Oh my last camp I had some difficulties keeping warm because the temperatures were about minus 80 and minus 20 and I mistakenly brought the wrong sleeping pad with me. I didn't check my gear first mistake and ended up bringing a sleeping pad that's rated for summer use only. I thought I'd take this opportunity to make a short video to show you the variations I tried, what worked, what kind of worked and what definitely didn't work. I'm not a survivalist nor are I any sort of outdoors expert. I'm just a new and this video is just some observations on what I experienced when I was camping at minus 20 degrees in the wrong gear. Please bear in mind that my sleeping bag has a comfort limit of minus 20 but a upper limit of minus 30 degrees so I had some margin of safety also where I was camp was a 20 minute walk away to my car so I could have actually packed up and left at any time. Be smart when camping and don't push your gear beyond its limits. Okay so here is my original setup with the exception of course that the sleeping pad I thought was my thermoresc neo air ex-thurm which is rated for I think more than minus 20 with an hour value of 6.9. What I actually had and what I have here again is the Tracology UL80 which has a r value ranging between 1.6 and 2 making it only a summer bag and certainly not suitable for the temperatures that I found myself in. To keep me off the snow I have sort of sheet of tie-vec and then on top of that I had a half inch thick foam mat topped by a layer of reflectics which basically covers my head and torso on top of that then is the Tracology UL sleeping bag and then I've got the thermoresc polar ranger sleeping bag rated to minus 20 and then the other layer is a quilt from enlightened equipment it's the revelation quilt. Footbox of the thermoresc sits inside the footbox of the quilt and the quilt straps then go underneath the sleeping bag to keep it in place. Once I discovered that the I had the wrong sleeping pad with me I decided to try to add my insulation from underneath so my first step was to cut as many small pine branches as I could I show a few here just for illustration purposes there's no point in recording cutting down wood and branches if I'm not going to use it so this is just for illustration but I had approximately two to three inch thick layer of pine branches along the entire length of my sleeping pad underneath the tie-vec and the hope also that the tie-vec would protect the sleeping pad from being punctured and on top of that then as before I had the foam pad followed by the sleeping pad then the the reflectics then sleeping bag and the quilt on top this did not work the cold came right through everything and yeah it was uncomfortable okay the next iteration was to put my quilt inside my sleeping bag and then underneath the sleeping pad I put the reflectics and then I got all of my clothes anything I could use to isolate or insulate myself from the from the cold coming up to the floor even including my sit pad and actually this configuration worked relatively well the only problem with it was the quilt puffed up so much inside the sleeping bag that it was actually difficult to move at all but it did actually warm me because I presume by this filling up it filled all of the available dead space inside the sleeping bag however so much so that I was squeezed inside the sleeping bag and it was very claustrophobic so I had to come up with another solution the final solution I came up with and the one that I stuck with for most of the night was to keep the extra clothes on top of the tiewack and under the sleeping pad effectively then sleeping pad was pretty much only for comfort it didn't provide any warmth as such and inside the sleeping bag then I put the foam mat under me and then on top I put the reflectics and inside the reflectics I folded my sit pad and this kept kept my torso actually quite quite nice and warm and certainly insulated me from the floor I had seen the solution done before with the reflectics and foam I think it's a British YouTuber called Bex Bugouts Survivor and he had this concept of extending the life for the range of your sleeping bag by having a half inch or having certainly having some foam on top of your body inside the sleeping bag I think reflectics works quite well in reflecting heat but it needs to have airspace it can be pressed up against the surface he was of the opinion that the shiny shiny surface the reflective surface should reflect upwards and outward to keep the reflecticold out but this is shiny on both sides so well why not use something like this to reflect the cold out and then reflect the heat back down to me and then the effectiveness of that can be improved by folding a piece of foam inside the reflectics this is only a small piece if I got another piece approximately half an inch thick like the what I have underneath cut it to shape approximately that size or at least cut it to a bunch of shape at least that size then that could actually fit over the torso and then add a few extra degrees and particularly with some foam actually inside adding further insulation so I'm back in my garage safe and sound nice and warm yeah I hope you enjoyed the video and thank you for watching if you managed to make it all the way to the end I hope it was useful and I hope it catch you out on the trail the next time this Kevin signing off all the best my way I