today i'm your roving correspondent kyle
broderick also known as the social
regressive and if you're wondering why
we had a two-week blackout on videos
it's because of this i'm on vacation i
went to stonewall colorado
and oh my gosh are we having a good time
this is my
kind of country it is
just gorgeous out here i love the air
i love that there aren't a lot of
allergens as you many of you know i'm an
okie and so we have every allergen on
the
planet especially out there on the
eastern side and it's just
oh my gosh it's nice here now i did
bring hot weather with me
i'm gonna go ahead and just kind of
throw that out up front it's been
getting up into the 90s
by about four o'clock or so right now we
have some good shades so i don't know
we might be getting some rain and a
little cooler weather i've been watching
the forecast
because tomorrow i plan to go up
uh to trenchera peak right out here so
i'm gonna be over in the sand the pike
san isabel national forest and it's just
kind of a wild area there is
one trail that runs through it that'll
take me to the top of trinchera peak
and i'm not taking it i'm gonna do
something that's a lot more fun i have
scoped out the maps i've done my
analysis
and i've kind of figured out an
alternate route i'm going to go where
there is no trail no path
watch for that video because it's going
to be a whole lot of fun but i wanted to
show you all the stuff that i'm going to
be bringing with me
and not bringing with me a lot of this
is day hike sort of equipment that i
tend to bring when i go out on these
things
and i'm going to be leaving a gob of
this behind but i'm picking
specific little things that i'm going to
take up there with me i want to go as
light as possible
i'm going to take as little as possible
and that just makes everything much more
enjoyable
especially for this okie who's used to
1000 feet of elevation
and i'm going to be sucking wind when i
get up there to about 13
500. it's going to be a little difficult
for me but
uh hopefully this stuff will help let me
show you what i'm working with here
all right now a lot of this stuff these
are things that i would normally take
on a day hike i would kind of mix and
match certain things based on what i'm
doing so i'm gonna show you what we're
weeding out here
now first off we're going to go through
some of the tools
as far as defense goes because that one
is quite important to me you know that
i'm a you know a gun reviewer and i do
all kinds of gun stuff
the pistol that i'm going to be bringing
is my usual pocket pistol taurus
millennium pt 111 pro
nine millimeter love this thing and i'm
bringing an extra mag
so i know that this is not enough for
bear i'd prefer a 44 magnum or a 10
millimeter but
uh hey this is what i've got and at
least i have 24 rounds of it got hollow
points in there
full metal jackets in here as for some
other tools i can kind of mix in
into that i am not going to be bringing
my awesome
ontario rat one i'm just going to be
kind of paring things down reducing some
weight so let's get that out of there
this actually weighs probably slightly
less even though it is a
fixed bladed knife i could be wrong
about that
but this mora this is the the army
version has a beautiful patina
on it no that's not your normal rust
that is from cutting onions
and this is in grand shape very very
comfy if i have to do any bushcraft you
know if i get stuck up there and have to
do some stuff
this one's going to be really really
good for
all kinds of cutting for cross cutting i
can do all sorts of fun stuff with this
actually the
the ontario is really good for a lot of
that too i've been doing a lot of
splitting with this for some of the
campfires that we had
great knife but this is the one that i'm
choosing right here
all right for other camp craft this is
my saw viver
one of my the tools that i'm most proud
to have i'm very very happy to be one of
those that managed to get the
the trailblazer saw viver before that
company went out of business
this is the ultimate little camp saw it
weighs so very little
it's aluminum just large enough for you
know a decent sized log for
campfires and i will not be bringing
that even though it is so wonderfully
lightweight
as far as light goes i have a couple
different options here usually i take a
backup i'll take two
you know so these are the two that i
usually take with me the black diamond
spot
and the this is the olight i5 t
eos this is a single double a
right here and this can pump out 300
lumens
this one's only 75 lumens but this one's
heavier i'm leaving it
out this one's going to be coming along
with me my one source of light
and like i said usually i have
duplicates but
i'm really intending that this is just
going to be you know a day hike i get up
to the top
mess around for a little while go to
some of the high peaks kind of traverse
