're probably not no matter what people tell you everybody says US army wool blanket u.s. army wool blanket but most of them are 70/30 so anyway I wanted to go over that pack out with you guys today it just shows you the things that I do carry I carry you know more stuff with me in the wintertime and I carry more stuff with me if I'm planning to be out in the woods for three or four days at a time or if I'm planning to stay somewhere for an extended period I'm going to have more stuff with me and that's important but the more isn't more gadgets the more is a couple more tools the more

is more clothing to keep me dry and give me barriers to keep my body's core temperature under control that's the more the more isn't I need you know $1,500 worth of gadgetry to keep me alive

it is important stuff that's tried and true over time wools heavy canvas things of that nature that are going to keep you alive when it counts and make you comfortable for that three or four days that you plan on spending in the woods on a truckscout or hunt so I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school coming to you from the American yurt Pathfinder yurt I'll put a link to their website on this video as well and I'm going to do a video review at full you know Pathfinder cribs on the shirt shortly so I thank you very much for watching my videos I thank you very much for support I hope to see you again real soon and we'll see you on the next video

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