Well I went out Friday morning with my minimal gear, and brought a pack full of emergency stuff, so in the event that I couldn't hack it, I wouldn't freeze. I set up the shelter, gathered fire wood. It took me over five hours to gather wood for one night, not fun. That night the shelter stayed between 45 and 75 deg. 45deg being when I woke up cold. I only used my wool lap blanket, and it worked out well. I put half of my 5x7 on top of the hemlock bed, and my rifle case on top of that.
The next day I went for a walk first thing in the morning. I headed for the west end of the park where there are some fields, which would be warmed by the sunlight in the early morning. When I got the the one spot, I saw a doe, 3 turkeys, red squirrels, grey squirrels, 3 pheasant, some other birds. I shot none. Took at shot at one, but it was a lame shot; missed. It was really cool to see all of this life in a small area, maybe 1/2 an acre.
After I was done walking through the morning woods exploring in the sunlight I headed back to camp, to cook some bread and make coffee. When I headed out to meet my father, there were people everywhere. That was very uncommon for this place. People on horses, others walking dogs, others shooting, not cool but oh well.
I went out with my father, small game hunting. I was coaching him on how to get close to the squirrels, and how to listen for them. Squirrels are finicky at this location for some reason, I assume all of the people that frequent there. We had a lot of fun and pops wants to go back next weekend, but stay overnight.
Later in the day Billybass arrived. After he setup his super shelter ( I watched
) we went on gathering firewood. We must have gathered half a chord of oak.
After my father left we went to get water from the brook, and then started making dinner. Billybass brought pheasant sausage, that he added to the jumbalia that he made. Awesome. We had a try at hemlock tea, I liked it much better than white pine.
That night it was windy, and we couldn't/didn't build out fire as big as I had kept it the night before. We stayed fairly warm, about ted degrees cooler than the night before on average, I'd guess.
The next morning we went looking for some squirrels, they we all around but none in sight. Around the time that billybass left, I got a message that my friend was having her baby that night. So, I packed up all of my stuff and brought it out, cleaned up camp, made 5+ trips back and forth to be brook to make sure that the fire was out.
My friend was in labor for some crazy amount of time, but ended up with a 9lb 15oz chubby baby girl! :4:
So, that's how my/our trip went. Here is some video. Ignore the last 4minutes of the video. It's just blank space. I messed up editing, but I'm fixing that now.
Thanks for reading and watching the video. I hope that you enjoy it!
-Matt
EDIT: Billybass loaded his pictures in this post: http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showpost.php?p=969116&postcount=17
First Winter Outing - 2012 - YouTube
The next day I went for a walk first thing in the morning. I headed for the west end of the park where there are some fields, which would be warmed by the sunlight in the early morning. When I got the the one spot, I saw a doe, 3 turkeys, red squirrels, grey squirrels, 3 pheasant, some other birds. I shot none. Took at shot at one, but it was a lame shot; missed. It was really cool to see all of this life in a small area, maybe 1/2 an acre.
After I was done walking through the morning woods exploring in the sunlight I headed back to camp, to cook some bread and make coffee. When I headed out to meet my father, there were people everywhere. That was very uncommon for this place. People on horses, others walking dogs, others shooting, not cool but oh well.
I went out with my father, small game hunting. I was coaching him on how to get close to the squirrels, and how to listen for them. Squirrels are finicky at this location for some reason, I assume all of the people that frequent there. We had a lot of fun and pops wants to go back next weekend, but stay overnight.
Later in the day Billybass arrived. After he setup his super shelter ( I watched
) we went on gathering firewood. We must have gathered half a chord of oak. After my father left we went to get water from the brook, and then started making dinner. Billybass brought pheasant sausage, that he added to the jumbalia that he made. Awesome. We had a try at hemlock tea, I liked it much better than white pine.
That night it was windy, and we couldn't/didn't build out fire as big as I had kept it the night before. We stayed fairly warm, about ted degrees cooler than the night before on average, I'd guess.
The next morning we went looking for some squirrels, they we all around but none in sight. Around the time that billybass left, I got a message that my friend was having her baby that night. So, I packed up all of my stuff and brought it out, cleaned up camp, made 5+ trips back and forth to be brook to make sure that the fire was out.
My friend was in labor for some crazy amount of time, but ended up with a 9lb 15oz chubby baby girl! :4:
So, that's how my/our trip went. Here is some video. Ignore the last 4minutes of the video. It's just blank space. I messed up editing, but I'm fixing that now.
Thanks for reading and watching the video. I hope that you enjoy it!
-Matt
EDIT: Billybass loaded his pictures in this post: http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showpost.php?p=969116&postcount=17
First Winter Outing - 2012 - YouTube
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