The Amazing Fleece Poncho LIner-7 ways to use it

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This video covers not only 7 ways to use our Fleece Poncho Liner, but also tips on air filtration, hammocks, even a little about if you will fit as a customer of ours. Our gear is not for everyone. A fleece Poncho Liner can be a life saver or it can simply make life a little better. Check out all our gear at http://wildernessinnovation.com

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well we're right off to Huntington River here in the late winter time it's a great time to be out camping really nice I want to show you a few things today having to do with our fleece poncho liner our fleece poncho liners are able to be worn by themselves or with a poncho and they're designed to do a lot more than just be a that just be a poncho liner let me show you a bunch of different ways that you can use them today our fleece as as you can see there - the third design to be able to be worn by herself now the poncho can be snapped into the fleece the fleece has two sided snaps and so you can snap it in you can snap them right together so they become one unit alright so I highly recommend that you get the hammock kit for Poncho's if you plan on using the poncho quite a bit for a hammock the kit makes it much easier gives you everything you need for setting up a hammock in a very quick easy fashion and one of the things that gives you is some Dyneema runners these are rated five thousand pounds it also gives you a couple of aluminum tent stakes that we use as Marlin spikes in the set up which I'll show you now one other thing I've discovered is because the steak or the Marlin spike because it's because it's got a shock cord on it right here you can just put the two of those together like that and now it can assist you in threading through this the cord tube that's on your poncho now this is a real tree ultralight poncho you stick your finger through the through the loop before it gets all the way in there and every so often you just pull back the slack and usually what I like to do is point the tent stake down because that way if it's like this it may have a tendency to catch somewhere it doesn't really matter most everything except the ultralight Poncho's because the fabric is so it flexes over so easily you might not notice what you're doing okay so here we are out the other end when you get to there you can just stick that through the end just to hold it in place till you get ready to hang it up that's all there is to hanging this darn thing up because I made the shuttle part of it out of a blue Dyneema cord instead of black that way you can see the two pieces easier so all I got to do to tighten this up and I grab the end of the the tag end of the static line that's the one that goes around the tree and I just grab right here right here where that line comes out of the blue one and I just push up like that and I've tightened up my hammock and that is literally all there is to it alright so to let it down I just push down on the far end of the line of the shuttle closest to the tree I'm on the ground I want to raise it up I just pull it up so I'm wearing my fleece while I'm setting up my hammock and now if I want to use the fleece as part of my hammock which I can do in several different ways I just doesn't snap it and then I can just remove it good alright so now I've got the I've got the fleece taken off man that breeze a little chilly I didn't really notice it while I had this on Oh everything is interchangeable you don't have to match the fleece color isn't in like that okay so so now I've got the fleece in here and basically all I got to do now is I just take and snap the fleece to the snaps on the poncho now see these these fleece snaps are double-sided so it allows me a lot of different options and one of the nice things about snapping a fleece into a poncho is depending on different weather conditions and stuff like that sometimes you just need a tiny bit of edge and just that fleece liner in there just as kind of cozy feels good to have against you that nice soft fleece right against you instead of a seda poncho which I don't mind either one but in some weather conditions you really kind of prefer maybe having a fleece or something in there that your let that's laying against you all right I've got the fleece all snapped into my poncho so when I spread that out you see there's all that nice soft fleece inside your poncho works nicely now there's something else that you can do with the fleece as well and it's something not many people I don't think think really think about but I can take and tie me uh I can tie me a ridgeline up here I'm just gonna go I'm just gonna go right here where my Marlinspike is right there just right above that our you don't have to have a lot of tension on it or anything like that you can just kind of throw you a couple half hitches in there whatever just let her go like that right so now I can just grab the fleece here now I can just drape it over top of that Ridge line right here okay and there's actually multiple way she can do when you start thinking about it there's a lot of different things you can do here so the first thing is you're just gonna get it draped over so it's pretty well even one thing I like to do is snap at least just a double sign it snaps I can snap it to itself this way okay and that will that'll keep the fleece from ever rolling and coming off and stuff like that it just keeps it in position so now you might want to ask why would you throw a fleece over top of a poncho like this I mean what's the point of that well I mean there could be a couple reasons it will help block the wind it will help hold some heat in you could after what I've just done here you could throw a tarp over at the top of that so the tarp will give you ain't rain and wind proofing and the fleece will give some thermal protection which will help which will help make the climate inside your hammock that much more mild because it does have some insulating value rather than just a tarp blocking the wind and because we're letting it lay close to us in the hammock it also can help retain some some of the heat that's in there some of the warmth and it won't be quite as cool it could make you know could make five ten maybe fifteen degrees difference in comfort to you so ideally what you want to have is the middie that's the the larger when it opens a little bit wider so just pull your fleece up onto that cord just a little bit give it a little click and you're held in place now the fleece can't slide on you know I've came out up my panic was something totally different when I can just in here breathing in here I can really I could already feel some warmth inside of here aside from a little bit of you know you're helping to retain a little bit of heat by not letting your body heat come up out of the hammock so much by having this on top of you so it really is another tool to help keep you warmer there's another use for it that you might have never thought of so there's another reason to to put this put this fleece over your head in a hammock from a Ridgeline and that's really the way I very first came into using it over my head like that and that is because a couple years ago I was out with the Boy Scouts and we were out on the west desert in send sandy sand dune II area and a sandstorm came up during the evening just as we're getting ready to go to bed and and so and so you know everybody you're wrapping stuff around your faces the scarves or whatever to breathe through say not suck it in so much then I get ready to go to bed and I'm like I'm like man I got to lay something over me so I can breathe through the night got the idea of putting up a Ridgeline draping it just like I did just now I got in there that was perfect because the wind would blow a little bit the sand and get kind of flipped off of the off of the fleece because it's kind of you know the ace a frame shape and and so I'm man I slept right through the night I woke up in the morning I didn't have clogged up lungs or anything like that I felt great worked really really nice so in a sandstorm or a dust storm something like that

