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I keep laughing at the 14:48 illustration. That is one sadass bear. 🤣

Such a great video, very informative

Beaver: There's a hole in the dam. That irks me. I am irked and that won't do.

It is good to be Canadian. Cheers eh!

Why away such great habitat for a black spruce plantation? I have a black spruce swamp essentially and I'm trying to figure out a way to convert it to exactly what this was before... any tips!?

This information is really going to help me

Just subscribed!! How long do u think this could last if vacuum sealed with oxygen pack and put in freezer?

Hi Kevin, extremely well made video! I have one question: around 9:25 you mention you are ignoring Grid North for now, but when we use map and compass don't we usually work relative to the gridlines on the map so that the grid magnetic angle (or magnetic declination from grid lines) is more important to adjust to if you want to go anywhere on the map except true North? Correct me if I'm wrong. Just curious how you see this!

well done sir.

Thank you

Plus they have other ponds to go to and build even better so they should be fine let them keep the other ones

Please don't shoot the beavers but removing one little pond is okay

Gracias por tu paciencia de. Impartir.

Great review 😊

Thanks, that looks amazing, can't wait to try it

Heck yea, I second the comments on the windscreen! Manufacturers test their equipment in a lab, not out in the field. I would love to see a video that compares boil times for differing stove systems in calm, breezy, windy, and blustery conditions. I have an old camping stove that will boil water in under two minutes in no breeze, but as soon as you introduce breeze you can plan on (I've estimated) an extra minute per mile-per-hour per boil. The long and short of it is, that if I start out with a cannister that should last all week, with any sort of wind over a mild breeze, I can plan on running out of fuel before the weekend is out. The windscreens should be built into the design.

So helpful Kevin, thanks for the breakdown

I need to try this recipe!

I have wanted to invest in the Primus Stove Kevin because it can be used in all 4 seasons and seems to be a real workhorse. You said when using the standard canister stove you can get 1 week out of a canister. How long can you get out of one of those pump bottles with Coleman fuel in it and do you carry more bottles on longer trips?

I wonder if the efficiency is due to the regulator rather then the heat exchanger?

We've had a big ole Grizzly roaming around here at the Banff Springs Golf Course the past few days. Still see tourists get out and walk towards it. Play stupid games win stupid prizes I guess. Perhaps they aren't aware of the Bears ability to close distance in a hurry.

I kinda feel sorry for the salmon, but he sure looks delicious 😩

A big part of me wanted them to name the flux ring the flux capacitor.... Very thorough review - thanks.

I kept a few of my son’s beer cans to play with. I made one but pushed it together too hard and the inner wall collapsed, so be warned! However, I managed to push it apart without cutting myself and repaired the bent puckered inner seam and tried again and blow me down it worked. I didn’t have any meths so I did a proof of concept burn in the grate under a trivet, burning isopropyl alcohol. A yellow flame and smelly but it worked. Unless I align my trivet top with the rim of the burner I don’t know how to quench the central well’s flame. Good fun, thank you. Hope I never actually need it

I'm in a group of 3 to 4. I prep and cook all meals. It can be stressful. Great video.

Hi Kevin, I'm going to try this one for my next overnight! Just one question, is there a reason why you cook and mix the pasta with the soup instead of cooking and dehydrating the pasta separate? I'm planning to use gluten free pasta, so I prefer to cook it separate as it gets very starchy and thickens the water way too much. Also in your older recipes, you would bring the final weight to 150g, I'm noticing here you've changed to 125g. Were you finding 150g a bit too much? Thanks again for a great recipe Kevin!

Great video. What a lot of people don't realize about shooting a charging grizzly is the size of the target. Most of a bear's head is muscle and fur. The brain case is so narrow that if you shoot directly into either eye you'll miss the brain and just blind the bear in one eye. If you're an inch above the centerpoint between the eyes, you're too high. And it's moving. And you're in an adrenaline situation that gives you strength but sacrifices fine motor control. Indigenous hunters have shot grizzlies with 22 long. But those are to the side of the head, in the temple region where the braincase is a bigger target and the bone is thinner. From the front, imagine a deck of cards sitting on its long edge with the narrow edge facing you. Bigger than that of course, but that's the geometry.

