Winter Snow Camping- Hot Tent Overnight Trip *Solo Camp*
welcome back to another episode of the michigan magnet man i am back here in kingston michigan again today doing a little bit of camping out here as you can tell there's still snow on the ground out behind me winter is still full effect but today it is a completely different type of winter day it is about 40 degrees outside here in michigan completely different than my last camping trip last time i was out here on new year's eve it got down to 10 degrees fahrenheit so tonight it's only supposed to get down to about 32 so that's a lot better than what it was now this area that i'm camping is on some property that my family owns i'm gonna go ahead and get all of my gear i just picked a spot to do some camping today's video we'll go over a couple different things and we'll go over hot tent safety some tips and tricks to help keep your tent warm what gear you need because on my first trip i didn't have all the gear i needed so this video will tell you a little bit more about what gear i purchased since then to help make my stay out here a little bit more comfortable so without that let's go ahead and get going so the first thing that i'm going to do now that i got all my stuff out here i'm going to get this opened up and i'm going to pull the tent out i always like setting that up first before i do anything else um it is about 12 30 in the afternoon like i said the temperature is close to 40 degrees right now it's been warmer it's fluctuating a decent amount i'm out here by myself i will be using in today's video is the wild haven ultra light camping tent that one tigress offers now it comes with one pole the tent and then some stakes now there are extra strings that come with the tent to spread out the tent a little bit more on the sides and it didn't come with enough stakes for that so this past week i went to walmart and i bought some extra stakes so i'll have a little bit more um pull away on the sides because the walls were kind of pulling up right where i was sleeping and i was feeling all of the ice build up on the side of the tent on the back of my sleeping bag and it got cold a little bit i i had my sleeping bag it was warm but it still didn't make that much more of a difference let's go ahead and get this set up now i do want to find some place kind of flat where i'm gonna be laying last one was kind of on a slant so i'm gonna look for some place like that over and tight so i mentioned earlier in the video that i've got some new gear that i'm going to be using and this is the first piece of gear now this is an insulated emergency blanket slash tarp it's going to be big enough for me to put underneath my cot and it should protect a little bit more dryness from the ground um on the inside you can see it's got this reflective material and i'm hoping that this will keep some of the heat off of the ground and reflect it back up in the tent so let's go ahead and get this put down now i do plan on putting velcro on the side of this and velcroing it up to the side of the inside of the tent that way all the condensation that was building up that was hitting the side of the tent won't be actually hitting me because there will be an additional wall in there that should prevent condensation so that's what i'm hoping for with this let's get it put in now the part that i mentioned that i was going to be velcroing is going to be this back half here up to this wall to make that little false back each side comes with a little stake i'm going to stake those into this should prevent it from moving around at all on me all right so i got the velcro i'm hoping it sticks to this pretty good let's start with this piece here and stick this to the back of this pull a little bit farther down to give it room so i just stuck that one piece of artwork to the back of this side here now i'm going to do the same down on this side push up on it i'm gonna try to get a grip on it the velcro is not gonna work i have another idea let's pull that off so there are these little corner parts here i think i could take this this goes to the door and i could just put it around on this side like this and through the hole and that should hold that side up let's see if i can do the same on the other side that's gonna work we'll see what it looks like once i have my cod up in here i'm gonna go grab my cot next this cot was one of the best purchases that i had made before i came out last time it got me up off the ground and kept me a lot warmer i don't know if you know this snow is really cold so do you see how this comes up behind i know this doesn't stick right there but at least i'm hoping this keeps some of the heat up and where my bedding is now the next piece of material that i bought that's going to make this so much more comfortable than last time is a sleeping mat so what that does is it's going to create a layer of air between me and the cot which is going to help me stay a lot warmer than i would have been i was really warm last time with my sleeping bag don't get me wrong but i think that this little mat will just make it that much better to be sleeping up off the ground so that's one of my tips i highly recommend getting a sleeping mat and a cot i'm going to get the sleeping mat on this sleeping mat is super lightweight and made by a company called invoker i paid i believe like 25 or 30 dollars for it off of amazon i will go ahead and put the link down in the description as well it blows up super fast um there's a lot of little ridges and stuff in it so it makes it easy and quick to blow up now this particular mat does have a um pump built into it that you can use but i pulled it out and i didn't like the the pump i like it doesn't work very well at all so i prefer to blow this up by mouth it does not take long um can't do it from this side this this right here is what i was talking about there's a foam mat in here