Hey guys thanks for tuning in this is Joe we're going to spend 24 hours in the woods today would have a Maxpedition xanthor backpack stay tuned oh there goes my ride be here for the next 24 hours bye sweetie it's a little late in your form but still a few mulberries hanging.

On gonna grab a couple of these guys on the way in try and supplement my food with them mm-hmm one of my favorite edibles here wild edibles want to find some blackberries only get in the woods and set up my camp - let's do that these snake tongues on great point they're also edible very tart by edible I actually quite like them if I can keep.

Going find them little bits of stuff like this to help get me through the day I'm gonna try and catch some fish too so we'll see some will cut off the trail here into the woods I'm just gonna deep myself all up the the deer flies are coming out too so try and keep them off me I'll go get wet it looks like oh there's.

A crayfish I can grab Oh gotta come back to this spot it's dead crayfish there and I saw one as I was crossing as well so if I can come back to this area a little bit later and grab some crayfish for tonight to hopefully go along with my bluegill are my bass bonus I got dropped off I don't know half an hour ago it was right around.

10:00 in the morning July maybe anyways walked in for about a half an hour here I'm out one of my old shelters so I'll show you in a minute and I had planned on setting up right around here because there's a nice opening and I get a little bit more light here for filming but since I've not been here in a long time it's been overrun by people and.

There's garbage and trash and fires and stuff everywhere so I don't want to hang around this cesspool of dank so I'm gonna keep on walking through the wood through the mosquito infested woods to try and find a spot to set up and the first order of business is gonna get a fire going I'm getting eaten alive here so before anything when you get fire.

Going I don't know why I'm still talking let's go here's my rundown old shelter it's been it's been populated for sure but that's to be expected I imagine so these are all leaks these are another wild edible see me use these before I can have brought a steak for supper I'm hoping to get some fish for lunch but I can put these with my steak and make a.

Nice meal easily spotted now by the flowering tops and they're pretty green the leeks themselves down there pretty green but they'll still be good so I'm gonna leave these here for now I want to find my camp and come back to them because I need to get a fire going so it looks like I found camp the reason I picked this spot is because there's a.

Little bit of sunlight coming through as you can see the ground behind me is relatively clear of debris and I have this awesome beech tree where I can hang my ridgeline for my run around after the players going trying to move stuff out of the way so don't catch the woods on fire it is summer right the grounds damp with the leaves are dry and disturbed.

This little guy little toady guy there he goes all right there's a little change of plans now I'm not sure if it's because I'm not walking around the woods anymore tramping them up or I'm just gotten used to it or what but mosquitoes seem to have died down a little bit I'm not not kind of much of a rush to get my fire.

Going now something I'm gonna hang my tarp up from the story get my tent squared away and everything and then maybe start looking for some firewood because as of right now the mosquitoes seem to have gone away bonus paracord in a bite nice big long Hank of it to.

Get up there a couple overhand knots nothing fancy and Huck this bad boy over the tree all right tripod there we go I'm not gonna go over everything that I have with me in my bag that's uh I did a previous video about it if you want you can check that out I'll put the link at the bottom well right now I'm using my.

Bushcraft go fitters ten-by-ten you're gonna rig it up to this beech tree this thing still smells of smoke this Toyota is the very middle tie out on the whole tarp and I'm just gonna tie it on real quick and that'll hold there and I got a hoist it up right there for now and then it'll take some TWiki for sure I've tied taut-line.

Hitch is on each of them on each of the four trees so that I can adjust it if need be if it starts to sag later on tonight nice that looks really good I'm happy with that I've got my shade up and my protection from rain if it happens got a nice nice area where I could put my tent underneath this and be protected if it.

Does start to come rain down on me I put the tarp up that high for a reason I I don't want it down close to me because I want to be able to have a fire not necessarily underneath it but close to it which isn't really a big deal either way but I want the airflow coming through right so I brought my tent my Big Agnes tent without the the rain fly.

On it because I know that in this temperature it's like 89 degrees right now Fahrenheit it's super hot when I go to bed it's still gonna be hot and that the whole the whole top of the tent is screened but when I put that that rain fly on it just all becomes like compact in and I'm gonna sweat my heart out for a lack of a better word with the with.

