Alaska Winter Camping In Comfort 

How big is this tent? Is up5 for 5 ppl? Seemed like it gets warmer than the tarp hut. Is it?

what type of books do you enjoy reading while out. You guys are braver than me camping out in the winter! Thanks for sharing.

@@DameObserver108 This tent configured like it is, is warmer than the tarp tent in my last video configured like it is. However if the tarp tent had a second skin over all that had an air gap between skins, had an equally insulated floor system installed, had all air leaks sealed other than what is needed for stove air consumption and had as big a stove, it might be comparable but yet probably not quite as good due to the larger overall ceiling area of the tarp tent.

@@DameObserver108 The tent is 14.8 feet wide.

@@alaskankare I enjoy mostly novels. I enjoy a fairly wide selection of topics. However I am limited in what I read because I have certain criteria that the books need to meet such as very little (preferably none) objectionable language and no sex scenes. I am in no way against sex and in fact am VERY MUCH in favor of it but it MUST be within marriage and a very private affair. After all it was God who created it. And of course the book needs to be well written so that the plot, and character interactions are all believable. I have even enjoyed reading some fantasy type books but again the books need to be written in such a way as to be believable even if what is discussed is impossible. So those criteria severely limit what is available to read. I am on a constant quest for preferably prolific authors whose writings meet those criteria.

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My son loves a little food with his ketchup too! Funny thing is he hates tomatoes! Figure that one out! I can’t.

That is the method that I use. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P-Ab7lAT7L0.html

Thank YOU, for being on the front line for us.

Thanks for your service.

Yes I step out a few times in the evening. There is always the chance to see the Northern Lights a shining. I also stepped out to hear the coyote better.

@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival wow that is wonderful! I've only seen the Northern lights once in my life but it was breath-taking! :)

Of course I cannot say for sure without knowledge of your particular outfit and experience level but I would not be surprised if you would be fine once you learn to get the most out of your stove. You may need to split your wood fuel into smaller pieces rather than leave in rounds. You will get a much hotter fire that way. Of course you will also consume a greater volume of fuel. Also knowing how to use your tent can also enable a much warmer interior environment. Unfortunately here is not the best medium for dispensing all the info needed to get the most efficient performance out of a hot tent. It would require an entire book to effectively cover the subject.

I'll see if I can get Connie to put the recipe in the video description maybe tomorrow.

Connie has said that she hopes to write out the recipes in the video description below the video. Don't know if she will get to it however as we are going to be busy for quite some time. Hopefully she will eventually be able to get around to it.

The following is a copy and paste of a reply to another commenter. I do NOT want outside air directly routed to the stove air intake. I WANT the stove to get it's air from the tent interior. That air loss from the interior forces fresh air from outside to be sucked in and replace that consumed air thus providing a constant refreshing of the interior air. If there is any smoke that escapes from the stove in any way, I again WANT the stove to suck in that fouled air.

We have our main residence and we also have a remote cabin.

We are doing well. Thanks for checking in on us. We just got back from two weeks out at our cabin.

I have a barrel stove made from a barrel stove kit on a 30 gallon barrel and I loved that stove. It served me very well for many many years before finally rusting out winter before last. That 30 gallon barrel stove has a lot of mass to radiate heat. That was my canvas wall tent stove as well as my best large pyramid tent stove. Nothing at all wrong with those stoves if quality parts are used.

They said the between thickness of 30 gal and 55gal the 30g was alot thicker steel have you herd that? I hope your all fine. Here in Springfield Missouri people are passing away so fast from this crap. I think this gods way of slowing the world down.idk but its nasty ways.

Love you guys fall comeing any new videocomeing out?

I know that there are varying thicknesses on the 55 gallon barrels. You can lighter thinner ones or heavier duty thicker ones. Connie and I both were just hired for a temporary job and will be out of video action for perhaps up to one more month. Sorry about that. I am missing getting videos out for you folks and am looking forward to the time when I can get back to it.