between them
and then come back now this one
is going to be a little bulky but it's
also very lightweight so i have no
problem with this
this is a fist scars just a little
gardening trowel
and that is if i have to take a giant
dump on top of a majestic mountain
because well out in bear country you you
definitely want to
bury that up it's just nicer all around
for for shelter i was really hoping that
i'd have enough room to bring a hammock
so this is my five-star gear hammock
love this thing really really
comfortable and you know if i could just
take a nap up there
up at the heights kind of come down a
little bit into the trees and take a nap
up there that would be stellar
but it's even though it is very
lightweight made of polyester
this is still just a bit too bulky too
heavy we're gonna put that aside
and this is all i'm bringing an
emergency bivvy this is one of the
better ones that i've found the sole
this one it sounds like it's going to be
a lot tougher than some of the
pure chinese knockoffs of this
this should be able to take a bit of a
beating
it has the internal reflecting material
so it's going to keep me pretty warm in
an emergency situation like i say it's
in the 90s down here
we don't know what it's going to be like
up there or if the weather is going to
change very quickly
just in case i'm going to have that
along oh and i should point out this
little bag right here is for the trowel
i don't want getting you know dirt
getting all over my stuff
other tools we have a butane lighter
this is one of the jet type and i've
been using this for the first time here
recently
on the on a camp out with my kids this
is fantastic my little boy can light up
a fire really easily with this
i'm sick of all these little windproof
matches and other
finicky little things although i'm
beginning to find out here in colorado
it doesn't matter if i think about fire
hard enough the entire forest is going
to burst into flames everything is so
dry and easy to burn out here
i'm going to make a whole video making
fun of colorado people about that
this is the butane that goes in it i
will not be bringing this i've charged
this puppy all up
and by the way everything that i
mentioned in this video if it's
available
for purchase somewhere uh even if it's
not i'm going to put it in the
description down below so you can see
a list of all the stuff and some of
these that i'm throwing
out here on the side just because
they're too heavy or too bulky i'm going
to list those too because they're great
for other kinds of day hikes
this torch is by zoe kura or zoo kura
i don't know exactly who came up with
this it's probably a pharmaceutical
company or
it's chinese it's probably very chinese
i don't think this is actually anodized
here on the outside i think there might
be like a plastic film
but aside from that it all seems to be
pretty decent aluminum
it's not really super duper heavy it's
it's actually pretty large and beefy in
the hand
and i think it can hold quite a bit of
butane
so this is going to go with me on a lot
of treks in the future
my bloodline is irish dutch and german
so i will be bringing sunscreen
i do better than some people but i know
i
i'm definitely gonna burn up there if
it's anything like today so i've got
some good
50 spf for everything that can possibly
leak out here
i'm going to have a waterproof bag it's
just you know a quart
zipper bag if it's one of those freezer
kind they hardly ever bust open then
they're not gonna
leak everywhere food i've got a trail
mix that's a blend
of the tropical trail mix which is
always really cheap and i don't get that
i love this stuff
and then it has some some granola in
there
and some mixed nuts really inexpensive
but a whole lot of calories there and it
doesn't weigh a whole ton
but if you're looking for density these
are the things to check out i was
trying to figure out how to balance
budget
calorie density and you know the weight
overall and these larabars look great
the banana bread ones have a lot of
potassium
and magnesium and that's the sort of
stuff that i'm going to need to make
sure that i don't lock up my
my poor office worker limbs while i'm up
there
and then for a little protein i might
throw these in
these will definitely get me a longer
burn than some of the other stuff we
have here
these are a little heavy though i might
leave these in the car on to more
important items
right back here this is a first aid kit
that my wife put together for me as an
rn
together we worked on this to figure out
what sort of needs i might have in the
back woods
out hunting and this is the result
sometime we might
delve into this if you guys want to see
a full review of what's inside this
first aid kit
let me know and we'll do a video on that
this could be kind of fun
it is jam-packed with all kinds of stuff
and i'm really curious to see