The fly on so this gives me protection from rain and it gives me air ventilation and just a nice cool place to work under right underneath my tarp here I found this Punk wood you can tell it's punk wood it's it's it's moist as well and I'm gonna keep that because that's going to come in into play later on for keeping those mosquitoes away.

So the walk-in took me about an hour to get into a spot the backpack held find it rode fine I weighed it before I left I got thirty pounds in there I stocked up on three liters of water and a couple other things that weren't in my original video just to make it ride a little bit better our sorry to test how to ride with more weight in it I think that the.

Last video it was right around 20 pounds so I threw a few more things in and it rode fine the internal frame is good to go in my opinion and the space is good because I was able it was already falling I was able to fit like another 10 pounds worth of gear and there's a be water being being most of it but anyways set up the old tent.

So there's the tent all squared away that's good that that's done I've got all these extra bags that might are my tent poles my tap we're in and all that I just want to put them all inside each other and put them back in my backpack because you know you don't want to lose things when you're out in the woods it's still fun.

So other things I have to put up be my hammock with you I'm in no rush but I do want to throw my pillow my sleeping bag and my sleeping pad in my tat right now I'll let them just rest in my tent while I go about my business so I just hung this little a piece of paracord up for a gear rack and you know how you can like flip things inside each other like the.

Rope inside each other to hold it well this is too big for that but if you just grab a little stick and you fold it around once throw that stick through and pull it down it's gonna hold it this is just like my Possible's bag with like a bug net and some fishing kit and shemagh and stuff in it but I've got my hammock there I'm gonna.

Do with it I'm gonna do that with my hammock - so everything's all set up I got a few more things I want to do like get some firewood and whatnot but it's getting close to lunchtime and I didn't bring you lunch I brought us up or I brought a steak to eat and I'm gonna supplement it with whatever I can find but I brought a.

Little fishing kit all this it has is two barbers like three or four hooks and some wine so I got a I'm gonna roam around look for some worms dig up some worms in the woods before I head over to the pond because it's easier to find the worms here in the woods I'm not gonna bring my DSLR I will bring my little GoPro and we'll see if we can get a.

Bluegill or two maybe a crayfish come on Army's gonna have to find a bigger log come on oh there's one by this garbage ducked into a hole but you saw him come on there he is all right one down like a million to go all right score check out this fatty.

It's like ten times the size the other one I got be good very good so I'm gonna head out now out of the woods walk down the trail to the pond and we'll see see if I have any luck it's not prime fishing time that's for sure it's way too late in the day for that but this is the time I had to get over here and set up my stuff I didn't.

Want to walk all the way down into the pond with all my gear and try and fish and then if I was lucky I'd have to bring the fish back with my gear and set it all up and let it sit out in the Sun and stuff so everything's all set up and we'll see if you have any luck yeah there's crayfish in here you're sure I gotta get across I'm gonna get a.

Little bit wet I think yep oh yeah what is that what is that although toad he urinated all over me easy walking for a minute now yeah so full disclosure where I live it's very very populated there are not very many places that I can go to the woods and have the freedom to do what I want to do where I am now is one of those places.

Probably the only place that I know of around here I'm walking on an old farm Road right now and truth be told I just passed a farmer on his tractor I'd want anybody to think that I'm in the middle of the wilderness here because that's just not the case a few days I am going up on a canoe trip with three other buddies and we will be out.

In the wilderness and I've done that and you guys have seen that on my videos and stuff but this this is an overnighter near my house where I can get to within an hour and just be able to relax and do my thing so that's why you see me walking on a road here oh the old fishing hole is not being so kind to me today I'm gonna move spa down.

Here there's been beaver that moved in and I kind of change in the topography of the pond I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it it could just be me sucking at life but see like I said it's not the right time of day for this anyways but I should get a blade or two at least a bullfrog see the we never used to have beaver down here I'm sure.

We did years and years ago but there's a beaver lodge there and they've taken down the trees across the big fat cottonwoods across and if you can pick it up on that GoPro but definitely the pond has changed oh man there's a huge snapping turtle oh my goodness oh he's huge let me see if I can get close to him hunting snapping turtles.

