 What is fish freaks all the above welcome on back to the channel if you've never been to this channel before normally I do fishing videos I also do camping videos and it is just about hunting season so it is time to do some hunting videos so what I wanted to do a very simple video today it's probably gonna be my last video for a while because I'm gonna be in in the mountains while you're watching this but I wanted to go through my pack that I'm taking to Colorado to go elk hunting and fishing and basically living off of my back for about a week what I wanted to do is unbox this and then weigh it I don't even know how much it weighs yet so I'll unpack it show you guys everything we'll weigh it and then we're gonna hit the road and start heading into the London yes 105 today high humidity I'm ready to get in some thinner air so this is a new pack I've never run one of these before this is a exo the guys that I'm gonna go hunting with born and raised if you're interested in learning about elk hunting Western style hunting they're they're really some of the best quite honestly and they saw my Colorado videos last year and they realized I needed some help so they were really nice and they offered to basically give me a learning lesson in elk hunting so that's what I'm gonna be doing with those guys and hopefully getting my first elf but they run exo packs and they sent me one so I want to say thanks to exo and born and raised for sending this I have my my bigger Kuyu pack my icon basically the biggest one they make that's what I use in New Zealand and then this one is kind of like a mid-size pack this is a 3600 I believe but it's a it's a little small for basically a five-day trip this one's just a little bit bigger and I'll leave a link down there and you guys want to check out their packs they're a little bit different supposedly with their frames what I'm used to with the Kuyu packs being a little stiffer but it feels pretty good I've already hiked around with it and gotten used to it so first thing on the back of the pack is a new fishing rod that I got a fly rod it's a six-piece so it breaks down there's gonna be mountain lakes where we're going so not only for food but also for fun we're gonna be taking a little fly rod it'd be really hard to get a conventional rod in here with a reel it's so packed down so I'm just going with fly plus September grasshopper season fish can be chomping on top on the flies I found this pack doesn't really fit a Nalgene that great in these the way I've got it packed up it's just stuffed so I'm just running one of these I'm running one of these brand-new you know 2020 smart water bottles you pick those up anywhere on earth the threads on that fit well with this water filtration system this is uh this is a Sawyer I've never used one of these before once backpacking in New Zealand you could literally just drink the water and by other trips in Colorado I've I've just always carried my my water up there and come down so this is going to be an extended trip where we have to get water so filtering using a bag and this bottle so those match up really well something I do like about this pack too is it has these little outside pockets they're separated up there's two on this side there's one big one on the other side you can actually put a a whole tent on the other side you want to the other thing in this pocket is my cook kit switched up my cook kit I was using a um a burner that had hose on it where I could move it I'm trying to go as loud as possible here this year so this is literally my stove this is the tiniest little stove I can find I've got a lighter I got to make sure I keep all this together this is literally the stove it is so tiny and it weighs nothing I've already tried it out works great I have another cook kit that I have my truck so when I'm just hanging out the truck I can use the cologne or whatever and in the past I've used uh I think it's a 500 milliliter titanium cup or maybe it's 450 wasn't quite big enough to get uh enough water in some of the mountain house meals so I went to this one it's 750 and it fits your uh your gas in there your fuel uh one of the small tanks which should be good for three or four days at least so that fits inside of there we put our stove on top of that cap it up and it's all ready to go mostly going to be eating D 100 meals morning and at night and then midday probably hunting hard and just snacking just doing a little snacking up there outside pocket of the pack we have a puffy jacket so I'm taking a light puffy it's going to be down in the 30s at times where we're going and uh this is a synthetic puffy I have another one that actually has the down but this one's just way lighter literally stuff it in a small pocket it works out really well this is that big pocket that's Tony about and in there we have our rain gear so who you uh rain gears chugach chugach I think that's how you say it uh this I probably need a new set of rain gear my stuff actually ripped in New Zealand going down the mountain nearly died a few rips when you're doing some crazy stuff like that not even in the pack fully stuffed just at the top right here I have um another jacket this is kind of like a mid-weight uh water resistant jacket this is an axis hybrid so this is probably what I'll be hunting in the most it's really comfortable I really like drawing in this jacket I've hunted in it a lot the puffy's more for just for sitting down gets cold or at night if I get really cold then we can actually open up the pack get into the goods on the inside in this top pocket right here this is like the accessory pouches and I'll be carrying a mini toothbrush funny story about this toothbrush I didn't know it converted into a full-size handle until about six months ago I was uh staying with some of the good guys I think it was Rob who pointed out I was brushing my teeth like