Hammock Camping With a Dogs in Cold weather
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Spring is still a couple weeks out we have a gorgeous day today I got my dog and we're in the forest we're going to sleep in a hammock tonight go try and find a river and pull a few fish out oh W WF come.
Come on let's go good boy well we've made our way to a nice open spot in a hardwood forest here I think this is where we're going to set up our uh hammock for the night I did make my way also to the river and it's raging so hopefully we can cast a line in there and get a fish but before we go.
Down and do that I got Wolfie's backpack off of him already and he's loving that rolling around in the snow like a happy boy I want to set up camp make sure everything's copesthetic ready to go before I go and uh try my hand so we got some back big backpack full of stuff this is a 55 L backpack got some good food and then hopefully we can cook.
Um some fish as well but we'll see about that so here's my tarp and then I also have a hammock an under quilt and a top quilt so let's get that all set up right now oh and I have a new axe a new to me axe in Orland that I rehandled myself so we'll see how that goes on this trip you can see my shadow this is an old school hammock that a.
Dude from the UK made me uh it's my favorite hammock ever nice and lightweight anyway the bug screen got ripped out of it one of these years and so I can't really use it in bug times so now is the perfect time I'm actually using a combination of two separate systems there's this like elephant looking hook here and this is.
Just a web webbing that goes around the tree and there's a loop on the end you feed the tail through the loop I just added a little piece of paracord cuz I needed it to be longer one time so that's the only real difference one piece of paracord is long strong enough to hold little old Joe so.
That's like that we'll go get the other one on this might be too long of a space actually it is oh just too long yeah take two okay everything's the exact same we just moved trees so everything's good.
And this will fit this time so to put this together I'm just taking that elephant clip and it's like a dyema cord clipping it right on and I just tension it with with like this okay so we'll get it nice and tight the last time I slept in a hammock and.
Messed my back up old Joe you know here comes wolf running hey good boy that's a good boy all right let's check this out hey buddy boy okay not so bad I do want a bit higher but oh yeah I love this hammock this is a great.
Hammock all right cool that's that's the majority of the work done tarp TP is uh the second hardest thing so maybe we'll get that on but man it's a gorgeous day so this is a ugq tarp stuff is so light.
It's not rip stop so I've got a I made a little stick toggle that's how I'm going to attach the tarp to the uh uh Ridge line to the ridge line it's got to loosener there we go there we go now I'll be able to make a bite.
Wait and slide that through the Rings put the toggle through that hey buddy you're wild super excited to be out here eh okay there we go going do the other side and then we can adjust it.
Wolfie good boy there he goes there he goes he's a wild one a real wild child hey wolf there we go Dishwalla Counting Blue Cars yeah good.
Boy I've always been told to put my feet a bit higher when in a hammock so we'll make sure that happens I know the tarp is set up that way but make sure H is too and we should have a pretty decent night's sleep I don't really need the tarp right now so I might throw it back just throw it back or maybe try to put it up like.
This got a decent amount of small cordage this is kevlar cordage I got it at like a on a spool at a craft store sorry about that go try fish as well we bring our stuff down there to try fish fish and find the dog there he is be careful no.
No be careful dude good boy well I went fishing and all I got was this lousy wet foot I'm uh 0 for one on the fishings I think that the river is way too high and it might be too early in the season as well no big deal we got to go back and.
Make a fire start getting some firewood nice thing let's take a look at my sleep system for tonight my ugq top and under quilt I was actually on the phone with Chad last night Chad is the owner of ugq.
Uh they make top quilts under quilts sleeping bags tarps uh quillow much more but anyways they're out in Michigan real nice guy and um I wanted to Showcase some of his stuff I have no this doesn't benefit me in any way just want to promote a good company and.
A buddy so this is my under quilt he was telling me last night that his he's thinking like his new slogan his new mantra is going to be light enough they're not zeroing in on the ultra light crowd this is more of the durable but still very lightweight packable type stuff uh if you look at his Instagram ugq Outdoors.
He has a like cut test abrasion test with all the fabrics and stuff anyway he's a funny guy too so wouldn't be a horrible thing to check out so we're going to put this up this is a -6 Celsius and he's got the fahrenheit on here too cuz he's a -6 is 20 fah okay and they've got the tabs on here these white tabs that Mark the foot cuz the.
