Roycroft Pack Punk Wood Fire Kit Poncho Tips Camping

Description

This video has several features in it, as part of a camp trip hike. I used the Roycroft Pack which was introduced to me by Mors Kochanski, to haul my gear around. I have used it many times before and I really like it's simplicity and effectiveness. I also show using punk wood to start a fire from damp bark. In a prior video I show how to make the kit. I commonly use my PSS poncho to make a hammock for sleeping and this is no exception, I also added an Under Quilt and as a tip I show how I attached a second poncho, the one I used for the Roycroft pack cover, for wind protection. My trip was all around the 10,000 foot elevation. Check out all our gear at http://wildernessinnovation.com

Tags: Poncho,fire starting,campfire,hammock,under quilt,punk wood,fire starting kit,camp shelter,bushcraft,woodsman,forest camp,spring water,Roycroft Pack,Mors Kochanski

Video Transcription

that's all right but it was just sometimes a little well I finally made it up that back slope the sagebrush just thick is thick as grass on a golf course green and shin hi Danny hi and it's just just a lot of work plowing through that I'm wearing a roid Kroft pack frame here for my hammock I'm using a set of tree straps as my shoulder straps to hold this thing on and actually it's really comfortable looking from the back you can see how I've got it tight on all right so I got to go down off of here I want to get off some of this loose rubble stone and some of that down into here as I can before it gets darker well it's morning late morning Ecch well late o'clock I'm going to do the fire starting with the punk wood I like to carry these little 8-inch spark rods they're nice I can throw that I can throw that in my pocket I never even know it's there throw myself some sparks down into the outsides tin saying CI I didn't need to spark nearly as much as I did I mean although what it's a little darker you can see nice thing about this is the wind is an advantage it helps keep things going and this tin will keep everything contained and now so I got to do is lay this stuff onto there

keep in mind see I'm I'm kind of drying out the dampness here so takes a little longer than normal but there we go now I close the lid on my out toys tin it's starting to catch her now so my out toys tin is now cool enough to handle I've got I've got enough stuff in here for several more fires well here's something else that I did last night this is just kind of a tip I I started out the night I just sleeping in my in my poncho set up as a hammock I snapped underquilt onto it and during the night real quite a wind came up that was pretty chilly you know Casey that wind would pick up to the point that it would be enough to wake me up with a little chilly blast of air I got my spare poncho that I used backpack cover on my Roycroft pack the since the under quilt has double sided snaps on it while I was able I had a spare attachment port here so I could attach this to the undercoat and then all I did is I just threw it over the top of me like that and just let it drape on the other side and that was enough so that the wind coming through just kind of just curved right over here and and on I never felt it the rest of the night and you notice this in a light rain or moderate rain or something this might even be good enough to get you by without without it you could carry two Poncho's and not even carry a tarp and because you see right here it's overlap this is overlapping the under quilt so any rain that would hit that would run down here the under quilt has a DWR coating so so really as long as water can run off of it the water just going to pretty much run off of the under quilt so it doesn't really matter to get for this thing to be in the rain like that a little bit of hash browns and bacon this is just this is just from an MRE Nothing gourmet here our daughter our daughter give me a whole big chunk of them so never eat these she was in the military probably had her fill of it water is almost ready over there it's a hot little fire

well it's breakfast time now as is usually the case I get up and I in the mornings and I wind up hiking around somewhere want to see what's over the next little hill or something and next thing I know it's an hour hour and a half later but that's why I roll that's just right no see how this MRE tastes last night a time re it was a some kind of chicken something new his axe it was pretty good this isn't bad here either

here's how we set up the Roy Craft pack frame you can say it's just three sticks and these are all tied together with a jam nut so it's very sturdy a triangle now on mine right here I've used some compressor nuts constrictor nuts with bowlines

loops here which gives me another way to easier way to to tie my load down with a parachute cord I want to change these out of it so I'm going to same thing tight around here but I'm going to tie on toggles up here instead that'll make it so I don't have to pull the I don't have to pull the parachute cord through the loop I just hook it around it and then I got some tree straps

I've got together here and literally all we do it these come up and hook it over the top right here so it's kind of like a larks head that's it that's how we carry the thing poncho down here that's my part I was going to form my pack bag usually I go with one of our usually I do it with one of our tarps all right so the first thing you gotta remember is right here in this area of that triangle of the frame you want to put something soft because that's gonna that right there is gonna be in the small of your back so you want that so your backs against that right there okay now I take this multi-purpose gear bag which I do have pack straps for it so I can just use that as its own impact but I'm taking a little more stuff this time so doing it this way then the next thing this is my hammock right there my poncho hammock stuff so that'll go on the top part of that when that gets pressed down one thing I neglected is my water bottle just put it right there then in the hoodie pocket of my of my fleece jacket here I've got all my small stuff right in there and then I just taking it kind of fold that up like that man my frypan is gonna clean that off first thing I'm gonna do is take this bottom and fold it up like that I like the top to be the last thing that goes down because then if you're in the rain everything's going to shut off of there grab the sides here [Music]

all right now you'll see how this all comes together

I'm gonna go diagonal now I'm coming across to this top one on the opposite right here see that normally I don't like to move the pack around too much while I'm sinking it down like kind of want to keep everything situated they can come over to this lower one over here I see if I had toggles on here I'd be done already they come to that side one then we go back down to the bottom and then up to the top and finish it off so I just grabbed it then you come back here and hook and that leg right there same thing on the other side and then we just don't sit up just a little bit then you just tie it off on your waist hear that soft material is what's right against my back so the sticks aren't against my back so this is very comfortable going just like this now the idea of this of course is you could make this from three sticks that you find out in the woods somewhere and you could construct your own pack with whatever you've got and haul your gear out found a little spring on the trail here I should have left my drinking cup out I could have scooped me some up I think I'll see if I can catch a little in my hat here should be I'll at least get a cup or so oh yeah oh that's refreshing that water is almost ice water yeah lots of berries up in here oh you're good oh yeah

that's what makes hiking fun it's nice to be able to beat the Bears to them well I believe I found the source of that spring water it's almost September this may not all melt off before we start getting snow again well you just look at that water just run enough here lots of debris in this snow well then you brush that surface off not too bad no no it tastes good above the treeline now nothing up here but stunted sagebrush and some boiled berries in place and wind wind never stops little happier hey it smells like parsnips up here or carrots or whatever parsnips I wonder why this whole hillside is intermingled with

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