-26° Solo Camping 7 Days | Snowstorms and a Smitty Sled

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-26° Solo Winter Camping 7 Days | Snowstorms and a Smitty Sled

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Intro: 0:00
Day 2: 8:46
Day 3: 20:28
Day 4: 33:07
Day 5: 47:00
Day 6: 56:43
Day 7: 1:12:06

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Audio Credits:
Jesse Gallagher - The Anunnaki Return

***RIDDLE ANSWERS***
Riddle 1:
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes out first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
Answer: Dark

Riddle 2:
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.
Answer: Fish

Riddle 3:
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
Answer: Wind

Riddle 4:
This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.
Answer: Time

[LostLakes]

Get a lot of questions and some think I'm lying about the temperature (no, I never have). If the title says -30, it should go without saying that that's the LOW for the trip...the temp fluctuates, of course (it's -26C at 1:12:08).
So I made a video for the top 11 FAQs I get about winter camping:
Hope it helps clear some things up.

[tabc]

I’ve done a lot of winter camping in my day. I’m going to offer a few tips I hope you won’t be offended. 1) Pine boughs around your tent make great windbreakers. By the end of the first day you want to have the outside of your tent covered in pine. 2) seal up the bottom of your tent with snow it breaks the wind and insulated. You can pour hot water around the packed snow to create ice, almost making a foundation for your tent. 3) maybe you covered this but food barrel? 4) there might be a reason you didn’t bring a ground sheet or sleeping pad, but again soft pine boughs on the ground before you sleep. 5) I find early early morning is best for ice fishing. You might have better luck that way. Thank you and I hope I didn’t come off as pretentious, I’ve just done this a lot and wanted to share.

[oldvet]

A senior who can no longer make a journey like this so am very grateful to be able to vicariously enjoy your experience. Thank you.

[mr.s]

I don't usually follow camping videos. I remember the feeling of the cold. The smell of the wood smoke and the dampness of the sweat from cutting and splitting the wood. The heat from the fire and the sounds of the burnig wood and crunchy snow. You never forget living a life in nature, but memories fade with time. Thanks for helping me remember.

[jcspaziano]

Your closing monologue was beautiful and profound! “Nature crawls through time with indifference to my hurried state. The longer I stay in wilderness the more I align with its pace.”

[emilyrussell]

As someone who has anxiety before sleep, this helped me wind down this evening and relax. Thank you for this!

[sasharemez]

This video got me motivated to get out in the nature. Packed a backpack with a small tent and went for a day hike to the bay. Kids stayed in the tent, played in the sand and I was fishing near by. And then we hiked back in the dark for one hour. My kids were champs, we all overcame our fears of hiking in the dark, thought we had a flashlight. It was an amazing and refreshing day trip.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us!

[joshuapatrick]

Reminds me of the great philosopher Glenn Villeneuve who said “when I’m out here for a certain amount of time, I stop thinking in words”. To quiet the voice of our inner monologue and go back to a state of being more connected to nature without the frivolities of the modern world and the constant nagging of the ego is powerful, and something we should all strive for.

[queenlioness]

I am sitting in a bedroom with the central heating on, rubbing my feet to take a little bit of the chill off my skin. While I am watching your video, it reminds me of how extremely grateful I am that I have shelter, clothing and heating and all of the modern day convenience at my disposal. But your video showing how you have endured days of freezing weather, suffering the discomforts, being completely alone and self dependent, it takes a lot of courage and mental fortitude to push through that entire experience. It also makes me thinks of how much tougher that people more than a century ago did not have all of the modern day gears to be able to survive in these cold conditions. I wonder how they did it. Thank you for capturing and sharing your experience (good and bad) to give us a dose of reality and to learn how to do it. I see you do a lot of reading. I recommend reading the Bible too during your down time while camping. God bless you and stay safe as you continue to document these experiences. It helps you appreciate God's creation even more.

[kitnand]

Anybody else watch these type vids when you can't sleep? So soothing 😌

[sallyfrenette]

You're right. A week long trip has a totally different feel than a weekend getaway. You should write a book. You describe your trips in such an awesome way. I've enjoyed this video as I always do!

[everettlopez]

My favorite thing about cold weather camping is the ability to bring perishable foods. The world is my fridge!!

[cyntiaspadafore]

As a young child my father was in the army and early on he was stationed in Fairbanks Alaska and he had this obsession about winter camping my mother always thought he was just crazy but she tagged along and so did as kids. We didn’t ever go out for a weekend stay that we didn’t see multiple moose and caribou. We had a fire box just like yours and a military tent that smelled awful it just had that army Oder, but once it was up to smell dissipated immediately. This video took me right back to my childhood with my family thank you for such a wonderful memory.❤

[ashleyhenderson]

It is 5 am and I can’t sleep. Really lonely. It was really nice to have your hour company and escape “the world” with this nature video!

[Badgr]

I love this show. It calms me down. I fell asleep while watching this last night, woke up and continued playing the video. It's awesome.

[tyrone-tydavis]

New subscriber.

Such a relief to watch a wilderness video without all the BS pretense. No craft beer. No fancy strikers. No chef wanna be meals. No phony drama. No pressed coffee.

And you are absolutely right, it's not about the fish. It's looking at nature and being amazed by the design. How everything works hand-in-hand.

You are the real deal dude. Congratulations.

[papaown]

Canadians casually camping in death defying cold while I'm in Texas. I swear as soon as it gets below 60f here, you'll see people in winter coats and it cracks me up.

Really nice editing, so many people forget to slow down when it comes to camping videos. Got a sub from me, keep it up.

[cksoup]

in college right now and really needed this- been feeling homesick from my small colorado town where camping trips were just a 15 minute drive away, but living vicariously through this video really helped put my mind at ease. thanks a ton, you earned a new sub:)

[nykterion]

I was born and raised between Athens and Santorini Greece but I’ve chosen to move and live permanently in the west coast of Northern Norway and now I know a thing or two about blizzards and snowstorms, Greek summer and all that heat was never my thing, I feel blessed and privileged for where I am now! Beautiful video btw keep it up

[leastworstgamer]

As a Floridian who has never even seen snow before, watching this is both fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Very rarely do we get to go on actual adventures these days, it's a treat to listen to your commentary and wonder what it would be like.