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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitter in the Pathfinder school what I thought I'd do this morning is just kind of do a little bit of a clothing type of layout for you guys to talk about what I wear in the winter in Ohio depending on what I'm doing and really depending on the temperature extremes or not extremes that we have this time of year in Ohio because it can be in the 50s and 60s one day and be down around the 20s or below that the next day especially in late December and January so there's a lot of different clothing items that I used throughout the year and throughout that winter time period I thought it'd be worth discussing them and it's also worth discussing what I use when I'm moving about like on the tramp trapline over long distance versus what I use when I'm sitting around a camp area and I'm not going to be walking along distance they'll stay with me when we started okay so as we start to look at clothing let's kind of first look at our extremities because I think that's something that a lot of people tend to ignore is your extremities and remember that the blood circulates to your extremities so if your extremities are cold like you're feeding your hands then you're going to have cooled blood going back into your core so keeping your extremities warm is very important as well as keeping your core cold or keeping your core warm excuse me so let's talk about that first of all you know like today it's not too bad it's probably in the 30s right now and I just got on a regular Thinsulate toboggan that you can buy at any tractor supply or a Walmart for you know probably less than 7 or 8 bucks and they work fine they're not the warmest thing in the world but they do keep that heat trapped they do tend to make you sweat a little bit if you're walking over distance but it's easy enough to just take that thing off and not worry about it if it does get warm and stuff in a pocket so I tend to carry one of these quite a bit now if it gets much colder than that I need something more than that on my head I've got a couple different options here this is a FAL Raven hat and fellow Raven company out of Sweden this is g1000 material which means you can wax this material to make it more waterproof it does have earmuffs on it that are made from a faux fur which means that's not a real fur but it feels pretty close to real fur and you can't either drop those flaps down over your ears and actually strap that thing around your chin if you want you to keep you really warm or you can just fold it up over the top like a normal bomber style hat and you can snap the thing down to wear it a little bit looser on your head if you want to the other hat that I've got here is made by salsa & salsa is a finished brand of clothing we're talk a little bit about FAL Raven and salsa today but we're going to talk about more inexpensive clothing as well and this sauce the Hat is more of the old-school hunting style hat with the ear flaps on it it's made out of wool so it's plenty warm but it's not near as hot as this is over distance but both of these hats are good choices for keeping your ears keeping your head covered and keeping things warm so those are the hats that I'd really wear unless I'm just wearing a ball cap but again once it gets down to 30s I like to have at least some kind of a toboggan with me and I do wear 100% wool toboggans too sometimes but I tend to find that hundred percent wool toboggans shrink up really bad even after they've been wet from things like sweater perspiration and then they've dried they tend to shrink up pretty bad if your wife ever makes the mistake of throwing one in the washer you probably never be able to wear it again now as far as your hands go I'm not a big fan of gloves unless it's really cold outside or I'm working on something and so I tend to just carry these simple rag will type gloves that are pretty inexpensive to buy you can get these things on Amazon or anyplace like that if you prefer 100% wool you can still buy the hundred percent wool style inserts that go into the military style leather glove if you want wall you can get that but I find that these rag will gloves which are 100% wool they're probably 70/30 do a pretty good job to keep my hands in them and I also carry a pair in my pocket here of rag walls that are very similar except for the fact that they have open fingers in them and they have a laughs that you can pull over the top to turn them into a mitten so those are good for things like out on the trapline where you sometimes you want your hands-free you don't want to take off your gloves but you need that dexterity of your fingers so these work pretty good for that now if it gets cold enough that I'm you know my hands are cold in these type gloves then what I generally do is I'll combine a glove like a rag well glove with an actual 100% fur mitten like these that are made out of beaver hide here and these are made from beaver and deer they're deer here and beaver here and your hands are never gonna get cold and something like that as long as you keep them dry you know she's like anything else once you get it wet you got a problem so you've got to make sure you keep that stuff dry now the other thing that I'll do is I'll wear work gloves a lot of times if I'm doing a lot of heavy brush work and reaching down into thorns and brambles and things like that and you know you can just get a pair of leather gloves from tractor supply or Walmart or someplace like that no work fine for you I've got I do a lot of gear testing for a lot of companies so I've got some fairly expensive gloves here these are estra gloves these were designed by my buddy youonce Coleman and they're made by a company called Hofstra out of Sweden and these are crud gloves and these are also made in Sweden they're handmade hand stitched made in Sweden they're really really nice heavy work glove and again they're pretty expensive so it just depends on what you want to do and what you're doing like I said I get an opportunity to test a lot of gear so I can use some more expensive things but I have to spend the money all the time because I'm testing the gear for a company to help promote their brand and to help assure them that their brand or the quality of their brand is good so that pretty much takes care of the hands on the head now on my feet what I generally do I'll be honest with you I wear wool socks year-round doesn't matter what time of year it is I wear wool socks and I generally stay with just two different types of wool socks I wear an Ultra max by wigwam in the summer fall and spring and these are a very thin