Glad you stopped by and thanks for the kind words.

@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival hope you and your family always in a great condition....

The chairs are two different makes. My chair is called "Ascend" and was purchased by me at I think a Bass Pro physical store. Connie's chair was purchased by me at a Wal-Mart physical store for less than 20 dollars and has teh brand name of "Ozark Trail". There are many many many different brand names on this style of chair with several slight variations in the leg/frame design. Both of our chairs have proven to be plenty good in quality. You can spend as much as over one hundred dollars for this style of chair but mine was purchased for in the 30's and Connie's less than 20. Wal-Mart's chairs are now more money last I looked. My chair has an aluminum frame and is noticeably lighter weight than Connie's steel frame but both have performed great. I find that they are both VERY comfortable to sit in for me. They are slightly difficult to get out of for me at my age due to the low height but still quite do-able. I really like these chairs as they are so compact and light weight for transport especially my aluminum frame chair.

I am running Linux on my desktop as my operating system and use Kdenlive as my video editor.

I should have put the door on I suppose but decided to just forego it this time. We needed to zip the interior door each time anyway since we desired that thermal efficiency for this trip. Figured as long as we were going to unzip one door we might as well unzip both doors. Really no good reason why we did not do so other than we just didn't.

Our oven is the "Fastfold oven" by "Winnerwell." It also folds up quite compact. We have a Coleman oven out at our remote cabin.

@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival Thanks may not work like the Coleman on a gas burner though?

Yeah I think you are right. One could take a piece of sheet metal and fashion a "deflector" in the base of the oven though and make it usable for over a gas flame.

@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival I will kick that around thanks happy camping!!!!!

She might write it all out in the video description today sometime but no promises as we are quite busy right now.

My wife and I can get two full sized cots in the UP2 but just barely and they are a bit overlapped at the end. There is then room for one chair in between the cots but not two chairs. We did not feel like we had plenty of comfortable room for the two of us until we had the UP5. The UP2 is certainly big enough to sleep two people with the woodstove but it feels cramped. At least in the way that I look at it, the UP2 is a great size for one person and all the gear to make a comfortable camp. like a small table and a chair etc.

ps. Yes RBM Outdoors is Russian Bear Market and yes that is where I got my tents and stoves.

Ok, thank you so much for your reply and the valuable info you gave me. PS… that tip with the rope to assist with opening the tent was an awesomely good idea 👍 Thanks and take care.

Connie tells me occasionally that I am spoiled but my standard answer is . . . "not near as much as I'd like to be." :o)

Ol boy it only gets better with age what i was told.you know guys i dont talk about this much but when i turned 15 goin into high school met beautiful local girl from Buffalo Missouri Dallas County. She was little younger than me but we hit it off like we knew each other all our life. Well long story short dated strong all up to my graduation 93' the night of graduation i was about tell my family i was enlisting in navy to be seal. That had to be put on hold till tomorrow.well i was headed home from office and mom and her were at table crying there eyes out.well i fiq thdy were told bf must have told my mother. Come in set down son. I said guys dont be like this its best for me. Ill be fine. Mom looked at me smiled said always thinking about myself. Hold up wth goin on. Gf grabbed me said she was 2.5 months pregnant. Talk about seal team pressure is worst enemy seals say.well ill fail i turned 6shades of white and smiled. They smiled they were like what were you thinking? When i told them they changed 6shades of mad blood red. ABSOLUTELY NONONO. Well we were together 10yrs three great kids and come up with hard working funds get married. Up into the week after we got married i couldn't ask for better life.i was mill feed manager T local mfa feed store 14yrs.came home early for lunch only to grab tools needed at mill.shes always at work gets home same 6pm.well i pulled up her knew car id bought and our land lord truck was there.wth going on. Went in house kids setting on couch movie.well i think you get idea but yeah she was in our bed paying rent. She being 26-year-old and land lord 78. Omg.i picked up babys and never looked back. Im just saying when you got the one in only you see alot of things that mean love is unconditional. Like we all see in you and Connie. Ill never have anything or anyone like you have lonnie. When you get hurt that bad i think of just leaving moveing to bush Alaska soon.but now my health so bad 46 yrs old cant hardly get around.i was almost 500 lbs year ago. Last week visit i was negative of covid and 381lbs im planning on being back to 300 by middle summer.

