Loadout Alpine Forrest 3 Day Camp

[Music] [Music] all right folks I'm Dave Canterbury well self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school what I thought I'd do today is I just returned from Italy the other day I was there for nine ten days I went to the bolonia outdoor Expo and did some demonstrations seminars there with my buddy Joe price and my Italian interpreter instructor Luciano we were there with shamone outdoors at their booth and we were packed the entire show doing demos and everything from shelter construction to kit building fire demos up to and including the bow drill fire lots and lots of things then we went from there to another part of Italy I visited the OSI museum which is the video I posted yesterday unfortunately we weren't allowed to really take a lot of video inside the museum so there's more photographs on there than video footage I apologize for that but then we went and taught a class a basic class daily and the class was full and we actually sold two extra tickets so we were full plus two we had like 22 or 23 people at this class I think it was 22 total we had at this class in Italy for a basic class up in the alpine forest area of Italy and I had a lot of people ask me on Facebook once I had posted some pictures from that event which I'll attach a few of them to this video as well for you guys who don't do Facebook and I get that it's not a problem of being in business you know how much of a choice I am going to make a video of the kit that I used or the kit that I carried over there with me for my trip to the forest and teaching us basic class and I think it's important to understand a lot of things with your kit when you are camped in different environments and different weather conditions around the world because when I look back at what I use and what I did during my time in Italy for this class really other than a headlamp that I used that night because we couldn't start fires in the forested area we can only do it in a clearing area where we were teaching I didn't use anything all weekend that fell outside the five C's category other than eating food around the campfire with people basically with my fingers or my knife but food aside all of the items that I use day-to-day basis fell into that five seas category so I thought I would go ahead and pull out my pack and discuss with you guys what I chose to take and how I chose to use it and I'll attach some pictures as well to this video of the class again for those of you who are not on Facebook so stay with me and we'll get started right now okay so I guess the first thing really I put something over the table here I put my shemagh on the table which to me is pretty much an EDC item I carry that as part of my clothing which again that's part of your cover element which is within the five seeds and I carry that just about every day I put it on this table it kind of helped the life and blown it out on top this table I knew he had some problems with that when I did sharpening video in the shop here so the first thing I wanna discuss was my pack I took a 38 litre kapok fjällräven pack and I've been carrying this pack a lot and honestly 38 litres is about the limitation for what I did over the weekend at this pace of class we were there Friday Saturday Sunday two nights and pretty much what I have in this pack on the inside section is nothing but sleeping arrangements that's it's basically my sheltering system is in the main body in this pack there's a little bit of room left over in here you could put food and things like that if you needed to but for the most part the shelter goes inside us and 38 liters really takes up it takes up most of that 38 liters I guess what I'm trying to say so you probably couldn't go any smaller than this for an Alpine environment where it's going to get down when we got there the water that was standing was frozen there was some water running that we used for drinking water that we filtered through my grill device which we'll talk about as part of my carry over there as well one of my containers and at the same time I think that you could add a little bit of food to this like I said but if you were going to be out there any more days than that and you were gonna have to change your clothing and things like that other than maybe a spare pair of socks and things like that in here you're gonna need a little bit more room but there's 38 liter pack and did the job for me just fine so I think what we're going to do here is we're going to break this down into the five and ten seas because really there's nothing in this pack that doesn't fall within that ten seas category so while I carried all ten see with me because I was teaching a basic class had to teach those concepts I really didn't have occasion to use anything while not teaching other than the five C's so let's break it down first into the first element the five C's which is cutting tools okay so I guess first of all we'll covered in this video that a lot of people have misconception is that when I say the five C's that means five items it doesn't mean that at all what it means is five categories of items and obviously two is one one is none proper tool proper job and all that rah-rah so I had three cutting tools with me for this class I had an sak trucker which is the non one-handed opening it's one that I've had for years it's never let me down it's got tweezers on it I