You are the David Attenborough of survival camping: an excellent communicator, teacher and filmmaker, with total respect for the natural environment and a great sense of theatre and fun. Love these videos, have learnt so much. Thank you.

@CazTali

5 ай бұрын

Yeah especially at 16:14 - peak Attenborough

Great video! It took me back 40 years to when I used to hunt with a small group of friends. We each carried a small kit in case someone downed an animal and couldn't make it back to the main camp by night fall. We had what we needed to stay with the animal overnight and no one was worried. Back then we didn't have the fancy stuff available now like titanium pots, etc. Myself, most of my stuff fit into a one pound coffee tin with a wire bail. I always had a few bouillon cubes and a hand full of tea bags and sachets of sugar. A tin cup fit in my coffee tin. A lighter was in my pocket (no ferro rods in those days) and, as a backup in my tin I had wooden matches I had dipped in wax. I carried my tin in a haversack along with a few other items: a small 8 X 10 light nylon tarp; sash cord because we hadn't heard of paracord; always a slab of MacIntosh's toffee (when they still made slabs!); for water, I used an old 1 litre rectangular plastic vinegar bottle; a small flashlight; a compass and extra ammo. Either in my haversack or in a pocket I always had a can of sardines! I always wore a fixed blade knife on one side and a folding Buck 110 on the other, then I had a good pocket knife. I am a little knife crazy but also one of our guys had taken his rifle and gone out one morning to answer the call of nature. When he dropped his drawers he saw a moose, shot it but only wounded it. He trailed after it and, a long time later, found it down. He went to gut it and realised he had not put his knife on his belt when he got up that morning. He bush-wacked back to camp, got his knife and tried to return to the moose. Hours later he still couldn't find it; never did. Lesson learned. Excuse the long-winded tale! I'm 75 and just had a pacemaker implanted 3 weeks ago. I'm pretty sure my days in the bush are going to be very limited but your video brought back some fond memories from long ago. You're doing a great job, Xander, and I get a vicarious pleasure watching everything you post.

@joeanonimous1105

Ай бұрын

The extra ammo is useful for signaling. The old rule is to fire three shots in the air, wait for a response, then fire three shots again, etc. Of course, eventually you're going to run out of arrows. :-)

My daughter (5yo) and I love watching your videos! She thinks you're absolutely hilarious. Thank you for bringing laughter and knowledge to your videos. Love from Iowa, USA 🇺🇸

@thesteveshowfoodfestroadtest

5 ай бұрын

Check out The Steve Show, guys! Solo canoe, fish fry, attitude!❤❤❤❤

When Xander uploads, I know my day is going to be 100x better! Love your content X, don't ever change bud... Huge fan here from the UK!

This is my favourite type of Xander video. Minimal survival camping in uncomfortable conditions paired with delicious food.

Love how you're demonstrating it doesn't take much gear to live/survive a night out. Even in cold weather. Have a friend who loves to day hike. She had a scary hike one time where she got off trail and was afraid she wouldn't make it back to the trailhead and would have to spend at least one night out. She didn't carry much with her expecting just routine day trips. She was so shaken she was telling me she was probably going to stop hiking which she loved. I encouraged her to put together some simple items to carry just for spending a night out if she ever had to. A couple of ways to start a fire, a poncho for weather or shelter, a whistle, paracord, a water bottle and a metal cup, water purification tablets, a couple of energy bars, a headlamp. Add whatever else you like, say a map of the area. Then go someplace you're familiar with, hike out a little way, not far, not so far you couldn't easily walk back to your vehicle even at night. Pick a good campsite and spend the night out with just those items. Do it just to show yourself you can. You'll learn from the experience, most importantly you'll learn about yourself. How to face your fear and anxiety, how to make a better shelter, how to learn that it may not be the most comfortable night ever but it will be rewarding. I also love how you show the most important item to have even if you don't keep it in your container kit. Your attitude. Stay calm, be prepared, keep thinking how to solve problems. Damp icy spruce bows? Simple dry them by the fire. Carry some tape to fix the tear you know will likely happen in the mylar or plastic. Practice these scenarios and your skills and confidence will grow. And if you ever are faced with a situation where you might have to rely on yourself and a few select items you'll already know you can do it. Love how you've done episodes using less and less or more simple gear. Very cool.