that you're supposed to be able to squeeze and it's supposed to fill this up with air it does not work so if you're looking for a mat that has that option built in specifically i wouldn't recommend this mat but if you're if you're okay blowing up the map by yourself it doesn't take long i'm going to show you i highly recommend this thus far let's go ahead and get this thing blown up so the way the little valve works it's a little check valve that's built into the back so it doesn't let any air out see that it's got large ridges coming through here and it adds about two and a half inches of thickness between me and the cot that two and a half inches is gonna make a difference now this air is gonna get warm from my body heat and that's gonna help keep me warm tonight too and it is fairly comfortable now i did read up that people are having issues with other mats where they fill them up with air and they're when they turn on their side or anything they feel it up against their cot or the ground with this i'm finding that the way that they distributed all of the air in the mat that it it that doesn't happen at all my body's not touching i'm it's like being on an airpad like an air mattress and it's crazy how like difference that that's going to be warm i'm excited about that i need to get this stove set up and i need to get some wood cut before it gets to be nighttime it's about 1 30 now i got the tent part set up i've got my cot set up um the tent i set up wrong last time i forgot some steps um i didn't realize that the little ring spots are where i could put something rather than the strings that come off of them so i've got more room in here today so the outside parts are pulled out that wasn't like that last time i didn't have the strings hooked up so that is another tip when you were setting up the tent set it up correctly this tent does not come with instructions you kind of have to do it on your own but from watching other hot tent videos on youtube i was able to figure it out so make sure you're watching these videos guys that single tip is gonna help me have a lot more room in my tent today so i'm gonna go ahead and get the stove pulled out and get some of the wood cut so this is my little hot tent stove now when i ordered this the company didn't send me these little side panels you saw in my last video that i had to use this little grill grate as the little side i have since talked to the company and they are sending out those two panels to me they offered me a 40 refund on the product if i wanted to continue to use the stove without it they also offered to replace the entire thing but that was going to take weeks and weeks because they didn't have any currently available which sucked because i just ordered it like days before that so i'm currently still going to be using it how i had it last time and it is okay it works great none of the smoke got out really other than when i was putting wood on top um to dry it out that did get a little bit smoky in here and i just opened up the sides and let it air out a little bit so last video you saw that i was using a piece of a couple pieces of pie tins with some duct tape to hold the stove stack up i do have this part now from one tigress um it got here really quick within three days of ordering it so if you're looking for a quick delivery and quick delivery on products i highly recommend going with one tigress products so what this does is it keeps the stove stack from being able to touch the actual tent and prevents it from burning so it's really important to have this and it just sticks up right up onto here onto this little velcro oh and now that part will be taken care of better than some pie tents now i am gonna face this towards where i'm sleeping tonight like last time so i have easy access to go ahead and put firewood into the stove and this back part connects right into here for the stove set as i mentioned in my last video i really like that this comes off the back half of this and not off the top like on a lot of other ones it just makes it a little bit easier to control the smoke and the heat levels and it gives me more room to cook up on top these pieces just interlace into each other and they drop in like that now i just have one last piece to put on i didn't think that was going to happen there was snow on it and i was trying to get the snow off there we go now i like that how the end of this bends to the side of the 90 so to prevent the smoke from coming back towards us it's really nice so now that i have the stove and the tent set up i'm gonna get out there and cut up a little bit of firewood i did bring some food for tonight i got some steak and potatoes but i did bring some mushrooms as well some morels and a bunch of other random foreign mushrooms that came in this pack they're dehydrated i'm gonna rehydrate them and get those cooked up tonight should be super good if you saw the last video you found out that i really like to cook i really like to eat too got some trail mix going you guys need to make sure you guys are eating plenty of stuff while you're out here so you got plenty of energy um without that you can get cold even your body when it's digesting it's actually burning calories and it's keeping you warm last time i came out here i forgot my pan and my saw this time i did not forget i got the salt here and go ahead and cut some wood now i did bring some more of those dirt flame logs last time i used them so they don't fit in my stove like at all i have to cut them i cut it a quarter of one off last time i put it in and oh it was a bad idea it was too hot the whole smokestack was just glowing red so i brought some this time as well i'm gonna cut them up into smaller pieces probably like eight separate little pieces and i can feed that to the fire throughout the night and it'll help the dry wood just pick up and like start burning a lot faster so i've got four of