Camp - Hammocks - Bough beds - Slow Cooking Chicken - Gear Shelter and Platform

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Some clips from a recent camp with Shauna, sleeping with poncho set up as hammock, also on raised bough bed, slow cook chicken in a pot, make a gear platform and overhead shelter with a wood frame and our PSTL Tarp. For sleeping we used our PSSL poncho, Polartec Fleece poncho liner, Personal Survival Blanket. http://wildernessinnovation.com/shelter/

Tags: Poncho Hammock,poncho fleece liner,slow cooking,gear organization,shelter,tarp,bough bed,raised bough bed,camping,campfire,camp comfort,aluminum pot,self supporting shelter

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so anyway here's the camp I've been working on pretty nice huh what's the deal I built last week right here put all our bins and everything on so it's organized got plenty of firewood over there so we're ready to start camping now yeah it's not bad for being eighty three hundred feet it's like it's almost summer so you know I figure what we'll do is probably think I'm able to get our bed set up and all that and everything and I got a surprise for you on the bed thing you're gonna love this this is this is really nice oh really yeah I made this thing up for you last year and it's still ready let's take a look at this take a look at where you get to sleep you're gonna love it all right so here's the cool thing I got for you right here so this is the bow bed I slept on up here a number of times and then I built a new one over there for you nice and fresh and good these things are so comfortable you're gonna absolutely love this it's like it's better than sleeping at home these things are great so what do you think about that would be cool what I made it just for you but I know I like sleeping in the hammock too but but it's kind of fun to try something different you know you'll still be comfortable oh my gosh all right well we got we got the poncho so let me do that well you can't say I didn't offer well alright life goes on all right so anyway so last night you know I was heard Sean and I had our little banter about where she was gonna sleep she was not going to sleep on the on the bow bit on the raised bow bed she she loves sleeping in our poncho setup with hammocks so what can I say now she's never done the setup here yet with the fleece over top like this and the end she hasn't ever used the under quilt yet we've used the the survival blankets wrapped around which is kind of similar but but never used it in this particular setup so that's what she wanted to do so that's what she did and she said she got through the night pretty well so you know one of the nice things here is I don't know if you can see it but see all that the pollen coming out of all these pines is so thick like last night when I was walking around with my headlamp on it looked like it was snowing or something there's so much stuff floating in the air and that's just the pollen out of the pines well one of the nice things is because she got in here and pulled that fleece over and slept inside of basically inside of it you know it means that she's not all night long just breathing that pollen that's just you know everything was just totally green this morning when we got up greenish-yellow from all the pollen that fell but she's not having to breathe that all night because she's inside of here well Sean and I are up here camping and we've had our breakfast had a great night's sleep all that sort of thing and are getting something ready for lunch yeah and what we're gonna do is we're gonna take this big this pot right here and this one I've had since eyes in junior high school still keeps kicking around I know it looks ugly but it still works but we're gonna put a whole chicken in here and then we're gonna cut up some potatoes and do some seasoning and stuff like that and we're gonna put all this in here and then we've got on our campfire we've once we finished breakfast we've been filling the whole fire pit full of full of coals by burning small small diameter chunks of wood so that thing is clear full of coals now so it's ready for us so we're going to put all this in here put a little bit of water in the bottom but it has a slip over lid and we put that on there we're going to bury this thing in the coals for a few hours and but so we're just going to try to ideas to try to just cube these potatoes up then we'll put them in there and see what happens the idea I think is to put a try putting a layer of them in the bottom and then set the chicken on top of that and then and put you know some more around the sides and that sort of thing and I'm sure we won't eat all this today if we did we'd be feeling sick I think we'll probably wipe the bird down with a little bit of some oil and then throw some seat spices on it real simple just salt and pepper and you know set that thing in there and see what happens so that's probably probably good for the bottom what do you think oK we've even put them on the stove or the fire before sometimes doesn't hurt him a bit all right