@streeterbuilds

5 ай бұрын

That’s really good advice for your friend, coming from a great friend it appears.

@streeterbuilds

5 ай бұрын

I hope she got back to it

It brings me joy when you thanked the trees for a comfy shelter. You have a wonderful soul, Xander! 🌿💚🌿☺️

Masterful, as always! Damn impressive. Excellent survival skills, wonderful shelter, great looking dinner! Incredible editing and production quality is through the roof. Damn, Xander, this was good. Thanks for taking us along!

It’s the small tidbits of info like small strokes on the ferro rod and then a big one to light the smaller bits that make this channel worth watching completely though with no skipping.

Best channel on KZread. Xander man I thank you for the quality of these videos, show casing nature, outdoor skill, humor and your authenticity regarding sobriety. Rock on brother

Awesome video Xander. Would love to see you approach a hot coal bed shelter!

You crush it every time! Make some stew once. Random, might be hard. Keep being that unicorn!

My wife wants to know if you're married. Not because she's interested or anything but because she wants to know how you can go 5 days in the woods without your wife wondering where you are.

@cartonofmilk8351

Ай бұрын

Nah bro she lying to you, she intreseted😂😂

@leandro5221

Ай бұрын

hmm... that sounds like the beginning of a xxx cuckold story

@Bongz187

Ай бұрын

Maybe he is running away from the wife 😂

Xander - I've been watching your videos for 3 years now. Every single time I watch them I never fail to be relaxed and calmed down, as well as reminded of the importance of being in nature and spending time exploring. I love your content - keep it up!

I love the survival videos like this where you bring bare essentials especially when you do a catch and cook instead of bringing your own food!

What a great way to close out this year! Xander, I hope you had a great Christmas with your family and that you have a very Happy New Year 🎉

It has been a great journey of healing and recovery. Being able to sneak away into the woods and snow in 30 minutes helps me reset from family/work life. Thanks for making these videos Xander.

I like your versatility of tools/shelters/fires. Oh and of course food. Thanks for keeping it interesting---even with the hunting! I am a new hunter too so I like to see other amateurs giving it a shot too and not being afraid of making mistakes.

Thank you so much Xander for all the videos in 2023, it literally got me through this year with a smile on my face. :) Keep up the good work and let me know if you ever wanna come over to Norway and test out the winter around the fjords. 👍

Thank you for sharing your travels with us all year long. I wish you strength and new ideas in the new year. Your videos motivate me to pack my backpack and go on my own journey. Thank you! ❤😊

Talking to your own echo gave me real "Jim Carrey in the Grinch" vibes lol. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Xander! Thanks for all the awesome content!

It’s good to see you having fun! Thanks for taking us along on your journey. 🕊️

Good morning! Perfect start to a cold Saturday.

Xander I've begun specifically checking your ch. each time I have time for viewing my favored content. Your audience greatly appreciates the detail you go into to explain all aspects of the methods employed. From knots to cooking ideas, and EVERYTHING in between, you keep us engaged and grateful for the details that, so many creators will, drop the ball on. This was a fun and educational video that both entertained and provided solid value. You're a Pro Host, well done, my friend. Blessings and safety be with you always. Very best your way with mega Thanks from Oregon. Mike.

Great video! Good to see the Siberian log lay work so well. I like what you’re doing with using different bushcraft survival techniques - more of that! Thanks for the good content 👍🏻

Happy New Year Xan. I'm going to be keeping a sheet of this Mylar, plastic, and some paracord in my Jeep from now on. These shelters are amazing.

Great job with the shelter and the necessary repairs. I noticed that you did some hunting in a previous video. Glad to see the branching out, so to speak. Thank you for the fine content and the effort you put into making these videos. You have two fans in sunny Wisconsin.

Straight outta dual survival and I'm here for it!

You never disappoint! Love coming along for your adventures and learning from you - get this man a million subscribers ASAP

Great ideas in the winter bush! TY!