those those will break into like 32 different little pieces i also brought some to airplane fire starters what is nice and dry so we got two splits and the little pieces of wood you're gonna get look like this now this is gonna help them burn a lot easier than a full piece would be because the inside will be able to the fire i'm gonna split the rest of this wood and then i'm going to cut up those airplane logs all right i'm taking a little bit of a breather i just got all that wood cut and split i got it stacked up in there should be enough for the night it's not too cold tonight so i don't think i'm gonna need that much i also have these dura flame logs that i mentioned now typically you would just put this whole thing in the fire this is not that type of situation these do not fit so i have to take and open it i don't know if you've ever seen the inside of a duraplane log bag this is what it looks like it's just this giant puck and it feels really tight and packed i'm gonna cut slivers of this off probably the size of hockey pucks all the way down and throughout the night i can put these in there with the other wood just to keep the fire going these are supposed to burn for an hour and a half long the whole thing so i think i can make it last a lot longer if i split it up so it can fit in my stove so i'm gonna cut a couple pieces of this off right now let's see how easy it cuts last time i cut some of this it was like 3 30 in the morning four in the morning when my stove went out so i'm hoping that it cuts pretty easy i think it will like i said i'm just going to cut about hockey punch size off so it's cutting through like a log wood i mean this is log there we go so i'm just gonna cut pucks like this size and these are gonna burn so hot that everything's just going to warm right up these are almost like instant warmers so we'll go ahead and cut up a couple more of these and get those in there it is still really warm out the sun's gone down a little bit but it's still beautiful out here all right so i have all the firewood all cut up and i'm hanging out in the tent now we using today to light this fire believe it or not will be this here handy dandy green lighter as well as one of these handy dandy fire starters so i brought these with me last time and they were completely handy i'm still really warm i don't even really know if it's necessary in here i did bring a thermometer with me this time so i can see what temperature it gets to tonight i'm thinking that it's gonna get pretty warm in the 10 at least i'm thinking in the 70s at least it's only 32 out today or tonight i am steaming right now um if you can tell my undershirt here is soaking wet i am going to take this off as soon as i'm done getting all my moving around done so that i can stay warm the drier you are the more warm you will stay so try not to sweat too much on a few other videos that i was watching this week i saw that they were taking stones and placing them near their stove to pull in the heat and help keep the tent a lot warmer throughout the night so luckily this big old pile behind me are all stones so i'm gonna go grab a couple of these stones and go get them put in the tent and get them underneath the stove so this is the giant pile of rocks i'm gonna pick from and it looks like there's a bunch of tiny ones up in here i do need to be careful there is barbed wire out here if you see it coming up through there oh the stone just moved on me that just rocked out from underneath me all right they don't need to be too large i'm wondering if what stones hold the heat in the best let's grab this one i think this looks like one good one let's grab a couple of them we'll just go ahead and toss that over there i'm gonna grab a couple flat ones like this to put up on the side easier to fit up underneath better let's try this style of rock as well and see if that'll help out i think three should be plenty man it feels so good to have all my stuff set up and have all my wood cut i can start to relax a little bit now i am getting hungry so dinner is definitely going to be something that's happening soon the sun is starting to set and it is so beautiful out here guys look at that the sky is just blue with the white streaks through it really beautiful so i just got two of these rocks put under the other one is way up underneath and if i move this you can see it up behind it the flat one fit up there really well right up behind it oh yeah and this is getting warm because my gloves are starting to dry up i put my gloves up on the side here to dry and it is working i didn't talk too much about my lantern last time i was out it's just a really simple propane lantern this just slides up and out there we go so this part just comes here i've got my tank of propane here brand new the last one i had was also brand new but i've got some that are half empty in my car i'll just twist this right onto here this little lantern worked really really well for some light in here last time i got to get those threads started there we go you can see i've got my lantern lit think i'm to the point guys where i can just start to relax starting to get a little bit hungry i brought a ribeye steak some little mini potatoes an onion i've got that's just like my dinnery stuff i've got some trail mix and jerky to snack on tonight um oh and i cannot wait to show you guys the salt that i got i'm using some sriracha salt so i'm excited to use that i'm really enjoying camping a lot before new year's eve i had never gone out by myself before to camp so that was a very new thing for me and i'm really getting the hang of it i think i mean i'm splitting wood i got a little fire going i didn't die last time so that's cool that gave me some hope i did just get a pair of brand new boots from a company called xpeti i bought them on amazon they were 79 when i ordered them they suggested that you order a half size smaller than you