Hot Tent Winter Camping Fail 

Jason, just want you to know that we all appreciate you. I know it’s not always easy and fun creating all this content. So thank you brother it definitely doesn’t go unnoticed. Continue doing what you do. 🙏🏻❤️💪🏼🇺🇸💯

Probably one of the better camping videos out there. To see when things don't go well, but a person still overcomes and gets it fixed, really is a genuine video. Everyone's campouts are so perfect on RU-vid. Good to see one where the bad actually occurs.

How refreshing to see a trip that doesnt go perfect. The problems with the tent and stove , the weather and everything . Thanks for doing an honest video! The stove is a bit concerning, the sooty build up and the front cover being too tight when hot. Awesome job.

Thank you for having such a positive attitude during such a difficult situation! You could have complained the entire time, but you just adapted and overcame. If camping was easy, everyone would be doing it! Just like the other comments, we appreciate all the work that goes into your videos. Keep up the great work.

Great Content there is nothing Perfect in this World . Your Viedos are Real and that is what make it more interessting than the other Gucci Shi Shi Content. Like it very much ❤🙂👍🏻

Ive been watching your videos for a lot of years...reaching back to your teardrop. Ive learned stuff from you and entirely enjoyed your beautiful videos. In the past year you seemed annoyed about something, and I've backed off watching your videos. Your question drew me back to watch and i very much appreciated this video. Sometimes things go sideways and you owned it and put it out there. I'll be watching again Jason. Thanks.

The drainage issue is why traditional tent footprints are always smaller than the tent area.

Thank you for all your hard work as always. Sometimes it's never easy and not much fun. But we appreciate you and all your hard work and not giving up. It's been a great journey following you from primal archer and watching and learning with you. Thank you for all you do!!

We’ve probably all been there at one time or another. Camping is a learning experience every time. If things don’t go as planned, then we make notes as to what we need to fix. If it goes smoothly, well then we are figuring it out. It’s a new to you tent and stove but others have figured it out for their own needs . Luckily Gary is there sharing the experience with you. Good friends and camp mates are priceless. Hang in there because we appreciate what you do and we all benefit from your trials and successes.

Snow man on wet dirt! LOL! Thanks for sharing.

Appreciate Gary cooking up some grub! Bummer to hear about the wood stove tho Thank you for taking us along on the camp out!!

If your flue and stove outlet is getting chocked or sooting up it is usually caused by the wood not being completely dry. A resin is given off which acts like fly paper attracting the detritus from the smoke and eventually reduces the dia of the chimney

I own this tent and if you keep the floor zipped together with the tent the water will not enter. I camp in the winter months on Vancouver Island and have never had a leak. I also put the insulated floor down then put the tent with the nylon floor on top. This keeps the ground warm.

Dang, looks too cold for me, bro. 🤠😻 Gary is like your wilderness Santa! 🧑‍🎄

If you're burning pine, it will clog up your chimney sooner with all it's sap. Harder wood burns cleaner thus requires less frequent clean out. You might like to give the Springbar Skyliner or Classic Jack 140 a look with a Winnerwell stove. Brian loves his Ellis Tent and I don't remember the stove he uses for his tent. He has a few!

Rain does bite to camp in, thanks for the video glad to see snowman back in the saddle and yeah that’s pretty cool Gary is rocking it at 70! Cheers

I think you called this trying out and field testing new tent/stove. Thats a win, not a failure. I have no doubt you'll fine tune and work out the issues.

I often dig a trench around my tent. It doesn’t take long but diverts the water away from the tent Enjoy your videos.

I too would agree with what Steve Hicks had commented on below Jason, your videos are so relaxing to me watching when I'm feeling down, for some reason it puts me in a nice spot and really appreciate the outdoors and your content. Please keep it up. Regards, Jason from Canada

Thank you for testing equipment out - the good the bad & the ugly. I would recommend the Winnerwell nomad large wood burning tent stove. Keep up the interesting and insightful videos. 🙂

The camp conditions you were in reminds me of my early camping experiences. Now that I am way older...the tent experience doesn't resonate . Your van is the way to go...thx for these product reviews for campers that are so inclined to rough it.

Thank you for showing all the fails this is part of camping for the people that don’t do camping. Otherwise stay home 😂.

Even the bad days make good videos. Hi Gary. 👋

One of the reasons I'm tiring of tent camping and looking to move towards hard sides of some sort. I'm second-hand spoiled by your van 😆 Bet you missed Sasquatch

Think if I had a night and morning like that I would be cracking open the whiskey 🥃 bottle!

GStove makes a stove that comes wish ash a ash scraper and a pipe brush. The largest one the XL Heatview has a lifetime warranty. When it gets hot the pipes glow.

Pretty little Campo to be worthwhile. Carrying up piece of plastic, maybe 12x12. Just in case these things happen. Cover up the tent. Keep you dry. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦🔥

There's a good chance the build up in the stove is due to burning wet or "unseasoned wood" and/or lack or good air flow. That baffle design does not appear to promote air flow but more of an obstruction baffle. I think the design overall is just too basic because it is trying to maintain a lightweight build. Cylinder style stove have successful over the decades due to their shape promoting air flow without sharp 90 degree angles that don't allow flow. That's the direction I'd look into for a solid cold weather stove.