if this kind of aligns with what you
guys have what other
first-aid kits you've seen out there but
this has all the stuff that i've
ever needed and it is too heavy so
for this trip i'm going to pair things
back quite a bit
and this is everything that i'm going to
take inside this bag i just have a
handful of band-aids
i have some sterile wipes i have some
antibiotic ointment
i have a an ankle uh brace right here
just in case i turn
my ankle chapstick athletic tape that's
going to help if i get a blister
somewhere
and aside from that that's pretty much
oh toilet paper that's a good one
earplugs so this is my little everyday
kit all kinds of little things that i
might need much simplified compared to
what i usually take out there
but i think that's going to be plenty
for me for other things that are going
to help me out
in the the great outdoors this stuff is
the best
ever if you live in oklahoma or texas
you need
this deet is great that that off woods
or you know deep wood stuff
but it's also going to melt all your
gear and so i've been kind of reticent
to use that a lot of the time because
it's going to trash everything that i
own
so this is what i use now repel tick
defense this uses pico ride in i think
it's called
it's a synthetic pepper and
this i get keeps all the ticks and all
the oak mites and all that nasty
stuff off i'm really not going to need
it here because there's just about
nothing out in these great outdoors i've
been bitten by just about
nothing a couple of really lazy
mosquitoes but i think i'll go ahead and
hit myself with this before i go up
also before i go up i'm going to spray
myself down with magnesium oil
this is a spray that i can put on my
legs and it's going to help keep me
from seizing up out there this should
keep the cramps away
for one of the most important matters
i'm going to be taking up a little extra
space and a little bit more weight
this is my kind of mess that i created
for filtering water and it works out
beautifully
this is a sawyer this is the full-size
filter right here
there is the mini if you want one that's
a lot lighter and smaller to carry
around
i like this one this one is going to
last a whole lot longer and really it
doesn't weigh much at all
some of the other parts that i've
included with this are the ones that
add significantly more weight this is a
catidin
hiker pro that normally has a filter in
here but i've gotten sick of the
the catidin hiker pro because those
filters last
hardly ever even if i were filtering
distilled water this thing would crap
out uh before the uh the maximum amount
of water that they recommend you know
that that each one of these
filters will last and the filters cost
about 45 bucks a piece
in here so yeah i've gotten sick of
using this for that but now i use it as
a pump
and this is great for pumping water out
of the stream using these hoses
up into here squirt them into this and
put it into my bottle and it's just
a very quick way to get water i hate
having to stop for a long time to filter
water
and that's why i didn't bring the sawyer
bags those bags
are really annoying to fill even though
they're very lightweight and small
and in this case to me it's worth it to
bring this extra stuff
in order to share my adventure with you
i'm going to be bringing not the big
camera that i'm filming on right here
this is my
canon sl1 great camera wonderful lenses
but i'm going to be kind of cheaping out
on this
so that i can save myself some weight
i'm going to be bringing a gopro
up the mountain this is a gopro hero and
i've got some spare batteries and i'm
just going to bring a couple little
accessories like a tiny tripod so that i
can get some of the shocks up there
and then for the rest of it i'm going to
be recording the audio
on this little microphone that you see
right here going to a tiny audio
recorder
i just picked this up and it records wav
files
so it's just going to be lighter overall
and a lot more flexible and this can get
just dumped on with rain and it's going
to be fine it's totally waterproof
i've taken this underwater great stuff
now to carry everything this is
really the centerpiece of this review
this
is the camelbak rim runner 22
and this is the best day pack that i
have ever encountered could ever ask for
they have thought of absolutely
everything
i think i'm going to do a full review on
this bag just so you can see all the
little bits but i want to point out some
stuff just because this is so stinking
cool
first off it is extremely lightweight
they have spared all kinds of you know
the usual little plastic
parts are just not there the fabric
on the outside here it's a rip stop
nylon it seems
and it seems to be very tough but it's
not like your
thousand cordura 500 cordura and you're
saving a lot of weight
with that also the foams that they use
in here between the
