Buckhorn Viewpoint Camp Spectacular Scenery Solo Camp San Rafael Swell

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Solo camp high above Buckhorn Draw in the San Rafael Swell of Utah, beautiful views. Our gear gives comfort nearly anywhere. Learn to adapt to your surroundings. Hammock set up tips, see The Beast in use, watch me enjoy campfire nachos !!

Check out my Horseback trip in the San Rafael Swell where I explore the lower Black Box Canyon https://youtu.be/S81Ko1JmENg

I camp every week all year round, for the most part I use the gear we make. Check out the gear used in this video

The Beast Sleeping Pad system http://wildernessinnovation.com/the-beast-gear/

The Hammock Shelter or HSS used as a canopy here http://wildernessinnovation.com/shelter/hammock-survival-shelter/

I used the Super UL Poncho as a hammock http://wildernessinnovation.com/shelter/personal-survival-shelter/

I love the Osni Narrow Blanket for covers, it can attach right to The Beast or to any of our Ponchos when used as hammocks http://wildernessinnovation.com/osni-gear/osni-narrow-blanket/

For cooking on the campfire I trust Lodge Cast Iron Cookware http://shop.lodgemfg.com/prodcat/dutch-ovens.asp

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this is Perry peacock with wilderness innovation got this new video here from from one of my recent camps you know I just love where I live I'm you know I'm over here for I live it's in the snow hour away I'm out on a desert and no snow anymore so I don't miss camp new a new spot out in the desert it's the Buckhorn Canyon View viewpoint I did a setup of my camp at night and I show that on a video and I woke in the morning just to some spectacular scenery you know we make ponchos tarps blankets and all kinds of outdoor gear and we have an ultralight poncho still nylon I show some tips about how to set that thing up as a hammock and also got a do a little cook in so so I showed campfire nachos on the Dutch oven so take a peek of this thing since you think I had a good time it was really fun getting out to go camp and this is just like perfect weather right I don't know what in the world I'll find when I get out of the desert it's going to be fine regardless of what it is today I I wasn't sure if I was going to catch rain out here going out in the desert nut or storms everything got delayed a little bit hunting to get off the road and try out some new locations to set up my camp I'm not positive I'm going to be able to get out there some areas are very sticky slick clay and they become really virtually impassable there's Cedar Mountain up there in the clouds and the last couple of weeks I've been camping up on top of that looking down at to this intermediate level here that's what kind of got me the idea of fun to investigate some camping out in this area put his winding all over creation winding back and forth and all around this doesn't even show on my topo map on my phone they can be near the edge I don't know where this roads going I'll tell you what its winding all over the place not in the edge of this canyon - awesome yeah I just whines around journey of discovery well I got up here and clear out on this point it's like cliffs all the way around me 1,500 feet down or whatever I spent too much time looking around cuz a little rainy some nice rainbows and stuff like that now it's almost dark and I got a set up like to heal I want to put the beast down right here the wind is blowing this way here it's going to put the beast down put the canopy over it all right it's been it has been raining a little bit but the grounds really it's just kind of misty the ground is really just kind of just kind of barely wet all right I'm gonna pull out the Boustany narrow blanket you see all along the edge here of the of the beast I've got snaps and so am I and you see my post me narrow blanket has double-sided snaps just like the ocean II cloak does the underquilt there's a lot of different a lot of different things you could use on here now see but I snap here which secures this edge I wanted to I could snap my canopy to the other side here I typically sleep right on the beast I could just sleep like that and not put any canopy whatsoever I think I'm gonna go ahead and put the canopy up I might get some strong wind at times just being self-assemble here pull these straps out when in there and this one right there okay see I have got the cover up here I think as I've said before because we're doing something kind of irregular versus a regular tire pretend you don't have all you always have the aesthetics as far as the perfect cement symmetry and all that sort of thing but if you find that doesn't really matter because you can make quite a cozy situation even if something looks a little bit irregular and you see even with the the same pulse setup that I've used on other weeks I just set him up a little higher today now I got plenty of room to sit inside of here so I can have a low profile I can have a high one take my pillow I am I am good to go man I'm telling you what it's a great little setup really really nice like there's a lot of places out here where the trees are too small for a hammock and or there's hardly any trees something like this works just beautifully for that all these branches are wet I can feel the the other moisture here huh the flame could last long enough to dry a little bit of stuff out will be good and also over here I've got my over here I got my pot here my zebra putt for my water heater hanging from my tripod and I'll get heating some water for some good old hot drinks quite a beautiful sunrise here out on the edge my hat is beautiful a lot of what I do is is remote you know I've I've driven out clear to the end of this point winding around and stuff in my truck that I could barely even wine around through this this road such tight turn and stuff to get clear out here to this point to for myself just to see the beautiful stuff and for you to show you where I camp where I used my gear you know that's why I have the kind of gear I've got that's why I got this old beater truck for my off-roading for my over landing you know and I don't worry about it

something about the desert here we were 33 degrees last night it's nice to have views like this at my camp it's literally a breathtaking view sitting right here