this and uh man it's kind of difficult and he was like well all you got to do is just stick that in there and then you got a full handler bud and I was like yeah just one of those moments then we have a little archetype lighter never used one of these but I've tested it out um it works good for lighting the stove got some toothpaste obviously I've got um some electrical tape just in case something rips on the pack and then I'm carrying a new knife I haven't used I haven't skint anything with this yet or filled dressed anything this is a bench made hunting knife I really don't like folding knives but this one is so light and bench made makes really good folders and then it's I mainly got it for the steel it's s30 v steel which holds an edge much longer than like 1095 and a lot of the other knives that I have so want to try that steel out this year and hopefully get through an entire animal before kind of sharpen it hey you know what I'm just going to lay this stuff out I'm just going to do the whole you know Instagram photo setup here got our long spork for the mountain house meals got some face paint just in case I feel like going into warrior mode toilet paper now if you guys don't know what the toilet paper is for you just don't even need to go up there then I have a small little med kit uh neosporin I find every time I go hunting camping fishing even when I go on long fishing trips I always take neosporin because I get nicks and cuts in my fingers and if you're away from like being able to take showers and wash your hands quite a bit stuff is awesome because you know you get a little hook in your hand or cut yourself in your knife a little bit or you're just digging around and stuff you get those little openings those things get infected and it's going to be a bad trip you're going to have to come down off the mountain or something so I've also got some vitamin c you know stuff like that this is my wool inside of here I'm not going to take it out this is what I'm going to sleep in I've got um you know basically long johns and socks like loose-fitting wool socks uh I have found that loose-fitting wool socks can they just save your feet when it's really cold you're sleeping inside of the sleeping bag out on the elements um so that isn't there that's basically what I'm sleeping in then we have our hunting clothes so inside of here we've got a pair of pants we've got a um basically a wool shirt it's camouflage um two pairs of socks two pairs of undies pillow so you wake up feeling good ready for the day all of our food inside of here for pretty much four days so that is eight mountain houses I really like taking um these honey stinger wafers I take these on tons of outdoor trips fishing hunting just very good camping with that justins almond butter in those individual packets that right there is just a tasty combo gives you a ton of energy it's got good sugar in it keeps you going and I'm allergic to peanut butter so I can't have that so those little almond butter things are clutch and they just give you a good protein and sustaining for a while you know little snack bars things of that nature also got some jerky from Bucky's got a load up on that tint the tint I've been camping with for a few years now absolutely love it it's a little big but I don't mind the extra weight quite honestly um this is the Q U mountain star two man really easy fast to set up and it's just durable really like it what I might end up doing is um a buddy of mine we might use this tint together he might I might trade some of this off um because I think he's just bringing like a tarp or something like that maybe we keep our gear in there just to kind of cut down on weight but if it comes to it I mean I'll kick him out a few snores whatever sleeping bag um who makes this sleeping bag Sierra designs I think this is the cloud it's a 20 degree this bag is really light I love it I mean it even compresses tighter than this this thing is a very very warm bag and it compresses down super light it's awesome I love this sleeping bag and the rest are a key back we have the thermarest pro light apex so it's a pound six ounces this actually slides into my sleeping bag it has like a sleeve so you blow it up it goes in there and it's pretty good I definitely like foam pads better but this is just more compact we got our platypus bag really I like these bags they're super light and quite honestly you should just get some of these bags for just backpacking around they're awesome um you know they can rip so I'd be careful where you're putting what compartment you're putting them into but when you need to gather a lot of water um this is very I mean this is two liters right here you can fill this up two liters uh if you're you know really quick situation you just need some you got a filter later put it in here or put your clean water in here whatever but it just takes up way less space than your typical down gene or water bottle but I do like the water bottle having it on the outside it's a little quicker the bags a little cumbersome but I do like having one in there so you got a stock off of water you got it right there very top hatch got a little tiny flashlight got a headlamp using a pretty small headlamp um it's made by black diamond this is the spot got some light wool gloves you've got a beanie face covering really light stuff in the other hatch I've got an insulated snap shirt this is probably the best clothing item I've ever purchased in my life uh this is the insulated snap shirt literally that's what it's called from kyu this thing is incredibly light you can put it in your pocket and it warms you up tremendously it's great for you know in the 40s uh get up in like the 60s you start getting a little warm just unsnap it you're good to go but quite honestly I have one like in a standard regular color that I wear all the time when I'm not even