Luke, your stories remind me of my childhood growing up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with nothing to do year round but to play in the woods and build the most basic shelters and make believe I was camping out in the middle of a vast wilderness. No other memories of my childhood are more precious to me than those of being in the middle of nowhere in the woods by myself. The sounds of the snow hitting the tree branches and the fluttering wings of Black Capped Chickadees. Then when I was much older I became homeless and lived in my tent in the middle of a city in CT in a yard. To wake up to snow falling on the rain fly and looking out the tent window knowing where I was and not knowing what was next, was all I needed to realize that I was better off than a lot of people who were snug and warm.
Thanks Luke. As a kid I had a geologist Dad and 4 younger sisters. All of us (including Mom) camped a lot as we accompanied him on his rock collecting expeditions all over the world. Sometimes in the cold, sometimes in the heat and it always seemed uphill as we carried rocks in our rucksacks. We sang (howled) back at the coyotes when they sang so we wouldn't be afraid of them. I sure miss those days with them. Thank you for the memories.
@Predbeau101 Cool story. Would you mind asking do you feel you need any protection with you? You see I hike after work up to the mountains. It is usually a 9 mile hike with around 3400 feet ascend. During winter I mostly hike in the dark. Now the thing is that a pack of wolfs and some coyotes cane to the area. We didn't have any in the area for more than a century. Now the hunters say it's not really safe to hike there but I still do. I just carry my 9mm pistol with two magazines with me. I have it in my front bag similar to what you cab see in the video. I'm a sports IPSC shooter so I'm used to shoot fast. But some other hikers also hike there at night anyway. They mostly say a wolf wouldn't attack people. On the other side the hunters said they already attacked a woman. Now I really don't know what to think about it.
@@JohnWick_jr it's true, wolves and coyotes rarely attack people. But, there have been some wolf fatalities in the past few years. I live in Maine and to the northeast of us at the Cape Breton Highlands in Nova Scotia, a young lady was killed by coyotes about 10 years ago. It's rare, but it pays to be prepared.
@Predbeau101 Thank you so much for your response Sir. I really appreciate it. The wolf you mentioned was really huge for my opinion. I read some stories and in most cases wolves were following people and trying to restrain them from moving towards the populated areas. I don't live that much further north to watch the Aurora. It must be nice I guess. The most northern place I ever was as a tourist was Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. Wish you to have a nice weekend.
@@hermit6208 Thank you. I was actually at Cape Breton for a few days but only as a tourist. I really liked the Louisbourg. But unfortunately the nature there didn't really impress me much. I was really hoping to make photographs of tree leaves turning red. Unfortunately that happened way too fast and I wasn't at the right place. I was also on the other side close to the border to New Brunswick and South beaches like Yarmouth and Digby.
@@hermit6208 I'm alert to wild hogs, cattle and moose when I hike. They are statistically dangerous. I wouldn't worry about wolfs unless I have children or if I was limping and bleeding. I carry a walking stick ( spear like cane ) and a knife. 2 years ago I met a large pack of wild hogs but it was enough to take high ground ( walk up on rocks or a hill ) and pick a couple of stones and they all fled as soon as the leader fled, i.e. I never had to throw anything. I would carry a rifle/gun in Alaska where the wolves can get as large as a human male. Otherwise. A serious cane ( with a serious pointy end ) will fend off an 80 pound wolf which wouldn't attack unless it was sick, rabid or has a den close by. I've seen bears a couple of times but always far away and walking either away from me or crossing the road. They are hunted in my area i.e. they get culled by hunters every year or 2 and this has become the bears only enemy, where as 300 years ago the natural enemy of a bear was sickness, starvation or other bear attacks. I know that the few lines of bear that have survived are now smaller, have shorter live spans and are more afraid of humans and this is because of 300 years of "human selection". If I was hiking in Canada/Alaska I would carry a gun because the bears are also more wild and larger there. Most predators in temperate zones are decimated, destroyed or totally altered by human activity and you have to be clueless, sick or a child to get attacked.
I liked this one a lot, Luke. I prefer old woods roads to narrow trails in the forest so where you went was just perfect to me. Nice place to camp out too. You asked about our childhoods. Me and my two sisters (7 years between me and my oldest sister) grew up in a small town in south central Pennsylvania so we didn’t spend any time in the woods. But we were outside a lot. Being a tomboy, I played with little horses and cowboys, as well as Army men, when I was little. My sisters played with dolls. We sometimes played hide and seek with other neighborhood kids at dusk. We read a lot and listened to music. Nothing too adventurous but we were three girls. It was a good childhood. Neighbors looked out for each other and my parents never fought. It was an idyllic time. Well, keep up the good work, Luke. We appreciate it.
Had an older sister and older brother, great childhood played outside over fields daily. Never had worries of coyotes in the 🇬🇧 uk. The dark never worried us growing up, but have to say got a bit more wary as I’ve got older funnily enough, used to go camping with the family, my kids loved the freedom associated. Loved exploring and my kids have taken that on with their kids. All the best my friend, thanks for sharing your adventures with us all👌👍
Coyote Channel: We had just started singing our hunting song when this hu-mon (coyotes talk like Ferengi) started a fire and we gathered to watch and sing. He seemed to be a nice fellow but he had a pathetic camp saw.
My children and I love watching you and Susie! We have countless memories coming home at night and looking to see if you guys have posted something and then watch it together! Thanks for all of the memories! "Cheers!"
OMG GI Joes.... My brother Tom and I had them. Tom wanted to make a fireman's outfit for his, so we raided mom's aluminum foil and Tom fashioned a "fireproof" suit like the firemen wear at airports to fight fires on aircraft. Tom wanted to see how well it would work, so we built a fire in the fireplace. Of course you know what happened.... it melted! ! ! It was hysterical. Such great memories. I think my favorite toy was a $1 dollar bag of 100 little plastic army men. I played with those for years. When my parents finally turned the carport into a garage, they found a dozen or so of the little army men and wrote me a letter while I was stationed in Germany and told me what they'd found. I laughed so hard. We just love the stories of your childhood and adventures with your brother. I know I am not alone in this wish.... But it would be a great video to see you and your brother go out on an adventure together for a few days. THAT would be a video to remember! ! ! S&H my friend. Brian
I was born in upstate NY and was fortunate to have parents who did well enough in life to provide us with a cabin in the Adirondack Mtns, specifically Indian Lake, NY that we'd visit on weekends for skiing in the winter and fishing etc during the summer. My brother and I had a "fort" we built out of downed balsam pine and hardwood trees. It was about 4' tall with a roof that was covered with moss, leaves etc and had a small fireplace. We'd work in it and improve each visit. Sometimes had to repair it due to snowfall which could be 5'-6' deep. Never played with toys much just some Tonka trucks even though we could've had whatever we wanted. Use to truly enjoy those days when I think back on them. Now that I'm 51 I find myself going back in that direction as far as camping etc. I'm still fortunate enough to have my parents and revisit some of those places and memories. Enjoy your videos n journeys Luke...til next time.
