Bug Free Tarp Camping w Helikon Tex Super Tarp Small and USGI bug net shelter setups

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks for watching! Checkout the Super Tarp Small here - betterbushcraft.com/products/helikon-tex-supertarp-small

[@ronhanish]

Float the tarp over the net. For air conditioning 😃😃....airflow

[@IAMGWH1]

I used it over my UL 1 person tent frame! Works really really well! If I could post pics you’d be amazed!

[@tonyvillarreal3610]

When I was in the service we'd dig in just a bit, so when you tighten up the tye down you can scoop some dirt around the edges of your tent/tarp to blend it better and keep the flying insects out

[@earndoggy]

I like that. We take the net side walls from a pop up canopy when we go camping!

[@froginthewaves8450]

4:56 made my ears tingle lol AWESOME VIDEO COOL TARP!

[@EnduranceRoom]

Lol the bugs are in full effect. Cheers brother

[@jeffrichards5106]

Great tarp setups with the bug net, Jess. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks Jeff!

[@Grizzly907LA]

You've got improvising, adapting and overcoming down to a science!

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks! I have had some good teachers.

[@BetterBushcraft1]

Another great video! Love the Helikon Tex Supertarp/Mosquito Net combo! A healthy mix of old and new! That set up is BLISS indeed!

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks Brother! The winter was pretty mild this year, so the bugs are extra abundant atm. We don’t have summer, it’s called fly season here 😂 Comes in waves, mosquitoes, gnats, black flies, deer flies, more mosquitoes, more gnats. 🤷‍♂️

[@erikstrausmann6428]

Got the tarp in my favorite pattern, M81. Great for the northern german Woods

[@EnduranceRoom]

Nice! Enjoy

[@herbsmith6871]

Very cool Jess! Hope you're doing well. Thanks for sharing my friend😎

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks Herb! Appreciate it. Have a good one!

[@journeyman7189]

Great video Jess and great setups. Like that simple A-frame at the end as well. Nate

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks Nate! How is the kettlebell going? Getups can be a little tricky. The roll up on to the elbow from the floor press especially. As the weight gets heavier, it has to crossover your chest further and further. You will feel it shift the balance and assist you in rolling up onto the elbow. Same time this is happening, the same side foot is driving into the ground. The movement looks deceptively like a sit-up, but it is a roll, shifting weight, punching up, and driving down with foot to position yourself onto elbow. Takes some playing around. If the straight leg is lift, that is indicative of needing to shift weight further inward.

[@journeyman7189]

@@EnduranceRoom On hold at the moment. Jacked up my forearm and wrist at work. The rolling rather than a sit up makes more sense. Thanks for the tip.

[@outdoor-suedost]

Hi Jesse! That were some pretty cool options to get some bug free room for "hard" times outdoors 😉! Thanks🙏 for showing and as always all the best from Austria my friend 🇦🇹🤠👍🏕🔥

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks Bernd! Appreciate it. It’s going to be an interesting year here, as the winter was quite warm. The insects are thriving at the moment. Good times 😂 Cheers my friend 🤝

[@outdoor-suedost]

@@EnduranceRoom Hey Jesse, we too had an very "difficult " winter. Most of the time when it should have been snowing, it rained and temperatures were too mild for a real winter. Now we have so changing weather conditions that it is very hard to plan any outdoor activity. We will see... All the best from Austria 🇦🇹🤠👍🏕🔥

[@UniversalSovereignCitizen]

Farrrkin' Filthy!!! Love the space you get with the G.I. bug net. The weight isn't too bad either and the tie-outs are a winner. Especially with the prusik wraps! Wouldn't have thought of that so cheers... you'd definitely be welcome in my tribe, the 'Crack'a Tinny'. We're ubiquitous in Australia! Onya mate💜👍. Universal Sovereign Citizen.

[@EnduranceRoom]

Hey Brother! Farrrkin filthy, LOL, I love it. I am sure we would have a good time, too. Prussics, Larks head, Marlin spike, arbor/jam knots, bowlines... those are pretty much all I use. Those jam knots, you can build anything with them. We have some animals, and I have used those to build fences, feeders, huts. Cheers mate 🤝

[@BushcraftOst]

Very cool gear. Same here with mosquitos and all other little animals. 😎

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you. It was a very warm winter, so they are super abundant at the moment.