the different compartments to help
protect your gear they do the job
but they seem to be made of a much
lighter material than usual so
overall this bag is just stinking
lightweight
and as you can see on the back here we
have a lot of mesh
so that it's going to help to wick away
a lot of moisture and these
these these shoulder straps you can see
they're not as thick as you're going to
get on like a backpacker's backpack
but it does still have plenty of cush
for this kind of work if you want to be
able to maintain
light weight and for it to hug your body
really well
this is the backpack this is the best
thing i've ever used just
love it you can see that it's already
when you buy this it actually comes with
a hydration bladder
so this has a two and a half liter uh
bladder that is completely devoid of any
taste
you're just gonna have your water flavor
and that's it
the hose is the same a lot of time the
you know the bladder is fine but the
hose has a funky taste
everything here is designed for optimal
flavor
and these things seem to be really tough
i have not sprung a leak in a camel back
yet
i use their three liter omega reservoirs
as well
and those things are just bomb proof and
uh
yeah they taste really good as well as
you can see
in in you know part of the weight
reduction they don't have
one of their more extremely complicated
uh
connectors here sometimes you can get
these quick connect um
little spigots and valves and things and
this does not have that if i need to
fill this up at a creek
i'm going to probably just be opening up
the bag itself and then filling it from
the
the sawyer and i can have a hose that
runs right into there and fill it up
really quickly that way
this is the main compartment it is
actually quite roomy
i've used this as a carry-on bag i have
used this as a day pack with the kids
you know we're just going out
up into the woods goofing off or if
we're going to the zoo i can fit a lunch
i can fit a picnic blanket i can fit
extra clothes and all kinds of stuff in
here
i'll put some some dimensions on here
including the weight so you can see
exactly how heavy and what sort of stuff
you can carry
we have a little kind of admin
compartment right
here this is where you can put your
valuables
like you do get a little clip here if
you want to attach your keys
and that can nestle down inside one of
these little mesh pockets
so you can have stuff out here in the
open you can have it in these two mesh
pockets
again everything's very light and then
right here we have
uh this little section you could put an
extra hydration bladder
you could put little you know cups uh
what i like to do
is put things that need to dry off i put
them inside here
because we do have mesh on either side
so if i have a wet t-shirt or some wet
pants
if i'm not hanging them off the straps
or off these
these wonderful little loops right here
in the webbing and they're going
inside here and it's a great way to very
quickly get access to something that
you're going to need at a moment's
notice
moving around to the side i have two of
these
mesh pouches right here which are also
great for drying materials
for example i'm going to go ahead and
skip ahead and show you this
this is my camp towel this is a coleman
camp towel that i think i have cut in
half
and i have put into a little mesh bag
this goes with me everywhere
on hunts and on hikes this is extremely
useful for drying off messy children
and if i need to dry this off i can
either hang it like i said or i can
stuff it into one of these side pouches
with mesh
and everything dries off quickly through
there the mesh is
has some elastic or some kind of special
weave that allows it to stretch
so it tends to sit very closely up on
the side of the bag
but it does stretch out to very neatly
hold a
nalgene bottle this is
for me the the one tool that tells me if
a bag is serious or not
i have seen all kinds of crappy little
day bags
uh that you know they're probably just
designed for school use
or you know maybe it used to be a good
outfitter company and they've fallen
down
in recent times and they've they've kind
of goofed everything up and it's
it's more of an urban backpack this is a
true
outdoorsman's backpack because each one
of these on the side
will neatly swallow a nalgene bottle
and it's deep enough even though it
doesn't look like it each of these
pouches
will get this little elastic strap at
the top
right up around the neck of the bottle
these guys at camelback
know their business and they made this
bag on purpose
this is an outdoorsman's backpack
at the bottom you can see that the
material is a little bit heavier and
thicker
than it is up here this is that rip stop
but over here
this is more like a 500 cordura and
this i've taken this out for about two
years now
and that's the amount of wear you can
see right there just some little scuffs