Me, my yr younger sister, and our younger 2 yr old brother. Played survival every day. We would build a fort, pick berries, and took an old cement mixing tray and use it for a boat, to go fishing. We had the BEST ADVENTURES EVER!!! We ate wild plants that were edible. Man, I could write a few books on our childhood. It would be a mixture of Spanky’s “Our Gang” all the way to making a band using homemade instruments. Like, a garbage can with a foot peddle and pots n pans for drums, we sang like we were the best “American Pie” sorry got carried away u brought back so many memories, THANK U
Hi Luke, like you I have an identical twin brother, and we spent our childhood making dens in the woods, shooting air rifles, and living freely. We also didn't have a lot of money growing up, but we couldn't have cared less. Strength and Honour brother! Atb, Ben.
We were low middle class.i grew 1/4 mile from the river. Hunting and fishing all year long. I had a horse that I bought when I was 14, a black lab mix, a .22 and 5 miles of river bottom to play in. No cell phone. Dad would come home shoot his rifle and I would shoot once to reply I was okay. Highly unsupervised and free. Now I’m so busy running my own business I haven’t even been fishing for a few years. Really like to wTch your videos kinda gives me my nature fix. Some day I’ll disappear into the woods but until then thank you for your videos I really appreciate them 🤘🏻
Bloodcravin nice. Similar to me. Never communicated with my dad via gunshot though :) and didn’t have a river but did have 700 + acres of woods and farmland to explore. Always had a .22 or a 12 gauge any plenty of rounds - nothing menacing - just had it for the fun of shooting stuff. Good times.
My brother is 7 years older than me so, i tagged along with him and he built an awesome fort in the woods way up in a tree. It took me a lot of try's before i got up the nerve to climb all the way up there. That was the best tree fort ever. My friends and i from the neighborhood spent many a day up there just goofing around.
My childhood was a good mix. Blue collar family, my parents took great care of us and we were fortunate to have toys and video games to play with. We also spent countless hours outside on our bikes with friends, exploring the woods and lakes, finding a bit of mischief here or there. I really started spending more time in the outdoors and going on longer adventures with the boy scouts and it's stuck with me to today. Before all this craziness kicked off the last year has been plenty of day hikes and 3-4 weekend car camping trips a year to a friend's property in the Catskills plus a rafting trip down the upper Delaware River.
Have a lot of respect for someone that backpacks the way you do. And as often as you do. Especially when you could just follow the crowd and “overland”.
I know this is an older video but just had to relate a story to your fort under the downed tree. So me and my brother grew up similarly to you we didn't have much and what we did have was seconds or thirds from yard sales or the like. My dad would bring home pallets mainly to burn for heat used as kindling. He did bring home a huge crate and pallet once and said do what you want. So we built an awesome tree house with it in a stretch of pines. We loved that thing! Many over nights laying looking up through the limbs at the stars. It was so hideous to look at though. We were young and didn't know what we were doing. Didn't matter we used that thing for years to come till in the early eighties we had a freak summer time tornado wipe it out with the trees. It was on the ground for just a few minutes like and F1 long enough though. Just wanted to share as you asked so many great memories of that awful looking tree house we built. Love the channel stay safe my friend.
In the 1950s/60s our parents took us 3 kids camping in a beach buggy on Cape Cod. 10 gallons of water for 5 people.... + the Atlantic Ocean. If we could fill up at the well a ways down the back road and catch some bass, we could stay out a couple days longer. Love your channel, Luke. Put red celofane on the beam and it won't scare off the wildlife.
I grew up in Chicago but we lived across from a narrow strip of county forest preserve land hugging the North Branch of the Chicago River. In Summer, we ate breakfast and went into the woods to play. Came home for lunch, then back into the forest to play some more. Came home for dinner, and, if you were old enough, you could go back yet again to play or whatever. The river was our skating rink in winter. The hill down to it was our sledding hill but you had to make a very sharp turn at the bottom to avoid (a) sailing off the bank into the river or (b) hitting one of several large trees and breaking a bone or two. Many a collarbone didn't survive a crash intact. Couldn't have pets with fur or feathers, so we brought home turtles and box tortoises in the Spring, fed them all Summer, then turned them back loose in the Fall. Many, many years later, wild life spread into these woods: white tail deer, raccoons, skunks, red fox, gray and fox squirrels, opossums, mallard ducks, Canada geese, birds of all kinds. By about 1990, coyotes abound. Oh, and the occasional homeless person too. The oak (the tallest tree in the picture) is a burr oak. We determined it was about 386 years old in 2004. See the front yard here: www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=0f700a390512
I am Tlingit, my Family is from Prince Wails Is. Alaska. I went to School in Seattle but spent most of my summers on our fishing boat in Southeast Alaska. I have been able to hike and fish and camp in places I swear It felt like no one had set foot there before. I have great memories of the kids on the boats that I grew up with on those summers. Like you we did many things that were about as idiotic as you could get and it's a wonder we survived or at least did not end up in a world of trouble over. We created quite a stir with a Tagging project in which we want to track as many dog sharks as we could catch in a two-day period of time or till, we ran out of balloons. We bought a bag of one hundred. Put names on them then using a twine that would easily deteriorate after a day or two we tied the balloons to each and let them go. I will say it made the town harbor much more festive and when we left town to go out for the next salmon opening the four of us found that dog sharks had a big range of habitat. talking to each other on the CBs as we all were heading out in different directions, we found many of our tagged sharks quite a ways out.
Love hearing your childhood stories- having neighbourhood friends- disappearing off on our bikes into bush tracks, building forts is what we did in the bush in Africa - using trees, branches, long grass etc. It was great fun - we’d spend hours outside came home for lunch and dinner. Did a heap of camping trips and learned how to live off grid too. My folks pretty much left us to it. We did some dumb things too. We’d put on variety shows for our parents. I came from a sailing family -so did a heap of sailing both freshwater and sea sailing. Then we got sent off to boarding school as teenagers.
My Brother and I spent our days hunting, fishing, gigging frogs and hunting for morel mushrooms in the woods and creeks across the street from our house. We built hideouts and a 4 hole golf course in our backyard, complete with water and sand traps. Best of times.
My brother and I were in boy scouts. My dad was an electrician and layed-off. Christmas was coming and I can remember my dad rolling pennies, I really didn't know for what. Christmas morning came and under the tree were presents even thought there wasn't much money. One of those presents was a red handled hatchet for my brother and me that my dad bought with those pennies. I am 54 years old and still best gift ever. I wish I still had that hatchet, no clue where it went. Thanks Dad.
Thanks for taking me along. Like you we grew up poor. As long as I didn't hurt anything i was good. And was not late for supper. I would not change anything about my childhood.
Luke, love the adventure. I heard your birds in the background. I am so glad you had a map and did your research before going out there. You could absolutely get lost exploring new trails you are not familiar with..Sooo many missing people never leave the wilderness. Either they lose their way or perhaps get murdered. Any hoot Those coyotes did sound pretty close. I like your new insulated cook ware. My childhood was pretty cool. We woke up ate and went outside as long as we didn't go in any strangers homes. We were ok. Nobody bothered us kids. I had my Brothers and sisters...7 of us, among many cousins that constantly stay in and out our house all the time. We were the neighborhood. We played outside until the grown ups said "time to come in to eat dinner." We had a million toys together that we all share. We rode bikes, played hide and seek..we just had fun. Miss those days. Getting back to your adventure...I'm sure glad you safely made it back to your car. I always, always look forward to your adventures luke..I enjoy them. Until next time be safe out there. Strength and honor Luke.👍👍👍
My childhood was much like yours, outside right at dawn, camping, hiking, and playing in the woods all day, only heading home when you heard mom calling from the back porch. Great times in the mid 80s.