There he goes pretty sizable little snap are there for sure that's cool I'm glad to see the wildlife returning this area has been decimated by up by pollution and just overpopulation and stuff so seeing that seeing the evidence of beaver seeing the snapping turtle and hearing the frogs it's all plus in my book even if I don't catch any fish.

Pretty cool I think this might be a lost cause I'm not getting any bites and I've been out here for an hour so maybe I'll make my way back in back into the bush maybe I'll try and collect some wild edibles along the way to get me through to until supper so I've got a Queen Anne's lace here and I'm gonna follow it to the.

Bottom and try and dig up the root because it's just like wild carrot it is a wild carrot and get a few of those and maybe some other things be looking up that was a lot easier than I expected so - I got two for the price of one they're not too shabby so there's obviously no need to take them back the whole take the back whole.

So I'm just gonna cut the carrot hurt it off and bring it back like that oh yeah there's no mistake in that that's that's wild carrot for sure smells exactly like an orange carrot you'd buy at the store or grow yourself nice my god I brought my bug mask my bug net with me to use as a collection bag so in those go and hopefully I find quite a.

Few more wild edibles on the way back I don't know if this puddle goes all the way into the pond or not but I saw oh yeah it goes all the way in I saw a frog jump in there no he's gone weak score this is bull thistle so I can actually eat the stalk of this I know it's got all these spikes on it but I can clean them off and then the.

Stock will be just like celery so I'm gonna get that done and put that into my little pouch to this day just keeps getting better and better I have found some apples they might be a touch bitter good one up there those three right there here's another useful very useful plant common plantain so the leaves are good.

For a whole lot of things but I'm gonna use them to put on my mosquito bites later on tonight so you make a poultice out of it mash it up pretty good apply it to a wound or whatever and it's supposed to help a lot it does help I got a really bad bee sting one time in New York and these help so these are going in the bag as well and this has.

Been a productive little walk even though I haven't got any fish so I found what I was looking for and it's wild asparagus or as my daughter calls it spaghetti is okay you can see it here but those are huge those are woody already I can't eat that I know it that's that's way too tough the stalks are bigger than my thumb.

There is another one where is it here it's a bit smaller maybe I can eat something up higher on it it all stuff get really really woody I don't know I'll take a piece back with me and cook it and see but I don't have high hopes but I think you gotta get that stuff early on when it's young I don't know if you can appreciate how big.

That is put the top of the Queen Anne's lace is probably the size of a almost a baseball and that bee or wasp or whatever that thing is is huge big Wow I'm gonna leave that guy alone I think there's something here see there a frog or creepy fish I think it's a little froggy I'm not gonna eat.

Him if it is he's too small but say thank you no yep see if I can find some crayfish so there's a little baby baby one he's dead hmm I gotta be able to find some crayfish I can eat sure of it I'm just trying to be slow and see if there's any any moving around it the bad thing is the water clouds up as soon as.

You move whatever but that's what they like to hide under debris in the water we'll keep looking here crayfish crayfish crayfish crayfish there's all these patterns and the mud I don't know what they're from I've seen raccoon prints and all these and a bunch of holes again another dead crayfish maybe the raccoons are having a heyday on the.

Crayfish around here no look that's all right maybe I'll come back after we'll see I'm not too not too worried about it I got a bag full of veggies I can eat so it'd be nice to catch one I think I've scared them all off in this spot though and we're gonna find a different spot work and actually access the water a little bit better up into the woods we.

Go into mosquito land but that's good because then there's shade and I'll have to worry about this heat anymore get a little bit warm so find her camp again hopefully I'll talk about a sight for sore eyes I'm glad to be back to camp I'm gonna get a fire going and grub some of this well edibles no more mosquitoes all right my booty I'm bounty I still.

Have to remove the spines from the bull thistle where's my plantain I found some actual smaller SpaghettiOs stuff that actually smells like asparagus it might might be edible so we'll try that out just got a thorn in the finger so of course the the bull thistles getting stuck because of the spines but we'll get that big piece out after so.

Yeah I'm excited these apples won't be too bad these are the wild carrot I'm going to cook as well because they're a little bit bigger and probably tough so I'm gonna cook those with my supper put those aside so I'm gonna have the both assault and some apples right now and we'll see how that goes I shaved it all off I didn't just.

