slight chance of snow showers in the morning gusts up to 25 miles an hour lows in the mid-20s
i got down to the 20s last night everything's covered with frost solar panels clam shelter
luckily i have heat i turn the heat off when i go to sleep uh you know unless it's super cold
i checked this morning there's no condensation in the trailer on the walls i will get condensation
on the front window but i have the curtain closed and i can wipe that down later when it uh when it
uh when it warms up but uh yeah a nice thick coating of uh frost all over the trailer so uh
i have the heat on now so i'm going back in there and enjoy some heat
so the heat's on now what you do there can you feel that heat yeah yeah it feels good
it's monday the whole park where i'm staying here is totally empty
i'm the only person here um it's cold out last night i had a storm
wow but tonight it's cold and we're supposed to get a little snow in the morning so i'm getting
the full uh i'm getting the full teardrop experience here now um it's heated in here
and uh i'm real happy about that that makes it livable i can just lounge around in my uh my
wool my smartwool merino long underwear and my wool top uh it's really comfortable
it's really good and warm they got these thumb holes here keep your hands warm but
you know i'm dependent now on propane heat right now and uh what goes along with that
is propane anxiety you're always worried you're going to run out of propane right now
i've had uh different methods of checking propane you can weigh the tank you can uh you can pour
hot water on it and you can feel around you know you have the thing running and it'll be a little
temperature differential between the top and the bottom but that doesn't work too well in this kind
of weather it's too cold it's in the 20s outside so uh i ended up buying a little uh magnetic
sensor and you you stick it to the bottom of the uh of the uh trailer of the tank and it does a
sonar ping and it tells you how much propane is in there and uh that removes all the propane anxiety
i'm pretty cozy here in the trailer and i'm in my sleeping bag
and i've got the heat running yeah a little heat port here there's hot air coming out of here i
want to know how much propane i've got all i do is start this app up and a transmitter under the tank
transmits to me how much propane i've got and it's telling me that i have 4.6 inches of propane left
so that's uh that's that's good i don't feel nervous if i had like a half inch left i'd
be nervous so if you have propane anxiety and you want to know how much propane you've got
this is a way to do it right from where i'm in my sleeping bag here when i'm lounging around
in the clam shelter or like if i have to give myself a washcloth bath it's a wash day and by
that i mean it's time for me to wash uh take a little washcloth bath here in order to make it
more comfortable i used a uh a propane heater it puts out about 9000 btus and at this temperature
is heating up the clam shelter really nicely of course what's critical to me is how much propane
is left in here and i can't use my electronic sensor on the bottom because it's a curved bot
it curves upwards uh this this surface and uh the adapter that i have for the uh
the propane monitor that i have doesn't work on that if it was uh i'll call that concave it was
convex i'm bowing out then the propane monitor would work a pound of propane has about 20 000
btus of energy five pounds times twenty thousand that's a hundred thousand btus in this tank
now this uh this heater it has three settings uh low medium and high low is 9000 btus an hour
so i'm going to round that up to 10 for simplicity and if i have a hundred thousand btus in the tank
ten thousand btus an hour that means i'll get ten hours out of this tank on the low setting
the next setting up is thirteen thousand btus that the heater consumes fifteen thousand btus
so with that you can kind of get a rule of thumb uh idea of how much is uh how much
propane life you're going to get out of the tank
the low reading last night overnight it got down to 15 degrees
i was nice and warm in the in the trailer i turned on the uh propane heat the propex propane heater
at uh 5 p.m and i ran until 8 am that's 15 hours this tank holds six inches of propane
and overnight i used a half inch and that's been true on this trip i've been out here about a week
and uh every night i use about a half inch of propane so um i don't run it during the day time
so that would be like 12 days worth of propane but if i ran it longer or it was colder i'd probably
use more propane this is an 11 pound tank uh came with the trailer now i measured it and uh
when the the remote sensor i had said i had six inches of propane when i filled
the tank up that would be to about here which is about right they say they fill
these tanks eighty percent so that makes sense the dining al fresco here
it's just wonderful to eat outside sorry hmm talking about my mouth foam
what a gabon sleeping out in the cold night in my trailer or you know backpacking whatever
i want to dry out my sleeping bag i'm using a goose down sleeping bag it's good for 20 below
zero goose down you got to keep it dry it's a gore-tex bag it's really well made it's kept me
warm i've never been cold in that bag as you sleep your body will give off about a pint of water a
night and it goes right into the bag you need to turn that bag inside out in the morning put it out
in the sun air it out keep it dry fluff it up let it air some more and then you can pack it that's
a that's a good practice especially when you're out for multiple days i'll be out between eight
and ten days this trip and i plan on drying it now tomorrow's gonna be a really rainy day
terrible day cold and wet and uh i will uh open the sleeping bag and i'll leave it out in the
trailer letting it dry i may even turn on the fan get some ventilation in there just to uh
let it let it dry so it's a good practice to do that i read a book by will steeger
uh it was a dog sled trip i think to the north pole and they were using uh you know sponsored
products dupont they had some dupont fiberfill sleeping bags and uh they were unable to dry them
and you know fiberfill supposed to keep you warm even when it's wet it maintains its loft
but what happened is they got ice in them from the body day after day packing up getting the
dog sled and going they couldn't dry them out adequately and the sleeping bags you know got
pretty icy the zippers fail they had all kinds of problems but it's always good to read about
other people's misery so you could avoid it if you can but uh so air out your sleeping bag and
you'll be nice and toasty warm the inside of my sleeping bag this is a cold weather sleeping
bag i showed i have a video on that it's this one's not my warmest this is good for 20 below
i have another one it's good for 50 below this bag is red on the outside but the inside is
black you turn it inside out and it helps absorb the sun that black color the nylon on the inside
the other sleeping bag i have it's a marmot penguin they made them a while ago
had like 10 12 inches of loft it's good for 50 below marmot when i talked to them
they said it would keep me warm anywhere on earth i haven't tested that but i've had it out in some
pretty cold weather and i was fine that one even the shell on the outside is black so these are
meant to absorb heat and help dry them out in cold weather so you may want to keep that in
mind when you look i don't think it's a deal breaker but you may want to look for features
like that i go into these features in detail on another video i have i'll put that in the
links if i just air out your bag and you'll be comfortable getting the full treatment this trip
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