go pull this out dump all those juices out for a bear attractant for the next campers juices can from the bird can help make us some gravy pour us a little oil on there really crude like that around good I don't know why I'm putting oil on there somebody said to do it and these trays like this we like these to get them from the restaurant supply stores and they're nice to use for cutting on or you know just general stuff at camp or whatever works really well good throw some in there can't have too much pepper you know there we go I don't know what's gonna happen you know I mean we're gonna find out pretty quick here all right I'm gonna put some water in here and then I'll sprinkle a little salt and pepper back here a little on the top now again make sure everything's nicely seasoned now we call this kind of cooking passive cooking because the thing is what's nice about it is is we can put this into the coals and everything and then we can go for a hike or go do something take a nap or whatever and we got several hours at least of cook time here and that we don't have to do a thing with this but and the other thing and I like about this pot right here is the lid which doubles as a frypan it telescopes over the outside of the pot which is really nice for when you're doing cooking in the fire pit or something like that because it overlaps you're not going to accidentally get stuff up inside of here if the contents of something starts boiling over it just boils right down the side all right so let's get over to the fire that's a nice nice fine bed of hot coals right there that's that's about a foot thick in there kind of shovel these coals out here around the edges might even have to pull them up just a little bit here so I'm gonna want to put this pot down in here have a little bit on the bottom here and I want to leave the handle up because that'll leave me a that'll leave me a place to grab hold of the pot and now we want to cover this thing around on the sides looks like I could have used a few more coals but we'll make it work I want to put some on top so I'll just kind of do a little of that known as mid I'm alright on coals I just kind of baked them up here push them from the outside of the middle I can already hear some bubbling going on in there it's very hot but like I say the nice thing is right now is the hottest that will ever be so it's going to start cooling down from now so buddy time award warms the bird up the water the food or the potatoes and all that it'll should be down to about two a non burning temperature at that point so Shawna was sleeping right back there you know her poncho that we set up as a hammock and all that that I just showed you and then I slept here on this this is the second bow bed I made last year I made this one just before not long before snowfall hitting we couldn't get back up here anymore so this one was laying here I just took one of my personal survival blankets fold it in half and put on here didn't tie anything off didn't do anything I just did that crawled in there and I was good to go Shaun is doing what she does either crocheting or whatever you call that sewing she's sewing stuff embroidery right kind of so that's what she likes to do to occupy her time I've been busy building a little shelter for our for our storage gear this will be so I'll throw a tarp over here and show you that okay so here's the here's our 10 by 10 tarp our pstl draped over the structure which is just a little over 10 feet long our pstl is 10 by 10 so it's a little shorter on this side not in the backside so it gives you more protection on the back this gives some eaves on the front so you can see how much space I've got in here and how effectively I could work and I can pull these lids off and lay those down here it can get in and out of my food boxes I could actually use the lids to these so here's the backside of it right here kind of walk around first been in here about three hours I guess I checked it once a little bit ago and here we are oh yeah potatoes done yeah it's nice and soft nice flavor there's some chicken oh yeah nice and juicy potatoes are excellent

I believe we're just gonna eat right now and get on with our camp all right so Shauna said why don't we just use the juice off of this and make some gravy so we just took the lid off the pot we took the lid off the pot we pulled the pot out of the coals laid it right in there dump the juice in there and made up some peppered gravy mix right there everything's already hot anyway it sounds like why not so we're just going to go ahead and we're just going to go ahead and dish up and go to town we really love that peppered gravy a lot it's that good slash or some gravy on there oh my gosh I know that's just gonna be fantastic man don't you just love camping it doesn't get a whole lot better than that so right there them's good eating right there so we got to stop recording because I'm hungry so anyway have a great day hope you have a great time in the outdoors yourself we try to get out as often as we can and we love getting out relaxing tooling around camp a little bit messing around with stuff and just enjoying the peace and quiet being out so use some of our gear if you can it's a great stuff and think you'll like it and enjoy your time in the outdoors perry cooped up and Shawna peacock when wilderness innovation