typically wear so i typically wear a ten and a half so i ordered a ten they came and they were so freaking small i sent them right back and i ordered a size that was a size and a half bigger and the size and the half bigger was the perfect fit so if you need to buy some boots from them buy sizes bigger the smaller ones didn't do it for me even though i don't know what it is other people in the comments said that they hadn't had that issue and that when they ordered smaller it worked good for them so order bigger so as you can see my shirt is completely soaking wet always bring dry clothes i brought a dry shirt to change into now this cold water will dry you out super fast it is freezing out here um so you want to keep like i said dry dry is key that's going to keep me a heck of a lot warmer yeah i got my dry clothes on now the sweatshirt was dry just my shirt was wet now to keep warm the best way to do that this is another tip for you guys so your first layer of clothing should be something that's going to suck nice fluffy and really really warm you want to have a layer where all the warmth is going to stay in but it's still breathable where all of that moisture can evaporate off of your body as you can tell before all the moisture was being locked in to my t-shirt i was sweating a lot but this sweatshirt was completely dry that shirt that i put on first was doing its job to soak in all the moisture and that is why i bring extra clothes and extra shirts when i go camping so i can swap them out i'm gonna go ahead and get some dinner starting before it's too late i think i'm gonna turn a movie on while i'm cooking and do some relaxing it should be a good time so i'm gonna go ahead and get started on cooking these are the mushrooms that i have that i was telling about the dehydrated mushrooms you can see the morels so the types of mushrooms that are included in this mushroom pack morels porcini chanterelles oyster shiitake and lobster mushrooms so there's a whole bunch of different types of mushrooms i know i probably pronounced some of those wrong it's okay so i'm gonna rehydrate these and to do so i've got this little i'm gonna need one of these cups for my hot chocolate for dinner but i've got this little guy that i'm gonna pour some water to and get it on the stove and we'll get them all warmed up and rehydrated real quick pretty exciting i've never seen a rehydrated mushroom so i don't know how big they're gonna get i got my mushrooms in the cup i'm gonna go ahead and just set it on the side here next to the pan the whole side there gets pretty warm i'm just going to let that dehydrate a little bit not dehydrate it rehydrate spread this oil around in here i'm going to get these potatoes up in there i love campfire food so much and normally i just stick to potatoes and steak for the most part these are the little potatoes i got just some organic dynamic duos yeah that'll be good all right let's get this steak seasoned when it comes to steak i don't like to over season my steak steak just needs salt and pepper typically guys but today i was feeling a little frow a little uh crazy and i brought some different stuff clearly i'm going to use salt and pepper because those are my go-to's for anything steak so we're going to go ahead and add some pepper to this steak now let's look at this steak first that is a beautiful rib eye i've been really into ribeye steaks lately it's like my go-to you guys look how beautifully marbled this steak is i love rib eyes this company the san francisco salt company makes crazy different salts and this salt is sriracha flavored salt now i have never experienced anything like that before i don't typically oh i don't typically do hot stuff um it messes with my stomach but it smells like sriracha smells good go ahead and add some of that to the outside i'm gonna add a couple more little pieces of coal into there and get it nice and hot so i did bring a meat thermometer with me let's go ahead and check the temperature of the steak right now it's about 125. we're gonna go ahead and call the steak done pull that up and out looks so a little good and nice and buttery and salty you guys the view here is amazing let me turn the camera on show you guys the view i'm looking at so when i'm sitting here in this tent that is what i am looking at right now it is really warm in here and it's just beautiful if you haven't gone out into the woods by yourself or if you're going through a tough time or anything i highly suggest getting out in the woods like this no other place i'd rather be this right here is a morale mushroom it is really good it's weird eating that in the winter so if you look into there it's a nice medium rare all the way through cook that perfect okay i got all dinner done and now i've set some of these stones i put a stone up on top and that is just sucking in all of the heat from this fire going on i just threw a couple logs in there but it is going really well it is warm in this tent guys i had the door open for a while while i was cooking because it was so warm i think this rock is going to do a really good job at holding in a lot of the heat in this place i also have the ones on the side and up underneath it so it should make a huge difference it is now closer to 60 degrees fahrenheit in this tent and it feels good i i'm comfortable um this pad underneath me that i blew up at the beginning of the video that was more necessary than i thought it was going to be it is so comfortable like so so comfortable to set up and my back has been like not hurting all day because of it the last time my back i was having back issues the next day um but this this is helping a lot um i got dinner all done all cooked i got everything all cleaned up and i'm just hanging out i'm going to start watching some movies here in a little bit and it has been a really really good day guys i love getting out here and showing you guys what