Bugging Out To The Woods In Hot Weather?

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I've reached my goal I've reached the creek I wanted to hit this Creek and then follow the creeks south find a good camping spot and there is some water in the creek so that's a good thing I'm kind of depending on it for a water source but from the survival theory I'm not here in the Sam Houston National Forest I've been out here long enough now where I'm pretty much out in the open no we're right now I've reached my destination of a creek that was on the map and now I'm going to stick to that Creek and head south the reason I'm sticking to this Creek it's because it's 95 degrees outside right now feels like 101 it's supposed to get hotter sometimes there's no breeze at all you know I'm soaking in sweat I haven't hiked that far really my canteen is empty I've got more water in my pack which I'll used to fill up this canteen again and towards the end of the day I'll be replenishing my water in this Creek using a filtration system this video is about bugging out in hot weather so let's get going got some minnows in there sandy so it's not very muddy there could be some quicksand it's definitely like cooler than up there on the trail well I caught it grasshopper and this is known as the lubber now if you saw my video entitled grasshopper tastes like chicken where I eat grasshopper it's a great survival food however as mentioned in the video this is the one grasshopper that's poisonous and this is a young one you can see he's very ninja-like very dark with a little yellow stripe down his back got a little red on the tail and they don't jump very well I'm all red it I went just a few feet away and here's another one another lubber the poisonous grasshopper relatively speaking this one is still small so it's still dark with the ninja stripes on it you can see he's very clumsy on the ground it won't get around very well like maybe the grasshoppers good place to set up camp a great grass here they'll soften up underneath my bedding there's not too many yo ponds too clear it's just so thick out here it's hard to find a place you know without doing too much clearing it's shady right now I've got a creek right here to my right and in front of me right here I've got a deep gorge so humans or hogs cannot approach me from there or there without me knowing it can only approach me from this direction and I'll build a small fire to help control the insects especially the mosquitoes you know just to get some smoke in the air and boil some water later so I'll stop here take a break drink some more water no figure out what I'm gonna do I'll probably set up camp here alright so I'll do a little cleaning up around here then we'll do a gear check show you what I brought let's do a gear check all right so on me I've got my Brunton compass excellent compass jet scream whistle I've got my canteen on my belt of course the canteen has a little bit of 550 cord in there he's got a small fill rod a little multi-tool a button compass see what else do I have stashed in there that's it on the canteen of course as part of the cantina has the the small stove and the cup in the lid and of course I've got my blackbird okay see Blackbird with this survival pouch attached the survival pouch is a Ferro rod what do we got in here the aluminium foil some emergency tinder a button compass and there's something else down in there I'm not I remember what it was I guess in a survival situation I would dig through there and find out what it was and this actually has a whistle as part of this it's part of this feral rod here it's got a whistle here it goes I probably forget it was on there if I was lost okay and I've got my cell phone in my pocket and I've oh maybe a little bit of range I'm kind of out of range showing one tiny bar I might be able to make a phone call if need be all right on the pack I've got the bolo knife okay see bolo knife of course that has two pouches on it this pouch has the small lock blade some cordage lower path is a little survival kit I've got a headlamp here with extra batteries these are my sunglasses in the case which I just took off this is the Klean Kanteen it's now just about empty of water cuz I refilled my canteen and over here I've got this pouch here that's webbing and carabiners trauma kit right here got some Ranger beads hanging over here all right in this top pouch here I've got a few bars which are pretty gooey right now some number 48 banker's lime pink line not bankers I'm bank line got an emergency water some more bars got a dump pouch I always like using this dump pouch for different things insects prey got a smog we've got the what is this this is the Leatherman Wave multi-tool this is a mosquito net for the head real compact for a lightweight another emergency water solar charged and wind up charged flashlight just some doodads in there these are the little mini tourniquets your some twine to help start a fire there's a little emergency lighting thing in there this is a 90% alcohol praise scratches or wounds disinfectant I've got the Laplander in here some tissue some toilet paper a few wet wipes looks like a couple large band-aids and that's it four in there let's open the main compartment here see what I brought I've got a pair of leather gloves camo poncho this is what I call the junk bag so I throw all the loose stuff in here I've got a clean fiber cloth some coffee filters a personal hygiene kit it's got yo Durant toothpaste chapstick shampoo and soap helped keep myself clean if that never comes extra shirt socks and underwear right in the red notepad permanent marker and a pencil and that's it in there that's next your camera and batteries this is the water filtration kit I did a video on this it's got this all your mini put some coffee filters in here strainers it's got the Kanak