wolf sock and then I wear what's called a hunter's foot brand which is another wool sock made by hunters foot and they're a thicker sock and they're a lot longer sock so I wear those a lot of times if I'm going to if I'm in muck what I call muck boot weather and I wear you know muck boots on my feet the majority of the winter because they're warm there's just no question about it and it doesn't matter if the edge waters are great for the Fall something like the wetland boot is a really good winter boot for me it very seldom gets cold enough in Ohio that you need something like an Arctic Pro so I'll generally wear some type of a light boot in the summertime and then I'll wear a heavier pull-on boot like these muck boots all through the fall and winter months and if I'm wearing the heavier boots I wear the heavier socks if I'm wearing lighter boots like my Solomon's that I wear a lot of times in the summer time the lace-up boot then I'll wear a thinner sock and you could combine these two if you needed to in extreme cold weather if these boots weren't enough for you but remember that the rubber boot itself or the neoprene inner boot like these like these muck boots they trap a lot of heat so they're gonna make your feet sweat and I'd really roll mine down at the top just so they're not tight on my calf because my calves are fairly big and these things get tight around my calf when I pull them up and they hold in all of that moisture so I try to roll them down a little bit to release some of that moisture out from inside but if you want to trap heat in there you can always roll them back up the other thing to remember about boots like this is you know you're trying to trap dead air space in there is what keeps you warm so if you get enough socks on your feet that these boots fit you really tight your feet are gonna tend to be colder if you are trying to keep your feet warm you want some looseness in there to trap some dead air space and really one of the last things you want to do as far as hunting goes is you don't want to walk a big long truck into a tree stand or a blind or an ambush area that you're gonna hunt and then sit down and cold weather without changing your socks out and so I've almost always got an extra pair of socks in my backpack just for that reason because you're gonna feed you're going to sweat and then they're gonna

get cold while you're sitting still they'll be fine as long as you keep moving but as soon as you stop you're gonna get cold so that kind of takes care of the feet and I do where Danner pronghorns a lot as well and Danner pronghorn is a great boot and they do meet really really well before even into the fall no problem so I kind of switch again I switch back and forth I work with muck I work with Danner