i'm doing and getting out and camping this is just the second hot tub video i've made and i plan on making so many more um if you guys have any recommendations around the state of michigan for me to go camping go ahead and drop those down below in the comments coming to visit we're going to pick up adam so my cousin and his family just stopped back here and it was really cool to show them the little tent um a lot of people don't know what to expect when they first hear that i've got a hot tub a lot of people think it's going to be a lot bigger than it is and there's going to be more room but there's not i've got a lot of stuff in here you could sleep two people in this wildhaven ultralight tent but you're gonna want to bring another tent with you to set all your belongings in like all your gear i've got this big tote that i put all of my camping stuff in with him pull along with me and if with that being in here there's no room for two people so um i would definitely recommend putting that in a separate tent if you are trying to bring two people out to tent in the hot tub so i'm gonna go ahead and get these boots off climb up in my sleeping bag here soon and watch a movie um i haven't decided what i'm watching tonight i have some options i've got full metal jacket ted and little nicky so i decided i was gonna go ahead and watch little nicky all right guys just wanted to check in and let you guys know what is going on so it is really warm in this tent right now um so i've taken some of these body warmers these hot pads they have stickers so i stuck one to my front one to my back and then stuck some to my feet you don't see it because i put them on underneath these socks i've got a pair of socks on and then i've got one of these heat pads and then i have another pair of socks on and i found that that is keeping my feet really really warm um it is really warm in here like i said as is i'm going to go ahead and show you guys exactly how warm it is so if you are looking on here it is about 72 degrees fahrenheit in this tent right now and that is on the lower half let's see how warm it is up top i'm just going to hold this up here for a minute so today has been completely awesome i'm watching full metal jacket right now um the stove is going really good so cutting those dura flame logs into pucks was the best thing i could have done um i'm definitely gonna keep doing that i might even cut them in half again and make them even smaller because i think the hockey puck size ones are still too big the stove jack on the back is getting red hot still which is okay um it's dissipating within like a foot up which is cool um and then up top it's not even touching a rubbing over there where it exhausts out so that's not an issue okay let's see oh wow and up top let's see if i can get it for you it is almost it's about 83 to 84 degrees at the top of this tent so it is warm in here i'm in a t-shirt guys like i am like pretty much near sweating it's very dry in here however else it would be like i said the fire is still going good these rocks up here have been like lifesavers these things get super warm and it's making it stay warm in here and they radiate i can feel the heat coming from these rocks uh let's say almost a foot and a half away let me go ahead and open this up it is burning really good in here still not good i had my phone too close to the fire and i got an overheating warning luckily it's 26 degrees outside so i just shoved my phone under the side of the tent and it cooled right back down so no more problems there i'm just gonna keep watching another movie and after that i'm probably just gonna call it a night um it's been a really good night so i'm about to call it a night um a ton of deer just came through here they were like literally within like five foot of my tent i was kind of hoping one of them would trip up on one of the blah the cords i have pulling up the tent on the sides but got the fire going got some dare flame logs up in there for the night i will see you guys in the morning so i just woke up to put some more wood in the fire fire's still going pretty good it's still warm in here good morning the roosters are out there screaming good morning at me the fire's still going good i woke up a few times last night to add more wood to the fire and that seemed to work really well this morning when i woke up i cut up two more of these duraflame log chunks next time i'm gonna cut up three of them um i only cut up two this time thinking that's all i would need and i'm down to my last three logs which is perfect because that's really all i need that's enough for another like hour and a half two hours and it'll be daylight by then and i'll be able to pack up and head out um hear that there's the roosters in the background okay let's address the next issue so this morning when i was sitting here i look up and there's red marks up on the side of the tent three of them i was able to get a couple of one of them out before it burned a hole but there's three holes burned in my tent um it's got to be from these duraflame logs being so hot maybe smaller chunks um that sucks i'm gonna have to get some patches for that but that won't be a problem i can fix that up easy so the sun is making it bright out a little bit it's not sunny but it's bright out i can see it's daytime i think i'm gonna go for a little walk and get my muscles moving get myself warmed up i've been letting the stove burn out for like the last 20 30 minutes so i haven't added anything else to it it's just about done i'm thinking so i'm gonna go ahead and head out and just like that everything is packed up that's gonna be all for today's episode guys if you liked today's episode make sure to hit subscribe and get those alerts turned on i post new clips to my youtube every single friday and i post new clips to my instagram every single day so i'll see you guys next week
2021-02-25 08:16