Foot box is a little bit more insulated than the head box it's got a little bit more o for it so all you got to really do is just find the hook and PR it on what the hook going to be uhoh I don't need no hook on this beat all I need is a truck in the background my.
Head and I'm wh this it's fully adjustable and we'll get it on and figure everything out after but right now a little little burrito here going on just a little burrito action okay so that's that that's my under quilt and then my quillow which I will show you in a second here which is a revolutionary.
Product we got my top quilt my top quilt I went with a little bit heavier so I think it's like A- 20 or something I'll be nice and toasty tonight but it packs down pretty decent as you can see it packs down to the same size as that -6 and the quillow together you can get all sorts of.
Different colors and customize your logo all sorts of fun stuff on there but this locked up in here and we shall be golden tonight more than warm more than comfy let's check out this quillow so Chad thought this up earlier this year maybe late last year this is a like a quilt right just a basic top quilt but it's got a foot box here right and you.
Can also fold it up I guess I'll just lay it right on the snow though fold it up and roll it up and obviously can be done much more neat than this and fold itself into a pillow so it's a dual purpose obviously.
If you're freezing cold you can go without a pillow and use this as an extra layer of warmth so that's my thoughts tonight if that down if that underquilt doesn't cut it I'm just going to lay this underneath my whole hammock inside that underquilt and just go without the pillow but as it is that's a decent size pillow and uh comfortable.
It's filled with 850 down yeah again I just really like the the products shout out to Chad with all his freaking outdoor crap outdoor crap Chad okay well seems pretty solid we're about done that uh get some more firewood I guess and start to think about supper soon I.
Don't know if I'll be getting a fish I'll go back out and fish again I don't know if I'll be getting a fish it just seems too early and too high of water but we might even hike down farther down the river and see if that dog ever comes back well we hiked down and tried again with no luck it's a.
Lot of the River open but a lot of it's still all iced up it's funny too walking here look at this open completely open turn around a bunch of snow good boy let's go this way good boy I've come to terms with the fact that.
There's not going to be a fish and that's fine um so there's not much prep for any for supper or anything I just got some freeze-dried chili uh I can get Wolfie some food but it'll be nice and uh relaxing tonight so get back with you guys in a.
Bit it is moving hey bud what do you think smell something eh good boy cl's off but I did find something useful uh where I'm camped it's all snow I didn't bring anything for Wolf to sleep on not that he needs it but this is here so I'm going to take it and use it blue foam pad sleeping pad.
Style so Wolfie can use that to lay on and uh I'll probably end up hiking it out of here anyways so seems like it's been there over the winter at least my dog is gone there be here we go oh this is gorgeous the sun is everything right.
Now good boy he doesn't care at all that's a good boy found a piece of fish did you with one swipe of the Paw that looks really old dude yeah really old won't eat fresh fish you know.
Freshly caught fish but give me that soggy you know last year's Jawbone of a freaking long gone fish that's what I want raw and wriggling look.
For Pig there's all sorts of kble you drop there big guy there's a stump here on the ground or a fallen log so I'll see if I can kind of use that as a seat with these pads I got that blue pad I collected and I also have a sit pad I brought I use that to sit on by the fire tonight try to clear out some.
Snow more or less clearing this out so that when I sit I don't get wet and a little bit for the fire too but more for my cushy and my legs what Happ you all the other perks you know that's not so bad TR to hang up.
Like this with my back on here oh yeah oh I was meant for it little chillax action fire there cool what I think I want to do is to conserve firewood because I really don't feel like cutting a ton tonight is I'm going to use a twig stove to cook my supper you have not seen this twig stove yet this is The Twig stove to end all other.
Twig stoves I'll get it out and show you here let you be the judge of that so this is my twig stove the way that I store it in my backpack cuz I usually put it along my my sipad and put it along the back of me it's flat but it is a gasifier it burns its smoke twice like the bush buddy does but.
It's not a circle rounded that fits in a pot like the bush bu does this is flat and Fs together now it looks like and the name is wild I got sent this last year I think it was Kickstarter project I have no idea if you can get this at all still or not this is called the Ganesha the Ganesha now the guy that sent me this was asking.
