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Being Prepared to Spend an Unexpected Night on The Mountain
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2020
- This video goes through what you need in terms of gear, skill set and physiology to get through an unexpected night spent out during harsh conditions in remote areas. It's not common, but if you participate in wilderness hunts it will eventually be something you experience. Be ready!
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I’ve used a lot of different tinders ones I bought and ones I made myself. But a cotton ball and petroleum jelly is my favorite. You can use it for chapped lips lubricant and rust prevention on your guns and knives. And if you wrap it in aluminum foil. Leave about a quarter of an inch opening in the foil and pull a little cotton up light it and you have a candle. It’ll burn 30 to 45 minutes.
Good one! 👍 thanks
" I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once i was confused for three days."
D. Boone
Bwhaha
I’m not lost- I’m exploring!
I carry road flares.
Always gather more wood than you need for the nite- and then get twice as much as that.
It’s better to be too hot than too cold.
You can’t have too many flashlights…
Just saying this for a friend. 🙄😁😁😁
bwhahaha! great additional tips. Thanks Michael
Always carry on your person at least 2 types of ignition and reliable kindling. Speaking from experience. Caught out in bad weather & was fortunate to find a small tightly made bird nest. Great kindling! God Bless America 🇺🇸 🙏 ❤
A tea light candle can make all the difference too, I always keep one in my kit.
So true about fire. I try to practice making fire after a rain and it’s truly not as easy as people think. Without using the cotton ball trick, it’s almost 50% success rate for me. These tips are gold
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I carry a 5x7 tarp in my pack, I use it to try and keep the meat clean when breaking down the animal, and a 55 gallon garbage bag to line my pack to take my first load to camp. I have a dedicated meat pack in my truck I then pick up and take back to the kill. Great video. Thank you 😊
Great additional tip with the tarp! Thanks Dusty
@@CliffGray I also use a single edge razor to make the cuts through the hide or the animal, save’s your knife’s edge.
Always practice I’ve been hunting backcountry for 45 years and 20 in military.. I still practice at home and taught my daughters every fall to practice very good advice cliff 👊🏻
Practice is underrated!
Some solid info right there for sure brother. Brings back memories of being caught out overnight in the remote Idaho wilderness on an elk hunt several years ago. Good times (now, haha). Keep up the great work man.
ha! those deals are always fun after the fact! appreciate the support
@@CliffGray Anytime man... anytime.
Best video I’ve seen on making fire. And, I’ve probably seen most.
Thanks man!
A Sierra cup, poncho liner/poncho, and lots of water proof matches. Easily fits on belt and in pockets. Make lean-to with poncho. Fire reflects inwards. Sierra cup heats plenty of water or make pine needle tea. Or, just plain water heated as is and it is AMAZING how the rehydration allows the body to better thermoregulate. Everything else is just gravy, but your basic understanding of the tremendous heat loss through convection to cold ground is SUPER important. Why did you not make better use of all those dry leaves? Plenty of them, scattered around, and WELL WORTH the time to gather them.
Be sure to clear around your fire pit, don't want to cause a forest fire. When choosing your camp site it is advantageous to pick one with lots of firewood close at hand. Most are surprised how much firewood is required for an all night fire especially if it is very cold.
great points. thanks riley
GOOD STUFF! All reality information every outdoors person should know and PRACTICE regularly...like the old saying goes, "Use it or loose It".
I make my own by melting wax and dipping cotton balls about half way along with making some char-cloth and store them both in Zip-Loc Bags with an absorber from what come inside some products packages. Both are super easy to make and super light weight. I Have them in fanny pack and other places along with a quality flint n steel as well as a few Bic Lighters. Seen guys say they don't need it because they are only going on a short little hike....yeah right...and end up slipping and twisting an ankle....you know the rest.
60gal Plastic Garbage Bags are a 100% must carry and have so many uses they are worth the little weight they add to your pack. They are used for meat, organs and if needed for wind, rain or cold barrier. They're worth their weight on gold for this ol' Man.
My day pack only weighs about 20lbs and has about everything so it doesn't need to be expensive store bought and heavy to save your life.
The most important survival tool is knowledge and it weighs nothing.
I keep little germ-x bottles in my gear. Sanitation is a blessing, fire starting that won't make you curse!
I like the basic lighter. Always in a warm pocket.
Emergency blankets.
outstanding tips
Thanks
Thanks Cliff, most practical and accurate videos I’ve seen. My experience is kindling is king. Getting a flame isn’t the biggest problem. Keeping a flame going long enough to ignite the main fuel is the greater problem.
thanks Doug!
This video might well save a life, maybe mine. Great tutorial!
Glad it helped!
Plus the rock wall will reflect the heat back onto you!!!
This video could save your life. Saving it to my library for sure. That tinder trick with the egg carton is money!
Glad you found it helpful!
Not sure if you heard about this, but Mike and I got stuck out for a few hours last year when we ran out of steam coming back down off of W. We still talk about the raging bonfire we built in the dark with our wax/cotton balls and flint/steel.
hahaha! anyone who has been up in the mountains quite a bit has done the same... I know I have. It makes for a good story. Fire sure can change the mood in such cases... it's the cave man coming out in us!