planning we're so comfortable okay we'll leave that out for the grand pic and just a couple more things probably one of the most important tools you can have is uh one of these Garmin DeLormes this is a gps map 66i um I've had just the standard in reach I got this one because you can see the map on it um and onyx you can load an onyx chip on here but this can connect to your phone you can text the wife which is probably the most important tool you can have you can tell her you're not dead tell your friends and loved ones you just you know kill the big owl or hey I just lost my leg to a bear hopefully it's the first situation got a reel in here small fly reel um yeah I don't know much about it but fly fishing something new to me I I really like doing it it is I like doing it around you know fish that haven't seen flies much like these mountain fish so I've got that set up and I have a small little tackle tray of flies I'll get into all this stuff when we we start fishing and all that but mainly just hoppers um you know dry flies and a couple of sinking flies so hopefully that's going to get her done we'll just give it a day in the woods if the elk is a little slow so that is basically everything in my pack the pack feels really good already cinched it down it's fitted to my body it's you know fully adjustable and all that I like the way it sits on my hips or it's it's just hugging it's hugging just below my love handles and I'm lacking the way it feels I feel good about it but we'll see when we uh you know put a hundred and fifty pounds of elk meat or something in there how it does he's ready to go back good thing it's stuffed but it honestly doesn't feel too heavy let's go see what it weighs y'all know we got a fishing scale laying around it goes up to 50 pounds I don't even know if this pack's going to break 40 just into in comparison my my new zealand pack was 55 pounds I think that was for a longer excursion let's see what this is oh yeah looking like we're coming in light ladies and gentlemen can you see that I can't even see that just under 32 pounds all that is awesome I was hoping it would be under 40 we are way under the only thing I'm missing in weight really it's probably just water adding water to that and camera stuff which I'm not going to carry that much because I'm going to be filming with born and raised they've got their own camera guy and then I'm bringing a buddy of mine the guy I went to New Zealand Zeeland with John Thomas Earl Larkin and I might have him carry some a few little camera things but I'm just going to carry like a GoPro and a few batteries and not weigh this thing down in the past I've carried my big lenses and everything and it adds up being about five pounds to that and I just don't have that much more room in here to add anything else so feel good about it y'all now you want to see loaded down the old Chevy she's loaded got her load her down am I ready to go chickens I will see you I'll see you in like three weeks so we're going to be living out of this backpack for about seven or eight days and then the truck the truck is basically camp and we're loaded down for family camping hopefully we're going to have a giant cooler in here as well at the end of this thing full of alchemy drop this pack off and just to give you guys a brief unboxing if you will what we have here I've got my bow in a case in the very back we've got the heaviest items that's tents cots family camping type stuff got diesel in there I know it's red can I know full tank of propane I've got just camp accessories I've even got boot dryer stuff like that all the kitchen camp kitchen type stuff is in there and then up top we've got sleeping pads sleeping bags anything from diapers trash bags extra clothes blankets all that type stuff and then just inside the cab we have a suit some I look I got two buddies that are getting married during elk season what are you guys doing come on so I'm going to those weddings while I'm up there I've got another backpack in here for fishing and hiking and whatnot I've got I've got hunting clothes in here I've got just regular camp clothes I've got two battery cells I've got a pillow and three dangle poles at a camera bag with that with DSLRs drones go pros all that stuff and we are loaded down to the max oh and a cooler am I dramatic which is also loaded down right now that's my next thing out of pack and the rest of my day is going to consist of driving I've got to find somewhere to sleep tonight I got to figure out a town I got to do something's nobody hit the road I'm ready hit the road I'm sweating bullets out here it's a thousand percent humidity 98 degrees at you know nine o'clock in the morning here in Texas let's get up to some thinner air just bounded down loaded down trucking all these months preparing for this actually our first stop before we even head out into the woods and go hunting because we're heading to the water you'll meet up with a good buddy of mine I know him as Jared you guys know him as outlaw and we're going to be doing some fishing just kind of hanging around camp and whatnot I've heard there's lake trout there's pike there's all sorts of other trout species basically the halfway point between Dallas and up there in Colorado where we're going is Amarillo Texas and it is officially time let's break out straw hat oh man that just feels good so I'm going to leave it right here and we will pick it up in the actual outdoors we've been preparing for this whole time so I hope you guys enjoyed today's unboxing on the pack and all other gear um it forgot it forgot something let me know but it's too late now and we are at 3 000 feet air is getting thinner it's already cooled off a ton I cannot wait y'all so stay tuned so you don't miss a single day up here in the mundanias fishing hunting camping and absolutely loving every day we'll see you on the next one