So uh hey folks how you doing joe here i'm with tripper and i'm a little out of breath i got my big long sled with my canvas tent my wood stove some goodies and now we're at the beginning of the forest.

And it's pretty thick in here as you can see so i'm going to leave my sled and go hike up back in there it looks like there's some hardwoods see if we can find a level spot that's kind of open what are you doing good boy.

I didn't wear snow shoes the snow isn't too too deep but it's getting there okay we gotta go back the other way this is pretty thick you good lots of birch i hope we can find a decent spot guys okay this is looking better.

It's gonna be a pain getting the sled back in here but it'll be worth it oh yes look at this hardwood forest it looks to be relatively flat too okay sweet sweet pretty windy that's all right okay let's lug the oh look at this spot right here no deadfall overhead.

Relatively flat i don't know what's underneath the snow but we'll dig it out i think i might set up right here that's pretty slick in the sunlight a big hardwood forest in front of us okay lots of options i'm gonna go get the sled we're getting there.

Oh lost the strap oh okay everything's coming up milhouse now holy smokes guys this is a test run for a big trip and soon i forgot to bring my rope that i would be pulling the sled with so i'm using a strap for my car there we go little snowy.

I've got a couple new pieces of gear to test out inside of my wood stove put the name of the company right along bottom of the screen right now it's a new baffle for the inside to keep to retain the heat instead of losing the heat out the top of the stove and a chimney support.

And a side table for for the wood stove so some cool things to try out and to test before my big trip this really is just a learning trip getting used to it all again i haven't done a hot a real hot tent trip in a while not where i've hiked in at least i've.

Always been using the atv lately so that's what this trip will be all about we got tripper with us which is always fun we're gonna cook up some good food so right now i'm just gonna get my shovel out of here unwrapping my my sled which it worked pretty good on the way in didn't tip over at all so.

That's good good to know i'm gonna get my shovel out of here and start shoveling away the snow it's gonna get down to negative 20 tonight it's negative 13 right now my hands are sticking to this well not now that i'm trying to show you anyways gloves time for some gloves.

Not too much snow there this year man up well it's not even remotely level how it goes though okay this is cleared out enough we'll set up the tent and then try and make it level inside with snow.

 oh no okay easy peasy  well so  uh all right the tent's all set up nice and.

Secure let's go inside and start looking at the wood stove all right he's getting a little cold i can see him starting to shiver i'm gonna get his blanket and stuff put in here real quick good boy he's got a sleeping bag a blanket and a sleeping pad so.

It should be all right plus the heat of the wood stove right come on buddy come trip or lay in your bed almost so the cool thing about it is with the extra pieces it all still fits inside the wood stove for transportation i'm just gonna kick up the front legs to show you guys get a little bit better.

View in here okay they're all normal pieces scooper more of my chimney my spark arrester you guys have seen all this before the elbow the rest of the chimney okay so here's where the new pieces come in.

They're brand new they're just dirty from being in there this is part of the baffle these are the legs this is the top plate and i'll show you specifically all how to do it this is by boreal outdoor innovations once again so thanks buddy for the hookups and.

Hopefully if you guys are interested in this type of stuff check out his website and uh give him some business made all in ontario so that's awesome this false bottom in here is made by him as well and i've had that for quite a while so the false bottom is gonna get flipped.

Upside down sorry right back right side up because that was upside down in there and then the baffles getting the baffles in the first time i haven't done it yet but he's told me it could be a little bit tricky but basically what you want to do these are the legs they go in like that.

On the back and this baffle part the top goes on like up there and it stops the flames from shooting up the chimney and keeps the heat inside the stove longer giving you more heat so we're going to try and get these all squared away.

Settled in properly now in true joe fashion i have not set this up before this is the first time so this will be fun what do you see buddy it's kind of you got to get it right on you can't you can't install it or you can't put it together outside of the.