Played outdoors a lot when I was a kid! I remember catching craw dads in the creek! They looked like tiny lobsters 🦞 Then I would let them back into the creek! Also played basketball until the sunset 🌅
My brother and I, a couple of friends, little dirt bikes, backpacks and tents. Off we went into the deep woods for many summers of wild camping. Wouldn't trade it.
listening to the coyotes howl is simply fantastic im from te UK and some one let a few wild boar loose in a forest down south and they have really taken off which is great
Enjoyed your video. Grew up in the 60s on an isolated farm with miles of rugged abandoned land that people had let go back for taxes during the Depression. Knew every bend and hole in the creek where the small mouth bass lay, made forts and shelters in the hills from burlap feed sacks whanged together with baling wire, and wearing a folded up tricorn straw hat with a chicken feather stuck in it I settled the wilderness with a toy muzzle loader I'd carved from an old board and fitted with an icecream stick trigger and hammer. Half the time I was Daniel Boone, half the time the swamp fox. Most of the time my only companion was a collie dog I'd named Maynard G. Krebs. Yeah, I remember those days.
We used to build forts from fallen trees. Sometimes we would use grass for the roof but we always had fun. And I still have G. I. Joes. That was my favorite toy when I was a kid.
I have a friend who moved from Calif. to Benson there and I just saw it on your map you have - they love it there! Sure you're a bit of a rambler but you have a lot good, interesting and informative things you talk about, plus you are a rambler of the woods! Waylon Jennings wrote a song titled that, course he was talkin' about women and music not the woods. You could sing it on the trails changing the words about camping and hiking 🎶😉 I'm not fond of crowds either so you're not alone. Loners ROCK! It's always fun hearing about your childhood days. I like the GI Joe part, it reminds me of how I was with my Barbie's having them sitting in their country camper or the corvette and running the vehicles through dirt, mud and debris out in the back yard, all while I was making a mud pie for my Mom right underneath a concrete slab where we kept the garbage cans; just a perfect little open slot there to pretend it was an oven. I'd take all my Barbie's with me when the family went camping up on the Kern River; sometimes losing them to the Kern rapids watching their little heads float on by. One time me and my cousins went hiking on the other side of the river crossing over it at a shallow end. We found this old miner's entrance which turned into a huge cave with beans cans and liquor bottles everywhere, and we were walking and crawling over pieces of 2 x 4s not knowing if it was secure or what's underneath. My cousin all of a sudden called out "Get OUT" as he had shown his flashlight up towards the ceiling, and all these bats started flying out towards us. We absolutely moved back and out as fast as we could over the 2 x 4s and debris in our path. I think my youngest niece of 6 yrs old was with us. What an experience that I'll never forget!
I remember when I was 12-13 My dad was on vacation one Summer he built an A frame Tree Fort for me and my Younger brother..... It lasted about 10 years It was fantastic
that melting plastic noise! that brought back some great memories of shenanagins with my cousins! seemed as a kid all i needed was them, a lighter and a tin of bean and i was as happy as a sand boy, i love your videos Luke, really feel like you bring us along and your stories really make it feel we are sitting around the fire too thanks mate
Much like you we had few toys but camping was our big thing. And we would get old tractor inner tubes and build rafts to use down at the river. Riding bikes, camping and being outdoors . Kids these days have way too much and have forgotten Mother Earth.
My favorite time outdoors as a kid was probably one summer I spent 3 months straight at a Boy Scout camp on the Buffalo National River. I think I was about 15 and just loved hiking the many, many trails and climbing the mountains. I got to spend one of those weeks with some college guys who were living like the original settlers in a log cabin surviving off the land. Memories like that are priceless.
Camp Orr. The Buffalo is amazing. Thank you to the Ozark Society for making it America's first and still best national river and to Ken Smith for his countless time devoted to the Buffalo.
You are right about the observation of tracks. I also look carefully on many minuscule details. A trained eye can see a lot and make conclusions like a nature's Sherlock Holmes. it is exciting.
Before my brother passed with cancer all our neighborhood friends got together and went to an old fort we had built in our Forrest. It took us three days to find find it. We had dug it out into the ground as teens, it was mostly underground. When we found it it wasn’t much more than a whole in the ground, we did have some pictures we had taken with a polaroid camera in a band aid tin. They were still there it was epic. Lol
Same here growing up in comunistic poland we also had nothing to play but us and the nature and also unsupervised that was freedom nowadays generations will never experience. I remember setting a whole hill on fire (i want the first to do so, it burned once year) because some older meant we can put it out with dirt if it gets to big... yeah right. when the hill was burning all the kids came out to put it out with anything they could get in their hand to do so ^^ when i go back to poland to the place i grew up (bout 30 years later) on the hill there is a little forrest now where pll are searching for mushrooms... btw we are the same age Luke so i feel you saying it was great back then. Coyote atacks are very very rare, yeah tell that roadrunner ^^ Cheers
I have used the folding Corona saw for years. Folds up, made a leather carrier, fits in my backpack. Laser cut blade. My oldest one is over 20 years old and still cutting like it was new. Keep an extra one in each of my vehicles. Just in case.
Good place for that chest rig. During the recession in the 80's my we had a half built house in Canada. Bare studs and a wood burning stove. I didn't know why we spent weeks at a time up there. Didn't know about exchange rates. All I knew was my Dad and I would take the 76' Blazer and explore the bush. The Great North Woods. It was awesome!
We didn't have toys growing up. I had three brothers. We lived in the mountains and played in the woods; eating muskadines off the vine 'til we couldn't eat anymore; swinging over the creek on Tarzan vines, beating on our chests and yelling like Tarzan did in those old black and white Tarzan movies. LOL! It was the BEST time!! We'd catch crawdads and salamanders in the creek; somebody always got a toe pinched. We camped out in those woods every chance we got and told scary stories around the fire at night. Growing up in the mountains of North Carolina was the perfect upbringing. Just PERFECT.
My son takes off to our local park/woods every week,I have a off road mobility scooter I Really enjoy going out with him putting my scooter to the test, here in Cornwall UK we have nothing dangerous to contend with other than the odd tick or adder,it would be very boring to you ,although interestingly in the 70's when the government made the keeping of big cats illegal,allegedly people released them on the moors here in Cornwall, the sighting of these cats are regarded as fabels here in Cornwall,but I know a few people who have seem them and a few years back I was extremely privileged to catch a glimpse of one myself although your laughed at of course, so when I'm in the woods I'm always looking over my shoulder. I really enjoy your camping trips and nothing makes you uneasy except when humans desend on you ,I used to be a great walker before my accident and fortunately walked lots of our coastline that I can't get to now, take care happy camping.☺
I really like your monologues. The content is way more interesting than when you're with Sophie where one feels like a spectator. When you're by yourself, one participates in your adventure.
