Crazy Storm Under a Tarp Fortress - Overnight Adventure

thank you [Music] foreign [Applause] foreign [Applause] thank you [Music] foreign [Applause] sometime back my friends I made a promise not to review any more tents that are similar to The gazelle tent unfortunately I am back today with a tent that's it's definitely different but it is similar this is a big tent the tent that I have behind me here in the truck is from a company called polar this is a four-person pop-up style tent that is definitely different than the gazelle this is a true two wall system and get this the inside of the tent features a ton of mesh for excellent airflow which is what you want on a hot day like today like right now it's about 75 degrees Fahrenheit it's warm humidity super high Susie located this tent she found it she bought it and I'm out here to test it out for the first time in this adventure as you all can see here this is a gigantic tarp 13 feet by 20 feet long it's a monster and it's going to offer a ton of protection speaking of which there's a reason why I haven't been doing much talking so far that's because there is a front coming in this afternoon that's going to bring rain so basically I got here to Lone Wolf Mountain didn't have time to talk I set this up and it took about 15 minutes all right everybody Moment of Truth time thank you okay folks so I'm inside of the tent now as you all could see I cannot stand up in it but yet there is a ton of space inside of this shelter here and the airflow inside of this is incredible this is a very interesting shelter I have to say that I'm impressed with the way that it sets up super super simple the most impressive thing about this is the mesh large Mesh Door another one over here tons of mesh on the sides as far as the conditions go everyone it's Breezy it's muggy it's warm and there is rain on the way because of all of these conditions even though I have this tarp set up I'm going to put the fly on the tent [Applause] foreign foreign [Music] all right I kid you not everyone it just began to rain as soon as we got everything set up it's now raining that's funny that makes me feel good in a way I mean I thought about doing other things and just setting this up immediately but I mean if there's a good chance of rain it's just something you have to do okay from here on out we'll see what happens as far as the weather goes so far so good I'm not hearing any Thunder or anything like that but it's definitely dark out there as far as the rain goes it is very very light in fact I just got a notification here light rain starting in 20 minutes well it's 20 minutes off but you know partially right I guess thank you [Applause] I think it's time for some triple strength dark roast coffee from a company called Peak smells good smells strong this came from a viewer thank you so much my friend I really appreciate you cheers my friends cheers it's good it's really good there's a flavor to it that can't quite place it's not like a Starbucks triple shot or whatever whatever they call those things yeah I don't know I can't place it but it is good Thunder that's the first clap of Thunder for this entire trip okay we might as well take a look at the radar let's see what's coming in as far as the time goes it's two o'clock the biggest change is that the temperature's dropping some and it's getting really windy we have some storms to our East which pose no threat and we have rain coming up from the south because the wind is coming up from this direction I could get another tarp and I could tie it to this one and then stake it out and basically create a wall here so that I'm fully protected I do have the feeling that this is going to be a wind blown rain so just because I have protection overhead doesn't mean a whole lot I really do need wall protection all right let's set one up real quick [Music] all right I took a tarp and I created a wall and that's the setup that I came up with and it works incredibly well I mean behind that wall you feel absolutely nothing now of course we do have this wall over here that's still exposed later on if needed I can create another wall there that way I have tons of protection while we wait on the weather to make up its mind on what it's going to do let's talk about this tent so again this comes from a company called polar p-o-l-e-r this is their four person tent and this has been out on the market for roughly nine months it features an A-frame design it has two doors a ton of mesh it is double walled and as far as weight goes you're looking at roughly 14 pounds now let's compare this to the gazelle tent that tint is a three person it weighs about 30 pounds and basically they cost the same for a summertime shelter the gazelle tent really didn't make much sense in my opinion first off it wasn't bug proof it was a single wall tent it was super hot and the doors for that tent were the absolute worst that I've ever seen on a tent already I like this tent quite a bit more now of course this is preliminary I haven't tested this out I don't know if it's waterproof we'll see about all of that stuff in the future for now this is all about just setting this up underneath the tarp and we'll do a first night out with it thank you thank you as you walk in here and see the rain is very very light it's been coming down for maybe 20 minutes not even enough to like wet the ground the top of the tarp's getting a little wet I've heard two claps of