One bad day out of all ur great days,not bad!!

😂ALL o' th' disappointments in that camp and THEN some, have been awesome, great trips, for me, apposed to sittin at home on my days off. Count th' joys my Friend, never th' depressing things. That ONE Joyful thing will always outweigh th' bad stuff, unless You, yourself CHOOSE otherwise.

I miss those days of camping 💔

Have you looked into the Winnerwell stoves? Same concept but very high quality. I love mine.

Love your vids.

Super cool setup though man! I want to get a winter stove setup someday... Super cool!

Little rain get to you??? LOL… like that you are changing it up tho, using the tent… pretty cool to see new gear and options… You need to pick up the flute and start playing buddy…

Thanks for your efforts jason! Still a great video

As Alf ( sitcom TV series), would say, Hey, things (sh..) happens. Lot worse might of happened. Here's a thought about the water situation: always make sure the center of the tent area is convex to the floor edge and not sticking out but say, an inch in on the inside all around. Then water can't pool. As far as the stove, seems that stove is made for more hard woods because of slow burning which is causing the build-up of creosote. Guess a small brush and scraper is needed in the kit. I'm sure you'll work it out.

Too bad about the stove and the tent, but I wouldn’t consider it a fail. In both cases you assessed, adapted and overcame! Good on you!

Thanks for taking the time to make us a great video Jason. What brand of tent and stove is that? I’m thinking of getting a small stove for my Kodiak canvas tent. Again thanks glad you had a good camp buddy with ya.

Stack the wet wood around the fire and use it as a heat deflector while it dries.

Never good when you get water in your tent. We have packed up early in the morning due to rain and water intrusion into our tent.

A chimney fire in that stove would surely make for a tenting disaster.

Just par for the course dude. All I use to do was either backpacking or primitive camping on my own, or tent camping with my wife and daughter. Then it was trailer camping. Got way too spoiled with the trailers. After the divorce I started to cot tent camp with a few extras like a pop up and wood stove or other heater, and the learning curve has been a real mixed bag. Forgot the toilet one time, the shower the other, both once, one blunder after another after being use to just hook up and go 🤣😅😂. It ain’t no thang. Just getting your feet wet again…LITERALLY 🤣😂. Love the videos. Like I said in the last Im hoping to be in my Sierras soon. May have been delayed. I FINALLY found a property to park my trailer on. The owner seems great, so I might be setting up a space then moving. Either way I’ll get there. You just keep doing what you do 😁👍

Do you have a link to purchase that Tomahawk that you use by chance?

Very nice video. Now I know what it takes to video. How many takes on that Jackery video? Actually, you got it on the first try, but you wanted to improve it. That was fun though. Always a pleasure to camp with you. Good experience and adventure and thanks for the compliment. Only wish we found what we were looking for while hiking.

Instead of buying wood you could in your off time collect some wood and have it drying in or around where you stay on a more permanent basis. In your region you could procure and cure quite a bit of campfire wood in a short amount of time for the times you are in the field.

That creosote will ignite eventually if not cleaned out. That stove is cool but definitely needs some mods.

I picked up a WinnerWell Nomad with this exact tent instead of going with the combo. No issues so far. Maybe chek em out. That stove does seem nice but those issues are a concern for sure. Grear overnighter Jason.

That was a soggy one! Fir boughs work to clean my portable wood stove's pipes. Just cut em, put the branch in one end and pull it out the other.

Just saw you on Casey's channel and looks interesting here...sub'd.

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The insulated floor i believe is for very cold winter camping, for the conditions your in this video i would have just used the nylon zip in floor or no floor at all. As far as the stove was that the dry wood bundles you used that night?

Perhaps a rocket stove would be a better choice?i like pomoloy? Would stoves

What kind of snow is it.

You have those days, where you would like to be somewhere else. We all do, hang in there, it'll change.

Jason I've been watching your channel for probably 8 years. That being said and I think they gave you that stove, throw it out. I do quite a bit of hot tent camping and Pomoly stoves are absolutely fantastic. I have two of them and just live them. They won't break the bank either. They really really well out together.

A bad day at camp is still better than a good day at a 9 to 5.

Mark Off Where The Ice Fishing ZIPPER Should Be, & Have A Canvas Repair Put in A ZIPPER in The Zip in Floor, 😜

I’m not sure why Jason but I noticed two videos with ber similar thumbnails posted very close together with similar titles ? Maybe some thought they’d already seen it or it was same one ? Just a thought

Hey Jason!!

DIG A SMALL TRENCH AROUND THE TENT WHERE WATER DRIPS ???? THATS WHAT I DO ~~~~~

Burn potato skins in stove to keep it clean inside and pipe

There has to be more to the story on that baffle build up in that stove. Check with the builder? ❤️Love your camping videos! ❤️ Hi Gary!

Take the stove to a carwash and BLAST it clean.