Hiking pack and Hammock Camping Setup
beautiful all right so this is my short trip pack go lay down this is the pack that i take on short trips um i do have an 80 liter osprey pack if we go more than three nights that one is the one that's coming um but most of our trips around here we're gonna do one or two overnights so uh i like this pack um i've had it for a couple years now it's been on many many many trips and still looks almost brand new uh it washes up really well it cleans up really well and it holds up really well um this is an rei pack i think it is called the ruck pack and it's a 40 liter pack um the thing i like the most about it is still has a waistband or a belt so you can transfer some of the weight out of the pack onto your hips which is what you want to do when you're hiking you don't want to just have straps you don't want all that weight on your shoulders it's going to make you tired really fast shoulder straps and the waist belt are all fully adjustable for ride height and for different builds um the other thing that's really cool about this pack is i can fold all of this up and unzip a cover underneath here and completely cover this up and use it like a duffel bag for the handle so if i travel for work or something along those lines i'll usually take this but i won't use it in backpack form i'll carry it like a duffel bag and stick it in the overhead bin on the plank plane so multiple uses and it serves my needs really well so we're gonna go through the pack and i think maverick is gonna watch my back i'll start with the outside so this is an msr water filter we use it i like it holds up well filters last for a while no issues with it a little bit of food grade silicone for lubrication and she's good to go um so on the other side of the pack is empty because if i don't run a water bladder i'll use a regular water bottle they fit really nice right on the side not carry it easy the only thing that's not actually in this pack right now is food and a change of clothes um we usually eat those camp ready meals or freeze dried meals when we're hiking so we'll put the food in the main compartment or kerala will carry it um i'll put a change of clothes up here underwear socks another pair of shorts and a wicking t-shirt so all of the clothes that we take it's not cotton it's all like rib stuff nylon like hiking hiking gear hiking clothes um that all packs down really nice can all fit right here and if we're expecting rain i'll have my rain gear up here as well so that's why this is empty so now i can open up the main compartment and up here and the uh little organizer is where i will put the miscellaneous items like our car keys um i have tent stakes up here uh cell phone all that will go right here and in the main compartment up top um is a two-person cook kit so i showed this on the last video this is the same one that we take with us uh car camping um real efficient so we have a pot two bowls and then our coffee cups in here we can store more stuff inside of it so that all packs up nice kind of locks in does make noise but when we have it all packed in it makes less noise so i've got a sip pad and this is a blow up pillow i always bring these two things because they're super light super small and uh pretty versatile next up is my camp bag i went over this in the last video for car camping but same concept applies it's right on top it's really quick to access it usually this is one of the first things that comes out of the pack because we use everything in here to set up camp so that's always with us up top so going further down the next thing in are the lights that i use inside my hammock um if we get to a campsite later at night my headlamp is in the camp bag and then these lights are right here up top really quick to access and kind of string out so we can have a lit area to set up camp and then right after that is my brain tarp for my hammock so when you're setting up camp and if it's you're setting it up in the rain you want to put your rain fly or your your rain tarp if your hammock camping on top and you want to set that up first so that gives you a nice dry place to set up camp then of course we have my actual hammock we've got a top quilt and an underquilt so if we are summer camping and it's going to be really hot i usually won't bring the top quilt um the only time i bring it i think is if the temperature is going uh to a to a level that i think is going to be uncomfortable for me at night so the under quilt the bottom quilt always comes 100 of the time because i can hang it loosely around the hammock and not get as much heat insulation but it stops the wind and the wind is is the killer the important thing so you want to stop the wind it's not necessarily about stopping cold from creeping in but if you can stop wind you won't cool off the hammock will keep you warm and that is everything that's in the back really really simple quick setup um no it doesn't seem like much but really the most important thing is your sleep system and your food and your water and you have all that covered here now on the 80 liter packs obviously the larger pack that i have i might do another video on that but more gear comes with us you know hiking poles we have our cold weather gear so we have extra jackets uh extra base layers um rain gear toboggans hats you know beanies that kind of stuff so all that takes up room not all of that is compressible so the other cool feature about this pack is let's say i do have to pack up in a hurry and i throw my camp bag in the bottom and then i throw everything else in and i'm in a hurry and we get to the next campsite i can actually unzip the side oh i forgot about that whoops got a tree saw and then that looks like that might actually be careless i can't pillow but i can unzip the side right here and i can actually access the entire pack and i can pull stuff on the bottom without unpacking everything else so it's one of the other reasons why i really like this pack but that's it that's my camping setup that's my hiking setup um i can go through this stuff again if you want but sorry so next i'm going to show you how i set up my rain shelter my hammock my under quilt and then i'll show you what the top quilt looks like once it's all in it's warming up out here today so i'll probably start sweating as soon as i uh lay down in the hammock but i'll get set up and we can do that step one's done our tarp set up now we've got a dry place to move our gear it's not getting rained on and we can finish setting up camp i've got to run a couple errands so i'll be back and when i get back i'll show you how i do the rest of my setup um for you guys it's gonna be instant for me it's gonna be a couple hours so i'll see you then all right so we're back we have our rain shelter set up this is going to help block some of the wind really simple a-frame style out to stakes the center ridge line supporting the weight and now what we're gonna do is hang our hammock up underneath this so we can stay dry and my hammock let's get started all right so these hammocks that i make have bug nets integrated into them and an internal ridgeline to support that so whoopi slings are on the end and now we are going to go ahead throw our lights in and work on our under quilt and top quilt ah oh easy now we've got our hammock set up our top quilts expanding inside we got our wind and cold protection on the bottom which is our under quilt here and we have our rain protection so what i like to do is give the rain away to run down this line and drop to the ground so usually i'll just tie a knot here i'll let it drip down this outside same on the other side so that is pretty much our sleep system that's the most important part at least uh for me as soon as i get into camp i want to make sure i can get some shelter up and my sleep system up and then everything else we can unpack put headlamps on if it's dark get some firewood get food going um whatever we need so i've had some questions by folks over the years that say that you don't get as much privacy with these tarps as you would uh if you had a tent um that's not true because what you can do is remove the end for the four corners and leave the middle stake and you can close these two edges like a door so i'm going to show you what that looks like all right so let's see what both of those look like i'm gonna take you underneath the tarp just so you can get an idea of how much privacy you actually get so it's pretty walled off yes it's a little there's gaps underneath but what you can do is hang your hammock lower and then bring the tarp lower as well if you want it touching the ground i don't recommend that but that is what it is um obviously you can do the same on the other side and then leave one flap where you can lift it up and get in and then close it again so that's that and that is how i set up my sleep system every trip every time um the only thing that changes is what i'm actually connected to so it'll either be a tree or a tree in a jeep or two jeeps whatever we can get our hands on at the time do good little nap now we got to take everything back down i'll show you guys how i wind these cords that way they don't get tangled up on me lay it across your hand come through your pinky around your thumb just crisscross like so what are you good about right here grab the bunch and just twist around the middle here pull your tail up through there and you can slide everything down some i'm going to tighten it up i can just undo that and it'll fall out it'll never not it'll never end up in a knot i should say at this point uh the tarp is done i just draped it over to one side normally it would be the last thing i take down but for simplicity's sake trying to film this i'm just going to drape it over we're going to do our under quilt inside quilt pack all that up get the lights out and then we'll pack i'll show you how the hammock packs up pretty quick so stay with me all right we got the top cool down the underquilt done now i'm going to show you how quick this hammock packs up wow all right i've got the back side of the tarp finished up um it's ready to be taken down so we're gonna do that now so all right let's go for a hike
2021-06-30 22:04
