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3 Years of Sleeping Outside
5/5/2023 | 1m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet Isaac Ortman.
Meet Isaac Ortman. He's a local boy scout who's been sleeping outside every single night for over 3 years!
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The Slice
3 Years of Sleeping Outside
5/5/2023 | 1m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet Isaac Ortman. He's a local boy scout who's been sleeping outside every single night for over 3 years!
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I'm a star scout from Troop 15, and I've been sleeping outside since April 17th, 2020.
Well, I was at my cabin with my dad, and he went, "You should sleep outside."
And I went, "Yeah."
And then I started sleeping outside.
So I slept outside for five nights, it was a long weekend, and after the five nights, I realized I could break my record.
So, of ten nights.
So I slept outside for ten nights and I just kept going from there since I was having fun doing it.
Most people think that that cold weather is going to be the biggest challenge.
For me, that's one of the easier parts for me.
I have most of the gear already and it's just not being too lazy to set it up.
I celebrated my three year anniversary at Wisconsin Dells.
My family stayed there.
Me and my dad went out to Mirror Lake Campground and it snowed that night, so we got a couple inches of snow on our tent and we had to clean it up nice and early in the morning to get more slides in.
I think it's pretty cool.
I definitely didn't expect it when I was starting out.
I'm just like, "Yeah, this is just for fun it's never going to turn into anything big, I'm never gonna be interviewed by somebody."
Currently, I don't have an end date in mind.
I'm just going to keep going until it's not fun anymore.
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