Laughs I like it I try to do So we're doing a simulated get home camp Out kind of scenario we've got a bunch Of kids we've got a bunch of adults Those are awesome A camp out tonight and a walk home which Is going to be somewhere between 15 and 20 miles and we're just going to try to See How we can manage that effectively and Get everybody from point A to point B Uh not everybody in this crew is going To spend the night some of them are Going to be going but quite a few of us Are some of the little really little Ones those are going to be not spending The night with us but they might be Joining us on the walk so We will see how that goes and I'm Looking forward to the challenge I think so Guys I'll try it although oh dear oh Dear I'll let you have my sword Look I like that sword a lot It's a good looking sword so here's my Camp for the evenings just a basic Poncho shelter which anybody that Watches my channel knows that's what I Sleep under 99 of the time I've got an Inflatable mattress a lightweight uh
Sleeping Bag inside of a Sol breathable Bivvy trying this out for the first time I've never used one of these before but I hear good things so I think we'll be Okay the temperature is going to be Around 40 degrees tonight and it's going To rain Uh my bag is rated to I think 50 degrees So my sleeping bag in addition to the Sol bivvy I'm hoping will be good down To 40 degrees or even below my son is Going to be joining me for the night the My daughters however or not they have Opted out but they're probably going to Be doing the hike home with us so got One of my kids camping out with me and He's got everything he needs and he's Going to be carrying at home uh we're Going to be carrying home with him so You have two say just stay in the night Sage my daughter Sage might be spending The night not sure yet she's unprepared Doesn't have any Gear with her which is The best another test that might be Another Uh opportunity for us to learn so you Can't predict the weather when you do Your get home situation it's just it is What it is and sometimes you just have To endure the wind and you have to pick You have to pick the the best of the Worst decisions so so we're camped out Here in the woods we've looked around as Best we can for widowmakers dead trees
Big branches that could potentially fall On us But that doesn't have to be the case it Doesn't have to be a dead tree to fall On you everybody talks about that talks About the Widowmaker the Widowmaker Could be the perfectly good looking tree This giant monster tree that's been There for a hundred thousand years all Right maybe that's a little bit of Exaggeration a hundred years and it Could be perfectly healthy and the wind Can still blow it over so there's only So much you can do to to avoid things Like that but it is really really windy I think we're supposed to have gusts of 40 miles an hour plus Um so that's that's substantial and There's definitely going to be some Stuff come down but hopefully not on us So not only a good protein Source but There's also quite a few reported Medicinal benefits to eating termites Such as gastrointestinal issues Um it's an antiviral I've I've read that No I don't know that to be a fact and I've never had any positive results in Using it for that purpose but do your Own research What you wanna try it Harley yeah good Job all right [Laughter] I like it I tried it too it tasted like coconut it
Did I like what color Master my whole life Yeah Nice One two three oh there you go What we'll do because everything is And see the little Tails of duct tape Right there you're gonna try to light One of those Sit down Well you lit the feather sticks it might Go you didn't like the duct tape but it Might go The duct tape's better than anything Right People in the comments have been asking About family get home situations and Stuff like that like what do you do if You um you know The lights go out power goes out cars Come to a stop and you've got your Family with you it's easy to do the Individual Lone Wolf thing and walk home that's no Problem but when you got your family It's a little bit different so Just kind of what we're experimenting With on this trip I cannot see where I'm Going Um is what does it take to do it with Little ones Is it Super K mode Yeah So this is my son
Eli's Camp very similar to my setup just A little simple poncho He's got a baby bag a ground pad Sleeping bag Just the basics around his neck we've Just got Small little light Right there from wazoo Signal whistle And the tardy little tiny little Ceramic knife little ceramic folder and A Ferro Rod floating around somewhere And the little Ferro rod Good job good job setting your shelter Up it stayed really dry during that Horrible storm even even this is dry Yeah we had a big storm lots of wind Lots of rain And you stayed nice and dry Sage Sage what's going on under here What do you have Did you bring paints No you brought a tape assortment And you're in your leopard backpack You're ready Sage wasn't planning on spending the Night but now now suddenly she wanted to Spend the night and that means that She's completely unprepared with only What the nonsense she has in Rebecca so Yeah last minute plans of sage spending The night with us Which I guess is you know a real life Scenario you're not always prepared for
Everyone in your group You can only be so prepared so I'm going to be sacrificing my sleeping Bag For a little Sage And I'll just be sleeping in a Sol bivvy Bag I was really looking forward to Crawling against this And going to sleep tonight Kids Can't live with them Can't throw them off a bridge You can't let them freeze to death at Night either apparently put everything In there It's disaster they've got going on She's chaos so bad so I've got a poofy Down jacket and my extra clothes Um This is going to be a Wool Cap wool Long John's top and bottom so I wasn't Planning on wearing these tonight Because I was going to be cozy my Sleeping bag but now I'm gonna go ahead And throw on pretty much all the clothes That I've got and hope for the best oh This guy looks cool I wasn't concern about it raining I Wouldn't take my derp off Good morning Decent sleep Tossed and turned a bit didn't freeze oh Stayed fairly warm had enough layers Thankfully so stayed stayed fairly warm
But now it's time to get going Sage how Did you sleep with my sleeping bag Cozy warm Or your paint supplies handy or Kids this is why you do the lookup look Down look all around So this monster of a tree fell yesterday During the storm while we were away we Set up our camp And then went off to do some activities And this giant thing fell really close To where we were camped out Yikes you'd be dead for sure if any part Of that hit you Just the beginning of our walk home not Exactly sure I'm plotting it on the GPS So we know how far we walk on once we Get there but it's probably going to be I think around the 15 Mile mark And we're just getting started we're Less than a mile in I would say Just going over basic navigation stuff With the kiddos so now my map is Pointing North my compass is pointing North and now I can figure out where I'm At so This is my house we are approximately Right in this spot right here eventually We're going to keep following this road Until we get to the four lane right this Big red line is the big Highway the big Four lane with all these power lines and Cut across and maybe save myself some Miles by cutting across it looks like