Seems as though you had a great time, and yes, far easier to deal with snowy weather rather than a downpour of rain, Happy new Year Xander!

This was so entertaining and knowledgeable! Thank you for sharing and please keep staying healthy, happy, safe and warm! ❤😊

I hope you and your family had a lovely Christmas Xander. Please please build a snow shelter Luke from the outdoor boys has done them in the past and I love watching the construction off them. All the very best for 2024 I hope you hit 1 million subscribers this next year your channel is simply brilliant , I look forward to all your videos thank you so much for all you do your an absolute star. 🇬🇧🇨🇦

Always enjoy watching your videos and all the interesting methods you use to successfully camp outdoors with minimal tools. Happy New Year

Hi Xander. Well another great adventure in the books, along with your little bit of silliness. Excellant all the way thru. Great way to finish off the year. I'll leave you with this. Cold winds mingle in any nook and cranny they find as Winter spreads her cloak around herself and like a breath of fresh air breathes a sigh at the beauty of it all.. and this xander is your playground in all the seasons, you happily share with us. Happy New Year.

Xander. Very cool vid-as always. I live in Minneapolis-MN, and we have NO SNOW right now, which is unheard of, so fun to see your survival activities. Keep up the great work.

I love those winter videos while I´m comfortably sitting in my warm home during night shifts. Thanks a lot, Xander!

Xander can't get over how creatively awesome you are 😊 hoping all is well for you and have a blessed 🙏 Happy New Year ❤from Michigan

Amazing video as always! Great quality, entertainment and humour

I just cooked my dinner and I see this video, life couldn't be better.

Definitely do another shelter and fire set up like that again that was so cool to see , I’ve started watching a few bushcraft type videos after work to wind down and the last week I’ve been watching your vids. Thanks for the content you’re an awesome guy 🤙🏽

Well done Xander, Happy New Year and Happy Trails !

Awesome!!! Look forward to using your techniques

7 vs Wild 3 😂 using only what fits in a bottle

Just amazing! Thanks for the lesson, I always overpack not trusting my skills ....your videos helped me try out new bushcrafting and survival stuff and learn some new skills! Thank you!

You are a man among men, thank you for continuing to put out amazing outdoor videos.

Brilliant! My 7 y old daughter reminds me of bringing these two blankets in my backpack when going hiking! Really enjoyed it! Thank you!

@Xander Budnick I love the variety in your videos. In this one, you use a survival kit. Perhaps, along with adding first aid and chocolate, you might consider staple foods like beans or rice. It's not fancy, but in a real winter survival situation, what would someone truly have stashed away in their kit?

Loved every second!! Very useful info!! Thanks!!

Happy new year Xander! Thanks for another great video! All the best to you and your family in the new year.

That was perfect. Proper nailed it. Everything worked so well 👏👏 best channel on the tube.

This was great, You were comfortable you were fed and you had a good time. I remember when you slept between 2 big piles of burning logs. And that looked cold, but this is a great idea and something everybody can just carry in their car to have an emergencies. So fun. Be blessed happy new year❤

@filippyknow

5 ай бұрын

i am pregnant. He is the father

Happy new year Xander, thank you for all the wonderful videos this year. Love from Sweden

Thanks for teaching us knots!

Excellent video! Thanks.

Love from Ireland 🇮🇪 love your videos man, always helps me to wind down at night. Happy new year 🎉

Happy New Years Xander!

I wish I had a partner or friend as supportive as you two to help me put into words all these new mom feelings. Just so you both know, that figuring out my role and mom stuff is ongoing. Each age the child is, is a new mom role. It changes constantly and that's okay!

Great video! Thanks for making them!

Another great vid Xander, thanks for sharing!

Sweet! Loved that pocket chainsaw, never seen it before, and the fire setup. Adding that one to the mix. Video suggestion since you asked: I’d love to see you spend a night or two with a traditional cowboy bedroll, and “frontier-like” tools. It would be a fun excuse for some bushcraft and maybe a history lesson 🙏

Thank you! Great video

Finally a video, love the winter videos! It would be fun to see more hunting survival videos.

Awesome all good advice,thank you

Fun video, thanks for sharing! Great editing as usual too. I'd love to see some winter camping/ice fishing videos.