Luke, coming from the UK, I am very envious of the many beautiful spots you have for camping! We have a few in the UK but once you have camped at them, you don’t want to camp them again. You have such vast areas to choose from. So envious, beautiful scenery and those thunder storms are fantastic!
Hi Susan and Luke, I love your video's!! The WAS X300 backpack is awesome i have it myself for a few years and never let me down, a bit heavy but very practical. Hope to see your review of it soon. Greetz from the Netherlands!!
Part of my childhood was spent in large cardboard boxes which we got from the alley behind the stores in town and dragged home to make "forts". We noticed one time that adults seemed to be looking and talking about us. Finally, my older brother advised that we don't want to use those big boxes that say Kotex on them. Live & learn.
I am amazed at how much ground you cover THREE times with your cutaway and walk away shots. You use those shots a LOT. That's commitment. Thanks for the content, MSgt7803.
Grew up in the projects in Boston. Cement and bricks, a trip to Boston Common was like a wild adventure because there were Squirrels there. Boy Scouts troop 310 brought me to the woods. I never left
I love your stories.. we did the same exact fort building and fires as children, me my brother and sister and 3 boy cousins. Always in the woods, by the creek. Good fun memories too.
It’s fun watching you I had a good childhood but we were poor but it didn’t matter we always had a place in the woods to hang out running water springs and we made playhouses in the woods such fun I’m from central Mississippi but now now live in Minnesota
As a kid growing up, I was in the middle. We had a nice place with horse property. Dident have it all but had enough. But the best part if my childhood was the city owned field at the edge of our property maybe 2 acres. Top half was a sewage transfer station but the bottom half was my wilderness! I spent many hours a day out in that field with my GI joes and my cars and my bb gun lol
I remember when I was a kid. Behind my parents house is a golf course, we used to collect all the lost golf balls and sell them 4 for £1, we used to save the money and get what we wanted at the end of summer used to be a right laugh! Plus you need to watch all the top gear from years ago it would make you laugh even more! Great video luke, love to you and your family.
Yes, on that saw, proper blade tension is key. We have a couple of similar saws, years old, that reside in the trunks of two of our cars. They are marked What-A-Saw and carry three blades: coarse wood, fine wood, and hacksaw. I think you can buy a similar saw today from Coghlan’s. Thanks for the video.
Loved every minute of this video.i grew up pretty much the same as you,always outdoors,hunting and fishing!.its in your blood forever.anyway loved your video.
I love the Doughton Park area, really just got into backpacking a few years ago. When I was younger I was more of a paddler into whitewater kayaking paddled just about every navigatable creek and river in western North Carolina, Now at 54 more into my canoe.
Thanks Luke, I think kids today live boring lives , on there screens , Im glad I did a lot of hiking , it did me a world of good, but I suppose we didn't have much in the way of technology so had to make our own fun
Neither would I and I dont even have a permit. I would just carry it anyway. If I needed it it would be life and death issue and since I am over 80 I am not super concerned whether or not a jury would find me a bad guy for defending my old self. I live on fixed income and those permits are 200 a yr. In my area.
@@TheMalet1 if I'm in bear country, I have it on my hip. Coyotes on the other hand are not a threat unless you are a 40lb child with a broken leg. I generally carry for the two legged animals as they are the most dangerous.
The sound of dripping melted plastic. Hadn't thought of that in years. I spent loads of time in the woods(Alaska). Built forts in the summer and skiied and snowshoed in the winter. Me a another kid has a trap line of snares and we would snare rabbits. We cleaned them and cooked them.
I love your adventurous spirit and positive energy. Now me, I'm such a pansy I get nervous watching and keep waiting for big foot to show up. I could NEVER do what you do, but I sure appreciate you taking us along. Strength and Honor.
Love this area. I went to college at Western Carolina (Cullowhee, NC) and then lived in the area for years I try and get back up there as often as possible to camp, visit old friend etc
it is not fair luke, you get spring today and I, in mn, still have frozen ice to contend with.... thanks for reminding me about critters when spring does hit. love the naked trees and shades of brown
WOW! That's an awsome headlamp light. I'm in AZ so coyotes are a way of life. Even in the city of Phoenix. I have never had a problem with them and they have been close. Like, really close.
Great video, thanks for taking us along on your adventures. I do the same type of exploration in the Superior National Forest (Northern MN). My kids and I find some beautiful places accessible by only the adventurous...I love it.
This was a great adventure and thank you for taking me along. When I was a kid growing up I was always running around outside and hanging out in the woods. I truly thank you for making these videos, I love watching when I can't get out and about at the time. You get me excited to get out which I love to get out and about. Have a wonderful day my friend.
l like to whatchin y on you camping trips Because whenl was a child l use to camp in puerto rico thats where lm from l still do that now. Right here in PA
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Luke, your stories remind me of my childhood growing up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with nothing to do year round but to play in the woods and build the most basic shelters and make believe I was camping out in the middle of a vast wilderness. No other memories of my childhood are more precious to me than those of being in the middle of nowhere in the woods by myself. The sounds of the snow hitting the tree branches and the fluttering wings of Black Capped Chickadees. Then when I was much older I became homeless and lived in my tent in the middle of a city in CT in a yard. To wake up to snow falling on the rain fly and looking out the tent window knowing where I was and not knowing what was next, was all I needed to realize that I was better off than a lot of people who were snug and warm.
Thanks Luke. As a kid I had a geologist Dad and 4 younger sisters. All of us (including Mom) camped a lot as we accompanied him on his rock collecting expeditions all over the world. Sometimes in the cold, sometimes in the heat and it always seemed uphill as we carried rocks in our rucksacks. We sang (howled) back at the coyotes when they sang so we wouldn't be afraid of them. I sure miss those days with them. Thank you for the memories.
"It happens, but it's pretty rare." would make a great tombstone.
@Predbeau101 Cool story. Would you mind asking do you feel you need any protection with you? You see I hike after work up to the mountains. It is usually a 9 mile hike with around 3400 feet ascend. During winter I mostly hike in the dark. Now the thing is that a pack of wolfs and some coyotes cane to the area. We didn't have any in the area for more than a century. Now the hunters say it's not really safe to hike there but I still do. I just carry my 9mm pistol with two magazines with me. I have it in my front bag similar to what you cab see in the video. I'm a sports IPSC shooter so I'm used to shoot fast. But some other hikers also hike there at night anyway. They mostly say a wolf wouldn't attack people. On the other side the hunters said they already attacked a woman. Now I really don't know what to think about it.
@@JohnWick_jr it's true, wolves and coyotes rarely attack people. But, there have been some wolf fatalities in the past few years. I live in Maine and to the northeast of us at the Cape Breton Highlands in Nova Scotia, a young lady was killed by coyotes about 10 years ago. It's rare, but it pays to be prepared.
@Predbeau101 Thank you so much for your response Sir. I really appreciate it.
The wolf you mentioned was really huge for my opinion. I read some stories and in most cases wolves were following people and trying to restrain them from moving towards the populated areas.
