Hey everyone it's Rod and it's day four which means I know I could stay up here another day but I don't really see a point to have covered enough a lot of ground with very little to no outside but I'm gonna pack everything up and head out. The couple times I've had service I got a couple Facebook messages about what I'm sleeping in as far as a sleep system. I'm sleeping back actually they asked and what kind of tent. One was the tent, one was the sleeping bag so here's the answer to those questions. One is non-attent, it's actually a tarp, it's made by Kafaru and it is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in the entire planet. It weighs less than two pounds, I want to say like 1.8 pounds maybe or 1.6 pounds and it packs down to a very very small size and I think that's with the tent stick so, weight is almost nothing, super compact, nice to travel with and then it's held up inside by trekking poles which I like to have anyway especially hunting solo because if I'm you know going up and down a rock slide I shouldn't say rock slide but in and out of rocks and steep angles, I like having the trekking poles just to catch my balance because my pack completely loaded away 68 pounds so it's quite a bit of weight on my shoulders and I just don't have an accident so those poles help quite a bit and they also act as my supports. Now you could cut some sticks when you got to your area instead of using both those poles if you really want to save some weight, I like the poles though too, he's having to cross some deep streams and they're just nice to have so keep it from falling. I guess that's it for the tent itself. One more thing I'll go over in a second so this is inside my tent and this is a sleep system I've got so what you see here is outdoor research bitty and it is made of Gore-Tex and if it ain't Gore-Tex it ain't waterproof and since today I've been on staff I've learned that and I'm not on staff anymore but I can tell you right now that those are some good people and anything they make is quality and I've never had a problem. I have with virtually every other quote unquote waterproof breathable system I've had some sort of leaks. Not saying it's not possible it's just I just stick with what I know works so anyhow that's what I use it's nice because I pack it up with me on a day when I go on my scallion strips during the day. Okay so I got stuck on the mountain it's not going to keep me warm by itself so sometimes I'll take a sleeping bag of I think that's highly likely but for the most part day trips I'll carry it just for backup safety kind of stuff. The next part of my sleeping system is the bag itself synthetic mountain hardware. Go with synthetic. Go with synthetic. I'll say it one more time. Go with synthetic. Down is nice it's packable it's ultra light but if it gets wet in like if you're on a North-West Montana where I'm probably going to be going to soon it's generally a pretty wet environment. It's not someplace you want to have gear that isn't going to get you through wet weather so if you're sleeping bag up wet with down it would have almost no insulation values so anyhow that's my wholesale's pitch on synthetic versus down and then the other thing underneath that I've got is my sleeping bag, the bikeabellas, instinct pad, if you can see the... I thought this is going to be really cool comfy pad but where those little circles are like here and around here run all the way through that pad and it seems like my knees and my elbows wind up in those spots in the middle of the night at some point I wake up kind of with achy joints from that just feels like I'm sleeping on something really soft except for rocks too it's weird so I would kind of skip on that. Under underneath that I've just got a space blanket and you should be using tie-back I always am using a space blanket because I forgot my tie-back and I never forget a space blanket so anyhow that's pretty much my sleep system for a pillow got a down vest that I use and it is down but it stays pretty much for the most part packed away except for sleeping under or if I get really cool I'll put it under my rain gear if it is rainy but I'm going to synthetic one too but the down is just come for you. So one other thing about this tent is super cool or this tarp is it's got a port for a stove, titanium stove which I have and I'll probably be using later in the season the titanium stove literally weighs like 2.6 pounds maybe it's 2.8, one of the two. My entire system, sleeping bag, pad, bivy, tarp, tent stakes, all of that is around 8 pounds I want to say might even be a little bit less than that so that's pretty impressive. On the other hand something I have that's really heavy that I'm not impressed with at all and I'll go over my packs in more detail but I'm using a Kaffiru pack which I love to death and then my day pack is a tinsing pack which I hate. It's kind of heavy the compartments are difficult to get things in that are worthwhile that I use at least on my mountain hunts so I don't know I'm probably going to pick up like a hiker's backpack. I don't think a Farrow makes a small pack and for me what I really like I'm using the I think it's called the Argalipack it's got two sleeves that fold in I like a lot because I can take one waterproof stuff sack with my clothes in it anything else that I need and put it in the middle and my day pack my deployable day pack as I call it. That's a super cool system for me because once I get up in here like and I'm hunting like I am where I don't know positively there's elk for sure there's your should be I may walk a lot of miles like I did on this trip and during the day I basically get back as far as I feel like I can with that base camp pitch it and then I'll spike out from there and then run all these ridges and fingers that you see behind you all over the place looking for elk so it's a cool system for me it works really well I will say the Kaffiru stuff I've never used before and I don't know those guys from Adam but the one guy I think the original owners obviously pretty smart with a lot of the systems he's invented but they've brought on Aaron Snyder and I don't know if you know Aaron is I don't know him personally but dude is fricking he's killing it out there 200 days a year hunting everything from sheep to elk to whatever and a pretty impressive guy I think he did some research or wrote some articles for outdoor life but what's really impressive to me is a guy who a company who has a guy on staff like that and and actually integrates his knowledge and his experience into building stuff because it saves guys like me who aren't out there 200 days a year a whole lot of a whole lot of back pains and aches and general blunder so anyhow super awesome system Kaffiru super tent and not that pack back inside the Kaffiru back great company check them out the only problem is this year I don't know that you can get you might be able to go super tarp and hurry but most of the stuff is running behind I think just because they sell out you need to get a lot of the stuff six to eight weeks before season starts at least so big tip for next year for those of you who are looking for stuff or if you're going to go with an outfit this year and go by yourself next year kind of thing just some things to keep in mind about some products and hopefully that answers the questions that I got on Facebook messenger and I don't piece out I'm gonna get everything packed up and head to the truck and hopefully make it before dark see you