like that it's got a toothpick on it I like that I don't like getting meat stuck in my teeth and then trying to dig it out with something that could put a splinter in my gums so I prefer this it's got a small song as well and it's got a few other tools I carried my silky gone boy again for flat-out cutting firewood this thing is a ticket if you got to make quick poles for shelters tripods things like that this will get the job done now this more knife is a custom more garber it's not the one that I carried at the class I carried a different custom more gar bird that belonged to Joe price because I gave my original gar bird that was on my hip away to a soldier at the show in Bulaga so I didn't have my knife I borrowed one from Joe to use for the class but a more gar burg is what I chose for my cutting tool so this is representative of what I carry almost every day so I had a knife a saw an sak I did not carry an axe because of the weight traveling over to Italy inside my luggage you can get away with putting a lot of things in luggage axes whatever you want to put in there for the most part but everything adds weight and you're only allowed so many kilos or pounds before they charge you a ridiculous amount of money for overages ok combustion devices again keep it real simple but have more than one I have an open flame device cigarette lighter I've started every fire I needed with that to a truth all weekend long I have a six-inch ferrocerium rod wrapped in duct tape for a handle or a flame extender I was gifted this magnifying glass by Prometheus leather so I had it in my backpack and I think it's a really really nice magnifying glass probably somewhere between five and seven power it's got a lot of surface area it's concave on both sides excuse me convex on both sides so it's going to be a good fire starting element as well as an extra backup to a pair of reading glasses if I were to need it but I also have the magnifying glass on my compass as part of the 10 C's I always carry a compass that compass has to be multifunctional has a mirror for signaling and hygiene also first-aid and also has a magnifying glass capable of lighting charred cloth and doing expection inspection for wounds to make sure to breeze out of them things like that but I carried this magnifying glass with me as well this weekend I was given to me again from prometheus leather works in Italy okay so on to containers I had two containers with me this weekend I had the Pathfinder stainless steel bottle and cup which gives me the ability to cook food to make medicine make charred material and disinfect groundwater resources if I have the ability to make fire by boiling the water but I also carried the Grail filter with me and this is the Geo pres I've done a couple of videos on this for Instagram and things like that it is a actual purification filter this filter not only takes out the protozoa and things like that and the waterborne pathogens but it takes out viruses and chemicals as well it's a pretty simple device that you open up and pull the center out of it like this little tough to get out of there it's got a good seal on it it's got a filter that's good for 2,000 liters on the bottom you just fill this container up to the line and we use this a lot underneath a drainpipe that have water coming out of it underneath a road at the event you'll see that in a picture that I'll post and then you just replace this in the top and crack the cop on the top of it here just like this to allow air to escape and then you hold it with both hands just like this and push down and that forces the water through the filter and allows the air to escape out of the top it's a pretty simple process and then you have 20 ounces of clean water and we use this all weekend I have one of these with me I had my wife's smaller original version of this in orange and Jill price had one in blue we passed them around all weekend and use them to fill filter or purify and then dump to fill all the water bottles and things for the instructors in camp for all of our needs from drinking to cooking so this allowed us to disinfect and purify water on the fly when we didn't have time to boil water or we didn't have the opportunity to boil so those two container combinations came in real handy this weekend okay so let's talk about the cover element to me this is one of the most important things especially in a cold weather environment because it's getting a good night's sleep when it's getting down around the freezing mark I don't think it ever got to or below freezing but it was definitely well below 40 at night and it was really high winds coming at through that forest area I picked a really nice swelled area that was protected from the wind and I set my shelter up you'll see in the pictures so it was almost like a windfall it was down on the bottom lifted up here so that the wind came up and pushed across the tarp face they kind of keep the wind out of my shelter I use a real simple system of layering with my shelter exactly like I do with my clothing so the first thing I do is I use a ground pad and this is a snug pack Scout pad it's only about as long as from my neck down to my knees and it's not real real thick but it's enough if you get a spongy part of the ground or you've got a lot of leaf litter and debris it's good enough if you're laying on dead hard pack around probably not going to be enough for you doesn't