I don't live that much further north to watch the Aurora. It must be nice I guess. The most northern place I ever was as a tourist was Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.
Wish you to have a nice weekend.
@@hermit6208 Thank you. I was actually at Cape Breton for a few days but only as a tourist. I really liked the Louisbourg. But unfortunately the nature there didn't really impress me much. I was really hoping to make photographs of tree leaves turning red. Unfortunately that happened way too fast and I wasn't at the right place. I was also on the other side close to the border to New Brunswick and South beaches like Yarmouth and Digby.
@@hermit6208 I'm alert to wild hogs, cattle and moose when I hike. They are statistically dangerous. I wouldn't worry about wolfs unless I have children or if I was limping and bleeding. I carry a walking stick ( spear like cane ) and a knife. 2 years ago I met a large pack of wild hogs but it was enough to take high ground ( walk up on rocks or a hill ) and pick a couple of stones and they all fled as soon as the leader fled, i.e. I never had to throw anything. I would carry a rifle/gun in Alaska where the wolves can get as large as a human male. Otherwise. A serious cane ( with a serious pointy end ) will fend off an 80 pound wolf which wouldn't attack unless it was sick, rabid or has a den close by. I've seen bears a couple of times but always far away and walking either away from me or crossing the road. They are hunted in my area i.e. they get culled by hunters every year or 2 and this has become the bears only enemy, where as 300 years ago the natural enemy of a bear was sickness, starvation or other bear attacks. I know that the few lines of bear that have survived are now smaller, have shorter live spans and are more afraid of humans and this is because of 300 years of "human selection". If I was hiking in Canada/Alaska I would carry a gun because the bears are also more wild and larger there. Most predators in temperate zones are decimated, destroyed or totally altered by human activity and you have to be clueless, sick or a child to get attacked.
I liked this one a lot, Luke. I prefer old woods roads to narrow trails in the forest so where you went was just perfect to me. Nice place to camp out too. You asked about our childhoods. Me and my two sisters (7 years between me and my oldest sister) grew up in a small town in south central Pennsylvania so we didn’t spend any time in the woods. But we were outside a lot. Being a tomboy, I played with little horses and cowboys, as well as Army men, when I was little. My sisters played with dolls. We sometimes played hide and seek with other neighborhood kids at dusk. We read a lot and listened to music. Nothing too adventurous but we were three girls. It was a good childhood. Neighbors looked out for each other and my parents never fought. It was an idyllic time. Well, keep up the good work, Luke. We appreciate it.
"When I'm hiking around I pay attention to everything, all the little details"
5 mins later...
"I mised the trail"
XD
Hahahaha I thought the same exact thing!
Usually when you hear coyotes like that they are what we used to call "partying". They got something. When they are hunting, they are VERY quiet.
Had an older sister and older brother, great childhood played outside over fields daily.
Never had worries of coyotes in the 🇬🇧 uk.
The dark never worried us growing up, but have to say got a bit more wary as I’ve got older funnily enough, used to go camping with the family, my kids loved the freedom associated.
Loved exploring and my kids have taken that on with their kids.
All the best my friend, thanks for sharing your adventures with us all👌👍
Coyote Channel: We had just started singing our hunting song when this hu-mon (coyotes talk like Ferengi) started a fire and we gathered to watch and sing. He seemed to be a nice fellow but he had a pathetic camp saw.
L.T. ……………..he got the worst saw, had to thumbs up you !!!!!! p.s. you the best Linebacker ever !!!
It was so bad, Luke didn’t even include it in the gear list😂
My children and I love watching you and Susie! We have countless memories coming home at night and looking to see if you guys have posted something and then watch it together! Thanks for all of the memories! "Cheers!"
OMG GI Joes.... My brother Tom and I had them. Tom wanted to make a fireman's outfit for his, so we raided mom's aluminum foil and Tom fashioned a "fireproof" suit like the firemen wear at airports to fight fires on aircraft. Tom wanted to see how well it would work, so we built a fire in the fireplace. Of course you know what happened.... it melted! ! ! It was hysterical. Such great memories. I think my favorite toy was a $1 dollar bag of 100 little plastic army men. I played with those for years. When my parents finally turned the carport into a garage, they found a dozen or so of the little army men and wrote me a letter while I was stationed in Germany and told me what they'd found. I laughed so hard.
We just love the stories of your childhood and adventures with your brother. I know I am not alone in this wish.... But it would be a great video to see you and your brother go out on an adventure together for a few days. THAT would be a video to remember! ! ! S&H my friend. Brian
I grew up in this area back in the 60s and 70s...been all over this area in my younger days , hiking , camping, hunting , fishing ....great times ...
I was born in upstate NY and was fortunate to have parents who did well enough in life to provide us with a cabin in the Adirondack Mtns, specifically Indian Lake, NY that we'd visit on weekends for skiing in the winter and fishing etc during the summer. My brother and I had a "fort" we built out of downed balsam pine and hardwood trees. It was about 4' tall with a roof that was covered with moss, leaves etc and had a small fireplace. We'd work in it and improve each visit. Sometimes had to repair it due to snowfall which could be 5'-6' deep. Never played with toys much just some Tonka trucks even though we could've had whatever we wanted. Use to truly enjoy those days when I think back on them. Now that I'm 51 I find myself going back in that direction as far as camping etc. I'm still fortunate enough to have my parents and revisit some of those places and memories. Enjoy your videos n journeys Luke...til next time.
Luke; I had a great childhood. Kid mischief, camping, boy scouts, mountain hiking, no complaints; it wasnt perfect but it was great
Me, my yr younger sister, and our younger 2 yr old brother. Played survival every day. We would build a fort, pick berries, and took an old cement mixing tray and use it for a boat, to go fishing. We had the BEST ADVENTURES EVER!!! We ate wild plants that were edible. Man, I could write a few books on our childhood. It would be a mixture of Spanky’s “Our Gang” all the way to making a band using homemade instruments. Like, a garbage can with a foot peddle and pots n pans for drums, we sang like we were the best “American Pie” sorry got carried away u brought back so many memories, THANK U
I am a lonewolf introvert hiker and love my alone time with nature. Stay safe out there buddy.
Hi Luke, like you I have an identical twin brother, and we spent our childhood making dens in the woods, shooting air rifles, and living freely. We also didn't have a lot of money growing up, but we couldn't have cared less.
Strength and Honour brother!
Atb, Ben.
We were low middle class.i grew 1/4 mile from the river. Hunting and fishing all year long. I had a horse that I bought when I was 14, a black lab mix, a .22 and 5 miles of river bottom to play in. No cell phone. Dad would come home shoot his rifle and I would shoot once to reply I was okay. Highly unsupervised and free. Now I’m so busy running my own business I haven’t even been fishing for a few years. Really like to wTch your videos kinda gives me my nature fix. Some day I’ll disappear into the woods but until then thank you for your videos I really appreciate them 🤘🏻
Bloodcravin nice. Similar to me. Never communicated with my dad via gunshot though :) and didn’t have a river but did have 700 + acres of woods and farmland to explore. Always had a .22 or a 12 gauge any plenty of rounds - nothing menacing - just had it for the fun of shooting stuff. Good times.
