On the last video is talking about stoves and I mentioned I use my old MSR whisper light and that's the stove right here
had this
stove for
20-something years. It used to be the stove
I used for every trip now with the advent of canister stoves and alcohol stoves and all that
I've gone alcohol for most of my trips except for winter
Other than having my Medallia daughter from the from the hammock. I have to melt a lot of snow. So here's how this one works
So first thing you do is you I got my bottle in here with my fuel
Giving it a few pumps and I'm getting a little bit of fuel down into the little priming bin down here
Alright, then I turn my stove completely off. I'm gonna light
That fuel there we go
Now that's going to burn and heat up this whole element and these fuel valves here and it'll start
atomizing I
Know that was a big word that fuel I
Have a windscreen I'm gonna put that around just for a minute while that's burning
Okay, so that'll go and the tricky part is is to when that starts you can hear it starting to talk
And when that fuels almost done I turn the valve and light the stove without having to get a lighter out
A little bit of water in there, but I start adding my snow and melt it up
And then of course put the windscreen on there
And you want that windscreen on and you got it all going
And that water is already starting to bubble and it's just a little bit in there
But that's my powerhouse for winter camping
And one thing about winter camping is a lot of you it's gonna be cold, you know to be down in the 20s
But there may be no snow
but if you're up in snow, or you're not used to it throwing yourself a cheap pair of shades, I
Make the mistake. You're not doing this a lot and there's been times. I've been hiking across some lakes with a
sleety icy
snow in my face and I had to pull my hat down like that to walk because it was just pelting my eyes and
even a nice pair of uh
This kind of lit up the day
nice pair of goggles
And I carry these I don't use them a lot I
Wish I'd have had him on that frozen lake the couple times I've had needed them
It was good to have so looking into that bright snow all day. Definitely can make you squint
So that's just something to consider as well
but me
Most time I end up is pulling my hat down
This is the down bootie from REI this two was thirty thirty-five bucks
I've worn these out just alone in dry snow up here in Minnesota
so in your winter
Some of you're gonna have snow some of you're gonna not have snow some of you only get snow once or twice a year
It's liable to be wet snow this would do you no good, but if you're out and it's real cold, and it's totally dry
Those synthetic are down booties for a rim camp, you know
you might get a little muddy in a little moisture put those motorcycle things over them or do the best cam but
Especially when I first started camping in Minnesota, I would just wear these in the dry snow and I never got a cold foot
I prefer the mukluks, but they did me right if you look in the description box below this video
I will have a link to my playlist one is called winter warmth and
It's all about clothes layering system a little bit more in detail of what I've been talking about
There's also one about how to try to keep your feet warm for the winter
Goes through a plethora of things from boots the techniques. Um, I talked about on here some some things that we haven't talked about yet
The more I think about it the more there is to winter camping. Just know that your loads going to be a little bigger
Things get a little more critical
I always figure on a solo if I get hurt, you know in the summer or you know late spring or early fall early
If I have to lay out there for the night on the trail without you know
Any help I'll probably be okay there gets to be a certain point in winter where that game changes a lot
so, you know once things start breaking down a
Lot of times if one thing goes bad then the second thing goes bad
Then the third thing goes bad and your three levels of bad in so you got to take a little more heed
Gets cold at night and you know, if you're a guy that lives down south or somewhere in the warm climates, you know thirty degrees
Probably pretty cold to you here in Minnesota, you know zero can be pretty nice for us
But as you know, you start getting down in the sub zero's it gets critical
it's beautiful, but there's less chance, you know if I fall in the water and
You know go through the ice and if I'm able to get out and don't die
I've got to hopefully have some dry clothes or get a fire started
Some of this stuff just takes practice, you know, and it's it's fun. Maybe you don't have time
but like I say
If you the first time you winter camp don't go too far in so if you need to bail and get out to your car
You know don't feel bad about that, you know build up until you're you're there, you know
Take it go out for just one night and see if you can sleep warm
one more thing to consider
Is to get yourself a pair of these Cotulla ice spikes stretch around your boot
Go right on there. They're easy to put on and off. I tried in the past
There were things called yak tracks looks like a little spring kind of goes on the same way, except it
Looks like a little spring that Criss crosses under your feet. They never held up for me in the long run
These have been using for years I use them all the time I use them
You know
Shoveling snow and working around my house here if it's gonna be icy and a lot of you guys are gonna get icy trails
Man, and when you're sliding all day, it just wastes a lot of energy your feet are sliding
They're sliding backwards when you walk your pussy foot. You're gonna fall and get hurt
Pair, these man will solve your problem
So if it's gonna be icy, but you know
You're not necessary gonna need to get snowshoes. You don't live in that kind of climate pair of ice spikes
man
They're a game-changer in the winter. Just slip them on over the top put it on just like that and
That way my foot is not sliding backwards, it's got grip all day long so they come on and off real easy
Grab the back pull that thing off
boom
Cotulla ice spikes
Maybe asking kids to give you pay for your birthday cuz you're old you got everything you need but a pair of these
And I want you to go out and enjoy some winter. You'll feel great about it
If you can go out
you know if thirty degrees is your goal and
You go out and you conquer it you come home and you go it's pretty good
I need some better footwear or better gloves then
You know what you got to work on but you go I slept good. Feet were a little cold
Maybe I should put that jacket over the foot box. So things like that
It's the only way to know so now I'm just gonna take my down jacket
I've got the whole thing zipped up and I'm just gonna reach inside
And I'm gonna pull the sleeves to the inside
all right, so they're just
inside the zipped up jacket
And then I'll put that whole thing over the foot box of my top quilt
so there we are on my Exped pad and
That is my jacks are better
Sierra stealth sniffler good to about minus five and I just have my jacket
Over where my feet would be so pockets are zipped up
Sleeves are tucked in
Just sew that down
From that sleeve. It's inside there not just dangling free out here. So it's inside doing some work, too
I can reach in there and make sure to pull those
You know over the top of my foot or that really helps a lot
Now I can do the same thing in the hammock
Either just having it laying around my foot box while in the hammock or with certain hammocks
I can put it around the outside of the hammock and it sort of goes around the end of the under quilt
Particularly, if you've got a parcel under quilt, but this is my full length album era from local libery
So this is what I was talking to putting the jacket around the whole end of the hammock. Alright seals any gaps
Then when I'm laying in here and my feet are tucked inside this thing up in here. There's just a little bit more
Protection around your feet and it's very effective and I do it a lot
In fact almost every time I winter camps especially starting when it's getting, you know, 20 degrees and below
I'll just do that every time and
I'll wear one or two pair of loose wool socks
I might wear my opossum down socks and then a real loose pair over them and
if I get cold feet
I know something to do with my body or I went to you know went to sleep a cold feet or
Something just not ripe generally
Feet are pretty good. It's a long night, you know, the days are short so find myself crawling in to go to
Snooze time, you know, 7:30 8 o'clock
9 maybe if I'm really staying up late partying and
Sleeping through the night and it doesn't get light till 7 o'clock. So it's a long night of your body just burning off everything
It's using to stay warm. So I'll see on the next part
whoo buddy, and but at and
all secured in
Sector 7 for now anyway