Stove and then put it in you have to install it inside the stove and i think i did it i think i did it properly so that's it okay let's see if i can get a close-up in there can you stop barking all right so there's the top right it's blocking there you can see the chimney.

Hole there it's blocking it there's a little bit of a gap in between and then there's the sides and the false bottom underneath so we'll give this a shot see if it works i dug all the snow away just so that this isn't sinking into the ground after she gets all hot.

Have to bring it out here a little bit okay let's see see how that goes all right my chimney's almost all erect i got one more piece to put on the heaviest piece so it needs to support this is the third piece of gear from the company boreal outdoor innovations.

That they sent me and you know what one of my least favorite things to do well in winter camping is cutting and tying together a tripod to support my chimney so i think that this is a lifesaver it's uh makes makes life easy and you don't have to take any trees or your time to do that with.

So let's set this up stick it in the ground put the y there and it does come with a spring like a piece of metal wire to wrap around the top of it and support it but i just lost it two seconds ago in the snow somewhere and i'll try to find it but as far as support she's solid.

Oh good that's jabbed into the ground not supporting that yeah that ain't going anywhere okay cool this is the wire that it comes with has two attachment points on either side just thread it through wrap it around if you're worried about.

How secure it's going to be but not a concern and then also  we've got our spark arrestor cocoa he's laying out there on the snow not shivering so everything's fine.

It was actually cold he'd come in here well we're all settled in here it's warming up i brought a thermometer but it broke on the way in so we don't know what the temperature is gonna be but that's okay it's feeling a little bit more toasty in here than before tripper's not shivering i got them all.

Hooked up sleeping pad blanket sleeping bag or quilt let's check on the fire i haven't touched it since i put one more load of sticks in after you saw you got the flue open.

She's burning nice i'm gonna go get some more wood do a couple loads of uh twigs in there just while i'm warming up and relaxing in here then i'm gonna go out and cut my uh my proper firewood what are you doing all right scout two let's go 2.0.

What's your trip watch out huh huh  well that wasn't too bad oh  just the wind tripper calm down oh no no no no.

Ain't in the butt there we go a couple big knots in there it's kind of difficult to get around um well we smartened up this time we remembered what we were supposed to be doing and put the potatoes on first so now i'm in the process of just.

Chopping up the onions and garlic i'm gonna throw that in right now then we got carrots celery mushrooms and a steak to cut up so let's throw this stuff in potatoes are looking good already some oil in there these potatoes are getting cooked up nice so time to add.

And garlic sloppy joe stop stopping joe no hoagies no grinders no hobies just drop the onion all over the ground good thing chopper's sleeping here i still haven't made my bed up but if i did he'd be trampling all over it anyway so it might be a lumpy sleep tonight but.

That's all right these baffles working good man it's keeping the heat in i haven't had to add too much wood it found it to to be a little bit tricky you had to get the hang of it first a little bit smoky but i did did get the hang of it now i got my flu completely closed this is nice and.

Hot and it's probably due for a couple pieces of wood here pretty soon so all right we're rocking now so i think this is almost all done here i'm going to cut the meat last so i'm just going to push all the veggies to one side i cut half my steak.

For me okay and i'll keep half this nice very very nice steak for tripper we'll see if he'll eat it raw this time if not we'll cook it for him after no biggie look at that oh yeah oh yeah gotta get some spice on here too real quick actually.

I didn't forget my michael lowry seasoning this time this should be pretty tasty i assume the trip are you gonna eat raw meat this time you're gonna make me cook it for you princess what are we gonna do let's see no question all right a little bigger piece with some fat oh.

Wow you like that all right good boy this is really high quality i almost want to take it makes me want to take a bite out of it right now like yeah i think that would be fine actually do that marbling hold on trevor hold on all right punk.

This is what i mean by butter buttery marbling she done can't lie this looks good wind is picking up out there all right cheers guys everything's soft  tender.

Wow that's good i gotta get some snow on there melting pretty soon after supper i had a bottle of water around it's almost gone this is so good guys so when i did it the fort last time without the meat i just cooked it way too high way too fast and.