Use the back of my knife and do it I actually actually cut off the spines because I found that the outer skin was coming off with it and I think that's better let's see how it works out mmm horrible would you these might be a bit old too tastes of celery ish what that's not going down to good it'd be.

Good in vibrate so the bull thistle wasn't wasn't a homerun let's try the Apple I'm guessing it's gonna be so bitter not that bad I can handle that so I've got a little bit of asparagus and three apples Steve for lunch I know I'll be fine cuz I have to stick for there surprisingly I found out that.

The wild carrot is my favorite and I found one that's skinny enough that I didn't have to cook the whole thing this one is skinny or way skinnier whatever it's skinny it's the skinniest one I have but it's not too woody I'm gonna taste super good like a carrot so much on this one I like it I like it a lot.

So I've decided I want to make myself a chair I brought out a little piece of material to go with the bush chair so I'm just gonna do a few wraps actually one wrap a couple fraps and call it good cuz doesn't take much to support my 100 pound Freddie so I'm just gonna make a tripod basic tripod out of this and that's it.

Super easy stuff just tie it off doesn't need to be anything fancy good so this chair my friend Kyle made this part of it anyway there's still nylon and just sewed it up together it's basically a big bag with a sleeve sewn in the bottom so you can run a a log through it and then those two sides are gonna get tied up with paracord on on.

The tripod and then I got my chair an old Bush chair I've already got the one side tied on here I'll show you what I do it's nothing special you wrap it a few times and do an overhand knot and that's it that's enough to hold it maybe if you want to do a little granny knot on top you can but they ain't going nowhere.

From them this cross piece I had to get a different pieces bow so it so it might be pretty commie it's pretty pretty soft there we go yeah a little spring to it not too shabby whatever kind of break I was getting from those mosquitos I think they decided that's enough because they are.

Swarming like crazy so now I do have to get a fire going so my silk you saw 20-inch Sandvik and I'm going to go process some food so we got a dead oak here I have my silky saw but this axe is kind of new to me so I'm gonna use my axe to take her down it's a small axe but it's a small tree so it's no big deal.

Clean up the site around here a bit I moved my chair over to the side because I didn't have a good fire area my chair was taking it up so no big deal and just moving off to the side I can sit beside my my tent when I'm having the fire and it fires gonna be far enough away from my tent that I don't have to worry about sparks or anything.

And I'm not planning on having a rip roar I'm planning on getting a smoky fire going getting a good base of coals that way when it comes time to cook my steak I can and I'm not like I said I'm not worried about burn the whole my tent I might have been wrong about this being oak I think it's maple but both very very good woods to cook on red oak is my.

Favorite red oak is my favorite wood ever it's just so straight great I wanna make a split wood fire you look for red oak now I'm telling you and we have an abundance of it here it's a huge tree grows really really really big gets old so right oh man wow that's dense yeah it's maple maple for sure you can tell by the color of the wood.

Some giant stuff now let me tell you I've got about a million in one mosquito bites already you need to get this thing going haha there's a pretty sweet little axe I haven't really used it too much before today okay fire fire okay my tinder is just some crappy feather sticks with better.

Feather sticks on top of it I'm just trying to get this thing going quick because I'm dying here these mosquitoes are absolutely nuts today right now at least so we should get this going to flourish deal I'm gonna put my knife and my supplier still away this time maybe I'll be able to survive the night there we go BAM.

Almost like I knew what I was doing or something oh yes smoky smoky fire this is what I want Uvas sceetos have been giving me no relief in the past hour or so pretty much ever since I came back from my failed fishing attempt this is good this is exactly what I needed yes I'm actually not too hungry I don't.

Really want to eat until maybe 6:00 but well this fire is going I want to go around and pick up some punk wood and some old mushrooms and stuff like that to get smoldery fires going around my camp I didn't have to walk far to find any this old rotted stump give me a lot of good stuff.

I could even dig at it with my axe but I don't think I need to yep one-stop shop so I'm just gonna toss it on right now try and lay it across so I don't lose it all let it burn for a minute grab my gloves pick it over there you can use a stick - but I love your leather so that's what I'm gonna use and then I'm gonna place it and see how much smoke.

Already then I'll place it around my camp oh good so I need to go get better punk wood the punk would suck that burned it a bit too long whatever I like sassafras for punk wood and that's where I'm going get me some sassafras perfect I'm telling you guys blue foam pad all.