and uh that's really about it a little
bit of dirt
here on the side so yeah there's the the
second nalgene
container area right there coming around
to the front we have the sternum strap
that connects right up here and we have
a special clip for the uh
the hydration hose and so usually i'll
just kind of run this
up inside here this has a little bit of
spring to it
so that's going to take up it's going to
be a little suspension system if you're
kind of bouncing over rocks
so it isn't just compressing your chest
all the time but then down here we have
the belt
and this has two pouches that are
great for snacks or little common reach
items
i like to keep sunglasses in here
sunblock
chapstick whatever kind of stuff i'm
going to need at a moment's notice
oh there you can see a couple little
scuffs
again that's two years of use on
airplanes as a carry-on bag
going out to zoos and parks
this bag is awesome okay there is one
bit of damage let me show you this i
just need to sew this up
but you can probably see some of the
stitching
starting to pull loose right up there i
just need to do a little hand stitching
or maybe pop it on a sewing machine
but need to fix that up it's where this
strap attaches up here at the top
there is only one drawback to this bag
and i'm going to show it to you right
here here is the hydration bladder and
as you can see it's laying down there
down at the very bottom this has no
hanger because the uh
the hydration bladder that comes with it
it does have the hangers it wants to
grab on to something
and i like to have this hanging all the
way up i like to have a little hook
inside here this did not come with it
however
if you take this little strap at the top
push it through the hydration bladder
hole this
can be used to hang the the hydration
bladder
it's the only one thing they left out on
this entire backpack
other than that it is 100 a plus perfect
i love this and i'm gonna be so happy to
take this
up to the top of that mountain this is
going to help me get there it fits
really snugly to the body
and i can run with this i can jog with
it i can do whatever i want this is much
more comfortable than you can imagine
now for clothing and we're going to
start with the most important part
feet i was really torn i did not know
which pair of shoes to take
up there these are my redhead hiking
boots that i've had forever
they are wonderfully comfortable these
are great for long backpacking trips and
they can handle quite a bit of weight on
my back
there's just a lot of squish going on
down there in that sole
waterproof however these have some
insulation in them and considering how
warm it's been around here
and i'm definitely moving in this
direction these true spec
side zip boots are wonderful i've talked
about these in a previous video actually
compared the two
and why i use the two in different
situations but if these are going to be
the ones i'm going to take up tomorrow
the grip on the bottom is great even on
this kind of slippery squeeze stuff that
we have out here
uh you know a lot of the kind of rock
fall there's a lot of sand out here
and this this grip down here does a
really good job of grabbing
onto whatever it can yeah
lace it up once side zip and it's pretty
darn comfy inside
it's a little bit more roomy than what i
usually like but after my tests over the
past couple days
these are going to pass with flying
colors as long as i use the right
socks so what we have here
i am a big snob about socks i like to
take care of my feet
and these two are some of my favorites
these are the brand new ones that my
wife just bought me for father's day
these are called darn tough again i'll
put links in the description below
these socks are really really good
they have a good bit of squish a good
bit of cush
through here it's a very soft material
on the inside
i think this is some kind of smart wool
blend it's tight around the
the instep sort of area right in the
middle of the foot
so it's going to give you a lot of
support right in the middle
and then you get extra cushioning under
the foot
in the heel and the toe area up here
just love these these are brand new to
my collection and thank you honey
love the socks but she also bought me
these a while back these are a merino
wool blend
and these were my favorite until these
came along
uh these are going to be this is going
to be my backup pair i always bring
extra socks when i'm out on one of these
um yeah very these are thicker
very very soft on the inside and again
it has that grip
right across the middle and then extra
padding
under the heel and the toe uh so my feet
are going to be really happy after this
other footwear i haven't decided if i
want to bring my crocs or not
these are special crocs right here
these i know that you're used to the you
know the really ugly shape with the
broad toe