This right here this big wide open Your legs will get forced to move yeah And it won't take away that much energy So Lean Forward is what you're saying Yeah like lean all the way down and you And it'll force your legs show me what You're talking about I literally just stopped Are you still drinking cocoa yeah Who wants a little bit of pumpkin pie Hey Freeze-dried pumpkin pie That's seriously my number one Motivation on sunscreening them is to Not get in trouble with your wife I Really want Carrie to like me yeah yeah Honestly I care less about their Well-being yeah and more about not Getting in trouble when I get home yeah So all you schlubs out there that are Not out trying this stuff out for Yourselves by little girl with a leopard Print backpack and paint supplies no Camping gear whatsoever just knocked it Out winter time I guess is it spring yet Almost spring Springtime camp out And 15 mile hike Anybody went down water I think I got a Joke Very crazy Hello friend Oh fun He was doing some yeah Why do they all have little notches
Right there in their ears I like to have Love to have a pet possum Did you know that the opossum Is the only North American marsupial Little known fact We are Over halfway now we've gone about nine Miles I think Give or take Uh so we're gonna take a break here real Shortly Maybe take shoes off let them air out For a bit change some socks possibly get A drink of water and then keep pushing Everybody's doing really good All the kids are doing really well Spot despite them walking in the middle Of the road trying to get run over by Cars hey girls Side Of the road But pretty quiet Road not a lot of Traffic going on here Okay I'm trying out these new shoes These are zero shoes they're waterproof Super nice they're really really light But they have almost no support in them And that's by Design it's not you know That's not necessarily a negative thing But for hiking with a pack a heavier Pack You might want something with some more Support my feet are doing pretty good Um I mean my feet are not super Pleasant
Feeling right now but I don't think they would be regardless Of the shoes that I'm wearing so so far So good Everybody put a hand on the gate we're Gonna open it together we did 14 miles Together because we're awesome Ready set oh All right guys all right what did we Learn You can walk 15 20 miles give or take With some kids and I think you could do It with literally nothing you could just Get out of your broke down vehicle and Start walking you probably don't even Need a water bottle as long as you got Some comfortable shoes and depending on Weather conditions obviously I mean if It's a snowstorm and it's hailing things There's other things to be considered But Under General Somewhat semi-favorable weather Conditions you can just start walking And you're gonna make it you won't be You may not be that happy but you you Could do it with kids it's all about Mindset they're physically capable of Doing so much more but if they're Mentally not there if they're in a in a Bad state of mind it becomes much much More difficult and that's where you know Having things such as snacks having Those handy to give them is is really
Really good for morale because if you Keep them positive Make it entertaining make it fun make it An adventure That is where they're going to be Totally fine not going to have any Issues with that one of the girls was 60 Pounds she weighed 60 pounds and she was Carrying a roughly a 15 pound pack I had to take it from her a couple times And give her a little bit of a break but But overall she carried it the whole way Without really any complaints whatsoever My son was 80 he weighs about 80 pounds Ish give or take I'm not exactly sure His pack was about the same about 15 Pounds no problems he carried his the Entire way I didn't have to take it from Him he was he was good to go no worries And he was even running towards the end Of the trip I mean he I saw him jogging Down the road you know at Mile 13 and he Was just no problems whatsoever And then they played on the trampoline When we got home so so there's that so With kids motivations everything give Them some snacks make sure they got Their well hydrated cut comfortable Shoes and man they can walk they could Walk a long ways if you have to stay Overnight you need very minimal gear so Let's say you've got to do uh you know 15 miles spend the night another 15 Miles spend the night another 15 miles
Let's say that's the scenario could we Have done that and I think yes with the Gear that we had Possibly you'd want some more food Stuffs so you could stay well fed and And not get too hungry but but with the Gear that we had my pack and the other Adult that was with us the other adult Male that was with us had packs that Weighed somewhere in 25 to 30 pound Range And with that Gear with that equipment We could feed ourselves and be Comfortable overnight regardless of Weather um I was sore I had you know a Little bit of soreness in my feet the Next morning you know when I when I had To get up and start moving again but After getting up and moving it was no Problem we actually did the whole family Went for another hike the next day and Had no issues no no serious blisters None of that stuff no nothing like that Would keep us from doing it again the Following day so it's definitely Possible a little bit of soreness around Where my my waist belt was on the on the Pack a little bit of soreness there like On my hips where it was riding Nothing major no bruising none of that No chafing just a little bit of soreness And other than that it was it was good To go people are going to say okay but You know you know if conditions are bad
And it's really a get home scenario the World's going to be chaotic people the Cannibals are going to be coming out and You know kidnappers are going to be Everywhere okay sure and maybe you'd Want to be staying off the roads and not Taking the easy route like we like we Did sure if you had to stay off the Roads and had to move at night you're Gonna be moving much much slower Progress it's going to be much much Slower it's gonna be really difficult With kids I get that but in most get Home scenario situations let's say let's Say you know the EMP strikes and your Cars broke down If you start moving immediately you're Gonna get home if you're relatively Close you're gonna get home before the World starts to go completely insane at Least that's my theory so you can Disagree if you'd like but anyway that's Kind of some of the basics that we've Learned it was a really great experience A really good learning experience for All of us especially the kiddos and I Really do appreciate you watching make Sure you leave in lots of comments leave Lots of questions and be happy to answer All of them about this experience and I Cannot wait to see you on the next video [Music] Foreign