The way this is a cut up piece of a child's puzzle floor like a foam floor that you would get you got like I get three pieces this size out of one puzzle piece okay well that was relaxing but there's work that needs to be done so I'm a little punk would fire one out my other bigger fire needs wood I need to go get.

One green sapling probably maple so that I can use that for a pot hook and a spit over the fire and to hold my steak so as much as I'd like to just relax the hammock right now I know I'm what are we hungry soon and that stuff needs to be done already so firewood green maple steak so I've got my green maple I've already.

Got cut up into pieces that I need these two pieces are going to be stakes into the ground and I left a bunch of different hooks for different lengths or whatever and this piece is gonna be my spit I'm gonna split it sandwich the stake in there and hopefully wrap the end off with mulberry bark we're gonna see how that works.

I need to split to run about halfway through it so I'm starting at the thicker end it's pretty good I'm starting to run to the one side but pretty pleased with that okay I got to stop they're splitting off so if I can get my stake in this part and clamp this together with the willow bark or laughing.

Okay so it should work should be able to wrap that with this stuff it's pretty tough nice and I do that do a few more pieces so we got a New York Strip today price of beef has gone up like crazy this is over $10 for this piece but it's worth it I got the Montreal steak spice you know I've got to do that masher in there all good it's time for the moment.

Of truth you're gonna see if this mulberry bark works or not looks good yeah cool all natural nice yeah that'll be perfect I can't leave my hand there that hi nice face so the backpack Maxpedition xantho the whole reason we came out to do this overnighter half the reason I like it.

It's a good bag it's done it's allowed me to be comfortable over here I could have got away with the shemagh and a tomahawk but I've eaten alive by bugs at night that's no fun oh I want to come out I want to have fun and this bag helped me do that I was able to fit everything in it it's tough this is going to be my.

Bushcraft II overnight bag kit so everything will fit inside this that I need after this way I could stay 2 3 4 days over here the only difference is the amount of water and if it's really that bad I can go down to the pond and get it I just don't like drinking over the pond because it's farm runoff and it's just.

Kind of dodgy but yeah the pack it's a good pack man what can I say I like it I'm glad to have it I will use it in the future I will use this as my overnight bushcraft pack like they said it's robust I'm happy with it I do have a few things that I said I would like changed but I'm not gonna go over that again that was in.

The first video if you haven't watched it I go over every piece of gear that I have out here with the exception of like a couple and my initial thoughts on it a little bit of specs on it and stuff so go on check that video but max finishings antha it's good in my book took my carrots out they're kind of hard but we're gonna try.

Them out anyway well my steaks cooking Oh they taste like really good but the that's - boy who tastes like a parsnip actually not more than a carrot but it's it's - woody wait - woody I shouldn't have cooked him the one I was eating the small one I was eating.

Before I cooked it was okay it was a little little woody but nothing like that oh well steak and I forgot forgot to go get leeks leeks I might go do that right now all my steaks cooking so I just got back I went and grabbed two leeks so like I showed you earlier this is what they look like.

In the summer after they've peaked they were already putting their flower head out so I'm just cleaning off the dirt and I want to leave them on the stalks and just drape them over the coals like next to the steak they're pretty good so I'm calling her done she's cooked perfectly right here at the end I lured.

The steak down and I fanned the flames to get the fire going to bed put some more wood on just to get a little bit of flame kissed on it but I'm sure she's done perfectly and the best part is I don't even need a plate because I can eat it right off of this spit I was on there for a long time probably an hour and this is worth it.

Wow super tender it's fully cooked - I don't even mind mine medium rare but this is this is cooked all the way through juicy mm steaky goodness pod leak it loses such it so much of its potency after you grill it but the taste still stays yeah so you can see even the part that was completely closed in by the.

Step got cooked yeah I'm not talking like medium rare or rare it's cooked just just as much as the other stuff yeah it's it's more tender but definitely cooked so no worries there every time every single time next we hear the train but I I think I'm gonna meet coma.

I haven't really done much it's 8 o'clock now I eat eat about 6 o'clock I'm just kind of sitting here enjoying it whenever I go away from the fire for a bit I had to go walking to find this stick my support stick I stir up all the mosquitoes and then they come back with me so it's like now that I've been sitting here for another good I don't.