thunder and that's all it's my hope that these showers come through they move out that way we can gather some firewood and we can have a fire tonight also I have some trail cams that I've been meaning to put up here every single time that I've come out here at a Lone Wolf Mountain it has ended up just pouring the rain even though we've been receiving rain it is considered dry here typically this time of year we receive tons and tons of rain we're receiving some but it's not a lot everything here is bone dry the grass hasn't been growing all that much it's rather slow and it's been somewhat cool this spring I'm not complaining about that part though I love it I consider myself very lucky very fortunate on all fronts weather-wise temperature wise very lucky [Applause] I have to say everyone this wall is doing its job perfectly the breeze has been coming up it's been rather strong at times and I'm not feeling anything at all if I stand here I do feel some moisture coming in and as I mentioned before I can seal this off I can seal off this side but as of right now I think we're in good shape the plan is simple sit and wait let's see what happens as far as this rain goes we've had rain for about two hours now and it's been very light the entire time just enough to kind of wet the top of the tarp not enough to even wet the ground with it being four o'clock already I'm just gonna go ahead I'm going to gather some firewood I'm going to grab whatever I can find off of the ground and I'll put it underneath the tarp for later tonight foreign [Laughter] foreign [Laughter] hahaha [Laughter] [Laughter] I was able to scrounge up enough firewood for tonight and I processed it with my gomboy this is from silky and this is a fantastic handsaw it unfolds and folds back very very quickly and it is incredibly sharp if I had to choose one folding handsaw the silky versus the laplander it would be the silky any day of the week it's a little bit heavier but in general it's a better product don't get me wrong though the laplander is awesome but this is even better to stay dry and also bug free while it's processing the wood I put on the ground a canvas tarp I've treated this tarp with Permethrin and that kills any bug or tick that comes into contact with it it is completely safe for humans I put it on my gear on my clothing the exception is you do not put it on your skin the saw and the ground tarp make an excellent wood processing combo and you will find links in the description box down below for both I mentioned this everyone because in the description box down below you will find a gear list with just about every piece of gear that I use on this adventure the reason I bring this up is pretty simple I'm trying to lower the amount of emails that I receive on a daily basis this is I have over 1700 videos and imagine there's people watching those videos every single day people writing in asking Luke what product are you using in this video so this is just a way of making things nice and simple but let me say this if you have a question about gear about techniques so on and so forth feel free to email me but if you have a question about a piece of gear that I'm using in a trip potentially you'll be able to find it in the description box down below foreign [Applause] I think it's time for a beer this is something called no duh or NADA I'm not entirely sure how they pronounce it there's weird little dots in between each letter so hey whatever radio Haze juicy Haze India Pale Ale Woody and Wilcox 106.5 The End the radio station from Charlotte there's a lot going on on this can I'm not entirely sure what all this is let's give it a shot cheers everyone smells kind of like a tangerine or something kind of tastes like you know what I mean all beers basically taste the same way yeah it's okay nothing special kind of like a tangerine imagine like mixing Tangerine drink with some sort of beer that's what you got it's not bad foreign the weather today has been playing games with me very light but consistent all day long just like drizzle not even enough to wet the ground right even the top of the tarp now is pretty much dry but you can hear it still coming down it's just super super light that's how it goes sometimes especially when you have like a weather front coming in it could be like that it's been a very quiet day up here I've heard nothing more than just the pitter patter of rain on the tarp some Thunder and that's about it I mean it really is a beautiful day it's perfect it is warm though I mean 75-ish this says my watch says 63 degrees it's not 63 degrees it gets that information from my phone and I do not have service at the moment so that explains that it's definitely in the 70s it's warm very very humid this polar tent is interesting isn't it overall I like the design of this the company claims this is a four person tent I would say three person you might be able to get like four people sitting on their knees one in each corner but if you were to cram four people in there to sleep I don't know I think two people would be rubbing the walls so yeah three people that make sense for two people it's a palace you can't stand up but it's tall enough where you can easily get in and out of it you could change clothes you could sit up very very easily I will say that the materials are cheap very very cheap this is a very cheap inexpensive polyester I'm not even sure if the zippers are YKK with this tent here apparently