weigh a whole lot and it's very compact so that's the first that's the base of my shelters to get rid of conduction problem from the ground the next thing I do is I start to build a multi-layered system what I do is I use an e-coat at sleeping bag and this sleeping bag is a down-filled military sleeping bag that's not made anymore unfortunately this bags not made anymore as a report issue and the reason I like this bag is for several things number one is down so it's pretty warm number two it has drawstrings at the bottom of it that were made so that you can actually sleep in boots if you chose to do that so you can open the whole bottom of the bag if you want to I've got it all tucked inside there it will also open up completely and unzip opened up completely so that could be used for a blanket or it has a velcro variant here so that can actually be used for a poncho liner so you can actually use this underneath a military-style poncho as a poncho liner that's gonna be made out down and it has a nice drawstring hood on it like a mummy bag would have and it's got draw strings here again that's for the hood so you have a nice base system that you can build upon it's going to keep you warm it's made out of down so what I do with that to keep it dry is I tuck that inside of a snug pack bivy sack like a special-forces what they call a special-forces baby sack and it's basically a real thin lightweight material that's 100% waterproof and it slides completely over the top of this bag to give me a waterproof membrane and doesn't seem to be unbreathable or non breathable in any way because I didn't wake up sweating but again I had the top of my bag open all night I actually had occasion on the second night to pull one of the bags out completely because I was getting hot and that was my inner layer so I used this bivy sack here and again you can see that this is very small in nature it's very lightweight just God it's like a little nylon this is the top of it and it folds up to about the size of a softball but it easily covers you can easily put that sleeping bag inside of it and inside there so that gives you two layers of protection you've got an outer shell and you've got an inner insulated layer and what I do inside of that is I use this Pella context swagman roll and again the reason I like this is because of the multi functionality it can do several things for you it opens up just exactly like this sleeping bag does so that it can be used as a poncho liner with the advantage of having a hood it has a hood and a large front pocket on it as well it's got polar guard in it so it's really nice and warm it will zip up completely into a sleeping bag configuration and that's what I did I put this inside the Eco top bag has another layer of insulation but it can also be opened up and it has drawstrings and toggles on both ends so it could be used as a hammock under quilt if you need it to be as well so I have two different options here that I could use I could use this inside of a hammock if I weren't sleeping on the ground and use this isn't under quilt or vice versa because this opens up all the way to I could use this as a dedicated under quilt because that's kind of what it was made for and put the sleeping back inside a hammock and give myself an extra layer of protection that way so this system I found to work really really well and again I think it only got down right around the freezing mark I don't think it got below freezing by any stretch but it was below 40 without question every night and with that system I was very very warm now let me stuff this back in here I might have to get on the ground to do it this swagman roll will actually stuff into the pocket on the front as well and what I ended up doing the second night was because I was plenty worn the first night with this system I got warming up the second night that I actually pulled this out folded it up into that outer pocket that we talked about and actually used it for a pillow and it worked out really really well for that as well although I do carry a dedicated Kolo because I believe in comfort when I'm sleeping outside I carried a poncho with me in case it rained so I could use this in combination with the swagman roll Concha liner if I were to get to : I didn't use this for anything all weekend but it has a couple of steaks in the bag just in case it needs to be used for a tarp then I carried my seven by seven tarp that I've had for ages this part was probably one I had since not very long after I first started making videos a 7x7 coyote tan sole nylon heart made bioware tarps again at seven by seven and I find that to be plenty big for my needs I'm only five foot eight it sets up quick and it's simple so that gives me a good shelter system I have something I can put on the ground I have something I can sleep on top of I have three layers that I can sleep inside up and I have something I can sleep underneath them that gives me a solid shelter system in this entire shelter system only weighs about four pounds if you don't count this poncho okay so other elements of cover above and beyond shelter that are clothing again I had my shemagh so I could wrap around my neck for insulation I had this fowl raven puffy jacket stuffed in the bottom of my pack and every day I wore a condor fleece which is kind of like a knockoff of the Pelican Patriot I got it actually in country because I didn't