Alright guys, coming in here for a quick winter camping trip on the coast.
For this trip I brought the Octopeak and the one-and-a-half person
XL winter inner, since it's gonna be cool tonight after the fire goes out, and
then got the 3w Stove all set up. Alright, let's get this bad
boy fired up.
All right, got some firewood prepped, got little stuff to start it, the standard
size stuff where I could feed it continuously, in the back there I got
some big wet ones, that before bed or when I wake up in the middle of the
night, I could feed it, and those wet ones will burn for a long time after I
already had a good coal base inside the stove, all right back to work. All right
it took a little bit at work, because the wood so wet after all the storms, but I
finally got a fire going. Just wanted to show you guys two crucial tools they should have for hot tenting,
knife for making kindling and bayonetting,
splitting the wood, and a saw, so you can cut it to length to fit the firebox, and
then a good pair of gloves are always nice to have, so you don't cut your hand
on the stove, or burn yourself, or Nick yourself with the knife or the saw. All
right so back to work tending to the fire.
Alright, sun's going down here, got less than an hour till dark, and then
I'm gonna start making dinner. That feels good, that feels good.
All right good morning, just before sunrise here.
You can see the moon, and
perhaps a planet right there. I'm sure anyways. Getting the fire going
before sunrise, gotta get some coffee going. I just wanted to show you guys a
quick tip for a tent stove. Before bed I processed a little kindling, and I put it
on the belly of the stove here, and so that way, when I wake up the next morning,
I can have really dry wood, because the heat from the stove will dry that wood
out and make some nice kindling to get your fire started.
All right, sitting here waiting for the tide to turn, then I'm going to break down camp and
head on out. We'll see if anything else interesting happens. All right back to my
coffee.
The tide is almost low enough to hike back out to the car. I want to
thank you guys for coming along this adventure, and next time hopefully we'll
be hunting for some snow, once the snow line drops and it's cold enough, cuz I'm
craving some snow. Alright have a good one!