the company polar they have a store this is available only in their store at the time of filming this video it wasn't available on their website Susie contacted them they told her that it was in the store so she called the store ordered it from there and they shipped it the company also told her that these would be available on their website in the fall so she had two options either wait or order it from the store there you go I do need to mention this just in case you're new to the channel I do not do sponsorships on the channel I do not do product placement Susie found this she liked it she ordered it that's why I have it I think it's interesting that's why I'm testing it out this channel is agenda free and it's never going to change cheers of that this is probably the first beer that I've had in six or seven months something like that I don't even remember the last time that I had one but I was walking through the grocery store I grabbed some dinner and I was like you know what I'll grab a beer and I grabbed this at random overall not bad it's okay that's how I feel about all beers it's okay my poison is coffee you know what I mean hmm [Applause] foreign [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] friends it is time for dinner what I have here is barbecue chicken and broccoli this was the best looking thing at the grocery store let's give it a shot by the way this was pre-cooked so all I had to do was just heat it up the broccoli is good I'm actually surprised I can cut this chicken the chicken is good too I wouldn't say it's barbecue chicken though it's good but it's definitely not barbecue as far as the weather goes it has cleared up it looks beautiful but I tell you what that is deceiving not far from here maybe a hundred miles there's two tornadoes on the ground and those storms are headed this way based upon what I'm seeing on the radar I'm going to leave the fly on the tent tonight it looks like later on tonight it's going to be on like Donkey Kong we are the blue dot here look at all of this coming our way those red areas are the tornado warnings as it stands now we should have enough time to finish up dinner clean up and have a fire and then after that who knows it might get crazy tonight a little while ago I put the trail cams up in the forest and I figured in a few weeks maybe a few months we'll take a look at all that's roaming around here at Lone Wolf Mountain thank you foreign there is a weather alert for our area that says that there is a marginal risk of severe weather this evening as storms move in from the West a few strong storms could produce damaging winds you know folks it's interesting to think about just how good we have it today if you look at like human civilization human history there's one task that humans have been obsessed with and that's Gathering food growing food Scavenging for food for the first time in history we don't have to do that for the first time in 50 000 years of human history we can do something else we can focus on other things that's amazing and it's something that we all take for granted rarely do you think about where your food's coming from what it took for it to get there you go to the store you buy it you cook it up you eat it we are truly blessed and the thing is many of us don't even appreciate it and it's easy not to it's kind of like that saying out of sight out of mind up until the last hundred years or so the majority of humans on this planet lived a miserable life every single day was all about food and how they were going to get it why do I bring that up it's been on my mind as I'm sitting here watching the fireflies waiting for storms to come in the mine has a tendency to wander speaking of the fireflies that's the first time I've seen them all year it is update time my friends it is 11 o'clock P.M and rain and showers and storms are right around the corner already I'm hearing Thunder I'm seeing flashes of lightning oh yeah it is go time foreign good morning everyone it is 12 42 a.m and as you can hear it's raining the line of storms showers and whatnot has arrived it's going to rain and it's going to rain hard and it should rain for numerous hours basically what we have here is just line after line of Storms and rain and this looks like it's going to last basically all night long [Applause] thank you foreign [Applause] foreign [Applause] everyone inside of the tent now I tell you what if you're going to be out at night time you need a headlamp or a light that has a red light on it bugs are not attracted to red light when it's time to hop inside of your tent you flip over to red and you're good to go very few bugs will follow you with that red light as you walk in here it is coming down it is absolutely pouring out there very very heavy that is the definition of torrential rainfall we're talking about inches per hour now this is a rainstorm everyone and the thing is it's only getting started as far as the time goes it's 1 30. and I'm definitely ready for bed a few things to talk about here I am very glad that I put up the wall on the tarp that has helped tremendously because it's raining so hard and it's also windy a lot of that moisture is just being blown underneath this tarp so that wall is stopping that moisture and it's keeping my chair dry the table dry and so on next folks I'm glad that I put the fly on this tent otherwise the whole thing would be soaking wet foreign it's been a long day everybody