this this little flea set up like this might just save your bacon so what we do is we just just snap into the poncho here so you see we're just we're just snapping onto here so you see the because we're snapping to the outside we're taking the Poncho's snap when I just flip it over to the outside like that and then we just snap them together so now I have snapped up now I snapped up my fleece onto the outside of my poncho so it becomes kind of like an under quilt so now you might wonder well what do you do with it on the outside is an under quilt well believe it or not it's actually it actually does give you more warmth just snap like that could get you by in a pinch and it's acting as kind of a wind blocker and helping to contain some of the heat inside it's not the ideal situation but it does do in a pinch but there is a way that you can take really good events advantage of it and make a really nice little setup out of it let me show you that so what I want to show you now is something totally different we're talking radical now this right here is one of our super you I'll still nylon punches it's like the similar it's ultra light similar to the real tree that I'm using as my poncho slash hammock here but oftentimes I'll keep one of these in and some of my backpacks and stuff just as just as an emerge they they pack up really small I just throw it in the bottom and forget about it yeah and so I have some of these just laying around in different places just for emergency and but in this case it means I have a second poncho so I can add this poncho to this setup right here and make it even better okay so so normally we don't ever talk that much about which direction the hood faces when you're setting up a hammock it doesn't really matter when it's just a hammock

but when you're adding accessories sometimes it does matter because that means you can gain some advantage and how everything snaps up by which way you turn it now when we put the neither the hammock itself the hoods facing that way towards the camera towards you the fleece that we put on is facing away back towards behind me that way it gave me that way it gave me an extra snap position right here that I could use for this for this poncho so that's that's the reason I did that if I was putting the fleece on and wasn't going to put the poncho on there it wouldn't matter which way I put it on at work either way but since I wanted another snap position I just reversed it and that gives me another position so now I just come along here and I snap everything up just like that ok so now I've totally transformed my setup and where I was using my poncho as a hammock and my fleece as an under quilt for the hammock now adding a second start a second poncho to that what I've now done is I've given wind proofing total wind proofing to the setup and I've got a layer of insulation between me laying in the hammock

