Snow Wildcamp Weekend - Natural Wikiup Shelter (part 1)

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Snowstorm weekend sleeping in a Wikiup bushcraft shelter

Tags: bushcraft,primitive,technology,shelter,wikiup,brush,debris,daub,thatching,skill,skills,aboriginal,woodcraft,woodland,survival

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yeah yeah last time I was gonna find my brother of mine my brother-in-law went away to follow she goes to college in Frostburg Maryland a couple hours away to meet him hang out all the time because we're hunting hunting partners and was just efficient so last time I had fire was with him but night before he was leaving leaving back yet nobody comes back to him he's a guy I do everything with yeah yeah spring break oh yeah I'm waiting we're gonna get kayaks everyone do it what we want to do one's your three-day trip down whatever river we choose and there in Maryland should be a three-day kayaking camping trip nice

here's the trick yeah don't stick it right come with me go I'm getting ready to go back to college and I yeah yeah money's gonna be tight of course so yeah when I talk about yeah I do when I took about when I took my course it was like 834 dollars out of my bank yeah just like that

oh yeah that one class well yes the GI Bill that'll pay for most of it but those calculate courses will keep me careful I won't be able to work anymore so I don't have the paycheck right cuz that's it's only it's only full-time so it's Monday through Thursday and it's in the morning because I'm gonna have me off the corner treat and get grants and stuff to help yeah yeah that's the idea yes I'm gonna try to do next time get some grants ready to do it in scholarships they got so many scholarships out there just my last name yeah oh ma that is a nice coat yes it is dude and I thought I was making out giving my car she said she well Jimmy well you're kind you oh I have no idea where pick up my accent people say a because I've lived in Maryland for a years before that I was in the Arizona Georgia before that I was flying it off and you know my wife and I you talk I'm the same awesome man yeah I'm so glad you made it we've been trying to get together for a while I know I think you tax though like I was like you know I know he can't even talk right now

there's actually a dollar amount attached to that sue figure that I had to sign that I agreed to I mean there was there's no conjecture of course oh yeah yeah I would start to get a little edgy yeah and not being around somebody I mean a group of five village yeah certainly talk to myself a lot out there it became and actually I talked to God more than I ever had my life yeah it was like a constant I mean it was yeah yeah like I'd never in my life is like I just walked in spirit the whole time was unbelievable it was like everything I'd find would I be it'd be like a gift it's beginning yeah gratefulness the constant like constant like gratefulness at all times

yeah and yeah so I found that when I was alone that's that's was who I spoke to constantly all day every day it was like it wasn't just like I was in prayer like I do now it was like he had no beginning or end right yeah like I'd wake up and all rightie be in that zone my daddy was the dam as a parent I would like you know just start talking them already ya know and sometimes I talk to myself to look is that that was a different person because I'm not just talking to God like you're talking to God as a person as a object you know like towards that but then I'm talking to myself to what'll be times I blog I so what I want to do so I but if I take that and you know man but there's a storm coming in and I really should go get my trot lines I got a couple out there you know I put the scalp on there I might get that I don't know I mean I might go get that bull head this time you know 15 minutes to me like having a conversation dislikes out loud you know hun I'd be like that's the only week it's not even like I'm not even like wadis talking myself a long time and they call my wife on my way home like public now it was like that's it that it was just all day every day you know we just talk to you so in the night fell I was like dang it's not go to bed now yeah exactly really 12 pounds of that fish I'm cooking in there all right so the fishing boats in New Bedford yeah I go to birdies