I don't work with Salomon but I recently started wearing their boots due to the rough training that I was doing and they seem to be a very lightweight rugged boot I've probably got easily over 200 maybe 300 miles on my Solomons now and I'm very very happy with them but they're not gonna be warm enough for a winter environment so that kind of takes us care of all of our extremities so now let's talk about our lower body now I always wear - 33 degree merino wool long underwear so I've got a shirt and I've got the bottoms and I've got a couple pairs of each of these and these are winter gear I don't have any on right now again it's in the 30s I'm wearing a very thin pair of canvas pants right now that are just el cheapo stuff from tractor supply same thing with this flannel shirt same thing with this long underwear shirt they're all very inexpensive stuff but I'm not moving around I'm not sweating I don't have to worry about wicking all I have to worry about is keeping warm and I've got this out of shell on which we'll talk about in a minute that helps keep all that warm air trapped inside from the layers but if I'm going to be moving I'm gonna be doing stuff I'm gonna be staying out for longer periods of time overnight and whatnot I'm gonna use this underwear made by - 33 degrees because this stuff is not only wicking but it's also very very warm to sleep in and things like that so I've been using this stuff for years and years and I swear by - 33 degrees a lot of people ask me about you know base layers and I would swear by money 33 degrees I don't really care that it's expensive because it's definitely worth the money okay well that takes care of that now let's talk about first pants as I said I'm wearing a cheap pair of canvas pants and traction apply and I wear the jeans from tractor supply Schmidt brand jeans all the time especially in the summertime but again that's just fiddling around if I'm going to be serious about it be out there for a week be out teaching the class on the ground beating my stuff up then I want some more quality pants on and the pants that I've been testing lately have been found Raven pants and these are the vitamin D know you can get away with inexpensive or you can spend the money and have something that's really really nice as long lasting these are g1000 material which means you can wax them to make them more waterproof but as you do that they're gonna be less breathable so you got to find that happy medium

these have a pocket inside the knee where you can put a pad so if you're gonna be down on your knees a lot teaching starting fires doing things like that you can put a pad in there they have a clip on the front of them here that clips into your boot lace so your pants don't pull up or get yanked up around your boots they don't ride up they also have a band inside the leg or the cuff so that you can blouse them around the edge of your boots as well if you choose to do that they have lots and lots of pockets on them that fit saws and multi-tools and things like that lots of external cargo pockets and these are probably for the money the best pants I've ever had on the one morning I would give you what these just being straight-up honest is don't do any long-distance trekking with these things without wearing underwear if you go commando like I do most of the time you're gonna pay the price if you wear these things over distance without underwear on you're gonna chafe bad so that's the one downside to these versus canvas or cotton is you're gonna need to work underwear but they're a great pants as again or canvas pants if you can keep them dryer it's gonna be around camp you know are lots and lots of our grandfathers walked around in cotton flannel shirts and denim blue jeans hunting trapping and doing all the things that they do in the woods they were just smart enough to keep them dry all right so that takes care of pants other than wool so this pair of pants here again the more extreme weather this is a pair of salsa from Finland it's

si Sta hasta and they are a finished company that makes a lot of boreal forest type clothing these are heavy-duty wool pants that you have to wear suspenders with they're designed for suspenders but they are really really heavy wool they're really extremely extremely warm and it's not something that I'd want to be wearing if I were walking a great distance necessarily but if I were working around camp in an extreme cold weather situation these things are the king I also have the jacket that goes with them by the same company that's made from wool and you can look them up on the internet like I said they are a Finnish company but because of that you know that they're making good quality gear because they're operating in a boreal forest environment now for lighter weight stuff getting away from the wool for a minute this anorak here is a g1000 anorak by foul raven and this is part of the number series and this is a number ten anorak and then it's a pullover anorak and there are ups and downs with pull-on stuff I also have a Lester River Boyle shirt that I work quite often but when you get into things that you pull over that won't zip all the way down you can't open up to release heat if you're doing much traveling with those garments you're going to get extremely hot and not be able to release heat by removing layers so you have to think about that but this one is very thin again it's made out of the g1000 material it's got a wire band around the hood so that you can adjust the hood it's got a tensioner on the backside

so you can adjust the hood shorter or longer over the top of your face it's got main pockets on the side of it zippers that go down the side for ventilation and there's double zippers so they go up and down depending on what you want to do there and they have a drawstring on them to tighten them up around tighten it up around the waist if you want to again this is a foul raven and it is a number I know people gonna ask number 10 anti racket this is would be consent what I would consider my lightweight fall anorak I would put this on over the top of what I'm wearing now like this or over the top a wool base layer or a double wool base learned a lot of times I'll put on the mines 33 degrees and then I'll put on something like this fowl Raven wolf sweater which is very reminiscent of the old military sweaters that's made out of wool