[@surlycyclingrag3347]

cool find i have trying that set up off and on for about ten years i do think it kind of strange how the Norwegian canvas poncho ties and hooks up perfect to it even the two holes at the top will go towards the buttons to make the poncho

[@alanrice39]

That’s really cool, I have one of those nets that goes over the pup tent, haven’t used in in years

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks! They are good nets, just a little on the heavy/bulky side

[@irmuggle]

Yeah, I kind of do the Same thing. I use my I hammock bugnet. I string up the ridgeline low. Hang the bug net on it. I put my roll Mat underneath my bugnet. And then I put my inflatable mattress. Inside the bug net and then from my tensioners. I use tarp clips and then stretch it out. And then clamp the tarp clips to the ridgeline.

[@walterjriddle]

I love all of the innovative ways you do things taking what a lot of people would consider useless or odd year and making it a primary piece of gear for different seasons and situations

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you! Appreciate it.

[@ScottCarlson-cz7wj]

Cool bug net. Just like the one over my cot, living in a tent city, at a single airstrip ROK airbase in Korea, 1984. Same temperature too, in the 90's, trying to work in gas mask and full chem gear. Mask fogged up and full of spit. Suit sauna like. Good times -ha.

[@EnduranceRoom]

Oh man, that sounds like it was quite the time! I have been on hot metal roofs and baked in AZ sun, but I am sure that doesn’t even compare to working in one of those suits with gas mask.

[@thomasmusso1147]

Morning Jess .. 👍👍👍 .. nice 😊. 90° F .. yep, that's getting warm. Here by us, still in the low 60's with on-off rain. 'Bugs' 🤨. Yesterday I had some 'miggies' (midges) that accompanied me through the forest during my return to Rheinfelden from my mid-week Group Walk in the neighbouring Village, Möhlin 😖. Lot's of 'waving' and with nobody to wave to .. 😁. Made a mental note to take with an 'anti-bug' stick next time. Nice Tarp / Net setups 👍. I don't much sit directly on the ground this time of year. Ticks .. an absolute Plague! And with approximately 50% infected with Lyme Disease .. Always a pleasure, my friend, to watch your posts. Take care out there .. check thoroughly for those 'dem' ticks and until next time then .. Tommy

[@EnduranceRoom]

Hey Tommy! Thank you much, my friend. It has cooled off again, low 60s also. That is a decent warm weather operating temperature for me. I used to live in the desert of Arizona years back. There were morning were it was 110F at 7am. Crazy what you can get used to. 😂 Midges sound like real pleasure. Ticks have been bad so far this year. Too warm over winter... I had excavate one out after making this video. Not sure if he got me when I sat on the ground or walking through the woods. I usually don’t sit on the bare ground either. 🙃 Usually at least have a ground sheet down. Lately been using a hammock quite a bit. Have a good one! 🤝

[@davedriscoll1652]

Nice tarp rig, i have a couple of the GInets, but im with you always carry head net 😊

[@EnduranceRoom]

@@davedriscoll1652 Lightest way to sort em out. Cheers

[@FloridaBoyBushcraftSurvival]

Nice ones man. I am always experimenting with my US bugnet and tarps...

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you! I like to call it shelter origami. Keeps it interesting.

[@edwardknudsen4806]

Like the hootch I made back in the day. Perfect.

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you!

[@Canadian_Craftsman]

YUPP muggy and buggy bro no more cold camping 😂✊️🔥✌️💚

[@EnduranceRoom]

Dude, I got two gnats the other day, one in each eye, at the same time 😂

[@Canadian_Craftsman]

@@EnduranceRoom Geesh eyes ears nose bahhhh just bahhhh lol 😆

[@richardwysocki8300]

Great setups! Thanks, Mate!

[@EnduranceRoom]

Appreciate it! Cheers

[@brandonlee4039]

Great video....once again!

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks! Appreciate it

[@theinflationsituation8870]

Thanks dude!

[@daveagar5594]

Thanks man.

[@krishoogstraat6866]

Very well done !

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks Kris!

[@Captain-Donut]

❤️🙏 Love from Scotland 🙏❤️

[@JohnBlair-p2z]

great video.

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you!

[@sams568]

Some of the old GI cots had poles that were attached at each corner of the cot to hold up the netting. The cot was centered underneath. Slept on one this way when I was stationed in Panama.

[@EnduranceRoom]

Nice. That makes sense. How was Panama? Never been there.