Great video, wish I'd seen it earlier. Don't know how I missed it. I first started learning about grizzly behavior from Herrero's book about 30 yrs ago when doing solo forestry work in the British Columbia fjords. No bear spray or sat devices in those days. These days I spend some time in a similar area (Eldred Valley BC) with a small grizzly population. I put out trail cameras as a wildlife hobby, a solo activity (for me at least) which involves looking for wildlife areas but not wanting to meet them there. I'm 4 yrs late here, but if you're still here I'm hoping for some feedback on my precautions: - frequent check-ins by InReach with the folks at home. - a pattern of flagging that I use to indicate where I've left a road or trail. - bear spray is always carried in the same position so that I can pull it without fumbling. Occasional practice with expired cans and a couple of practice pulls when starting out, to make sure it's situated correctly. - bear banger easy to reach and hopefully hard to drop from a pocket. (lost it on my last trip though) - air horn for getting attention when I start out into an area, and when I'll be busy in one spot for a while. Followed by occasional shouts, banging on my steel water bottle, etc with lots of listening and awareness in between. - occasionally it's possible to take a look ahead with a drone, but not usually and never thoroughly. ( Can't let flying the drone distract you from what's going on otherwise.) - I carry a full backpack for the cameras etc and keep it free of smells that would interest a bear if I was down. The one bit of needless overkill is that I sleep in my vehicle. When I do tent, my tent smells like nylon and meals are done somewhere else.

What is the sauce you added?

Thanks for the video. What sauce did you use? I might have missed that part. Thanks

I followed your recipe exactly but as I dehydrated the sausage it seemed to get greasy. I laid it out on paper towel and changed the parchment paper in the middle of the drying process because there was so much grease. Is this normal? Will this meat still be shelf stable or should I try the meat part again?

So, egg CRYSTALS instead of egg powder? Where can I buy this other than on Amazon - we don't have any of this where I live as I'm in a small town with a small grocery store - in Canada

Thank you for such a wonderful video. I have two Nesco’s . Some day would love the Excalibur.

FINALLY!!! I am SO HAPPY you were able to help me learn it properly. You are the ONLY ONE who takes into account the Grid North angle!🙏 I’ve watched many videos and everyone was ignoring it. I started to believe those videos were right. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I really appreciate your effort and your time ! Greetings from Brazil!

Hi Kevin! I found your channel and bought your book last year, but only finally got the dehydrator this year for this year’s backpacking adventures! 2 newbie questions (I don’t think I’ve seen it asked in the comments but apologies if it’s been raised before): do you not season the meat at all (when fresh), do you just add seasoning to the sauce? And secondly, is there a risk of overdehydrating the meat? It takes many hours and I was doing it overnight…