it's been a long day I'm going to say goodbye good night I will see you all in the morning I'm going to set my alarm for six o'clock good night folks sleep good thank you update time folks it is 2 A.M and this tent has begun leaking which is very unfortunate considering the fact that 99 of it is underneath this tarp I was about to doze off when I felt water kind of like Splash against my face so over here in the corner there's a strap which is used to tie the door back it is leaking and it's leaking substantially I want to say this one more time 99 of this tint is covered with a tarp and then there's the fly but yet this tent is leaking in three locations one side of the door the other side of the door and also along some seam I can't quite tell where it's coming from but there's definitely water running down the inside of the fly here this is absolutely ridiculous for a tent that costs this much money Susie I'm so sorry I know you were excited about this tent but this is simply not waterproof okay well I'm going to try to go to sleep I'll just angle my pad in a funky way in the morning we'll talk more about this tent and I'll share with you all my thoughts and Impressions on this but as it is I do not recommend purchasing this tent even though it is really really interesting if you live in a dry climate maybe I still have a lot of testing to do before I can say whether or not this is worth recommending anyways I'm just getting ahead of myself everyone I'm going to bed I'll see you all in the morning we'll talk pick three good morning everybody good morning it's time to get up sounds like it's still raining outside it's light it's raining as far as last night goes I fell asleep around 3 30 in the morning it was raining so hard that I just could not sleep plus this tent was leaking from three different locations at least and then again only maybe two percent of the tent is actually in the rain I'm really really concerned about this in fact I'm going to recommend to Susie to return it or exchange it or something anyways the rain that we got last night was excellent it poured I mean absolutely poured for numerous hours yeah we're definitely lucky to be getting rain you may have noticed when the Drone is up in the sky how hazy it looks that is smoke from the wildfires in Canada smoke is still in the area it may have blown out today it doesn't look too bad but yeah it's definitely been smokey it's wet very very wet at least it feels good at the moment supposedly later on today the temps are supposed to go up it's going to warm up this week highs around 80. that's how it goes I suppose folks let's make some coffee foreign oh yeah cheers everyone cheers it is now coffee time up here at Lone Wolf Mountain about five minutes ago the sun came out popped out and this place is heating up already like all of a sudden super humid very sticky awful cheers oh man it really was a good night though the rain the storms I mean the rain last night was intense that was some of the hardest rain that I've seen in a long time and it did that for a good two hours I mean it rained for I'd say maybe four or five hours in total but like it really really poured for about two breakfast this morning is a muffin a banana nut a muffin a coffee good combo overall the setup here did a really good job the tarp or I should say tarps I suppose the only thing is this tent it absolutely failed only two percent of it is exposed maybe five percent whatever but yeah it leaked from three different points that's pretty crazy if this tent was out in the rain I can't even imagine what would happen I'm interested to find out though part of me wants to return it part of me wants to get it out into the rain to see how bad it fails the one thing I did notice about this tent is that the materials are cheap I may have mentioned something about that before but we're talking about a 210 polyester Oxford which is like some of the cheapest material out on the planet this is the same sort of material that companies like Stan Sports use Chinese companies use granted there's a lot of it I think the most expensive aspects to this tent are likely the frame and also the mesh you wouldn't think it meshes oftentimes more expensive than fabric what do you think everyone should we return the tent or keep testing it out comment down below sometime back I mentioned that Susie and I wanted to do some traveling this year to film some like different Adventures for you all different locations and I mentioned two places Big Island Hawaii and Japan our plan is to do both of those trips this year those are tentative plans of course things can change but with that being said coming up very soon Susie and I should be in Hawaii so that Susie and I can hike Mauna Kea Mauna Kea is the largest mountain in the entire world taller than Everest the thing is most of it is underwater so does it count I don't know Monica is 30 610 feet tall whereas Everest is 29 032 feet but again most of it's underwater so anyways I wanted to go back for a long time and Hike that volcano and I figured it would be a fun adventure to share with you all unfortunately we cannot film at the Volcanoes National Park any longer and that's because of the national park rules you cannot film in a national park without a permit and to get a permit it's a bunch of Hoops it takes a ton of time and it costs a lot of money and I think the most important thing is you're not guaranteed to get a permit