 everybody. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're here for this adventure. I just woke up from my little spike out tent and I drove all day yesterday. I went from you know 500 feet all the way now. We climbed elevation to we're 9,300 feet right now and we're at a big national forest up here in Colorado. If we are going to be living in the woods for a week and what we're gonna be doing up here is going after elk. My first time going after elk so I want to share my experience on getting ready for that and all the things that I've learned. We're gonna be doing some fishing and then we're just gonna be doing some some camping. Today's goal is to set up base camp and just kind of get all of our food and supplies organized and really look at some mapping. I got up here so late last night I drove in in the dark so I didn't have time to really see what was going on. I literally just pulled into an open area set up my spike out tent. I've got everything that I can put into a backpack and really go into the woods into the great unknown and then I've got my big really it's like an elk camp tent big canvas tent sleeps like six people and that's where I'm gonna put most of my gear and kind of set that up in an open space and y'all we need to get the fire going. I literally what I left Texas it was like 95 degrees right now it's probably in the mid 50s my hands are cold but I had a great night's sleep. There were some things staring off in the woods I don't know where they were. I just slept great listening to nature stars were amazing we were out here in some of the most beautiful country I've experienced yet. I've never been to this area y'all I just got to say before we get into the rest of this thing this is one of the rare things you can do well I'll say intensely American that you can just get in your car or your truck load it up and just drive somewhere go out west and just come out to one of these great national parks and experience nature and really not run into that many people you know I hardly I saw like three people camping in a gigantic area I think this area is like 400,000 acres or something like that thick woods mountains streams you name it it's here so we're gonna see some awesome stuff this week now let's go set up a camp I'm so excited wow I was wrong got down into the 40s last night I was wondering why I was so chilly I was like surely surely it's not that cold it is 41 my hands are shaking one of the most important things when you're out here you don't have any cell phone service you will not have cell phone service if you go to these national parks I use this Garmin GPS device Bluetooth to my smartphone and then I can look up maps and before I left I downloaded aerial maps topos everything where I can get a clear picture of like the creeks you know the mountain tops all the little ridges you know areas that I can look for with elk and then the other thing is an app called Onyx and then Onyx allows you to really map out your adventure both do really Onyx you also have to download before if you don't have any cell phone service so you got to make sure you download the map areas my buddy JT he's helped me map through some of these things and he's given me a couple of camping spots that might be good and I want to be just totally secluded which I don't think we're gonna have a problem with out here but I'm just excited to start the day all set up base camp got a lot of work to do let's get to it really interesting things about hunting here is the contrast between private land and public land and they overlap each other quite often I've seen a lot of signs you know private property do not trespass and then be 100 yards from a national park sign so it's it's pretty imperative that you know that signs they keep out I'm sure they'll shoot you up here in the Rockies down here in the hollers it's out here we've got a couple of camps set up it looks like wow this is just amazing these views though this is it so I'm gonna set up there's a nice stream down here so I got a water source and I just need to find a good flat spot that I could set up the tent a tense huge beer cold to spend a week here this is crispy delicious outdoor greatness move cow move this is what is so strange about this there's just tagged cattle out here on these public lands you got to get to moving now man looks like some delicious beef I think that's a decent view I think we could work with that we found it y'all we found it I'm gonna camp right here in the middle of this valley there's trout in the stream behind me so I'm gonna camp here before had a little little fire right there this is really some of the flattest ground that I could find now if I had like a lifted truck with four-wheel drive I could get off the path a little bit but since I bought myself I don't want to get stuck and this isn't just a regular tent I did a review on it before in another video it's huge it's basically a home and it was down in the 30s up here I've climbed let me check our elevation here we're at 10,259 feet right here it is crispy at night so definitely want to have a fire I didn't even bring a heater what is this a postcard no it's just my channel right now my crate basically houses different stuff but I've got my propane in there I've got my hunting bag I've got like