Know half an hour they've kind of died off the smoke gets rid of them in the fire and stuff but I gotta get some more firewood I guess more firewood I want to be able to sit up and relax tonight by the fire just kind of just kind of soak it all in you know just this the woods at night so if I want to do that I need a fire going because these mosquitoes.

Are gonna come on full force pretty soon so off we go I'm really liking this little X I got so it's I don't know if I mentioned it before it's a Sandvik Sweden and then it says one recorder on it so one record our head on a 20-inch wetterling's handle sorry a 20 inch graspers handle I'm liking it a lot I've been using it.

For a lot of things today way more than my saw so this is a light light sharp hatchet fit in the bill it's a Mario mushroom and he looked at his collection of wood and saw that it was good it's pretty sweet little tent really the only reason I'm using it is for the bug protection if it wasn't midsummer I'd be sleeping under the tarp like and.

Normally do but for what this is for how much it weighs for how little it packs down it's it's perfect to use on on something like this and without the fly like I've already said it even opens up more possibilities so you can hang out in there and not be too too sweaty oh I'm not gonna need my sharpener no more I am going to need my headlamp so.

I'm taking that guy out right now and I'm not gonna need my axe so might as well hang it back up know where it is everything's good this goes in my pocket until I need it I don't want to be running around looking for my headlamp when it's dark so it's about quarter after eight right now and you can see behind my head there is a clearing in.

The clearing it's still nice and light out there but in here I'm losing light quick so I just want to tidy up get everything ready before dark so that I know where everything is gonna wood all together I piled a bunch of punky wood on on the fire again to get the smoke coming back mosquitoes are not too bad right now I'm hoping that once the Sun.

Goes Down it's not going to change but either way no big deal and having a lot of fun I needed this I needed a little bit of a recharge I hadn't been out in a while on an overnight or so it's an awesome night out the temperatures dropped a lot there's no humidity mosquitos have gone away.

Fireflies are out this is killer I just saw an owl it was super cool sitting here and there's a lot of noise and leaves over there and it sounded like it was bigger than a squirrel but not as big as a raccoon or a coyote and I turned my light over there and I clap my hands and something flies up to the tree and looking at me has to be an owl I.

Don't know what else it would be a small it's a small owl I think or whatever other kind of bird bird hunts at night but it was shaped like an owl like small and fat really really cool couldn't get a good look at them obviously because it's dark and I just had my headlamp but it was awesome awesome to see that's it for tonight guys we'll see you.

In the morning well it's right around 7:30 and slept pretty good except for employee about midnight about 6:30 or so so that's not too shabby for for a night in the woods normally it takes me a few nights to get on a normal sleeping schedule but I pill I feel pretty refreshed and I'm hungry so I'm gonna make up some oatmeal.

You still got some heat in there so I'm just gonna Stoke it up I've got a bunch of sassafras twigs I just picked throw right on there hopefully with a little bit of Fanning it'll be all good  Who am I kidding it actually is very good I was waiting to eat this oatmeal.

It's very filling feels good on the tummy tum the tummy tum feels good on the tummy tum it's gonna be a nice day and then one night the splitters put a bunch of spider webs right on my tent I'm pretty cool all right this is all my gear that I brought real quick packing up I think that this backpack is a good.

Backpack for an overnight or a couple days if you want to bring enough gear with you to be comfortable this isn't a survival situation this is me having fun in the woods this is me camping this is me being able to bring everything I want in one backpack while still having that backpack to be robust as opposed to like a backpacking backpack so you can see.

Stuff everything in there it's all good I'm happy with the bag I'm happy I got it I'm happy Maxpedition sent it to me I will continue to use it and I'm sure you'll see it in more videos so it's about 9 o'clock right now I'm gonna give the wife a call tanks are almost an hour to get here it'll be about 10 when she.

Gets here and that will be just right around 24 hours that I've been out here so a good test for this pack can last you 24 hours out of it real easy and like I said before even more if I had a little bit more water and was actually able to catch some fish alright so that's it for this video guys I had a lot of fun I hope you guys enjoy it I.

Hope you learned something and as always I'll see you on the next one bye you