After dispensing the spray, should you make sure to stay standing facing the bear, until it runs away? I could just see myself spraying and then running away in a panic lol. Or, I could see myself maintaining my position at first after successfully stopping the bear in its tracks...but then finding myself wondering if the bear has temporarily lost its ability to run away? Or, if it's just temporarily hanging back in order to recover & strike again. So just to clarify: Bear spray is expected to send the bear running, right (meaning I should wait for the bear to flee)? Not just stop its attack and be incapacitated, giving you the chance to flee (meaning I should do the opposite of 'waiting for the bear to flee' - not waiting to flee myself)? Basically, how do you know when the bear spray has officially "worked"... when the bear has completely disappeared? If the bear just stops, maybe backs up a bit, but is still technically present...Would it be a mistake to assume that's a sign the spray is interfering with the bear's ability to run away? Would turning and running away myself potentially be a mistake, by triggering the bear to run after me and/or turning my back on a bear who is about to continue their attack after they recover in a moment? Did you happen to find in your research any data on what the sprayed bears do after fleeing? Although I'm not sure exactly how reliable data could be gathered without scientists purposefully spraying bears and then following them for observation. 🤔 Questions that popped in my head like: How long is the bear affected? Can being sprayed interfere with their ability to flee, especially if they are struggling to breathe & see? Are there any reports of a bear being sprayed and running away, only to encounter the humans again after it recovered? (Whether in fresh pursuit of the person, or an accident.) Now I also got myself wondering of the psychological effects of being sprayed...How much do bears understand what's going on? Do they understand the humans just used a weapon on them, and one that we seem to possess on our person? That it wasn't an accident or a fluke. Do they "realize" this could happen again? In future encounters, do they show any recognition of the spray can & stance the human took (like, in the way animals might remember getting sprayed by a skunk: causing a new negative reaction to the sight of any animal perceived to be a skunk & definitely fleeing when it lifts its tail, way before it has to spray)? Does the experience of being sprayed by a human increase fear & avoidance of human encounters going forward? Could it ever actually increase aggression in some bears, either by enraging them, or by making them so hurt & threatened [in the moment] that they think their survival now depends on killing the human? Triggering "fight" instead of "flight." If you ever end up making another video on bear spray for some reason, I'd mention exactly what to do if a human is affected by it too. After the bear is gone and the humans are safe, what should they do to deal with symptoms? Should you try to wipe or wash out your eyes? Is it safe to use soapy water or wet wipes with cleaning agents in them to wash off spray that's on your skin? What kinds of reaction to the spray *aren't* normal and should be cause to seek medical attention immediately? (Is there a record of humans having any allergic reactions? Can humans be dangerously allergic to bear spray?) How long do symptoms usually take to pass? (Therefore, when should you be concerned about how long symptoms are persisting?) Is there a distance at which spraying the bear basically always results in getting sprayed yourself? (If I was on the ground with the bear already on top of me, then I would definitely be prepared to get a faceful of the spray...but, if I was still on my feet and still able to spray away from me, I might be taken off guard.)

Excellent video buddy has a bear hunter the one thing all these hikers are missing is doing your best to remove the scent after that what do you do a bear hang with a dining bag or a hang chew proof bag your First line of defence always needs to be sent otherwise when you go to pick up your bear bait or should I say your food cash the bear will be close by rarely will they leave the food site or go to far

Thanks from Dorset UK

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That water bath is a great trick, where do you find liquid water at -20C?

Well Kevin. I finally got around to prepare and put together this recipe - your Spicy Chicken Loaded Bowl. And it certainly didn't disappoint. My wife is not always a fan of some of the dehydrated meals I make but this one - it was the exception. The only problem was half of it got eaten before i even got to dehydrate it . 🙂 It now - for sure - gets onto my list of the top 6 of your recipes that I'll be using on my trips. Thx, Peter

I like your simple honest review. As you know, simple chemistry ensures that one gram of butane burned in air always produces the exact same energy and temperature. All these efficiency tests are so based on some magic. Turning up flame too high on any stove is wasteful to some degree. Wind usually has an effect. Heat exchanger fins always more efficient.

Love spicy food. Going to try this one.

Are we to believe bears senses are so poor that while we are walking, not stalking that we surprise bears? I find this hard to believe.

Fantastic resource. Understanding fats has always been a bit difficult, but you've explained this topic very well. I've already got ideas for recipes I was previously avoiding due to fears about fats !

Sorry I think I may not be understanding correctly, if you’re using the Shepard’s pie flavour packet, do you just dehydrate the filling without any flavour, and once everything’s dehydrated, add the flavour pack to the mix?

Fun Canoe geekout stuff is too rare on RUclips. Even my favorite Canadian canoe youtubers don't talk a lot of gear geek speak. I love larger tandems for there capacity and shallow river abilities for solo. My solo boats draw more water and drag more frequently. I always have put my third seat in by replacing the stern thwart and install the seat as close to the center as I can. In a few cases even removed the yoke and added another thwart, a 60L Barrel width behind the bow seat. This would open the center for walking around while poling. Like Swift does there Combis. But, I see an advantage in loading your canoe with gear by having the stern seat further away and installing the seat where you did. I might consider trying this. A 2 piece 280cm double blade always in my boat for the long stretch's or sprints to camp. Great video!

Hi Kevin, I just ordered a copy of your book. I plan on trying this recipe over the weekend and wondered if you had tried other spices for the chicken. Sometimes the flavor of chili powder takes over. I am thinking about looking for a spicy BBQ rub instead. Thoughts?

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