and the outside I used this setup one time I was up way up on a ridge on top of the mountains and I had I'd found a little hardly any trees up there I found a little a little grove of some pine trees and I got into there but during the night the wind just came up man it was blowing like crazy and now wind was just whipping through there and I just had I just had a fleece snapped as a underquilt like I just showed you I went to my truck and I grabbed another poncho and that's the first time I ever did what I'm showing you now I snapped it underneath and unzip that up tight and I'm gonna tell you what that made a difference not really I totally cut out the wind and I laid in there and I was comfortable all right so so now I've added my wind proofing to my hammock so now all I've got to do is take that same shock cord now if you didn't have a shock cord there is a way to do this the tube but the tube right here that you that you use in the poncho that goes all the way around this end to hang that up as a hammock if I were to put a piece of parachute cord or whatever through there then when I got done I could just pull right here and I'd just draw it draw it right up like clothes on the top of a bag so that's another way I could do it if I did not have the I did not have the shock cords but since they do that closes this in then so you see that seals the end right here so there's no draft that can get into you now something else I could mention to you also just think about the possibilities here what I just showed you now let's say you had two fleeces with you I could put to flee I can snap I can keep snapping stuff overtop of stuff on here I could put another fleece on there and then put the punch over there I have two fleeces as insulation and a poncho for wind proofing on the outside I could also snap the fleece on there like I did I could add an under quilt over top of the fleece and enclose that in and then I could add the poncho too if I wanted to or I could add the Oh sneak cloak say I had a fleece in a no sneak lok with me I could put the fleece on I had no sneak cloak and then I could add the and then I could add the poncho on at the end for wind proofing and one of the things you think of as far as what you can do with them is okay what I just mentioned you'd be you might be like yeah I'm gonna have to fleeces with me well no you probably aren't so you're going somewhere a camp and you're like I think it's gonna be a little worse weather than I was anticipating so I'm going to take with me an extra item so you just plan that ahead I'm going to take an extra item because I think I might need it all right so so I'm down in here feeling good I've got I've got some good insulation around me it's a nice wind protection that's what we always say about our gear I tell people you know you get some people that like well I don't know if that gears for me or whatever and I I flat out tell people you know our gear isn't for everybody and I say here's here's what it's really intended for is the person who has an imagination creativity and resourcefulness and you know people like that that have that kind of attitude and thinking they can make the best use out of our gear because they'll get creative with it they'll think of ways they can use it that they never thought of before and we we really try to keep our stuff open in other words we give you as much function as we can that's our thinking you know give you give you everything we can give you and leave you free to be creative and that's what I like you know that's so that's what I like to do myself so I I'm just I cater the gear to what I like really honestly I don't think so much about you guys well I mean I do but I mean seriously I make I make gear that I like and I just hope other people like it too really that's that's the honest truth I do take suggestions and people have come up with some pretty good ones for me and so and I appreciate that but in the end if I don't like it it doesn't happen so because I got to use the guy camp every week pretty much all year round and if I don't like the gear then I'm not going to be happy with it so I'm not going to do something to the gear that don't like anyway yeah that's my soapbox so here's something else that you can do with your fleece now you can also lay the patch on the ground and you can use the fleece its kind of a liner inside kind of a to make a you know a sort of a bed out of it and you know like that could work in milder conditions where you need just a little little extra or you want to go really light the fleece is PSL length the Poncho's pß XL length so you can see the poncho is longer than the fleece is which is which is fine doesn't matter because it works just fine alright so down down here on this foot end what I've done is I've taken my tent stake and shoved it through both loops and then pull the elastic over then shove it down into the ground so that'll hold that corner together before you get too excited this won't make this won't make the full fledge sleeping bag type deal this thing is not going to be your total go to replacement for a sleeping bag but in a pinch it does pretty well and if you if you're creative you can make this thing work pretty nicely for yourself oh how well this works for you is gonna depend somewhat on how big of a person you are now so for me so they get up around my shoulders I can't quite I can come pretty close but I can't exactly totally close myself in but I can make it work for me yeah you know if I if I just get out somewhere and I've got to got to make do or I just got to do it I'll make it work and I'll be comfortable for quite a lot of people this is going to be this is going to be a nice suitable size to

work for him you know here again we're not really trying to make the sleeping bag out of it and that's that's our goal is to build off for people shelter well there's a little bedroll fleece and poncho

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