outdoor bag in there of course the purifying tablets roll of aluminum foil with the lighter just a little IFAC individual first-aid kit cut gauze you know advil tampons to plug a wound various band-aids paper clips even got a syringe in there and I got some NOK so in here too okay so I come across a corpse or something like that under your nose you understand the snow be great during the apocalypse probably need that under your nose all the time some more water in the plastic bottle and this is my ground kit it has a lightweight comfortable cotton blanket it has my air mattress and a tarp to put under the air mattress if need be it's a six by eight dark pretty light weight so I've got a meal in here mountain house Mexican style rice and chicken big bag of trail mix oh this is got walnuts dried mango almonds cranberries pumpkin seeds free nutritious got a lot of protein and mega threes it's heavy too so I need to start eating that so I have to lug it around anymore another mountain house this is one of the pro packs that's vacuum sealed chicken teriyaki friendly Swede mosquito net this would be the lifesaver tonight I like carrying this it weighs nothing so I I always carry it this is an Alpine air chicken gumbo or this is some super tender this is fat wood shavings fat wood strips mixed with a little bit of dryer lint and that combination makes it go up instantly it's great although I didn't really need to bring it because it's so dry out here and I'm obviously I'm in a pine forest but it weighs nothing and it brought the tarp this is the 10 by 10 Superfly chill gorilla it's pretty lightweight I like it emergency fishing kit and if I were actually bugging out I could probably make it to Lake Conroe where I'd be able to fish a lot there's a lot of secluded areas around the lake that are surrounded by wilderness you can do some fishing or even some of the rivers and then of course I got a snake bag or some people call it a pillow case and that's it now what I did before I left is I put my backpack on and it must have weighed 55 pounds I mean I loaded it up with all kinds of stuff and then knowing this heat there was no way I was going to carry 55 pounds in this heat for an extended period of time you know maybe I could have but I didn't want to put that much of a strain on myself if it wasn't necessary so I kept taking things out and sure enough I'd say well I just removed a couple pounds that means I could add this and so I'd almost put all the weight back in and then right before I took off down the trail I removed a bunch of stuff that I knew I would not use and I still managed to bring some luxury items you know even this fat wood container here's a luxury item because I just don't need it out here I ditched my large six inch by half inch Ferro rod because that actually weighs a lot I'm so off to just use my small ones and there's just there's just a lot of little things and I did not bring I should be alright and in this heat you don't really want to overburden yourself you want to keep your gear stowed away and ready to go turn a bug-out situation may have to bug out for your bug out place so just always be ready don't have gear strewn out everywhere be disorganized keep it organized stowed away ready to go first I'll get the cannot filled up then I'll put this all your meeting on it and I'll hang it up somewhere and drop it into here this is clean I already looked pretty clean doesn't alright so hang that up there start the dripping so during shtf you know if it happens during the summertime or it's still occurring during the summertime in an area like this where it's in the mid 90s to 100 degrees easily during the summer there's there's not going to be a lot of people out in the woods I mean look at the conditions now if we could bring you know refrigerated Campbell back out here they could bring bottled water they could go on a short hike they don't do it they're indoors right now and during shtf they will not be coming out here they won't make it it's just too hot it's just too hot people don't even go out in their yards when it's this hot you know most people don't they're so accustomed to air conditioning and sometimes people are just afraid to sweat but when the going gets tough they're not going to be out here I guarantee you and they're certainly not going to go off trail you can't go off trail out here it's just it can't be done unless you have a compass and that you know how to use them you're familiar with the area you at least need to have a map and compass stat rules out 95% of the people right there there's a lot of hunters I've heard a lot of people say you know the hunters will be out there but most of the hunters I know they won't touch this brother it's too hot they know how to hunt but they're not necessarily outdoorsmen in the sense that they'll come out in all types of weather they will stick with hunting weather look that I filled up my army canteen part of the way fill this Klean Kanteen all the way there's still quite a bit in that cannot bag up there so and those cannot bags are awesome especially in weather like this in a climate like this where water is absolutely essential just as like just as building a fire during the winter might be important you know this time of year in this kind of climate fire it's not important what's important is water fire may be important for boiling water to purify it but water is the number one priority for sure it's scorching hot you're sweating constantly you can't go too far from a water source because if you do go too far from the water source that means you've got to pack water and add about eight pounds a gallon you just don't want to carry too much so I'm fortunate that there's water in that Creek so I can rehydrate my body get my containers filled up but during a drought or several weeks without rain which is quite