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Kinda like Hillsound, another South Korean company.

You've got a better back than me. I shed my backpacking shelter weight to the 1-2 pound range, depending on my setup. Hiking uphill and through creek crossings for several miles to get to camp, I savor all the weight savings I can get at my age. Probably not a bad car camping tent though. Cabelas stuff is usually built well. Thanks for watching.

@@MikeycatOutdoors if you’re looking for something lightweight I saw the naturehike Cloud-up 1p is $95 and weighs 3.3 lbs I believe. Supposed to be a good free standing, low-profile shelter.

@@UncleOji I own a NatureHike Hiby 3 (thought about adding a stovejack), a Durston Xmid Pro2 (1.5lbs) & Xmid Pro1 (~1lb), Zpacks Triplex (1.5lbs) & Hexamid (11oz), Tarptent Double Rainbow Li (2lbs), Lanshan 2 (2.5lbs), Seekoutside Eolus, Seekoutside Silex, plenty of other tents, and several hammocks. I aim for DCF fabric or silnylon/silpoly fabric for complete waterproofness and lightweight carry. I have a Nemo Hornet 2p and a Lightheartgear Solong6 as well. The Nemo sets up well but it's not that great in rainy weather. The Solong6 is trickier to setup but it was bombproof waterproof when I woke up with a 3 inch river of water surrounding the tent and bone dry inside. Between leading a scout unit, doing solo backpacking, and doing gear reviews, I have way too many tents...lol. (at least 20, I lost count) NatureHike makes decent gear. Thanks again for watching. 😀

it's possible with my editor. lol.

Northern Illinois, USA.

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Ironically, there used to be a train depot near there that they tore down when I was a kiddo. Thanks for watching 😀

@@MikeycatOutdoorsgood response 😂

A lot of memories around a railroad, if you have lived there all your life

Not sure off the top of my head. There's a couple of websites out there dedicated to Old stoves and old Coleman stoves (& lanterns) that have descriptions and parts for lots of vintage models, including Canadian ones. www.oldcolemanparts.com There's also Ernie at the PaleoHikerMD channel. He's a big stove nut. Restores old ones as a hobby. Thanks for watching.

Nope, not the same generator. The APEX generators are close, but not the same. You'll see lots of kerosene generators for these for sale on shopping sites, but they are getting rare. On the bright side, if you use clean fuel like Coleman or Crown, or bulk naphtha, the generator will last a LONG time. If you feel like it's starting to lose performance. run the stove dry, remove the gas tip from the generator, pump it up a LOT, heat the generator with a propane torch and open the valve and pump some more. Lot of nasty smoke will start coming out. Light it to reduce the smell. Tada! it'll be like new in minutes. I recommend "rinsing" the generator out with clean fuel or carb spray before reinstalling the gas tip. Good luck.

Indeed it is. I hiked the northern part of the trail near Cove Hollow last year. Looked like several nice places to camp. Thanks for watching. 😀

I have a few more recent kayaking videos with it in use. There's one strap on the inside , one on top, and one over the rear end for the back half of the kayak. Thanks for watching. 😀

there's a lot of them in the Shawnee forest.

One of nature's wonders. Thanks for watching.

Southern Illinois. We've got bluffs. ;) Thanks for watching.

P-Town, south of the Boro. Thanks for watching.

I carry mace in town settings and bear mace in wilderness settings. It's saved me from dogs and whackos already twice. Thankfully, most of the nutters stay away from books & nature. Thanks for watching.

I need to get some better mounting points for my cameras while kayaking. I tend to either hold it or stuff it in my life vest straps and sit funny to get the right angles. Lol. I've got a bit of red keratoma on my shoulders from blistering sunburns in my teen years which they said were nothing to worry about. The big puffy mole on my temporal region was considered nothing but they froze it to flatten it. The black specks on my arm are what caught their attention. It's always the ones you least suspect, not the skin colored ones that hurt when your shirt rubs on them. Go figure. I had a blood pressure incident while camping over the weekend. Another joy of getting older. I'm thinking about salvaging that camping footage for another PSA sometime in the coming month. Thanks for watching.

I've been trying out a few sun hoodies recently. I've owned some Outdoor Research Echo hoodies, and one FayetteChill fishing hoodie they no longer make. I recently picked up a couple of Sunseeker hoodies from BurgeonOutdoor which the red one gets featured in my Pomona and Cedar Lake videos coming up soon. I had a blood pressure spike over the weekend while camping. No phone, no text, no 911, even my Garmin inreach SoS wasn't connecting to anything. 163/108 & a pulse of 118 for a couple of hours til water, meds, and rest calmed it down. Yep...it sucks getting old. My doctor's been on vacation 3x in the past two months and his nurse didn't seem too concerned about it. I might salvage that trip footage for a PSA health video in the coming month. Thanks for watching.

@@MikeycatOutdoors Gotta watch yer'self out there! I can relate to getting old. My knee injury from the Army really kicked in on our hike to Indian Kitchen. Hadn't bothered me for several years, but Saturday... It was like - Hey! Remember me!?

@@OldGoatintheWoods I had one of those popping grinding sliding kneecaps last year on my 2nd day of the Red Cedar trail going downhill with 29 lbs on my back.