you gotta love where I go camping man you can't say there isn't some scenery what a stinkin view our Poncho's are commonly used as hammocks or tarps or various things there are some best practices in how you set this thing up let me show you if you're using one of our Poncho's as a hammock and you have the standard option which is parachute cord let me show you how you string the parachute cord through the poncho to turn it into a hammock so you'll see right here that in the in the poncho and each end head the front and back we have a cord sleeve sewn in here and and and through that sleeve is where you drop your or string your cord but anyway so you do have to go through the cord sleep you have a Hank a parachute cord it comes like this what I do is I just hold one into my hand and pull it pull it out it'll just come right out of here without any problem okay so now I've got my ends right here and I just run back so they find my center point which is a loop and then I just tell you can take any kind of pocket knife whatever you got and I've got this little Swiss Army with a key on it and I just put a bit I put a bigger I put a bigger keyring on it just so that it's easy to do what I'm doing here now since I've gone to the Dyneema runners I don't do that when I'm using those but but anytime I'm using the a cord like this parachute cord so now see you just let gravity do the work you just let that fall through there and then you see it falls out the other end right here okay so now all I've got to do is pull that loop out and then drop my knife through there and pull it off okay so now I have a loop so I'd take so I take this other end right here and put through that loop my free end standing on my ultralite hammock there very so now what I'm doing is just I just draw that up and I just try to get it so that it's even right there in the middle when it's drawn up tight so there you are that's all you do if you use on the standard option of the parachute cord you take the other end of the parachute cord and go around the tree and tie it off this is my favorite that Dyneema runners so if you're using a runner now these have a sewn area right here that's really stiff because of all the sewing it's got into at least these runners are rated at 5,000 pounds but they're plenty strong so I put one my little finger through one end because you don't want to you want to be going to the trouble of putting this thing on here and then pull the other end in there and have to redo it so all you're doing is just pushing and get you're just pushing and pushing and pushing this through that sleeve right there every so often you just pull pull it back it's just gathering you're gathering out on the hard spot of that runner just like this

okay you pull it out like that and I like to use them just like this you could put it through like this and let it just kind of gather like that and you could use it like that as well if you buy the hammock kit for ponchos it'll come with a Marlin spike it's really just a tent tube aluminum tent tube weighs almost nothing and the nice thing about that is if you need to string if you need to set this thing up as a tarp instead you got a couple of tent stakes you can drive in the ground so anyway you can put the shock cord loop around through the runner and then just stick the stick the spike through there it's even easier look at this even easier to gather it up go all the way through then all you have to do have to get that one spot right there where will you hook it together get that through there and then you do want to make sure you put your finger through there you'll pull it all the way out have to do it over then you just pull it like this till you get that end out okay then once you got the end out then you just pull this thing off of there like that now

we're right there where we were before ready to hang this thing up so I wanted to get on the I want to get on the back side of the shelter because I put this up last night in the dark and I tried to give as good a video and stuff as I could on how I set it up so this backside here I put it's towards to have the direction the wind was coming and so I'm I'm staked out on the ends with my tent stakes and the shot quarter tent stakes if you look over here you'll see where my stake is it comes back a ways and then comes across I staked out white the beast and then after I staked it I actually they actually snapped I actually snapped this canopy to the Beast so that way that prevents the wind from trying to lift this and getting under there because the canopy is snapped right to the Beast on that edge the wind the wind can't really get in there and lift anything cuz it's being held down by the Beast and everything I did pitch it higher than I then I've pitched it on some of the some of the previous camps I've been on just to show you if I can pitch it high enough to sit in it now let me tell you something you could also do with the Beast we've tried to make the beast just you know I'm the kind of guy I like I like my gear to be really really multifunctional as far as it's practical you can get you can get to a point where it's just kind of ridiculous and it doesn't really accomplish anything but anyway but you see I'm using these I'm using this these temples aluminum temples now we sell the tent poles but you can also use your own you don't have to get them from us and frankly we don't what you really don't make any money selling the tent poles we've got them they're a little expensive but I used to be an engineer at Eastern aluminum tent poles when it was one of my departments when I was in engineering so I fav I can't buy anybody else's and that's just I can't I can't bring myself to do it so anyway but I like them they're great quality but anyway if you have some tent poles you can use your own that's why we made the we made the the ends where the poles go into on the beast we made those so that you can put you can put anything even bigger than a finger inside of there you could actually even take some willows and and bring them across and you could actually make X out of willows and stab them into there use willows and not even have any kind of temples and that's one thing I wanted is to have all kinds of options I just put my shot cord or the cord lock on it and just pulled it down tight and it's been enough but I found that with a continuous 40 to 50 mile an hour gusts this the shock cord here will slide eventually and once it slides a certain distance it will fall over so what I found out I just needed more grip so I had these white elastic bands so I just put one of those around there and Andy it can be ugly as it can be it doesn't matter and then when you cinch this on that rubber band has a ton of grip this thing doesn't go anywhere we're going to have nachos is flavored chips is a is just plain unflavored corn chips but yes something like that this is a blanketed blanket nachos this is pepperjack instead of using grated cheese this is gonna blanket that right there so I'm gonna do this in the Dutch oven I'm gonna set that in the fire and so I don't want the coals heating everything up too fast so I put this tinfoil it's just this strip a tin foil and you just want it into kind of a shape like that and then spiral it then you put this kind of centered inside there then we're going to put the lid on top we're gonna put some coals on the lid put those right there and then we'll coals up top and I'll check it every few minutes because believe me it's not going to take long to get hot enough to melt that cheese steak we're close to done check it out oh look at that that's what we're talking about right there

started going oh hey wait here got a little more done than I had planned good I like that pepper cheese something just dripping yeah you know just Java nachos just absolutely drenched and blanketed with cheese pretty good evening snack oh what a day tell you what it feels awfully good to get off my feet Suns going down by about an hour and a half

she'll be down you