Basic Camp Overnighter Part 3

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks

pretty nice night last night didn't get too awful cold out get up and get moving this morning down warming right up I was gonna get the fire going again but I think I'm just gonna go ahead and get up and pack up got a horse fly buzzing around there this morning in here just hit the tarp probably on me shortly feeling pretty lazy winner me to go back sleep for an hour man short ominous but I see the Sun back here directly over here these looks like it's coming up through the journey so I'm guessing it's probably 7:30 8 o'clock guys I kind of thought what we do this morning as we're packing up camping things since it's a beginning series I'm going to put this in the basic bushcrafting series I thought what I would do is I would go ahead and go over the kit that we use last night talk about the individual pieces and things like that so that people would understand what you can't carry or what I do carry and how little it really takes we didn't use half the stuff we actually brought out here because my pack always has enough stuff in it for you know spending quite a bit of time out if I decide to do that but for an overnight you really don't need much so I thought we'd go over just the kit components that we really used last night and talk about that and I think you know what you're going to find out is when you look through this and we talk about it is there's really nothing that we used other than a couple luxury items that fall outside the first five seasons there are mobility we had a couple luxury items we'll talk about as we go but other than that everything dealt with in the five Cs so let's go over their stuff one pieces of time real quick okay so starting at the top of the list let's talk about cutting tools we only use two cutting tools yesterday the first one was just butcher knife that I've used in a lot of other videos this knife has been reproduced it's on our website as the Pathfinder butcher knife by Howe

Bush tools this one is an original that was got obtained front yard sale for three bucks the replica is pretty close to this it's not exact but it's pretty close to an original butcher knife style knife the other tool that we use for a cutting tool was this Wetterling spine for stocks and I really didn't use it very much I didn't use it for anything that I couldn't have done with my knife it's just more convenient to have that second cutting tool for chopping off larger branches and things like that that we use on our shelter so I don't have to cut them with my knife and dull my blade cutting big sticks when I can just chop them with an axe so that was the cutting tools that we used so going down the list to combustion devices obviously we started our fire with a flint rock and our butcher knife we used some charred material in a 10 for that and basically that was just the pithy inner parts of a mowing stock that had been charred ahead of time in another fire and kept in an Altoids tin the other two things that I keep in my belt pouch for starting fire I always have at least three ways to start a fire generally I have at least four but I always carry at least three in my belt pouch I have charred material with a piece of Flint I have a Ferro rod I have a cigarette lighter in my pocket and then I have a large magnifying glass from a pair of binoculars that's probably a twenty Power magnifying lens in my belt pouch as well so those three items stain my belt pouch cigarette lighter usually in my pocket that gives me four ways to start fire yesterday all we use was the butcher knife on a rock and our chart in to start our fire last night containers containers are big ones so let's talk about containers real quick in my mind containers are a really really important thing we used a couple different containers last night first of all we used our Bush Potter 1.8 liter Bush pot and really we used it just to heat the water up what I've done with this one is set this up into somewhat of a cook system in that I have this titanium bowl it doesn't even have a brand name on it I found on Amazon on and I got the measurements and I knew it would fit inside the bush pot so I bought it for that just for tea mixing her eating bowl and then I've got this Sierra Cup which actually came from Amazon as well and it fits inside of the other two and nests inside the other Bowl we use this to eat our soup out of so we had three containers basically in that cook system that nested inside of each other and then we kept our food packets inside here the food that were trialing the other container that we had last night was our 32 ounce water bottle the Pathfinder 32 ounce water bottle and that was what we kept our initial water in and we went collected more I've still got some left in here that I didn't used to cook with last night so they go have a drink of that morning and then it has a nesting cup with it as well so that gives me a pretty well-rounded cook kit that I can use when I'm in the woods now I did use a titanium spork last night again the same one we saw on our website I don't like the sports that have the tines on the spoon those times are never long enough to really do you any good so not really much of a fork I like having the fork on one end and a spoon on the other really convenient it's made out of titanium it's pretty much you know you're not going to destroy the thing gonna last you forever so that's what I carry for eating really not a container it's more of a convenience so I would count down as a convenience item and not one of my five Cs although it is kind of a cutting tool it's still a convenience because I can even a stick five to I can drink that soup three out of the cup okay so let's talk about our cover element obviously we had this eight foot by eight foot tinsmiths oilskin tarp that we use as our shelter last night we had this exercise mat from Walmart Gold's Gym brand that was part of our conduction deterrent if that's what you want to call it to help us fight the cold ground we had our browse bag that we use as our pillow last night could also be used for collecting tinder and things like that ahead of time we had a wool blanket shroud that we used in our browse bag as a pillow and then we had a large queen size wool blanket this one is a merino wool blanket that we carry on our website that's 96 by 96 made right here in the United States so that pretty much covers our cover element and that's enough to keep you good and warm at least three seasons now the only other thing that we really used last night that wasn't a convenient item as part of the five season was cordage we had a piece of rope that we tied to the tree for our backpack we had about two 25 foot lengths of 550 cord and then we had one roll of number 36 Bank line aside from that the only things that we use last night which I would consider more convenience than anything else is we had the grill put pack grill that we used to cook on top of we had our I'm going to reach it here on top of my tarp we had our UCO candle lantern that we lit up last night at the end of the night to give us some ambient light and then of course we have the headlight that we use on our camera which I didn't really use it for looking around they use them more for light to film you know during hours of low-light but other than that we really didn't use a whole lot we had a pair of gloves again that's convenience item but when you're rooting through the sticks and things like that on the ground to get firewood and tinder and killing material a pair of gloves good pair of leather gloves there's always a plus it can definitely save you a lot of headaches if you or to get into you know a millipede a spider a snake something like that or even a thorny branch it can definitely give you a lot of comfort to have leather gloves on it also makes it really easy for pulling pots aren't off the fire making adjustments to the girls and things like that so I generally carry a pair of leather gloves with me but that's more of a convenience item so other than just a few things really everything that we used last night falls within the five Cs it was either a cutting tool combustion device part of our cover element a container or as cordage so in the short term like an overnighter it really doesn't take much to get along and as you move into two three four days things like that

