Snowy Canoeing Camp - Scouts - Osni Cloak - Tips

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It's exciting to go camping when the weather is not ideal, and canoeing in snow and wind makes for an adventure. Being able to be comfortable in all sorts of conditions is part of the culture of being a camper and an outdoorsman. Gear is what makes man able to adapt somewhat like animals can do naturally. Our Poncho Shelter System recently added the Osni Cloak to its accessories, as it is a Poncho liner, an underquilt, and stand alone Cloak, and many other things. We are looking to expand the Osni line of APEX insulated gear and on this trip testing more on a Top Quilt that can be added to the Osni Cloak to enhance its use as a sleeping bag, also an Insert Quilt to add additional comfort in colder weather. A short segment in this video shows taking a poncho and making an "A" frame canopy while wearing the Onsi as a Cloak. Check out our Osni and all our other USA made gear at http://wildernessinnovation.com

Tags: poncho,canoe,camping,snow camp,serape,woobie,hammock,Osni,bushcraft,woodsman,scouting,campfire,dutch oven,cooking

Video Transcription

well here we are at the Boy Scouts is not funny

can you camp we got light snow falling [Music]

it's kind of a storm trying to roll in I don't know if it's going to or not we're just up on top of the hill where the quaky start right back in here is our camp and then I put mine up over here a little more away from everybody I guess so so here's my setup right here and my gear hanging up there in the tree and my sleeping setup right there all right well the storms really trying to come in here I'm hurrying kind of get this out of the way so this is my sleeping situation now when I went to bed last night it was about 23 24 degrees so it's getting down there got a little windy ice what we're calling the Oh Snee top quilt or whatever it's only that wide but that's that's good enough when you're laying in I didn't want it to be too much I want it enough when I'm laying in there that's just enough to cover me and being snapped in it keeps it in place and of course I've got my Oh sneak here underneath and that provides my under underneath insulation

right though here's there's something else that I experimented with and I'm this kind of toying around with it right now it's not that cold at this point but I'm trying to just see what might what I can do later on as the as the season gets colder thirty I don't know it's a little under three feet wide about 50 to 55 60 inches tall but I've got the oast me I've got the ocean II clipped up and I just undid a few snaps right there I just took this and shoved it in here so I put this so it's between my hammock right here the poncho set up as a hammock it's between that and the ocean so I just shove this down in here now this this little quilt thing here is in between quilt whatever you want to cut it's made out of the same is in the apex insulation now you could do the same thing with your under quilt if you have one of our under quilts instead of the ocean so you could add something some fluffy insulation between your hammock and between your under quote and all you want to do is when you get in there and you're laying down in it just reach around and feel underneath you and if you feel it really solid underneath you then everything's a little too tight so you want to loosen the drawstrings maybe just a little bit which can allow it to kind of sag down a little and because you don't want to compress the installation by being too tight and but I didn't even play with it I just got in it and I checked it out and though it was fine just as is I'm just gonna show you how I get in here and retaining as much body heat as I can by being all the way inside the fabric on the on this quilt / quilt everything there is breathable so I'm not building up excess moisture everything else here I just realized is I was I was letting this whole thing here just hang down like that but you know all the snaps are double-sided snaps so I just bring this underneath up over the top then I can snap it to the other side double-sided snap I'm snapping it to itself here this kind of gives us kind of a trim look on the end there and it will help hold it a little bit more by doing that so by doing this I just learned something today every time I go camping I learned something that's why I go camping every week every week I learned something new storms rolling in off the mountains right there winds picked up it's gonna be beautiful

well know where to the camp again I dropped the boys off Boy Scouts and they're on the way back home and my way back to camp well it's about 34 degrees out I sent all the scouts home from camp here and now I'm hanging around here for a few more hours myself just because I can I'm gonna roast me up a Johnsonville I think

get out here and do a little damage here little relaxation yeah there's my view yeah the dog is cooking the juices are beginning to flow my camping area here there's a lot of quickies and a little intermingling of some pine you know it's not a bad deal out here roasting up a Johnson mill over the fire snow flurry weather today

fall colors it was snowing lightly when we came when we came yesterday and knut across the down the lake and the wind was blowing pretty good at tell me we had Whitecaps on the lake boys got a big tent set up and us all of us adult leaders we all slept in our hammocks let's say you've already got an underflow say you decide well I want to have a host knee but now I bought an under quo and I didn't do that well you know if you get out into cold weather you might want to snap the underquilt under your hammock and then when you go to bed you may want to take your osa knee off snap it underneath the under quilt so now you have now you have triple the insulation that you would have just with the under quo so it's not like you got to throw the under quote away now this might seem like totally ridiculous right it might be but I could I could wear the fleece and hike it then take the ocean so now I've got the ocean the over top of the fleece I can snap the Oh Sneed of the fleece I can snap the sides down like I could hook this whole thing up just like guys work in a poncho - a fleece or a poncho - anos neat so I can do I can do fleece those knee I could do - Oh sneeze on top of each other I could throw a poncho over the top of this and snap it to all this I mean you said I'm saying I mean whatever you got it's still good there's still a way you can use it and still a way that you might use it sometime [Music]

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okay so now I can be up inside of this it's a quick little shelter I could throw down some boughs or whatever and I can at least be out of the weather well nice little snow going on here today nice to keep some hot mocha going well here we go [Music]

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