Happy New Year Xan! Keep loking up...

Brilliant video as always Xander Wish we had snow like that in England

Excellent choice on the Siberian log fire! Great video. Happy New Year!

Love that you gave yourself the canister challenge, I'd love to see a "glamping" video.....show off all your items, make it super comfy ❤ like - waay over the top !! Love your vids man, much love, from Australia 🇦🇺

I love he kept real about bringing food. No need to suffer for entertainment purposes

Merry Christmas to you and your family! I really enjoyed the super shelter videos, maybe a shelter using bark as a coverage or a snow shelter. I'd like to see you and John do a hot tent fishing video, maybe some ice-fishing.

Great episode, love the new techniques. Good to know on some of these survival tips

Love it dude!!!! Thanks!!!!

Made my Day, as allways! Just the best Outdoor Content in all of KZread! Keep up the good Work and have a great New Year!🥳🥳 Greetings from Germany!✌⚫🔴🟡

Another great video! So good to see what you're going to do for adventure. Can't wait for more. Happy New Year Xander!

Great channel. I just found it last night. Just great content! I love going out and doing survival camping! Way to do it right 👍

With the winter coming you should build a quinzhee and make your little cozy room in it for couple of nights ! Did it with friends and it’s really nice. Good job Xander ❤️

Awesome adventure Xander, still can't believe how warm it gets in that shelter. Nice job! Looking forward to your next video, maybe Gustavo makes an appearance, or better yet, he does a full video and Xander makes an appearance??

Thank you very much for the videos Xander. It’s been helping very much with some mental stuff lately. Keep up the good work

Love your videos! Definitely getting myself a pocket chain saw - what a cool item! Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!

Cool idea for a video. And I like the upright kabob cooking. Thanks for sharing

Love the pocket chainsaw! I have been using one ever since the early 2000's. It's usually the only wood cutting tool that comes with me on backpacking trips.

Hey, saw you on Clay's channel. You’re really lucky to get to spend time with him. I’m so glad to see one of you young Ontario bush people openly embracing hunting, and learning to live off the land. Don’t know how your viewer base will respond, but I won’t miss a video involving game

@crazyhorsejohnny1974

5 ай бұрын

You do know there’s hunting in Ontario ?

@jimf1964

5 ай бұрын

@@crazyhorsejohnny1974 Duhhh, really? Of course I know there’s hunting in Ontario. It’s not BC. Can you read? There are at least half a dozen bushcrafty type video producers from northern Ontario, but they’re mostly those ridiculous tree hugger, and or afraid to lose tree hugger viewers. Can the internet just let me be happy with something without complaining about something completely irrelevant ?

Love you Xander! Happy new year 🎉

Happy Holidays Xander!

Thoroughly enjoyed the video, as usual!! Liked the angle of using the survival kit, great idea!! I think I'm going to be adding the saw to my bush bugout bag though!! Thanks fornthe video Xander, keep doing what you do!!

great video as always xander! I love the idea of canister homes

Dude can put down food like a man twice his size lol I love it

Very impressed. The meal looked fantastic. Be safe!

right on i like how that plastic sheet trick works so well i wouldn't mind to see how it bares in super cold conditions i kind of want to get some plastic for my hunting backpack i do have a few survival blankets that i keep in there so i almost have the makings of a warm easy to make shelter it seems.

LOL Eating Bark, editing style of these vids keeps me coming back, your jovial tonality makes me want to be best friends, great job!!!

Great video and thank you for the knot video link.

Camping and ice fishing trip would be AWESOME!

Thanks!

Happy New Year Xander! 🎉

Got to try this shelter idea

Love this style of video. Minimal gear. Glad to see this one work out so well. Would love to see more one pot meals!

Good stuff brother! Keep on keeping on!

Hello Xander , great great video, great great adventure, great great outdoor winter camping, thank you so much for sharing your latest trip with all of us, simply awesome, Happy New Year , all the best 🥂🥳🥂🥳🥂🥳🥂

so awesome - i would love to try this and watching you videos brings me closer to getting out of my comfort level and just going for it