got the gray --sole it's the best fish I had all year yeah that is good stuff get the key with greens because if that's the truth cuz it wheat because if you don't sprout your grains or soak them you don't even if you don't soak for men or sprout you're actually leaching yeah yeah yeah that's right like so you get look up some white organic bread it's great it's organic you're not like adding poisons to your life all right on the flip side yeah it's not sprouted fermented that's why I like sourdough bread is awesome for you yeah she was she was she was the one that contacted me about about doing classes way back when she's the one that got us into each other still hanging I taught I taught her in Taunton yep whether it might my nephews that's right yeah that navigation stuff we did navigation stuff and I know you guys are interesting when she was like okay so okay got it so that's how how I get my bearing and all that stuff and everything else and I showed him how to do a whole bit and she was like now now what do I do when there's a pole there's a pole reversal exactly like well let's sit down for this one yes you know great question I'm like well there will be a time when the poles are now seeking or seeking recent there's stabling new location right so they're gonna be dancing for a while now remember that that you know it's probably gonna be about eight months before you know we got into a big talk and you know I was excited it was a great great conversation start your compass and go buy everything else so then of course okay Daniel baby so then of course who went over you know how to do it by solar and then we made a solar compass and yeah yeah I'm like you know the pole the magnetic poles can go crazy but the Sun is still in the same location she said all great job like yes let's work on that now it was a cool class dude do you know it's funny too is like her mom my mother-in-law like she was one of my teachers in high school dude the fact that she was out into the woods and I know like she couldn't like throw a bow-drill together with a freaking cane like do you alright that was an epic class so cool and you got yours oh yeah I helped you carve it over I got I got a number with your kid yeah yeah and then you went home and trimmed it a little bit so I'm told yeah yeah and then then you got a number out of it yeah man that's what I do all the time if you want right I try I mean I'll try to do my bow drill I don't get it later obviously the winters a challenge but Clinton steel what I do remember that day I showed you Flint steel oh yeah dude your eyes will lit up you're like dude that's like instant ember I'm like I know I'm like oh my god dude yeah and so I experimenting so I dragged my family out when we go up north in like I we you know I dig out the fire pit and I'm like alright so cuz cuz they still like my mother-in-law sunny like we're gonna like stockpile like like you try the way to fire with a match or a lighter in the winter good luck with that

yeah it's just not hard if you don't know what you're doing yeah yeah but it even still like it's hard what when Steve what are you talking about guys I think we're the with a match it's already fire

feather sticks no or use twigs twigs Mundell Xander come on oh I know I don't make a fella stick make like a PI a basketball-sized of curls honey look I'm lying okay you've made bold rolls I'm talking about you out of your mind right now okay just like I lie to my okay I tell him something's doing a certain date when I know 100 days from then right because in that way you know that you're really good yeah exactly anyway so so you said okay that the best you know a good luck with that so then what happened with that situation without about about telling them that you know that they're not gonna be able to do it so oh so what they did is they started so they're like okay so they started like actually gathering the wood making because they thought you could just take like some fin sticks throw on the pile and like take them lighter to it oh boy like you gotta like you need your and you know yeah we're stuffing like you know they're used to like the campout fire like throw some gasoline and like looking at papers and like right yeah well you know everyone's gonna start somewhere wait for me yeah it's a nice yeah dude what kind of bros up with the birch leaders

oh nice back to listen negative delicious you see I would make a cool tobacco plate ball too though huh yeah yeah the best way is to have the stem be at the very bodies and go all the way in so like so what you do is you take your I don't know if I left them enough meat for that do what now there isn't the wood that that you use as a stem goes inside the bottom all the way in right but what you do is you take that stem and you carve just the very top top off of it you know so it's a stem only on the bottom at the very end I got a B C up and you put it right at the bottom that way the air goes straight down you don't do the sidewall the a goes straight down my buddy in Canada did that in person yet what's up that night yeah

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I've got a new version of it coming out real soon yeah sighs the handle yeah dude I sold 80 of those in like they're all gone now oh god dude I sold I sold out in the whole thing in six weeks but I bet I sold the first 77 or 80 of them in like the first day oh yeah oh did I I pissed through those things I bought a hundred of them it was like almost all of them sold out first in like two days yeah came out nice so what I'm doing with the new one is gonna have this handle gonna be the handles changing is it shorter no the reason why is it's the only knife I know that allows you to go into chest liver which we use constantly all right and it doesn't dig into your palm actually curls right around the pawns in chess leave it so you can just do this all day and it's like most knives here eventually will Bruzzi up when they compose and you make in whatever so I like that line I think it was that big important picture of it yeah it's important to make that open for me anyways to be a carving knife but what I'm changing is I'm gonna have like 15 made to the new Jen to design know and cuz they're just leftovers from the first batch and he's gonna make it with my card up and I'm getting maple scales made my custom milled for me stabilize the whole bit now I'm gonna send them to my knife maker and the next hundred the next batch Jen to batch coming out the summer was gonna be summer it's gonna be curly maple but I feel I give you a deposit sure yeah that's fine so yeah I mean it's it's a good if you want one that's a good idea I actually did that with this one a bunch of my friends gave me money he had I sold ten nights before it even went live because they're like dude those are gonna sell out so fast I'm like yeah I think so