[@sams568]

@@EnduranceRoom Weird. I was mowing my back yard when my wife came out and asked me if I was coming in because it was raining. I said what you're crazy. She told me to come in and look out the front door. Sure enough it was pouring on that side of the house. I went out back and put everything away when it finally came over the house. You could see the wall of rain coming and it was almost always between 1 and 3. They have GREAT fishing for Peacock bass on lake Gatun but you have to beware of the shipping lanes.

[@pobo6113]

Very cool 👍

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@protectpersevere2030]

Great video man

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you!

[@rusty9045]

When you can, try a vid on the 15 liter pack you are carrying today. Lot of attachment points. They are out of stock now but I wanted to get one when they are back in stock.

[@EnduranceRoom]

Will do. They should be back in stock in 5 weeks. Awesome pack designed by SÄRMÄ, built by Savotta. They do have the packs in stock if you search CP15. It’s the padded shoulder straps they are waiting on. But, you can run any straps on it you like. The SAVOTTA KEIKKA harness works great. It’s basically the same thing, but with a sternum strap.

[@apar1560]

👍👍👍

[@EnduranceRoom]

🤝

[@mountainspirit961]

...it's actually not nice to wake up with ticks and ants on you, excellent solution 😁

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you! 💯 agree

[@jameshayden5053]

😎👍👍👍👍( Dunno how I missed this)

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thanks, brother 🤝

[@IAMGWH1]

Sawyer Treatable Single Bed Mosquito Bed Net w/ Treatment Kit $15 78”L x 32”W x 59”H Mine is a bit different but worked! I would like to try smaller trim pieces around the edge of my poncho or tarp so I can have rain & bug protection but I don’t have a ground bathtub type protection other than a tent ground sheet for now I’ll look into what you have & use if it’s posted? Thanks!

[@savagesapper4260]

Maybe you already did this, but treating the bug net (and your clothing) with permethrin will also greatly reduce bugs in your general vicinity.

[@EnduranceRoom]

I prefer more natural options, smoke from the campfire, pine oil, peppermint.

[@savagesapper4260]

@@EnduranceRoom Fair enough. I'm coming into this hobby / lifestyle from a military background, so I'm still learning the other remedies that I wasn't able to use when I was in.

[@EnduranceRoom]

@@savagesapper4260 Ah, very good. I was figuring something of the sort. Time in nature is the best. Mors Kochanski’s book Bushcraft is worth a read, especially if you are in northern location. During the warmer months, I keep a head net in my jacket and some light leather gloves. That keeps things off my skin until I get a fire going. If you are in a pine forest, some green pine needles will really help smoke them out. Ticks usually perch themselves up on taller bushes, shrubs and grasses, so when hiking, I try to avoid those spots when possible.

[@VosperCDN]

Cool setup, fairly lightweight. Never heard of "Bliss" before, which military is that from? (We used the 7 S's for camo; vehicles or personal.)

[@EnduranceRoom]

Thank you! I believe it is from US Army. Learned about it from Josh Enyart, Gray Bearded Green Beret. What are the 7S?

[@VosperCDN]

@@EnduranceRoom It seems to vary, as I discovered (looking it up to refresh this old brain) - Shape, Shine, Size, Sound, Silhouette, Spacing, Smell (sometimes see Speed or Shadow as alternates). We most did vehicle/antenna camo, more than individual, but it still applies on foot.

[@daisiesndirt]

what is the military number on your bug net model? some models come with different tie configurations

[@ehayward3719]

👍👍👍👍👍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@Solocamp_]

Your video was great. I enjoyed watching it. I am also a novice camper. I hope we can have a good cooperation.💙🌱❤

[@alexbryan6832]

What do you use for your ridgeline?

[@EnduranceRoom]

I have used paracord for years, but have just ordered some 7/16” amsteel. My hope is that I will be able to hang my gear on ridge line under tarp without it sagging.

[@Jason-ke2nj]

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[@gregoryfoster8179]

I clicked on this for the tarp/net info but I noticed you're completely camouflaged. A note of caution for all who ;ike camo in the back woods. It's great if you're wanting or needing to stay invicible;mI spent 9 yrs as a combat arms field soldier spending most time in the field. But in a non-miliitary situation it is not the best option. Every year you'll see stories about people shot by some numbskull hunter who shoots someone because they mistook them for their prey from a distance because they just saw movement in the foliage and didn't ID the target properly. For recreational purposes I always use very visible colors with my gear, even a white bug net and some bright orange even out of hunting season. Just saying.

[@EnduranceRoom]

@@gregoryfoster8179 Thanks, that is a good point. I am on our property and it is just me back here.

[@borntoolate1282]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@EnduranceRoom]

🤝