Great points. I always carry trioxane tabs, dryer lint and a couple ignition sources in my pack, but I will start carrying these items in my bino harness from now on. Also carry packable down jacket and a packable rain jacket and a SOL emergency bivy sack on late season hunts. My dad taught me this the first year I hunted, he sent me into a hell hole where I spent the night and then walked out the next morning. At 14 it was a real lesson, but I was able to start a fire, kill a grouse so I had some food and I survived the night.
good stuff! thanks MIke
I have used the backpack to keep me warm by putting my feet inside it and pulling it up as far as it will go. You have explained the rest. Cheers ATB from the mountains of NZ 😀😀
Great tip! Thanks
Learn something new every time I watch! Thanks for making these videos!
Of course! I’m glad they are helpful. Thanks
The best tinder I have found for convenience of carry wrap your lighter in duct tape burns for a long time. If you have your lighter you have your tinder. Plus tape for repairs and first aid if needed. Learned from Dave Canterbury works great.
Don’t be afraid to make the decision to stay out earlier than later, finding the Tinder and fuel in the daylight is much easier and safer than in the dark… and you need a lot more fuel wood than you think to maintain a fire all night long… also consider the incoming weather…
Good video thanks. Would mention to practice in less-than- ideal conditions like 32 and raining or wet snow.
Absolutely! thanks
I always found dry pine needles on the trees with dead branches. Also sage brush bark works really well like cedar bark. One thing I usually always carry TP paper with me. Cause using leaves suck! if you can find pine pitch and tightly rolled TP paper works well also. Dry grasses aren't very good they are hydroscopic. My opinions from being a fire bug as a kid. Good video
Buy those fire logs and break them in small pieces and put in empty prescription bottle
Thanks you I'm a hunter from Missouri and this stuff helps alot. Wunna start hunting out west seem expensive and confusing.
FIY, Rokslide has some good forums and a classified section. I bought quite a few used items my first time out and most I still use. If packing in on foot and tent camping try not to skimp on boots and sleeping bag. Lots of used lightweight tents, packs out there. As you can tell from my signiature, I'm from way down south but have become quite comfortable hunting out west. If possible, seek out some competent guys who've done it before, warning though, it can be addictive. Good luck.
Oh yeah, and watch Cliff Gray videos. :)
@@Smitty_76 yes sir I'm a light weight backpacker so my gear for on foot is dialed in. Just wunt to do shoot an elk with a traditional long bow that I've made. Taken white tails squirrels and rabbits so far.
👍.. I feel like I'm a pro hunter just from watching on JRE 🤠 nice tip for in home fire: I use burnt ash mixed with a little diesel..sounds strange but great fire starter!
corn chips are great fire starters... and a good source of carbs!
If there is no pins near you and all the wood around you is wet it's basically impossible without any dry tender even with a lighter or torch lighter
Chapstick works well . Not as well as Vaseline and a cotton ball but chapstick will work in a pinch
I just did a diy 10 night super cub drop moose hunt and yeah trying to start,or sustain a fire where I was with that crap wood was challenging, even with Pyro putty. Thank god I made wax disc from women’s makeup pads I dipped in cooking wax. They burn like 10 minutes each and saved my ass when it dipped below zero.
Awesome video, thanks for providing this lifesaving knowledge esp to new hunters!
Always remove those stupid child proofers from your lighters. When you're cold and your fingers aren't working so well, those are a real pain.
Great knowledge, there are no time outs in nature
Before Esbit, there was trioxane. (Bit more toxic, but burns 10-15 min.) Duct tape will take a flame as well (not a spark, a flame), and it can be used wet. Test it for yourself 1st.
Always carried a sm. sterno can for years. It's saved a lot of my buddies from frostbite. Instant heat.. when you get too cold, your fine motor skills are shot.
A piece of hvy duty painters plastic tucked away keeps a lot of weather off as well. And can be used to wrap meat or anything else.
Tinder means a whole different thing in urban environments.... Can still generate heat though....
I was going to call this video “How to get the most out of Tinder…” wife vetoed! Haha!
Excellent thank you
That's good stuff
that was super helpful!
I'm always shocked that people will go hunting in remote areas, and carry less survival gear than I wear checking the mailbox.
I'd NEVER step off a trail, to where I can't see the trail, without gear, that includes a sleeping bag and rainproof shelter. I never step outside without a method of creating fire.
Yes, it’s nuts!
Great info
Thoughts on zippo type lighter vs the disposable lighters you showed in the video?
No big preference to be honest. I’ve always used cheap ones due to their availability.
I have a case of 50 or so generic gas station lighters I bought from some dollar store that was going out of business like 20 years ago. I've still got 3/4 of them left, they are all still full and functional even after going from freezing to hot as heck in a garage the whole time. A Zippo will usually go from full to dry in a few months of sitting around.
Fire lots of it
Guys start buying Scripto brand lighters. Way better than Bic.
Exept a million times okay its realy okay.
“Ok”…..