3 Night Winter Hammock and Pulk Trip in BWCA
all right here we are.... okay it's about one o'clock 1 30. We're up here in the Boundary Waters heading out across Snowbank pulling our beautiful little pokes there me and Alex just us weather's not supposed to be too bad for Minnesota pretty yeah frosty yeah yeah there's beautiful out here it's cloudy it's moody uh a little late in the day we're not gonna have a lot of light but heading on over probably parent lake we got a portage right down that way ooh buddy so quiet so time to grab breakfast always tie the food off on the tree in my ear sack that's a fat food bag hello me hello morning fresh brood medallion doro it is about 24 degrees so pretty mild looking down toward alex he might still be sleeping in it is after eight o'clock in the morning because it doesn't even really get light out here until about 7 15 7 30. you know i'm still trying to decide whether brewing a cup of coffee in the morning and i use this little deal today that jason sent me as a christmas gift thank you man and i do have a little pack of my instant medallion dodo down there which i can just dump and stir i will say the fresh fruit is tastier i do have to wait a little longer to get it and deal with a little fuss afterwards i got up yesterday at uh 2 58 in the morning and i drove to park rapids minnesota to pick up alex which is about nearly four hours three hours 45 minutes four hours with a couple of stops to woo hi there yeah all right i'll back off from you picked him up and then uh it's about four hours from park rapids to ely and then you know spend our time getting our bulks hooked up and everything and you know by the time we got out here to camp and man it was glorious walking across the lakes but by the time we got to camp we had not a lot of daylight left and i kind of wanted to get my superior gear hammock hung up in the light of day and get my tarp put up in the light of day and i made uh what i call upside down meatloaf for me and mag the other night so you got your brown sugar on the bottom of your pan then you catch up then you put your meatloaf in there and cook it so that juice in the meat goes down into the brown sugar and ketchup caramelizes and you take it out of the oven after cooking at about 350. kind of drain a little bit of the fat off and then let it sit you know let it rest 15 minutes then flip it out of the pan and that brown sugar and ketchup on top is not all dried out and stuff so i made us up some meals last night with meg's mashed potatoes and some broccoli and i actually have another one for myself maybe two i might be eating that the whole time and some country ham biscuits thank you james ooh buddy real southern salty country ham so we brought a lot of food so we think we might just have to sit around here and just uh eat some food today and now instant medallion daughter pour stir and drink when it's cold in the morning you just want to get awake and be awake that may win yeah where's my bloody spoon i know all you guys are always asking about the little table i have it's like a little golden table that sticks on a pole and i filmed his updated version about two months ago i ordered a new one and tommy was kind enough to kind of send in a put in a couple little extras for me you know sometimes out in the snow i got my fancy feast down in there and if i'm not watching properly even though i got it sitting on that little piece of foil it'll kind of melt into the snow and tip and once or twice i've lost my hot water and that's a bummer because that delays coffee time cheers now notice now he has an option for this little tiny tripod and i was kind of thinking that would sit perfectly in the snow i can level it out i got the uh the best buddy table right here it's a little bit longer kind of fun i think it might be a little improvement on my medalia espresso in the morning found yourself a place himself a place i'm gonna that's where i've just been myself back with you now have me a couple of sips but i'm going to take my little pouch that i keep my camera in that you're inside right now stop to be in there what i do is i have a little inside pouch that i slip a hand warmer into pocket hand warmer one of those deals that one's done don't get no one in there that way i can kind of be a little more reckless keeping my camera you know not inside two or three layers of coats all the time which i usually do still do with that thing but i can have it in my pocket and uh some oxygen in that thing and then after talking to you here i can just reach over after i got that in there and just dropped that on over the camera and it will keep it uh warm enough next time i turn it on it's happy to film so like got a little colder than we thought it was going to be last night and that's always fun that's why i took my uh my outer underquilt that i can snap onto the superior hammock and put that on because this superior hammock is a uh 15 degree and this outer under quilt is a 30. together probably good to minus 20 or something but uh you know saw the temps drop and getting ready to go to bed and it was like already like seven degrees and i said well i don't want to push it or do too much testing let's just double up we had a lot of firewood yesterday spent a bunch of the day uh sawing and splitting wood and it was satisfying because we had an all-day fire still got a little bit of firewood left down there pretty settled in here and we got a lot of wood that we can go saw and cut that's down really close to us and you know pulling a pulk is still a little bit of work especially through the portage and you know i got that thing loaded up i'll admit i'm a little heavier this time because i have splitting axe i got a hatchet i carried out the firebox stove it's kind of new and i wanted to try it out out here and i hadn't really gotten it out yet because we've had such a big fire it's the day goes fast i mean it wasn't light till 7 30 and it'll be dark by 4 30 and you know every time we start doing stuff and you know you start to go all right i'm going to go over there and cut a log and split some stuff warms you right up and just get your food ready and you can piddle a day real quick i think it's just going to make backpacking a little more fun no matter how old you are or young yard you got to just kind of change your groove once in a while to make it exciting and go yeah you can always go a different style so it's really nice you know it's that grunford brook splitting axe is maybe it's a little over two pounds definitely worth carrying and uh you know being able to split that wood up like that was really good you know i i never thought i'd say this but i'm not even eating my peanut butter pap tarts this morning i know how many styles am i gonna change because i cooked myself some pancakes at home made some really good pancakes and i pre-cooked some bacon loaded with butter brought a stick of butter brought some maple syrup i want to get up got my little frying pan take it down there when we get a fire started me and alex want pancakes and that's what is on my mind in a peanut butter pop-tart i don't want anything slowing down my appetite for them pancakes because i made a bunch of them in the heavy and the medallion doro instant espresso is a wake of me up now i feel the caffeine kicking in i feel it feeling my body i don't know this trip i really just wanted to come out and and burn wood all day cut it split it chip it love it so so so coffee time coffee time coffee time in the woods doing their morning chores yeah hey smokey that little stove is kicking out some heat too man sit there stoking that thing and you just have to keep feeding it that firebox stove and whew already i'm loading this thing up like a swedish burning log you can put some pretty big wood here here here here stuff some stuff in the middle get these pancakes going yeah yeah yeah little lake walking i'm warm already hello little short arms long legs short arms hey yeah tonight's a little delight it's the timeout wafer man it is a good one it's a cadbury one of my favorite it's like an uppity kitkat maybe it's more sophisticated and better schooled and still a good friend and still someone that's standing by your side you ever had a timeout alex you fix it to get a bite of one i'd say last night was probably the windiest night out here but the good old superfly put the little warb on it superfly with the internal pull mod and some doors get me good one door pitch behind me i never felt the puff but i felt it moving through camp well i got my sprawl right on there merci beaucoup matthew i love this this is good so i appreciate that and you can uh pull the edges in and draw it up into a little bundle but i need a sprawl sprawl sprawl sprawl and that says it all backing up getting ready to head out don't want to go went too fast oh got myself a pretty bowler so so windy out here today yeah we're on the final pitch home now it was good and we realized walking out here we didn't wear our snowshoes we should have because it would have kept our mukluks out of the slush but there's some areas with no slush but there's some right now let's see what is it january 14th where there's some pretty good slush are you interested in slush foreign here all right let's see that pull poking you alex sometimes you got to walk the pork down like a dog so so excuse me sug
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