My brother is 7 years older than me so, i tagged along with him and he built an awesome fort in the woods way up in a tree. It took me a lot of try's before i got up the nerve to climb all the way up there. That was the best tree fort ever. My friends and i from the neighborhood spent many a day up there just goofing around.
My childhood was a good mix. Blue collar family, my parents took great care of us and we were fortunate to have toys and video games to play with. We also spent countless hours outside on our bikes with friends, exploring the woods and lakes, finding a bit of mischief here or there. I really started spending more time in the outdoors and going on longer adventures with the boy scouts and it's stuck with me to today. Before all this craziness kicked off the last year has been plenty of day hikes and 3-4 weekend car camping trips a year to a friend's property in the Catskills plus a rafting trip down the upper Delaware River.
Sandwiches made by other taste better. Always. Could not agree more Luke.
Have a lot of respect for someone that backpacks the way you do. And as often as you do. Especially when you could just follow the crowd and “overland”.
I know this is an older video but just had to relate a story to your fort under the downed tree. So me and my brother grew up similarly to you we didn't have much and what we did have was seconds or thirds from yard sales or the like. My dad would bring home pallets mainly to burn for heat used as kindling. He did bring home a huge crate and pallet once and said do what you want. So we built an awesome tree house with it in a stretch of pines. We loved that thing! Many over nights laying looking up through the limbs at the stars. It was so hideous to look at though. We were young and didn't know what we were doing. Didn't matter we used that thing for years to come till in the early eighties we had a freak summer time tornado wipe it out with the trees. It was on the ground for just a few minutes like and F1 long enough though. Just wanted to share as you asked so many great memories of that awful looking tree house we built. Love the channel stay safe my friend.
In the 1950s/60s our parents took us 3 kids camping in a beach buggy on Cape Cod. 10 gallons of water for 5 people.... + the Atlantic Ocean. If we could fill up at the well a ways down the back road and catch some bass, we could stay out a couple days longer.
Love your channel, Luke. Put red celofane on the beam and it won't scare off the wildlife.
I grew up in Chicago but we lived across from a narrow strip of county forest preserve land hugging the North Branch of the Chicago River. In Summer, we ate breakfast and went into the woods to play. Came home for lunch, then back into the forest to play some more. Came home for dinner, and, if you were old enough, you could go back yet again to play or whatever. The river was our skating rink in winter. The hill down to it was our sledding hill but you had to make a very sharp turn at the bottom to avoid (a) sailing off the bank into the river or (b) hitting one of several large trees and breaking a bone or two. Many a collarbone didn't survive a crash intact. Couldn't have pets with fur or feathers, so we brought home turtles and box tortoises in the Spring, fed them all Summer, then turned them back loose in the Fall. Many, many years later, wild life spread into these woods: white tail deer, raccoons, skunks, red fox, gray and fox squirrels, opossums, mallard ducks, Canada geese, birds of all kinds. By about 1990, coyotes abound. Oh, and the occasional homeless person too. The oak (the tallest tree in the picture) is a burr oak. We determined it was about 386 years old in 2004. See the front yard here: www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=0f700a390512
I am Tlingit, my Family is from Prince Wails Is. Alaska. I went to School in Seattle but spent most of my summers on our fishing boat in Southeast Alaska. I have been able to hike and fish and camp in places I swear It felt like no one had set foot there before. I have great memories of the kids on the boats that I grew up with on those summers. Like you we did many things that were about as idiotic as you could get and it's a wonder we survived or at least did not end up in a world of trouble over. We created quite a stir with a Tagging project in which we want to track as many dog sharks as we could catch in a two-day period of time or till, we ran out of balloons. We bought a bag of one hundred. Put names on them then using a twine that would easily deteriorate after a day or two we tied the balloons to each and let them go. I will say it made the town harbor much more festive and when we left town to go out for the next salmon opening the four of us found that dog sharks had a big range of habitat. talking to each other on the CBs as we all were heading out in different directions, we found many of our tagged sharks quite a ways out.
Love hearing your childhood stories- having neighbourhood friends- disappearing off on our bikes into bush tracks, building forts is what we did in the bush in Africa - using trees, branches, long grass etc. It was great fun - we’d spend hours outside came home for lunch and dinner. Did a heap of camping trips and learned how to live off grid too. My folks pretty much left us to it. We did some dumb things too. We’d put on variety shows for our parents. I came from a sailing family -so did a heap of sailing both freshwater and sea sailing. Then we got sent off to boarding school as teenagers.
My Brother and I spent our days hunting, fishing, gigging frogs and hunting for morel mushrooms in the woods and creeks across the street from our house. We built hideouts and a 4 hole golf course in our backyard, complete with water and sand traps. Best of times.
My brother and I were in boy scouts. My dad was an electrician and layed-off. Christmas was coming and I can remember my dad rolling pennies, I really didn't know for what. Christmas morning came and under the tree were presents even thought there wasn't much money. One of those presents was a red handled hatchet for my brother and me that my dad bought with those pennies. I am 54 years old and still best gift ever. I wish I still had that hatchet, no clue where it went. Thanks Dad.
Thanks for taking me along.
Like you we grew up poor.
As long as I didn't hurt anything i was good. And was not late for supper. I would not change anything about my childhood.
Luke, love the adventure. I heard your birds in the background. I am so glad you had a map and did your research before going out there. You could absolutely get lost exploring new trails you are not familiar with..Sooo many missing people never leave the wilderness. Either they lose their way or perhaps get murdered. Any hoot Those coyotes did sound pretty close. I like your new insulated cook ware.
My childhood was pretty cool. We woke up ate and went outside as long as we didn't go in any strangers homes. We were ok. Nobody bothered us kids. I had my Brothers and sisters...7 of us, among many cousins that constantly stay in and out our house all the time. We were the neighborhood. We played outside until the grown ups said "time to come in to eat dinner." We had a million toys together that we all share. We rode bikes, played hide and seek..we just had fun. Miss those days. Getting back to your adventure...I'm sure glad you safely made it back to your car. I always, always look forward to your adventures luke..I enjoy them. Until next time be safe out there. Strength and honor Luke.👍👍👍
Que relajantes tus videos amigo.
Me encanta campar. Aprendo mucho de tus videos. Gracias.
I was allowed to go out and play in the woods unsupervised.As the only child I loved it when others were there to share adventures.
Thanks!
Why’s it always about you Karen?
My childhood was much like yours, outside right at dawn, camping, hiking, and playing in the woods all day, only heading home when you heard mom calling from the back porch. Great times in the mid 80s.
Played outdoors a lot when I was a kid! I remember catching craw dads in the creek! They looked like tiny lobsters 🦞 Then I would let them back into the creek! Also played basketball until the sunset 🌅
My brother and I, a couple of friends, little dirt bikes, backpacks and tents. Off we went into the deep woods for many summers of wild camping. Wouldn't trade it.
listening to the coyotes howl is simply fantastic im from te UK and some one let a few wild boar loose in a forest down south and they have really taken off which is great
Thanks Luke, for sharing the stories and wisdom. Love the adventures.