dudes two days later I'm like well I got 20 left feel like out of 120 I'm like yeah I like dude I'm glad it gave me the money then you know and I carve a lot with it and it's the most comfortable it's gonna be so much better already but it's like chess leaver with other nights just i mean i liberate a stuff use my ray mears night it's like a almost a 500 all knife because it bruised my palm that's somebody's stomach the best part about making a nice walk loin stew got pork loin in there yeah design sleep warm and happy tonight i got a minus 30 bag and a wool blanket i don't know what my rates but usually around 20 degrees i start getting cold inside minute mines easy I've been to minus 15

roughly a bag usually spooning with my wife when I camp though so hard to keep you noodle or Dixie little canoodling I love bringing my dog camping she's like a little so I guess it's like this I said horse can't it's like horse came course I'm not beyond it's like if I wake up it's too cold for me I'm not beyond just hightail it out of here yeah so far it's like it if some of my shits gone with it it's like I mean I'll just come back in the morning where I come back and thing is you'll be warmer let me get to your car I hate some footage that more evolved it I don't put it in something yeah baskets local food I mean I got a boy right like you don't need any spice nothing just meets the minerals out of the freaking stone yeah be cool to have a salt rock slab

if you have that maple top that look that supposing I had it you set up do they made that from scratch you ever saw the picture oh yeah well did you see that what one listed maple gold yeah is it in the process yeah there was like in the spoon with them yeah yeah yeah that's the key I figured out that like if I can get it to like peanut butter consistency then it's gonna be a good batch

how that so there's a person there's a private attorneys that our point is the trustee right make their money off of if there are assets available on the case above and beyond what I can protect and this and that they get a grade eight admissions based on that like I just had a I just handed a case to a trustee with a guy made $17,000 because it was a personal injury case and all this right right so you meet 17 K off that there's a parachute shelter living room sleeping in the wickiup tonight get my gear in here sleeping mat that's where I'll be crashing out setting up my deck for the night starting to get on um night gotta get leak just blow on completely coffee back you go to bed yeah set it up walkie to do is come in here and crawling them I'm into my on my phone mattress and I sitting back

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the first layer is a poncho moisture barrier and I have my little blanket when I designed because it's velcroed which allows me to make a bivy out of it it's like a sleeping bag the wolf sleeping bag

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roof I'm not gonna want to sleep there I'm gonna shift over a little bit it's important to do that now before I get my cell from my bag and try to get comfortable

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all right it's good I'll get my sleeping bag - 30 all right bag you're just gonna get down to like 6 degrees tonight somebody say

it's good to have a sleeping bag ready for big cold temps [Applause]

the fixit's lost after being in the stuff sack

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waterproof divvy when I sitting back so altogether my bedroll is the poncho moisture barrier it's the foam sleeping pad

it's the wool blanket and the sitting bag inside the wool blanket inside [Applause]

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there's the complete package good to go sleeping bag we'll divvy my long busy taping pad moisture barrier wickiup Joe's been cooking these rocks on one of the guys has a little shovel okay as you use fork sticks put these in the wiki radiates hot tons of good heat there's no fire in here tonight I'm gonna just have screaming hot rocks I mean it's definitely chilly out it's cold enough for fire I'll check see what it says right now 9 degrees Fahrenheit but uh yeah I just don't feel like managing a fire right now I'm tired and I have a bunch of kit inside here with me and I just don't feel like doing it properly so we let a fire died down quite a bit while we're out there so it's not a good setup just to grab you know if there was kind of some meat left in the fire I could just you know transfer it over off I go so how would you that tomorrow night I'm this little fire in here Mama's sleeping bag it's uh I'm just sitting on it right now it's like super soft and comfy I love it it's a really nice rig I love this bed roll most those hot rocks they're like screaming hot like my boob touched it it was like just vaporized the snow that was on my boot gone just instant so that's good pulling out some heat I got the door open I haven't even built the door for this thing yet I haven't built raised beds for yet there's a bunch of stuff I haven't done I even built an actual fire pit in here yet so this wiki is still you know still very young still a lot of work that can be done

so yeah just uh two overnights and the wiki debris shelter and looking forward to go rocking out right now I've got some gear over there I have an anchor battery plug in my phone charge it up a little while before I crash out make sure that has some good charge keep my phone in my sleeping bag so it stays warm so doesn't die same with the anchor battery yeah that's pretty much it I'll keep a canteen with a plastic bag in the bottom as well so I don't get frozen water and that's a wrap [Applause]

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