For some feedback and whatnot and uh I told him that you need to change the name because it has nothing to do with fire especially if you're trying to Target a North American audience which who knows but anyways two pieces it's titanium I believe so you got this piece that's the inside that's the actual fire box itself folds flat.
You open it push that thing down you got the opening there where you feed sticks into and then you got the outer Ganesha here that this drops into actually hold that back up for a second drop that bad boy in there and then you open it up when it's it's inside and then this little topper on the bathtub chain gets put in here to kind of.
Solidify it all and I know I know what you're thinking I know believe me it looks like uh a wish version of a twig stove but this thing works phenomenally probably the best twig stove I've ever used in my life gesha it also came with this little fire mat that I put on the ground and it.
Stops the ground from burning but it scorches it through but still it will not burn burn through this mat which is kind of cool and then you can wrap it all up in there so let's get this going what are you doing buddy that's nothing in there for you nothing in there for you dude he's a wild.
One some uh Yellow Birch Park here just let that go for a minute catch all the birch bark it's got a nice big uh top for pots or pans and then you can add firewood from or Twigs I guess fuel from the side here the door or from the.
Top and then just like the bush buddy you can grab it while it's hot because of the double wall uh if you grab it by the bottom you can move it around and stuff all right we'll let that grow and we'll start oh we got to go down to the river and get some water too ran out all the out of drinking.
Water could melt snow but the river is not far at all couple hundred meters not even so that's what we shall do he coming I'm going get some water he coming he must have got into an old fire pit or something he's got so all over his uh.
Muzzle silly dog Wolfie good boy Whoa you're a wild man whoa good boy let's go this.
Way good boy okay back no surprise it's uh done flaming up but still got a good bed coals there you can definitely blow this back into uh good sustainable little twig fire here this is a cool spot I've been here before uh some locals will probably know this area but uh never done this type of thing here which is.
Nice here we go another thing this mat underneath is doing is keeping it up off the snow which helps it not sink in and and start to smolder and stuff normally wouldn't use a twig stove in the winter time but like I said I just want to show this off a bit and conserve my firewood we're losing light.
It's uh it's almost six it's good though we're getting we're keeping light longer than we were in the quote unquote winter which is nice such a weird winter guys I wonder how the rest of the world uh thought of this past winter or season where they are it was abnormally warm uh for everybody that I've talked to in at least North America it was very.
Very very strange all right let's get this on here plenty of room I got my lid somewhere I got to go find it I just want to reiterate I'm not calling the name Ganesha silly I'm saying that it doesn't fit with this product unless I'm just completely ignorant in Ganesha is like the god of.
Fire but I don't think so better to do my my research before I post this hey anyways it's a good product there's no getting around it actually used it quite a bit last year look at.
This so we're relatively close to a hiking trail we're just off the trail a bit and that's easy access for Mr Wolf and we've seen lots of actual wolf scat and moose Sprints and stuff so tonight I think I might actually tie them up which I don't know normally do it all depends on where we are in the situation is that boiling.
Already anyways um so I just got a Han a par of cord maybe 20 ft long plus I've got his his leash and uh his harness so I'll time him up to a tree over there I'll put the blue pad underneath for him and uh it'll be golden I think it's safe to say that that is boiling.
Oh yeah can you see him where's Wolfie so we were lucky enough to get sent a freeze dryer uh maybe two years ago now a year and a half ago or so and will has really perfected it so we've got freeze-dried chili here and the way that I like to do it there's a couple different ways but the way I like to do.
It is to pour my boiling water into a secondary cup cup that I'm not going to eat out of and then that way I can really dictate how much much water I need as I go and not overwater it nor under so we got real good food like Styrofoam style uh mushrooms you know beans meat the whole goodness of the chilies so let's.
Do this I got wolf hair in my water so it really really um soaks up the water quick as you can see that's not enough and it's better to put a little bit more than you need and then let it sit and then also you can throw it on your fire or your twig so or what have you uh without a lid on it for a couple.
Seconds to simmer it or maybe a minute or so actually to simmer it and like a lot of that water will dissipate with the Steam and stuff so like this this is like soupy chilly here but we'll let it sit and then potentially throw it back on these coals on this twig stove which are actually pumping out the heat all.