Enjoyed your video. Grew up in the 60s on an isolated farm with miles of rugged abandoned land that people had let go back for taxes during the Depression. Knew every bend and hole in the creek where the small mouth bass lay, made forts and shelters in the hills from burlap feed sacks whanged together with baling wire, and wearing a folded up tricorn straw hat with a chicken feather stuck in it I settled the wilderness with a toy muzzle loader I'd carved from an old board and fitted with an icecream stick trigger and hammer. Half the time I was Daniel Boone, half the time the swamp fox. Most of the time my only companion was a collie dog I'd named Maynard G. Krebs. Yeah, I remember those days.
We used to build forts from fallen trees. Sometimes we would use grass for the roof but we always had fun. And I still have G. I. Joes. That was my favorite toy when I was a kid.
We had 20 acres of woods in mid-Michigan. We were always out in the woods doing stuff when we were growing up. The greatest time ever. Great memories.
I have a friend who moved from Calif. to Benson there and I just saw it on your map you have - they love it there! Sure you're a bit of a rambler but you have a lot good, interesting and informative things you talk about, plus you are a rambler of the woods! Waylon Jennings wrote a song titled that, course he was talkin' about women and music not the woods. You could sing it on the trails changing the words about camping and hiking 🎶😉 I'm not fond of crowds either so you're not alone. Loners ROCK! It's always fun hearing about your childhood days. I like the GI Joe part, it reminds me of how I was with my Barbie's having them sitting in their country camper or the corvette and running the vehicles through dirt, mud and debris out in the back yard, all while I was making a mud pie for my Mom right underneath a concrete slab where we kept the garbage cans; just a perfect little open slot there to pretend it was an oven. I'd take all my Barbie's with me when the family went camping up on the Kern River; sometimes losing them to the Kern rapids watching their little heads float on by. One time me and my cousins went hiking on the other side of the river crossing over it at a shallow end. We found this old miner's entrance which turned into a huge cave with beans cans and liquor bottles everywhere, and we were walking and crawling over pieces of 2 x 4s not knowing if it was secure or what's underneath. My cousin all of a sudden called out "Get OUT" as he had shown his flashlight up towards the ceiling, and all these bats started flying out towards us. We absolutely moved back and out as fast as we could over the 2 x 4s and debris in our path. I think my youngest niece of 6 yrs old was with us. What an experience that I'll never forget!
We LIVED outdoors sunshine, cloudy, hot, cold, rain, shine we were outside in the woods,swamp,snow it was AWESOME 😎💪☝️👈👌👍👍💥
I remember when I was 12-13
My dad was on vacation one
Summer he built an A frame
Tree Fort for me and my
Younger brother.....
It lasted about 10 years
It was fantastic
that melting plastic noise! that brought back some great memories of shenanagins with my cousins! seemed as a kid all i needed was them, a lighter and a tin of bean and i was as happy as a sand boy, i love your videos Luke, really feel like you bring us along and your stories really make it feel we are sitting around the fire too thanks mate
Much like you we had few toys but camping was our big thing. And we would get old tractor inner tubes and build rafts to use down at the river. Riding bikes, camping and being outdoors . Kids these days have way too much and have forgotten Mother Earth.
I also like to spend time outdoors and camping alone It feels like home. Good video.
My favorite time outdoors as a kid was probably one summer I spent 3 months straight at a Boy Scout camp on the Buffalo National River. I think I was about 15 and just loved hiking the many, many trails and climbing the mountains. I got to spend one of those weeks with some college guys who were living like the original settlers in a log cabin surviving off the land. Memories like that are priceless.
Camp Orr. The Buffalo is amazing. Thank you to the Ozark Society for making it America's first and still best national river and to Ken Smith for his countless time devoted to the Buffalo.
You are right about the observation of tracks. I also look carefully on many minuscule details. A trained eye can see a lot and make conclusions like a nature's Sherlock Holmes. it is exciting.
I like the big tree story......you have mentioned it before and it's still a great story about the simplicity of childhood.
Before my brother passed with cancer all our neighborhood friends got together and went to an old fort we had built in our Forrest. It took us three days to find find it. We had dug it out into the ground as teens, it was mostly underground. When we found it it wasn’t much more than a whole in the ground, we did have some pictures we had taken with a polaroid camera in a band aid tin. They were still there it was epic. Lol
Yup, great to go along with you 👍
Same here growing up in comunistic poland we also had nothing to play but us and the nature and also unsupervised that was freedom nowadays generations will never experience. I remember setting a whole hill on fire (i want the first to do so, it burned once year) because some older meant we can put it out with dirt if it gets to big... yeah right. when the hill was burning all the kids came out to put it out with anything they could get in their hand to do so ^^ when i go back to poland to the place i grew up (bout 30 years later) on the hill there is a little forrest now where pll are searching for mushrooms... btw we are the same age Luke so i feel you saying it was great back then. Coyote atacks are very very rare, yeah tell that roadrunner ^^ Cheers
Loved it. Great to here the Coyotes. Awesome.
Be safe 👍🏻🤘🏻
Strength & Honour 👊🏻
I would love to go camping one day with you I had nothing growing up and all I had was the woods that's where I found my peace
I totally agree with you about childhood fun outdoors. That’s how I grew up in our northern forest
I have used the folding Corona saw for years. Folds up, made a leather carrier, fits in my backpack. Laser cut blade. My oldest one is over 20 years old and still cutting like it was new. Keep an extra one in each of my vehicles. Just in case.
"I turned my light on and I thought I saw eyeballs, but I'm not worried about it" I wish I had your level of chill!!
I'm super stoked you went back! I really wanted to see more of that campground. Thank you, Luke!
I want to see Bigfoot... Be nice if he brought a recorder to capture sounds of the wild all night long
Good place for that chest rig. During the recession in the 80's my we had a half built house in Canada. Bare studs and a wood burning stove. I didn't know why we spent weeks at a time up there. Didn't know about exchange rates. All I knew was my Dad and I would take the 76' Blazer and explore the bush. The Great North Woods. It was awesome!
We didn't have toys growing up. I had three brothers. We lived in the mountains and played in the woods; eating muskadines off the vine 'til we couldn't eat anymore; swinging over the creek on Tarzan vines, beating on our chests and yelling like Tarzan did in those old black and white Tarzan movies. LOL! It was the BEST time!! We'd catch crawdads and salamanders in the creek; somebody always got a toe pinched. We camped out in those woods every chance we got and told scary stories around the fire at night. Growing up in the mountains of North Carolina was the perfect upbringing. Just PERFECT.
I love the sound of your voice, so soothing. Nothing better than sitting round a camp fire and chatting about adventures.
My son takes off to our local park/woods every week,I have a off road mobility scooter I Really enjoy going out with him putting my scooter to the test, here in Cornwall UK we have nothing dangerous to contend with other than the odd tick or adder,it would be very boring to you ,although interestingly in the 70's when the government made the keeping of big cats illegal,allegedly people released them on the moors here in Cornwall, the sighting of these cats are regarded as fabels here in Cornwall,but I know a few people who have seem them and a few years back I was extremely privileged to catch a glimpse of one myself although your laughed at of course, so when I'm in the woods I'm always looking over my shoulder. I really enjoy your camping trips and nothing makes you uneasy except when humans desend on you ,I used to be a great walker before my accident and fortunately walked lots of our coastline that I can't get to now, take care happy camping.☺
I really like your monologues. The content is way more interesting than when you're with Sophie where one feels like a spectator. When you're by yourself, one participates in your adventure.