Great to hear. I've got 4 of the Helinox Zero legged chairs and two of the square based variants, plus the soft top and hardtop tables. They're compact and handy. Half the weight of the competition but whew, you pay for it. ;) Thanks for watching.

Thanks for watching!

I try to buy the American or cottage brand items when I can as it supports living wages, local jobs, and innovation in the industry. But 300 for a Helinox cot...whew...it adds up. Luckily, I was blessed to afford it, but most folks can't. Sometimes life throws an acceptable curve ball that's just "good enough". The NatureHike cot is one of those. Thanks for watching. :)

The summer Rendezvous is this coming weekend. I broke in my new boots for the event. Sadly, my daughter won't be able to attend this year as she's in DC and NY for a week. Posting a short clip too.

@@MikeycatOutdoors enjoy your time there and make sure you film lots so you can show your daughter what she missed😀

Have fun! Thanks for watching.

The trail looped back. It stays on the Shawnee National Forest land but there is a private landowner to the south of the red mill branch trail...Steven Alfter, according to OnX Hunt property maps.

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

I try to buy from US cottage vendors whenever possible (hot tents, hammocks, backpacks, and niche gear). For some viewers, a cheaper alternative may be "good enough" for their needs and easier on their budgets. I definitely didn't want to loan a $300-$400 cot to my kiddos to use, so a cheaper option was to be explored. For my body weight, a Helinox is better trusted, but for a lightweight kiddo, a knockoff aluminum pole of sufficient diameter and thickness should pass the static forces their 90 lb bodies will stress on the metallurgy. Granted, a read of the book "The Wealth of Nations" would show that it's wiser to buy domestically or to exchange economically with fair trading partners with equal amounts of trade between two nations. One sided transfers result in the transfer of wealth in the long run. All politics aside, thank you for watching and commenting. ;)

It's surprisingly held up out there for at least the past 6 years. Being over a small ditch-like stream of water, it's not too overly stressed. I'd definitely be wary of one 6 feet up over a 20 ft span. ;) Thanks for watching.

It's a neat little nature preserve area with two wooden bridges. I haven't seen bushcraft bridges over little streams in any of the other nearby nature parks or trails in my area. It gives the place some charm. :). Thanks for watching.

Yeah, my daughter is into weird stuff. All part of being a teenager.

Pellets have their pro's and con's. Long steady heat, but they can smolder a bit compared to twigs or chunks of wood if the chamber gets overloaded. I wonder if a 4ft long piece of gutter would work to just funnel scoops of wood pellets into the burn chamber from the side, then take it away when done. I've used some oak pellets in my portable solo stove and my biolite gasifier stove, but if you overload it, it snuffs it out a bit. There's just that right amount to add, not to overdo it. If you ever try it, I'd be curious to hear how it works out. :) Thanks for watching.

I want to go back and hike the whole trail again. I'm hoping to get my other half to come along, but I'll probably do it solo if no one accompanies me. It'll be interesting to see how grown up it is in the beginning of summer, as I've mostly seen it in the colder months. Thanks for watching. :)

I've been to Jackson Falls a couple of times. I'm hoping to camp with Old Goat in the Woods out there sometime if our schedules align. Ferne Clyffe has some climbing too now off of Rebman. The Pavilion down past Trillium in GC was the main climbing place I've seen over the years. One of my buddies set me up for rapelling over there when I was 13. Spooky. But yeah, it was the first time I'd seen actual climbers at Devils Standtable and actually seeing the bolts in the rock.

I think they don't want people giving offerings to the devil. Plus, there's a grove of red cap mushrooms 🍄 near the climbing area, which is probably a secret Smurf village. You don't want Smurfs getting acclimated to human food, soda, or alcoholic beverages. You'd have to put them down faster than a black bear in Appalachia. 😁 More likely litter bugs in years past. 🙃

@@MikeycatOutdoors you're right about the Smurfs! They can be a problem😁

​@@MikeycatOutdoorsI was just looking back at pictures I took Aug 6, 2020. I was up at the top of the cliff with kids. Got some shots of the stand table from the top. Also got a pic of one of my little helpers pointing out a single red cap mushroom. Unfortunately we didn't get any Smurf pix.

Very smokey and windy that night. I set up two chairs and a lean-to and the wind kept changing directions and smoking me out. But food tastes better cooked on wood.

@@MikeycatOutdoors I'm not a fan of windy days, but you got some great food out of it I'm sure😁

flame thrower is more like it. sizzle....pop!

Thanks for watching and subscribing. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

It definitely does. My lil helper joined me this past weekend on a hike that'll show up in May. I'm getting ready for minor surgery in a few days...hopefully it won't impact me too bad. It was nice being back in the deep woods again and only seeing a couple of other souls over several hours.

@@MikeycatOutdoors hopefully you heal up quickly from the surgery! Gotta get you back in the outdoors again😁

Did you get to see the aurora borealis this weekend? I saw the purple glow on Friday, but too much light pollution out my way the rest of this weekend. Lots of folks in the Shawnee got great photos of it this weekend.

I first stumbled into the grotto around 97 and been checking out the ever changing scenery ever since. I went to Giant City a few times as a kid and as a teen, but really started going there a lot during college. It takes away the stresses of city life. Thanks for watching.

You almost have to sell a kidney to get a Melly. There's enough alternatives on the market these days. Thanks for watching.