even after you spend that money and that really really sucks as far as going to Japan we're thinking about doing a late fall trip right before Mount Fuji closes I really hope we're able to do that trip as it should be a ton of fun and also extremely different there are a ton of videos of people summoning Mount Fuji but that's okay this is something personal that I've wanted to do for a long time I mentioned in a few episodes back that when I was a kid my dad bought a puzzle from a yard sale and it was basically a Japanese puzzle with Mount Fuji in the background there's like a big body of water and like flowers and trees and stuff it was really pretty the thing is that puzzle was missing a piece it was like right from the center it was missing a piece don't buy puzzles from yard sales anyways recently Gene and Joyce they sent me a puzzle and let me tell you thank you both so much I really do appreciate it it's not a round one like the previous puzzle that I had it's vertical and long it's a really cool puzzle and already Susie and I have a gun putting it together thank you too so much for everything we really appreciate you both cheers I have one additional shout out to give and that's to Richard thank you so much for everything my friend the towels the books you are appreciated I really do appreciate everyone and all of the generosity that's been shown to both Susie and I you all are good people as long as I could feel the breeze coming through it feels fantastic but as soon as it stops it feels absolutely terrible the temps really are going up with that sun over here the humidity like the moisture is burning off just awful because of that folks I'm going to say goodbye I'm going to begin breaking everything down I will carefully consider and I'll talk to Susie and see what she says but we have to figure out what to do with this tent 350 for something that leaks that bad and most of it was underneath the tarp that's not acceptable Susie will likely be disappointed let's call her and find out want to good morning pop good morning hey okay so we're live on camera I have some I have some bad news what your tent leaked the tent is underneath this massive tarp right I would say maybe like five percent or less of that tent is exposed and yet it leaked from three different places it's not good so we wanted to know what do you want to do with this tent I mean because it was expensive it was like 350 right uh it was 300. oh okay yeah what a bummer dang it that's a lot of money yeah are there any like pros to it you know it sets up super easy there's quite a bit of space the company says four person I say three um it's easy to get in and out of it it has two doors they're huge wow I'm so disappointed yeah sorry about that I'm gonna have to think about that if you want to keep it I will seam seal the entire thing for you if you want me to that's what I was wondering I mean there's nothing like it you know true it's like where's the gazelle to it really is more like a cold weather fourth season tent in my opinion This truly is like a three season tent like the ventilation was great I felt air all night long where is it leaking from it is leaking from the doors and so like at the doors you have like these corded pools which you can use to tie the door back the doors back it's leaking from both of those points and there's an additional leak and I don't know exactly where it's at huh okay it's one of those things where you will have to decide whether or not this is worth 300 and the seam seal it for devastating news like this yes I've rocked the foundation of your world sorry about that yes you think you're a kitty right now you know what's going on [Laughter] oh that is a big bummer that it leaks yeah I think on the on the part of it that's cheap and yeah very cheap like these are some of the cheapest materials out there yeah like stand sport quality yeah can it work does it work all right we'll say hi and bye to everybody all right all right so what they brought they forced me to call you sorry about that I'm about to wrap all of this up it's time to come home let's come home all right babe I'll call you back in just a little bit all right sounds great all right love you say goodbye to everybody bye bye bye Kitty bye bye love you too she's Kitty I'm pup those are the nicknames that we have for each other I know I know all right everyone thank you so much for joining me for this trip I really do appreciate it it has been an interesting one before you go hit the thumbs up it does help the channel if you want to support the channel you can do so patreon YouTube you could join the wolf pack oh man that breeze feels so good all right strengthen honor bye for now [Music] [Applause] thank you foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause]

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Keywords: camping, camper, camp, cooking, survival, surviving, survived, wild, wilderness, woods, mountain, off the grid, adventure, winter, Ice, cold, winter camping, off grid, forest, winter camp, truck camp, truck camping, thunderstorm, Truck camping in a rain storm, truck camp thunderstorm, rain camping in truck, toyota tundra camping, rain truck camp, big tent, truck tent, Ichi One Pole Tent, Off Grid cabin, Poler 4 person tent, poler tent, poler tent leaking, tarp fortress, storm camping

Id: FDeXXAOipWg

Length: 56min 50sec (3410 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 06 2023