Good stuff! And now you know where the body was found! And I now know that saw is crap. Thanks!
Luke, coming from the UK, I am very envious of the many beautiful spots you have for camping! We have a few in the UK but once you have camped at them, you don’t want to camp them again. You have such vast areas to choose from. So envious, beautiful scenery and those thunder storms are fantastic!
Hi Susan and Luke, I love your video's!! The WAS X300 backpack is awesome i have it myself for a few years and never let me down, a bit heavy but very practical. Hope to see your review of it soon. Greetz from the Netherlands!!
I had a similar childhood, we weren’t wealthy, my brothers and I used to play unsupervised
Most of the years growing up we were unsupervised in the woods even at night. We were comfortable there with our dog as protection.
I grew up in the hills of Alexander County NC. Much of my childhood was spent in the woods.
Part of my childhood was spent in large cardboard boxes which we got from the alley behind the stores in town and dragged home to make "forts". We noticed one time that adults seemed to be looking and talking about us. Finally, my older brother advised that we don't want to use those big boxes that say Kotex on them. Live & learn.
I am amazed at how much ground you cover THREE times with your cutaway and walk away shots. You use those shots a LOT. That's commitment. Thanks for the content, MSgt7803.
Grew up in the projects in Boston. Cement and bricks, a trip to Boston Common was like a wild adventure because there were Squirrels there. Boy Scouts troop 310 brought me to the woods. I never left
Thanks for taking us along, it is always a Pleasure!
I love your stories.. we did the same exact fort building and fires as children, me my brother and sister and 3 boy cousins. Always in the woods, by the creek. Good fun memories too.
We lived in Forsyth county, outside of Winston-Salem, off of Robin hood road. Loved my life then and still now!
It’s fun watching you I had a good childhood but we were poor but it didn’t matter we always had a place in the woods to hang out running water springs and we made playhouses in the woods such fun I’m from central Mississippi but now now live in Minnesota
As a kid growing up, I was in the middle. We had a nice place with horse property. Dident have it all but had enough. But the best part if my childhood was the city owned field at the edge of our property maybe 2 acres. Top half was a sewage transfer station but the bottom half was my wilderness! I spent many hours a day out in that field with my GI joes and my cars and my bb gun lol
Thanks for nice videos Luke. We really like your rewiews.
I remember when I was a kid. Behind my parents house is a golf course, we used to collect all the lost golf balls and sell them 4 for £1, we used to save the money and get what we wanted at the end of summer used to be a right laugh! Plus you need to watch all the top gear from years ago it would make you laugh even more! Great video luke, love to you and your family.
Can't believe I'm watching this whole thing.
Such dedication and commitment on my part.
I honestly never thought I could commit to such an undertaking, but I watch this channel and aquachigger all the time.
Yes, on that saw, proper blade tension is key. We have a couple of similar saws, years old, that reside in the trunks of two of our cars. They are marked What-A-Saw and carry three blades: coarse wood, fine wood, and hacksaw. I think you can buy a similar saw today from Coghlan’s. Thanks for the video.
This trip is kinda scary because of the howling.. I see you made it through the night. Thank God.
After school, I had to work on our farm every day so kind of same adventure I used to have.
Loved every minute of this video.i grew up pretty much the same as you,always outdoors,hunting and fishing!.its in your blood forever.anyway loved your video.
I love the Doughton Park area, really just got into backpacking a few years ago. When I was younger I was more of a paddler into whitewater kayaking paddled just about every navigatable creek and river in western North Carolina, Now at 54 more into my canoe.
OMG - the zipping sound of melting plastic soldiers! I had totally forgotten. That was such a cool sound!
Thanks Luke, I think kids today live boring lives , on there screens , Im glad I did a lot of hiking , it did me a world of good, but I suppose we didn't have much in the way of technology so had to make our own fun
22:24 "Personal protection" I wouldn't go into that killing field without personal protection either.
Neither would I and I dont even have a permit. I would just carry it anyway. If I needed it it would be life and death issue and since I am over 80 I am not super concerned whether or not a jury would find me a bad guy for defending my old self. I live on fixed income and those permits are 200 a yr. In my area.
if you're afraid of coyotes you shouldn't be outdoors.
@@lmccampbell that Swedish saw was a waste... heavy and unsteady. Do you every carry bear spray?
@@TheMalet1 if I'm in bear country, I have it on my hip. Coyotes on the other hand are not a threat unless you are a 40lb child with a broken leg. I generally carry for the two legged animals as they are the most dangerous.
@@lmccampbell Think he was referring more to the murders that have happened in that area that were mentioned early in the video.
Omg lol,I can't stop watching your videos. I,too think storms are exciting. Im really wanting to go camping now!
I love the sound of coyotes calling to each other. I could sit and listen to them for hours. 🐕
same here…..I used to hear them every night at my last place in Montana…….miss that
Central Florida born there 1972 from very early on the woods the water just outside my pets were what ever I could catch
The sound of dripping melted plastic. Hadn't thought of that in years. I spent loads of time in the woods(Alaska). Built forts in the summer and skiied and snowshoed in the winter. Me a another kid has a trap line of snares and we would snare rabbits. We cleaned them and cooked them.
I love your adventurous spirit and positive energy. Now me, I'm such a pansy I get nervous watching and keep waiting for big foot to show up. I could NEVER do what you do, but I sure appreciate you taking us along. Strength and Honor.
Thumbs up as always. Wow... what a great time... it was like I was there... Later & Greater, peace
Love this area. I went to college at Western Carolina (Cullowhee, NC) and then lived in the area for years I try and get back up there as often as possible to camp, visit old friend etc
Thank you for the great adventure!!
It also helps solidify outdoor skills I've let get rusty. So thanks!
it is not fair luke, you get spring today and I, in mn, still have frozen ice to contend with.... thanks for reminding me about critters when spring does hit. love the naked trees and shades of brown
Outstanding adventure! Thank you for sharing...
So nice. Such wilderness tough accompanied with the wild song of coyotes.
WOW! That's an awsome headlamp light. I'm in AZ so coyotes are a way of life. Even in the city of Phoenix. I have never had a problem with them and they have been close. Like, really close.
Great video, thanks for taking us along on your adventures. I do the same type of exploration in the Superior National Forest (Northern MN). My kids and I find some beautiful places accessible by only the adventurous...I love it.
This was a great adventure and thank you for taking me along. When I was a kid growing up I was always running around outside and hanging out in the woods. I truly thank you for making these videos, I love watching when I can't get out and about at the time. You get me excited to get out which I love to get out and about. Have a wonderful day my friend.
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l like to whatchin y on you camping trips Because whenl was a child l use to camp in puerto rico thats where lm from l still do that now. Right here in PA