Right put this on here maybe to block the snow a bit put this on we'll leave it sit and we got extra water for tea or whatever we want or to clean the pot after so can pick it up and you can see there's still glowing Embers in there this is right after I took that stuff off it is warm but I can pick it up from the bottom so.
Let's move this and get a fire going getting kind of chilled my feet are soaking wet I was uh trying to fish on the shore of the river and some ice broke and it wasn't Deep by any means it was just on the side but my feet went in the water so there's actual puddles in my my shoes getting kind of of chilled but I do have extra.
Socks like you should have especially this time of year so got that and a whole undergarment set so we'll be all right we'll just wait till uh bedtime to change but I do need a fire it's a big old piece of birch bark uh like really old mature Yellow Birch comes off in these plates they're all.
Very still very flammable very still very flamable a get it all on there at once you know no one's sticking it as they say huh how long has that been no one stucking at Joe there's prep in the black.
Bag it's preping the black bar hope Kyle watches this cuz he's probably the only one who get that maybe douge put this back on just near it to warm it up again we'll have some supper hey Wolfie where'd you go you can have some too bud I got.
Some from my oh look at this guy oh my goodness oh I'm just just chilling out over here good boy Beauty nice sunset my food is done fully rehydrated got some cheese I'm going to.
Put on here but other than that that's phenomenal probably make a tea up too warm up my warm up my toeses you know but we're going to lose light here soon anyway he's not impressed but we wrangled him up we wrangled him and we lured him with cheese not much in here you can.
Have but here's a hunk of meat hunk of hunk of chili meat for you good boy well this is nice nice to get out with the hammock a little bit of backpacking probably walked for about maybe an.
Hour maybe a little bit over an hour to get to this spot minimal snow and uh I'll take it hope he's been having a blast running around oh thank you thank you for the rotten fish kisses anyway uh it's good it's good for everybody it's good for me and him get.
Out together and for him to burn some energy and uh as weird as it is and probably not as good as it is for the world this mild wind I'm not complaining you know what I mean but probably shouldn't have too.
Many of these I don't think hopefully this season uh is not too dry cuz then all sorts of like this upcoming season and all sorts of problems happen but anyway I'm going to finish my supper probably get a little bit more wood before it gets too dark and.
Uh hold off this guy from taking my food I imagine I'll have to climb in the hammock pretty early tonight just because my feet are so wet and I can't put on dry socks and put my wet boots back on it's just not uh it doesn't make any sense right so probably be an early night I'm glad we found this pad for Wolfie because I.
Don't want to make the the Pretty Boy Le in the snow you know even though I'm sure he's fine he might even do that anyway but at least now I feel like I have all the bases covered um I knew it wasn't going to be cold tonight so that's why I didn't really worry about it but I could have packed him a little blanket for his.
Backpack or also I could use that quillow and he could lay on the quillow too that's not uh we have we have done that before clean her up bud oh my goodness here diry dop.
Good boy that's for you okay down there you want to make a biger good boy good boy you smart boy e a smart boy just stay there just stay there that's where you got to go that's yours that's for Wolfie.
Good boy all right well losing light you looking at huh that's weird anyways we're losing light and uh I'm getting ready to wrap everything up and sit by the fire was weird he was staring right up in the.
Air warm up the old sit pad you know dry it off the Touch N good boy good dog it's getting pretty uh substantial I got to try and warm my foot up a little bit.
Here it's not going to dry it at all but just warm it up for a little bit there we go these are uh wool socks so best case scenario for this and again all is well if I really needed to I could go lay down right now change it out be nice and toasty but it's just not that time yet you know it's not late.
Enough I'm not I'm not above going to bed at 8:00 though I'll tell you that much get a nice night's sleep I'm an old man 40 this year did I mention that oh man now it's really old Joe before is o o now it's o d oh.
Joe that's it for Old Joe time to switch out and go to bed looking forward to this I got my little Si pad on the ground in front of me here so that I can step on it in the middle of the night when I have to inevitably tinkle 15.
Times oh yep those are soaked let my foot dry off the wind's kicking up a little bit but it's not supposed to do anything too crazy tonight chil chilly chilly.