quite common there's not going to be any water in that Creek that means I would have to carry about a gallon and a half within this kind of weather to make it through the day now you can make it on less but you become dehydrated and the effects of dehydration you can get lost easier you're not thinking clearly you're not aware you know it's just not good to be dehydrated you could have a heat stroke have heat exhaustion I've actually had heat stroke but when I was younger from being out in the field and working in that field and not getting a drink for a few hours you know the heat builds up your body temperature rises you're not drinking and that's when you have a heat stroke so out here it's the rule of three or it's three w's you've got to have water you've got to have a way to carry it and a way to purify it it's the three w's because water is king out here in this kind of weather you know a lot of bushcraft and survival is about shelter building and shelter building is important especially in cold weather but in this environment in these temperatures you don't really want a shelter you want to be as open as possible you don't want anything that's going to trap heat around you you don't want your heat trapping around you you want open as possible that's why I like to use the mosquito net as my shelter or even that lightweight tent I just reviewed it's all mesh top something like that that ventilates very well now that would work but this the terrain here is not good for a tent so I'm going to use my air mattress just put a blanket over that I can put one layer of the blanket over me for comfort and I'll drag the mosquito net over me and that'll be my shelter that's about as cool as I can get without a fan or air conditioner so I'll set up the ridgeline get busy on that now whether you're just camping or bugging out whatever the situation is in hot weather usually associated with that is drier conditions and for sure there's no snow on the ground to protect the materials around you from catching on fire so you've got to be very careful with fire you don't want to burn the woods down you also don't want any extra heat so you make that fire as small as it needs to be to get the job done tonight I'm building a fire just to have some smoke to help with the bugs and mosquitoes and to let any Panthers or hogs let them know I'm here with that smoke and a small fire I need to boil some water so I can have a pretty small fire and I'm gonna build it maybe seven feet away so that I don't feel any of the heat from it I'm going to clear out an area here I've got to clear the ground completely I can't have any organic debris near the fire now ideally you want you know a 10-foot ring around your fire but sometimes that's just not realistic but you can't build a small fire and clear off several feet around it and as long as you monitor it and watch it should be alright umm again water is scarce and it's valuable right now but you need to be prepared dump water on the fire or around it in case it gets out of control and in a bug-out situation you may need to doubt it out quickly and you know throw dirt on top of it to get rid of the fire and flames anyway so just something to think about when you're building a fire you don't want any heat from it you only want a fire big enough to get the job done now obviously if you had a shovel this would be easier to dig but this ground is pretty soft and if I pull up this grass it just leaves dirt behind so I just pulled the grass and then kind of push the dirt around so I'm in a pine forest so let's find some fat wood if you can get some fat wood these knots here oh yes even after all these years of being down and rotten there's still very good fat when I can smell it it's very rich now in a bug-out situation it started to get dark Dakota firepit would work much better it could conceal some of the light it would also help block some of the radiated heat from reaching you which is a good idea because you don't want any extra heat right now but this time of the day the woods are so thick you're not gonna be able to see this fire unless you're within 50 feet so when I went over my gear review there's something I forgot to show you that I hope I can find and that's my spoon so I hope it's in there and I hope I just overlooked it and another item is of course inside my hat here a piece of camo cloth then I have a map a hand-drawn map of the area showing the creeks the trails any nearby forest service roads you gotta have a map compass is great but you really need a map well I don't have my spoon initially I had packed up my rush 72 backpack I decided wasn't the right size it wasn't ideal for these conditions and so I guess I left the spoon in that backpack it has so many pockets that there's probably buried in one of the pockets so it's time to improvise make some sweet gum chopsticks think that'll work out some bushcraft chopsticks so I got about 30 to 45 minutes of light left I'm gonna get this eaten you know hit a bug-out situation and this kind of heat you'd want to eat a lot earlier than this because in the heat of the day you're gonna want to hydrate relax do less strenuous activities you know maybe even cook depending on you know how much you can avoid the heat of the fire but and then in these evening hours that's when you want to get your hard work done the sun's lower the temperatures dropping just a much better time to get work done just like in the morning dissolve off of the time when other people would be active so if there's gonna be anybody out here would be at this time thanks for joining me today on this very hot day thanks for watching survival theory please share like subscribe and I'll see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Id: SQOZbPFL6J4

Length: 31min 49sec (1909 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 09 2018