other than having a headlamp and things like that if you're not traveling or if you know the area that you're in you can circumvent needing to compass obviously some type of cotton material is always going to be good to have a cloth sale needle in case you have to make a repair of some kind some duct tape or cargo tape if you have to make a repair or you had to do some type of emergency binding that you couldn't do otherwise it would help you with your first-aid for sure and then other than that you're pretty much set so it doesn't take a whole lot to get along it just takes picking the right items and that's what's important and that's what I think a lot of people wear a lot of people miss the boat they don't pick the right items to having that initial kit and that initial kit that you build is the most important part of everything that you do that surrounds that if there's four five C's that you choose and the redundancies of those five C's are really good robust quality items that are going to last you a lifetime then you don't have to worry so much about the peripheral items then you can kind of pick and choose what you want for luxury item the first five C's all of those items should be the best quality that you can afford they should be the best items that have the most versatility for you in multiple weather conditions and then you know they should be something that you can trust your life with and that's what I like to you know that's the way I like to look at things you know can I trust my life to this item and if it's the only one I've got

am I going to trust my life to it if I had to go down to one cutting tool it would be you know a five to six inch knife with a nice heavy high carbon steel blade on it if I had to choose one fire element or one type of combustion I would choose the ferrocerium rod because it's going to work whether it's wet or dry it's going to throw those heavy-duty Sparks and I can find drying up tender most of the time to ignite it with just a Ferro rod if I have to I've always got my knife in a rock for char material but I don't need that if I have a Ferro rod because I can make sparks with that the open flame thing of a lighter is just convenience if you're carrying one that's great if you're not a Ferro rod we'll do what you needed to do so that would be my number one choice if I had to choose one container over anything else it would be something that like a 32 ounce water bottle and a nesting cup that was going to be able to contain my water to carry it over distance and I would still be able to cook in a nesting cup and things like that and then cover elements if I had to choose only one and I could only have one it would be the wool blanket because the wool blanket can be used for shelter it can be used to wrap up in it can be used for outerwear it's going to hold a lot of its insulative value even if it gets soaking wet and it's going to be nice and warm on a cold or night and as far as cordage goes if I can only choose one that would always be Bank line over anything else because of the versatility of Bank line I can use it for anything I'm using paracord for and if I need it stronger I can always make strap two-ply cordage out of it and if it's 36 number 36 bank line is almost 300 pound test or write out 300 pound test if I reverse wrap two-ply cordage that stuff it's going to be not quite double the strength but it's going to be close enough to be the same strength that's 550 cord anyway with less stretch and more versatility because I can break it down into three solid fibres instead of seven filament fibers that are going to just fray and come apart on you so that's just my two cents for a basic video I wanted to give you guys a few of my thoughts hope I didn't bore you with the soapbox of how I think about things and how I relate you know my core element of my kit to everything else I'm Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me out here for this short series on a basic overnight setup I appreciate everything you do for me for my school for my family and for everyone affiliated with the Pathfinder school we'll be back to another video as soon as we can thanks guys

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