Chilly oh yeah oh that's nice come on struggles you know struggles with Joe there we go it's not too often I sleep in a hammock uh there was one summer there where I was really loving it but it.
Always seems like this time of year is a good time when the ground's just wet with old snow and uh it's not heavy by any means all this stuff to carry a little bulky but it worked okay I'm going to finish getting long johns on and everything so I don't want to have to step on the.
Ground or into my boots with my nice dry socks come on come on you got it you got it oh oh boy all right well I'm in here now nice and warm and comfy um stars are out Wolfie's laying on the pad all is well I'm going to lay here till I go to.
Sleep get up with you guys in the morning I'll get back with you guys in the morning when I get up good night good morning it's uh around 6:45 I stayed warm except for the times I had to get up and pee and then try and get back in the bed and stuff the hammock is a.
Little bit more finicky that way but when it's not so cold though it's not that big a deal but uh anyways Mr Wolf he stayed all night on that pad so I'm super glad that we end up finding out for him he's got his nose tucked in his tail no real Sun uh Sunrise to speak of this.
Morning it's getting kind of windy but I'm going to lay in bed for for a little bit longer oh excuse me Wolfie come here come come here come on come come here come come on good boy yes come on come here Wolfie oh good.
Boy hey buddy oh good morning good morning good boy hey my bud hey there a go boys that's a good boy I guess it's time to get up put on these Frozen boots oh my like oh my.
God these things are frozen oh oh that's cold so very cold good morning good boy good boy good boy good boy oh yeah there a good boy that's my good boy come hey good.
Boy sh I'll get you some food in a second buddy okay I'm going to pack up and decide whether or not I eat a cliff bar or make some o meal after but the way I'm feeling right now it's Cliff bar and it's the trail because I need to warm these feet up and the only way to.
Do that is to walk try the old Joe special here hey good boy watch out oh hands too cold hands too I do believe that That's All She Wrote toes are starting to hurt feet are numb I don't want to stick around cook.
Up oatmeal so I got a bar in the pocket and we I got to get moving well we'll start hiking and eating at the same time I got to pack my camera away I got to go peek and you tell from that dance got to pack the camera away and finish packing up but I got everything squared away for the most part just got to R angle up the.
dog on our way out it's a long gradual Hill I wolf down that Cliff bar sow is a lot crunchier on no way out.
Anyway we're a hiking it's not that cold out but my toes uh they're regaining feeling so that's something I always got to at the last like 500 M or so before the truck I have to get wolf for around me and get him on the leash CU he has like.
This block about getting back in the truck he does not like to do it he does not want to do it even when he's tired so we got to rain him in and uh and once he's on the leash he doesn't care he'll hop right in no problem anyway I'm going to stop talking so I can hike.
Well we are getting a sunrise after all a little bit later than I had expected anyway I'm not cold anymore keep stripping down layers and hats and hoods and my feet are fine too so that's good uh maybe about Corridor of the way out I'm going to definitely stop in the sue for some breakfast how open this.
Forest is it's kind of cool every now and then I just get a glimpse of Wolfie and his red vest running around way back in there nice and flat this spot too all right we got him we got him oh I see the truck I'm happy to be at the truck very happy all right.
Folks well sorry about that my uh GoPro kept dying on account of the cold we're obviously in the truck now good boy we're making our way down the back road to uh Highway 17 and we're going to head up into the Sue and get some breakfast like I said so that was a fun overnight I wish I could have hooked.
Into a fish or two honestly didn't didn't give it too much of a try just on account of the how fast the water was moving um and I don't know how it goes in the river because I know you can ice fish some people can ice fish not this guy but that's deeper down a bit do the fish are the fish even active in the rivers right now I don't know I would.
Assume they are but the current was way too strong was taking my lure and there was ice everywhere so it's okay uh I was happy to get out with the dog and do a little bit of a backpack uh trip with the hammock so that was a lot of fun and something a little bit different than what I'm used.
To so we'll be back again next week be camping not sure what we'll be doing just yet but uh we'll find out next week so you guys have a great day have a good week until you see me again and uh thanks again for all of everything I will see you soon goodbye
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