I didn't leave time for the uh potatoes to cook first either and the garlic kind of gets all caramelized at that point this is really good  so we've never been here before this is somewhat near my house i looked on a map for some crown land today because i.

Didn't want to go too far for this test of new year and went to camping in very cold with tripper for the first time for the first time ever really been really cold um wanted to be relatively uh close to home so found some crown land.

A couple lakes booted across some it'll be kind of cool to come back in the other seasons and canoe it too it's relatively accessible so so it's a beauty night big old lake we're on good sized lake at least.

The only ones here the only footsteps out here are ours that's pretty awesome gotta love living in northern ontario complete change then what i grew up with as you guys know all right let's get back over near the tent cut up some more firewood trevor bailed on me that's the thing.

About winter camping it's like gets dark pretty early and a lot of your time is dedicated to getting firewood keep yourself warm but i really do enjoy winter camping and if you don't go in the winter you don't get out as much no oh come on.

Not for you oh come on buddy come on i'm leaning good boy oh it's so warm in here oh my god it's so cold outside oops burned down to embers here what are you doing get in bed get in your bed what are you doing back up man no no lay in your bed so you.

Don't get cold laying in bed silly guy now you can overload these stoves too  probably gotta figure out where my bed's gonna lay before i lose too much light got this really awesome ground sheet from bushcraft spain.

Use that so it's like oil skin on one side and it is wolf on the other side that's pretty awesome super durable and tough very aesthetically pleasing quite bush crafty i got a negative 20 sleeping bag maybe i'll put tripper.

Right next to me here on this uh the rest of this i'm sure he would appreciate that anyway i got a negative 20 with a sleeping bag and then i got a inner bag too because this inner bag is like a quilt and it weighs nothing and it'll add a little bit more for me.

There's my sleeping pad all right now for the horrible horrible part of blowing the old sleeping pad up you know i've been using this sleeping pad for probably 10 years now and i've blown it up in the winter time of all the time every year and it's still kept us if not the same r.

Value still really good r value never have a problem with it i'm saying that because a lot of people think you're not supposed to blow into them in the winter time because condensation your your breath and maybe that's the case but i don't know i've seen no worse for wear on this.

All right that deed is done this is very sloppy in here oh banana hammer oh my goodness i've got to do some some excavating of some snow i want to move all my gear though over here so so i have room they say this is a two or three man.

Which is uh it's a stretch it is so much warmer in here all right as much as i'd like to sit in here oh yeah i have to go back out and cut more firewood okay this is a first for me guys there we go that's funny oh i just dirtied the heck.

Out of it the heck out of it all right let's go see if we can catch the last of the sunset it's beauty over here it's calm very calm where are you buddy all right then oh.

Um oh man go on go no no no no no i need this wood tripper no weirdo oh hmm all right go ahead go go man go inside trooper good boy go there you.

Go back up back up back up back up oh it's so warm so warm back up come lay in your bed buddy tripper look there's a bed for you lay in it  i swear he tries everything to do not to.

Lay in the bed for some reason it blows my mind i have no clue oh it's hot it's hot imagine that it's almost it's almost all melted there's only a little little slush i'm gonna make up some hot chocolate.

Here's a pretty cool feature that i mentioned earlier my belt my gloves are leather and they're wet from working around all day so this uh the side table has holes drilled into it far enough away where you can just kind of hang your stuff even if you don't have a carabiner you can tie them up paracord.

Or whatever it's the distance away but man that is going to dry out quite quickly that's warm there still anyways good feature you do the same with your boots or whatever insoles from your boots maybe looks comfy huh looks comfy that oil skin tarp slash.

Ground sheet is protecting my stuff it's a great size happy with all this beer oh hot chocolate time all right one more from the old daughter emerald got me maple bacon hot chocolate so we'll see how that goes i'll get some more snow on there so i can have some more water when i need it.