some some go-to things that if I need to just drop the tailgate grab something real quick I can do that and I've got some of my cooking supplies this is what I'm gonna be cooking on this week this is my little cast iron skillet top so it's got a flat side and do eggs pancakes if you want to if you don't get into that category I'm not on this trip just noticed I'm a little more out of breath than I am usually because the altitude wow when I roll this baby out right here this is it this is the deliciousness cleared this thing out before I left and I just put the essentials in there I've got my arrows up top I've got my fly fishing rod right here I've got my binos range finder things like that kind of got in categories this bag is my essential bag this is like my survival gear basically I've got lighter matches knife sharpeners I've got multiple knives in here I've got straps like everything to keep knives sharp you know when I first saw these money bags I was like yeah I could put some lures in there I use them for everything now y'all so if you haven't checked out these money money bags they're money they're really good in here I've got like toilet paper we got toiletries you know we got some body wipes things like that keep myself clean out here I always jump jump butt naked in the river if I want to got a hatchet got a thermosail got a machete got a chair up here is my Coleman grill baby's a little dusty but that's what we're gonna be cooking on I can always do open fire and I've got that flat top skillet if I wanted to just do straight wood if I ran out of propane so that's all good there tin foil got to have it for them not golden crispies we're gonna be putting in some butter and some pepper when I got this truck cap put on literally had these types of things in mind and vision and it's perfect for adventures like this so it's pretty clean kept dad go I am out of breath it was important that I get a water filtration system kind of like an IV you put your dirty water in it hanging up high it runs into a filter filters into another bag it's made by platypus which is also another gosh okay I'm realizing the ten thousand feet issue out of breath right now we need to get some coffee in our system y'all get some food and this this tank can't think it take a long time telling you I hope I don't pass out up here got that he going got that coffee awesome thing is I've got a water source 80 yards away so I can just walk down there get more water if I run out this is a great base camp can't be happier I'm just soaking this in right here y'all wow 834 in the morning oh delicious hot coffee we got eggs and ham and we're gonna get some trout in the cooler eventually I love to hear the sound of that river or the stringing only thing that would make me happier is if I had Steph and Emmy here like I want to bring the them on this trip for sure you guys get to experience it through the lens and I try to encourage you guys to go out there and experience it for yourself because there's nothing like it this this just resets you totally resets you I like the outdoors a little bit can't tell shut up fuel up make this tent happen inside of my dwelling it is so huge it's awesome look at this stand right up I do a little dance in here do a little jig this one took a long time to get right but it's good I got all my breezeways open and now I'm gonna set up my cot set up my bed essentially I've got room to set up all my gear in here you know I hope it doesn't rain but if it does I'll be a okay one thing to keep in mind if you do come up here is drink you lots of water I am very very parked the altitude just works you harder oh this is not terrible we've got our sleeping bag here got my cot set up this Teton pad can't tell you how crucial it is it fit perfectly in my spike out tip but in here on a cot oh man you can lay this just flat on the ground and it's amazing so that's a lifesaver I have another one for my if I'm taking just on my backpack and it folds up into this and you have to blow into it this one is just a huge pad so much more comfortable but it's huge you can't carry it around on your backpack so I've got this one if I need to spike out which I probably will got my pillow getting ready for this evening it's got some space-age foam in there letting it pump up and this y'all is my humble abode for the next week or so up under here I've got the availability to store all my goods clothes put food in there snap I've got this little thing as well also made by Teton it's just a little cot accessory thing you put different stuff in it got my you know my charger so I can charge my stuff out here you know water, phone, GPS put whatever in there tons of space over here for any activities that I want to do or I'm thinking about moving my coolers inside maybe that's a bad idea with the bears I don't know first time being in the woods with the bears that's for sure so it's getting about time for a little snacky poo and then we're gonna go out and get some food we have to get food and water for our camp which means we're gonna be doing some fishing so I'm gonna leave you guys right here one more thing if you want to check out some of the new merch go to a googingsquad.com link is down in the description this month we're 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