it's got zippers and snaps on it and this thing is really heavy duty and if you put this on and you put that lighter anorak over top of it that's a pretty good combination for some pretty cold weather although I think the best combination is always going to be this field coat and the wool but we'll talk about that as we go and I've been wearing that saucer a lot lately as well over the top of something like this wool flannel type shirt that's made from wool by found Raven which is also a really nice garment because it's lightweight but it's wool so it's warm you put this over the top of that - 33 degree base layer and then put something like this and a rock over top of it filled jacket you really got a good win-win situation there so that takes us down to the Lester River bushcraft and the jacket that I'm wearing and everybody's pretty familiar I think with the Lester river bushcraft wool in Iraq I've been pushing that thing for years I've been wearing it for years this one is several years old and it still as good as the day it was made I can't speak highly enough about the quality of his stuff it's Lester River make some really really good stuff and Jason's a really good guy to deal with but again the disadvantage of something like this isn't the inability to release the heat by opening it up so this is more of a sitting still sitting in a blind hunting sitting around camp things like that's what I'm gonna wear this for and then I would reserve something I can open up and open the layers up on and remove quickly for on a truck but something like this is great for a round camp or a hunting scenario like I said that brings me to the one that I've got on my field coat which is probably my most used piece of gear in the fall in the winter time it's made out of g1000 this one is a number 68 field coat these are fairly hard to combine the US but you can get get ahold of them certain times in a year the number series by fowl raven i hear a lot of people talk about sol raven and the price enos of fowl raven gear and it is pricey but again you get what you pay for a lot of times they do guarantee this stuff this is g1000 material so it's a revolutionary type material that can be waxed to make it more waterproof again that's going to affect the breathability of it but this jacket is all of their number series jackets are made in the UK they're not made they're not made in Asia they're all made in the UK so if you buy a number series type jacket like this number 68 by fowl raven you're paying for something that was made you know in Europe you're not paying for something that was made in Asia and I think that seems to be a big sticking point for people although it really shouldn't be a lot of times because you know when you think about what certain countries do good obviously you know the Asian countries are famous for sewing so if anybody can make a good garment should be them they're also very good at sourcing new types of garments a revolutionary type garments a technical garments so again you know I think that certain things made in certain countries we shouldn't balk out just because it's not made in the USA or made in the UK or made in Scandinavia because you know some of these people are experts on what they do and I think in Asia one of the things that they're expert at not only in extrusion of stainless steel which is just about all the stainless steel you buy comes from Asia well pretty much all of it and now you know a lot of clothing tents backpacks and technical gear come from Asia as well and I think that's because they do the job so well it's not necessarily that's a lot cheaper most of the time it is but depending on you know the factory that's making it and things like that it can't get rather expensive so that's just food for thought but I wanted to go over some of this stuff with you guys today and I wanted you to understand that you know you don't necessarily like I've said a lot of times you only said I have to spend a lot of money although you can and it really depends on what your intention is with that gear a lot of times I either spend money on gear or I have expensive gear that I'm testing for different companies so I have access to that more expensive gear

but I also use this gear all the time because I spend a lot of time in the woods and I would say that if you're just a weekend camper or maybe a one weekend a month camper and things like that you don't necessarily have to spend the dramatic amounts of money to get the best quality gear you can buy but remember that horse Kephart said you know anyone that is going to recreation should buy the best gear the best quality gear that his purse can afford and I think you just start small and work your way up like I said I still wear a lot of stuff that doesn't hardly cost anything these pants are about 12 or 13 dollars a pair at Tractor Supply you know these flannel shirts are right at 20 bucks and these long underwear shirts our Eagle brand from like Walmart about 10 bucks so I wear a lot of lower line or lower expense clothing that works just fine for me although you know when you look at a pair of pants like this that cost 13 or 15 bucks they don't last very long I wear them out very very quickly so how many of these pairs of pants will i buy before I would wear out one pair of fowl raven bite approach so there's some give-and-take there as well but I wanted to go through some of that stuff with you guys today I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for anything you do for our school for a business for all of our sponsor instructors affiliates and Friends I'll be back for another video as soon as I can guys Thanks