All right, let's talk camping gear. So recently, I went to Yerranderie ghost town. I had a
little bit of a shift in the way I was doing my motorcycle camping, and instead of doing a swag,
I've gone with the hiking tent, so I wanted to show you what all the gear that it was
that I took because I managed to get all that gear with for sleeping and cooking for $500.
All right, let's run through it. First things first, let's start with the most expensive.
This was the tent. This is a nature hike cloud-up two-person backpacking hiking tent
awesome tent. Really really happy. This was the most expensive item, $209. all the links for
these I'll have in the description, by the way, so that you can have a look at them. All these are on
amazon. This is a great tent at 1.8 kilos. It's very, very light. Now you can buy cheaper tents
of course. I went up to BCF and had a look at what they had up there, and yes, you could buy a tent
for around 60 bucks; however, it was approximately another third in size, and it was really heavy.
So this is for motorcycle camping. Weight is a major factor, and space is probably an even
bigger factor, so this turns out to be a very, very comfortable tent. Being two people means
I can sleep on one side. I can bring all my gear inside and have it inside out of the rain and the
weather. So it's got an aluminium skeleton, and it's really easy to put up. It takes no time at
all and is very, very simple, with lots of room, and it rained that night at about 4 am. A fair
amount of rain too, and it held up perfectly, so I love this tent. Highly recommend it.
With the tent also comes a mat which goes on the ground. So next comes the tent sleeping pad. This
is a hiking sleeping pad—household brand name that one. But there's a lot of good quality gear on
Amazon, and you don't have to spend an absolute fortune to get good quality gear. This lays out
easily within the tent and only takes four or five big puffs. Nice big opening vent so you can
get your air into it quicker. It blows up quickly and is comfortable. I am about 97 kilos at the
moment, which is way heavier than I want to be, but I didn't feel like at any stage I was I was
hitting the ground through. This is so very, very comfortable even for my weight.
I'm 175 height, so average height and easily lengthwise it's perfectly fine.
This one tips the scales at 700 grams, so very light, and it was $45, pretty cheap.
So I got something to sleep in, I've got something to sleep on, and now here is the sleeping bag. Now
I spent this was the second most expensive item. I did go up and have a look at what they've got
at Kathmandu, and it was starting around 500 for a goose-down sleeping bag. Now theirs is
probably was high quality, I assume.
Still, I've been impressed with this, so this is a nature hike sleeping bag compact ultra-light
goose down mummy sleeping bag. Hence, mummy means tapered down at the end, which makes it
a bit warmer now than when I first tried this out at home. Before we went out into the wild,
it did. I was a little concerned that it wouldn't be warm enough. I have to admit I got in. I think
I was thinking, this isn't that warm. I didn't feel like it was elevating my temperature in
any way. Still, we're out in the elements. It was perfectly fine; I was absolutely 100 warm
in this. We got down to around four or four degrees that night, so at a total of $129,
this is quite reasonable when you compare it to, you know, what you can get at BCF, for example,
Massive sleeping bags. It didn't have anything that was hiking and comparing that to Kathmandu,
which is ridiculously priced, this is pretty good quality for $129.
That's all our sleeping gear, but when you get to where you're going, you want to be able to
sit down right. So if you put on a campfire etc., then you want to be able to sit. Now, this seat
is called a theology uzi go portable camping chair. It's a bit of a mouthful but brilliant.
I showed this on my live stream the other night, but it comes in two pieces. You've got the frame,
and you've got the seat. I'm not going to pull it apart at the moment. I'll do some b-roll that
shows that, but you basically pull that apart, put it together and away you go. Very light as well,
and the thing about this for a camping chair is it takes up very little space. So that was $50
total. It is rated for 300 pounds, which is 136 kilos. When you first sit in it,
it feels like oh but perfectly took my weight, and as long as you don't flop into it, it'll easily
take a reasonable amount of weight. So really good quality and packs up nice and tight. Even
this bag is pretty bulky, but that packs up nice and neatly into the saddle bags.
All right, now. Let's talk cooking. So as far as cooking, I use this Coleman stove. Now,
absolutely there are better quality products like Jetboil. You can buy a Jetboil thing for $200.
what I went with I just used this old camera lens bag because I use three different products
instead. Which of those three, one of those is the fuel, which you have to buy anyway. If you're
looking at it separately but essentially combining these three products, you end
up with basically what a Jetboil is anyway. The Coleman Peak 1 stove was $23, the fuel was $19,
and then this cook set is a Stanley adventure all in one-two bowl cooking set for $39. so the total
of that is $81. Right, so when you compare $200 to $81, that's a fair difference. Now granted that
the Jetboil does compact all together, it certainly will save a lot of room. However, two,
I didn't clean them properly two. This does work neatly, and this is easy enough to boil a meal
whether you're doing two-minute noodles or something fancier
than that, like Thai Green Curry,
for example. That works out as a pretty good package at $80. You can't do too badly with that.
So that's it. That's my whole camping, cooking, and everything, so when we add all that together,
all that easily fits into a saddle bag and is more than enough to go camping, so that whole thing,
I did tell a lie at the start, this actually has a total of $514. So you know,
look for the sales and get it for under $500, but still, pretty close, right $500 worth
gets all this brand new gear. And it is more than enough. So the price of the sleeping bag,
right? If I had to go to Kathmandu and just buy the sleeping bag, I could buy all this
gear for the same price. None of these, at any point, did I think it was low quality.
This is all high-quality stuff that I'm sure will last for a long time if I treat it nicely.
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