All right nothing is rock that's why i like leather gloves not always the warmest but mess around with them all right let's try the the maple bacon hot chocolate thanks emerald it's good tastes more like.

Maple syrup maybe it's not even maple bacon it's just bacon oh no it is maple bacon number one so i see what they're saying it's a little syrupy it's pretty good well trooper's down for the count he's finally succumbed to his bed it's nice and warm in here.

I don't know if i can see my breath i don't think so i wish i had a thermometer it broke on the way in it was old i don't even know if it worked really properly anyways i have to get a new one this year this season well it's a good test run figuring stuff.

Out remember in winter camping in this thing i am going with one other person when i go i won't tell you who it is just now but it's my biggest winter trip planned so pretty excited for it someone you haven't seen much i'll tell you that and for a while.

Anyways i'm just going to relax i got a book on tape i might listen to other than that i'm turning probably pretty early try to get a good night's sleep we got nothing too fancy in the morning got some oatmeal i got to get up and get out of here gotta it's a while to hike on out of.

Here and then i got stuff to do got two videos to get out and uh or two videos to try to edit and upload and have to have to do some family stuff i'll show you guys the new puppy very soon i promise she's getting to be a handful man last.

Video she was all precious now she's like starting to be like a puppy puppy or those needle sharp teeth just biting into everything and she follows tripper around like a shadow though which is pretty cool i'm just waiting for her to grab one of his toys on the on the wrong end as he thrashes his head.

Center flying you know it's about that time stoked the fire for one last time well from one last time until i have to get stoked in the middle of the night again i'm gonna try and get a few hours of sleep here i've got tripper tucked right in he's got my extra.

Sleeping bag so i've only got my one he's got a c pad two sleeping bags and a blanket he seems to be doing all right like that so i'm okay to let him use extra and i will just sleep in my uh snow pants which is fine it's only for one night so it's supposed to get down to negative.

19 tonight and i have a negative 20 bag we'll keep that fire we'll keep it warm warming up here i'm not going to keep it rock and we'll keep it going every couple hours and uh keep the chill out of the air i'm sure tripper and i will have a i fight believe how flat i got this.

Though like it was all banananed out at first all right folks wish us luck let's see in the morning check check he's snoring well folks it's just after two in the morning just one of them got a bunch more wood.

And uh soaked with the fire triple sugar and i was not too warm myself so got that taken care of he's not shivering no more we can see our breath in here so it's obviously cooler than it was but uh back to bed oh my god.

It's cold it is cold all right i gotta go get some twigs and fire wouldn't get this bad boy going because i i can't uh i can't even hold this camera i think tripper's understanding the value of the fire i opened up the door here so he can get some radiant heat and it's warm in his face and his chest his chest feels.

Super warm hot even i think he's understanding it's not just something that he needs to bark at to be worried about i gotta shut it though the stove pipe's starting to glow shut it right down ah that's boiling anyway surprise surprise.

Gloves over there the same cup back up tripper is super hot same cup from last night and it has residual residual hot chocolate in it the maple bacon hot chocolate probably go pretty good with the oatmeal this is not for you buddy don't worry.

We'll get you some food we'll be going out of here pretty soon from the bed i made him i had this big parka on top of him as well as my sleeping bag and his sleeping bag and a blanket and his sleeping pad so he he had plenty and once he was under that.

Sometimes he'd bury his head under too and i couldn't see him at all it was just a mound of material but he's okay he's fine he's not shivering now at all there's a good test run i won't be bringing him on the big trip but it was a good test run for me and a good.

Test run of his uh abilities for cold weather camping last camp i did was like zero and this was about negative 20 tonight and it's been that way ever since that last camp started getting cold again let's be like negative 20 negative 25 every night nearby negative 13 then day is the warm.

Anyways i'm going to try and catch the sunrise this morning but other than that i got nothing going on i'll probably let this fire die down and start packing up that's the thing with the wood stove you got to um it takes a while to cool it down.

Pumping out the heat though   you