Thanks for sharing your story. I can feel your pain. That is fantastic that you are seeking to do something about your physical condition and winning at it. That is really great. But how are you doing in an even more important aspect of your life. How are you doing spiritually? No need to answer that to me but is intended simply as food for personal thought. You physical life is extremely important but your spiritual life is even more important than that. If you haven't already seen it, I hope you will watch our video we did on how Connie and I experience peace in our lives. Good luck on building back an awesome life. I'm cheering for ya. How We Find And Experience Peace ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tWtj0xBVYt8.html

I (Lonnie) typically just use straight hot water and paper towels and wipe the container out whether it is plates, bowls, pots or skillets. If a skillet has stuck food, using hot water I wipe out what I can and then place water in the skillet and heat hot for enough time to loosen the food and then repeat the scraping and wiping out. During the summer months and if a waterway is nearby, I use an abrasive "scrubby" to scrub out the vessel in the creek etc as the food particles will not hurt the aquatic life but I use no soap. Never allow soap to enter a waterway. If the vessels are greasy and do not come clean with cold water then I may use a hot water rinse and wipe just as in the winter.

The fire easily lasts four hours so refilling once or twice during the night is sufficient.

right on thats a good stove then

To learn more about the UP5 as well as the UP2, follow the link in the video description or in the comment pinned at the top of the comments. DIY "PackRat" CampfIre Pack Grill - Make It Yourself ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YRaaHliCZQg.html

Without knowing your level of experience with storms and your level of preparations, I can hardly give meaningful advice other than take the opportunity to enjoy the physical demonstration of weather.

​@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival Ahm i'm pretty experienced with atlantik storms,but this sounds more like a blizzard :) iI an send u an email from myself enjoiying kyrill at about 130Kkph well ahm I have the option to sleep on my balcony or sleep outside i have a pretty good bivac and a sleeping bag which goin in comfort to -5c° could upgrade to may 13-15 with external bivak and extra sleepung bag inside

@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival I'm sorry Sir, i was a little beneath the way as I wrote the last comment, thank you for the heart my experience in these may harsh conditions are not very well, firewood may also be a bigger issue, so I guess your heart means that I should try that weather in the near of my home ? a guess - i guess ?

with ketchup I meant!

Sweet as perciman pie.lol no you guys sweet as my apple pie moonshine.oooppps not supposed mention my fav pepsi drinks

They are, people that love the LORD tend to be that way.

They are amazing people, I would love to know them in everyday life!

They are prime example of what this world all needs to be like. If our nation would come at one like lonnie and connie this whole usa would be one state of Alaska.no more 50 states one and one only. Under gods eyes and lonnie and connie. Yep gosh i cant wait for more video's..more more. I would love to see them in warmer setting hunt kill clean and cook off the black flat rock again. Connie your food makes my jaws ache and mouth water like a wolf being teased with a mouse.starved lol im sorry im crazy into these movies is what me and my grandkids call them.

I was thinking the same: “You two should be married.” (Just like the two of us.) And yes, humbly having a greater God than yourself and your own ideas can do wonders to people who live together.

Yeah! I liked that one too....along with starting a fire with only his mind awhile back. Great!

@@MuskratOutdoors Sounds like a bushcraft jedi!

@@gabrielramos4179 If anyone could do it, it would be Lonnie! Did you see that one? Pretty funny! Caught his beard on fire, rolling on the ground slapping his face! HAW!