Post Appalachian Trail Thru Hike - Electronics

[Music] everybody it's frozen and today I wanted to talk a little bit about the electronics that I brought on my Appalachian Trail through hike now keep in mind I was vlogging on my thru-hike so some of these electronics are gonna be overboard for your standard through hiker first up is my smartphone it's a Google pixel three and this little guy is what filmed the entire trip now I primarily filmed with the rear-facing camera because the camera back here has a much better stabilizer than the two front-facing cameras but I did use the front cameras a lot to take pictures of selfies of the group because I was able to zoom out the shot using the wide-angle dual lens in this camera and the phone worked absolutely incredible I didn't have any issues with it it had been living on the outside of my pack in the shoulder pocket it had seen rain it had seen hail it had seemed snow very cold weather very hot weather and it just held up like a beast this thing pretty much looks brand new now what I did have on the phone was just a small glass like a tempered glass screen protector and I did drop it a couple times one time the tempered glass screen protector actually cracked and I had to send myself a new one so I was a big skeptic of the tempered glass screen protectors but I do think they work if not for just keeping your phone scratch free I also had a little case on there with a little tripod that I could pull out and it worked out perfectly fun for my phone provider I used Verizon unlimited and for the most part verizon handled excellent I really had no complaints about it there may have been maybe four or five days as we got further north where I didn't have service multiple days in a row but that was very very rare more than likely you could just climb the nearest mountain and you were summoning a lot in the northern states where you could at least get a text message or a short call-out it wasn't going to be spectacular quality but anything from I'd say Vermont South you've pretty much had full coverage now when I got back home from the 8th I did switch back to Google Phi which is kind of Google's cellular provider and it works perfectly fine it's much cheaper than Verizon unlimited if you're interested there's more info in the description box below so most of the time I would just hold up my phone with my arm outstretched and filmed that way but sometimes I wanted to set up a shot and in those shots I would use my Petco ultra pod with my Manfrotto mount and it would just kind of set up just like that and film me walking away or drinking coffee or all that boring stuff whatever I wanted to do with it and this also lives on the outside of my pack in a shoulder pocket so it survived the weather and it still works great I've had this tripod for years and it's very light very useful now one final piece of gear that did live on the outside of my pack so it went through a whole bunch of weather where these anchor curved bluetooth headphones these were great I used them for editing I used them for music or really anything I wanted to do to watch movies when I was in town and I didn't want to disturb anybody so which is why I picked this up it's kind of annoying to hear someone playing their music full blast on the trail through their phone or a Bluetooth speaker so just do yourself a favor and just pick up one of these they're 25 bucks they're also in the video description if you want to check the link out and these held up great now sometimes water would seep into the actual ear buds and it would take maybe a day or two for them to dry out but I never had these fail on me these were always just an excellent product and I highly highly recommend them I had a really really nice time listening to these things let's talk about headlamps so I really really enjoyed my night core nu 25 it's lightweight it has pretty much every mode you can think of including a red a CRI and a bright spot light on it it charges microUSB and the battery is just incredible on this thing I use this thing to night hike a few times and it is very water resistance at IPX five or six or something like that and it just handled perfectly I never had a problem with this at all so I highly recommend the night core and you 25 there's not many things that can beat this headlamp typically when you're through hiking you're gonna be in town every three to six days because you have to replenish your food supply it's also a good idea to do laundry and if you need it stay in a hotel and get some town food and rest and recover while I was in town I used this twenty thousand milliamp anchor power core speed PD now the P D stands for power delivery basically it's a USB series called a Type C so normally these things take about and a 10 to 12 hours sometimes to charge something this big in a twenty thousand with power delivery over 30 watt USB this actually takes about four and a half hours sometimes even less than that so this was great with this I could charge my phone about four times and if I was gonna do it again I would actually get a bigger battery bank why you might ask because I could really only stay out there for four days at a time while I was editing now if you're not editing then getting even this size is probably overkill I suggest you know something like a 10,000 milliamp battery then this should perfectly you know suffice for a thru-hike that isn't being vlogged but for me I was filming about 30 to 40 minutes a day then I was editing which took about 20 to 30 minutes every night and then you know every other night I was coming out and having to export the video which took an immense amount of battery power not even counting the amount of battery power it took to upload on the trail so I preferred uploading most of the time in town you know like I said we're gonna get into a how I filmed how I edited in how I uploaded video in the next couple weeks so be sure to check that out but this is the battery bank that I use this worked in the hundred mile wilderness I had to borrow a trial angel named fresh grounds battery bank just to survive the six days I was out there it's like I said this only lasted about four and a half to four days but most of the trial this is pretty much what I needed as far as cables I brought three I brought a USB to micro-usb so your standard cable I brought a USBC to USBC this is how I charged my phone and the battery bank while I was out there and then just in case I needed to charge multiple devices or someone was taking up an outlet I could use their charger and do a USB to USB C and finally I got an Aki wall charger it has the flip out prong so nothing would poke in your backpack or anything like that and this would have USB C and USB a on it and this worked out perfectly fine never had a problem with anything as far as software I used several applications on my phone the first two are pretty similar they are lyft and uber these worked out great and just shuttling back and forth between the trail or we could hitchhike it just depended on how we felt that day I also had an app called Appalachian Trail whether this was a great app actually was pretty accurate and how it worked was you just plugged in your mileage marker that you were close to or you could filter by states or even shelters you chose this shelter that you were closest to and that would give you the local weather for that area it's pretty good for social media I used YouTube creator studio that way I could manage my videos and answer comments in the same app and I also used Instagram to post several pictures throughout each day for editing I used an app called kind master it was a paid subscription pretty cheap and it worked out very well like I said in the next couple weeks I'm gonna do a video on kind master and how I filmed and edited four thumbnails I created everything with Snapseed which is a free tool that you can do it's an image processing unit you can add text it's actually pretty cool I also used an app called gut hooks which I really really highly recommend this thing was amazing on the trail and after a certain point on my thru-hike this was the only app I used for GPS and trail data I also had the AWOL guide for trail information and you know just town resupply information but I kind of shied away from using it I was just using gut hooks and kind of figuring everything else there I still recommend through hikers do purchase both the AWOL guide in the gut hook app for information on their thru-hike what I would tell you is for you know just my purposes I thought the PDF version of the AOL guide was fine I saw plenty of people carrying the books and I didn't really see a use on top of you know just being able to have it digitally and it not weigh a ton in your pack you can also call people right from the AWOL guide in the PDF because everything is kind of like a hyperlink to your phone and you could also see GPS data and transfer that into Google Maps you could also copy text just a slew of cool things you can do in the PDF versus the book version so guys that's pretty much it if you enjoyed the video consider subscribing give it a like and a share if you have any questions obviously leave them in the comments below and I will get back to you as soon as possible I'm frozen and thanks for watching

Channel: Outdoor Adventures

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Keywords: appalachian trail, at2019, thruhiking, thru hiking, camping, backpacking, reviews, gear, outdoor adventures, frozen, hammock, mountain, hike, camp, backpack, trails, ultralight, anker, curve, electronics, charge your phone, pixel, google, power bank, aukey, vlogging, vlog, trail vlog

Id: 0CLsByMz9Xk

Length: 9min 42sec (582 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 21 2019