but these are special ones they have a
very thin
actually it's a little bit on the thick
side but has a kind of a mesh material
that's softer on the inside and these do
not hold water
they weigh just about nothing water just
drips right off of them
runs right off and so i'm not carrying
extra weight if i have to cross a creek
i don't like to keep my boots on if i'm
going through a deep creek
these go on and they slap onto my my
backpack
and they add just about no weight
however
just about doesn't mean none so i might
leave these we're going to see tomorrow
yeah you'll check that out in the next
video to see if i actually brought these
i'm not anticipating any creek crossings
that's part of the deal
tomorrow i'm just going to be going
straight up a spur up to the top of the
mountain
and so i might just leave those behind
as for what i'll be wearing out there
now let's get rid of the sock there
i'm going to be wearing my true spec not
shorts you can see that these are
shorts no these are zip off pants
and these are my favorite coveted pants
that i have had i have two pairs of
these and these
rock you know that i love truespec pants
if you've seen the channel for a while
i've reviewed a handful of them i love
some of their hunting style some of the
more tactical style
these are pretty good for you know
there's all kinds of daily use
they they have the usual pockets these
are 24 7s
and these have zip off legs i really
wish that they would make this
all over again because these pants are
just my absolute favorites uh there we
go let's get into underwear
got some starter walmart brand stuff
right here i think this is walmart
uh but these are uh just kind of
polyester stretch
and uh these i usually wear these to
keep the the ticks off the nethers
um but these are also really good for
just drying very quickly the pants dry
quickly those dry quickly
and if things get cold which i'm kind of
hoping they'll chill out a little bit
i do have guide gear base layers from
sportsman's guide
this is the long sleeve top this is the
long
bottom and i've been using these for
years in oklahoma winters at least
and uh yeah they pass with flying colors
they they really do remove
moisture they keep everything very warm
and i like to wear them under stuff like
the shirt that i'm going to be wearing
right here
truespec ecotec this is the greatest
uh outdoor shirt that i have ever owned
it
it breathes in all the right places it
has vents that go all the way down the
under of the arm
all the way down the side so this
breathes really well
wicks moisture away it's very tall so i
can tuck this into my pants
and i don't get my backpack pinching on
me and as you can see it's a wonderful
shiny color uh favorite shirt of all
time
if things do get really cold i'm going
to have a fleece stuffed in the bottom
of my pack
very lightweight but it is going to take
up quite a bit of space i'm going to put
this down there to help get the weight
higher up in the pack where it's
supposed to be anyway last bits
i do have some gloves these are also
lightweight i'll put links to these
these are just those kind of soft shell
things they have trick her fingers that
can be opened up so you can take a shock
with a gum
they also have this rubberized grip
material through here
and as you can see they are beautifully
camouflaged so that no one will find me
i mean
everything will be fine here is my
balaclava
which i think i may leave behind i'm
really not expecting it to get anywhere
near that cold to be needing that but
this is the one that always comes with
me my booney hat
so that i can look really bizarre up on
the top of a mountain but that's okay
because this feels really good
finally a mesh bag for the extra
clothing if i need to dry something out
i can hang that off the bag as well
and of course sunglasses these are
radians polarized
sunglasses i'll put links to these below
these are my very favorites they are
safety glasses these are in all of my
shoeing videos
and these help me to see much better
when there's a high glare i expect there
will be
a lot of sun tomorrow and so these are
going to be a must
that looks pretty reasonable and this
feels pretty reasonable too
that's not bad that's not going to feel
like too much
and i should point out here that i'm not
actually going to be bringing this
nalgene bottle full of water
i'm going to dump this out first it's
just nice to have a reliable water
container one that's really going to
take a beating
the i've never had a hydration bladder
go bad on me i've only had camelback
never had one spring a leak but of all
the things that i have that's the one
that's probably the most prone to
failure just because you know it's
kind of a squishy bladder this one is
very tough
so i'm going to keep this empty here on
the side of the pack
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