bring a fleece with me and I thought you know we're going up at higher elevation up in the mountains or snow up there I'm gonna need a little more than what I brought so I actually purchased that Condor in country and I wore that about every day and I never did pull this out of the pack to be honest with you but I had it just in case okay for the cordage element I keep this simple again I had a roll of 36 bank line and I really didn't use any of this other than for making one toggle for lifting my pot or my bobble excuse me off the fire I did use about five feet of this for that and then teaching I always take a Ridgeline with me that's pre-made there's lots and lots of videos out there from myself from my instructors like corporal corner things like that that show how to make this hasty Ridgeline so I always carry a hasty Ridgeline that's already got toggles preset on it for my tarp makes it really quick and simple shelter setup and then I carry about six to eight feet of paracord in my pocket all the time again multifunctional nature emergency tourniquet emergency bootlace emergency bow drill fire emergency karate if you needed it something to hang your backpack off a tree million in one uses for this piece of paracord your pocket I always recommend you carry six feet of it in there and have a look already pre tied in one end and then above and beyond that things that don't necessarily fall into tenth season but go with the tendencies you know I had this snug pack blow-up pillow it's a really really simple small pillow that works really really well it's just a blow up just like the air mattresses are you just open it up you blow it up there's pretty good size and it gives you just that extra level of comfort anybody who tells you that you don't need a pillow when you're sleeping in the woods and just sleep on your boots or something like that you know they're into suffering if you've got a pillow you're not going to be suffering you're gonna be smoothing it and so from what this for what little this thing weighs and for a small and compact as it is I can actually either stuff this in my tarp bag or my hammock bag and that's usually where I keep it as in my hammock bag but in this case because I didn't take a hammock with me I just dropped it at the top of my pack but it is you know not much bigger or about the same size as a tennis ball and it's very very lightweight almost nothing far as an added weight to your pack then I carry six titanium ten things I don't want to make tent stakes when I'm in a hurry to put up a tarp or get out of the weather titanium doesn't weigh anything titanium stakes are not real expensive I push them on a carabiner I pull up my ridge line I hang the carabiner on my ridge line and I start pulling stakes off of it when I need them to stake out my tarp makes it really really simple that way other than that the only things I had in my pack were the other five C's that we talked about so much I had an extra shemagh which is more cotton material I had a headlight which I used in camp because we couldn't start fires in the forested area I had a roll of one inch duct tape with me and my instructors had two inch duct tape I had a sail needle and I also had my compass with my pacing beads attached that we used for Paul and for pacing exercise doing navigation so really all I used other than teaching for the most part was those five C's and I was perfectly fine for a three-day period out there in the alpine forests and temperatures right around freezing I showed you my sleep system and it was more than adequate with a good base layer and that's really what's important is the clothing on your back you know I wasn't wearing this cotton shirt I was wearing a minus thirty-three degrees wool undershirt I was wearing a minus 37 here he's expedition wear long sleeve base layer and long pants and then wigwam wool socks and then I had a Helicon merino wool beanie as well as a ball cap with me when it warmed up I had the fleece I had an extra puffy jacket if I needed it and for outer shell or outer layer from wind and rain I had the poncho if needs be and I was good to go no problem guys I appreciate Jillian for this video today talking through the kit that I took with me to Italy in that I used in the force for three days out there again I'll attach a few pictures to the end of this video but I think the moral of the story is keep your kit simple it doesn't take a lot to do a lot as long as your kits multifunctional just make sure that you're comfortable with it and you practice with it before you actually need it and have fun in the outdoors I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for school for family for business for all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can guys thanks you

Channel: David Canterbury

Views: 70,658

Rating: 4.9555712 out of 5

Keywords: Bushcraft, Survival, David Canterbury, Dave Canterbury, Pathfinder, The Pathfinder School, Archery, Hunting, Fishing, Camping, Primitive Skills, Fire, Water, Shelter, Navigation, First Aid, Search and Rescue, Signaling, Prepper, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survivability, The 10 C's, Knives, Axes, Saws, Bow Drill, Ferrocerium Rod, Ferro Rod, Tarp, Hammock, Canteen, Cooking, Longhunter, Trapping

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Length: 22min 44sec (1364 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 14 2019