Winter Camping & Building 16 Shelters (Bushcraft Shelters, Survival Shelters & Quinzee)

That is a lot of wood I'm gonna build a fire over this frozen part to thaw it out. I'm gonna put some fire in that trench as well All right. I got a nice bed of coals some really hot sand. We're spread it out nice and even get my bed ready It's been about five hours since I buried the coals. Let's check the temperatures got 89 degrees right there 76 and 59 Definitely still got heat and you can still feel it. Here's my pillow for tonight. I Must have been tired because it's 5 a.m. And I slept pretty good So I stoked the fire up really good and that feels really nice. My feet are really cold so I rolled some logs down that way and built the fire and Hopefully that'll warm my feet up here a little bit. Oh Good morning. Well, the grounds really hard, but I'm warm Yeah fire by my feet keeping my feet warm. I feel some warmth in the ground still Well, I'm curious to see how warm the the gravel is. I Mean that's still pretty good. So we got about 60 degrees here and we got about 22 degrees over here So yeah big difference I'll tell you what sleeping on 70 degree gravel versus ice and water makes a huge difference Ah, she's been a good shelter, but it's time to go home I Looks like it's about 17 degrees out here. Let's take this inside See what the difference is we're gonna put this right up here By the bed check it out. It's about 43 degrees here in the shelter So that means it's about 26 degrees warmer in the shelter versus outside. So that's really a big difference. I Should be pretty comfy and you can't roll out What's about 930 in the morning and we're just watching the Sun slowly come up We're just kind of packing up and eating breakfast taking it easy. Now. We got the place cleaned up a little bit Let's get Jacob out of here Yeah, fun bud good There we go, it's pretty cozy Guys, it's getting late. I'm gonna turn the camera off. I'll go to sleep. I'll see you guys in the morning Well, good morning guys. Oh looks like we got a bit of snow last night. That's why you hang up your coat and your pants That's why you cover up your boots Yeah, we got quite a bit of snow. Oh Yeah, well, it's time to get packed up. So I'm gonna go put the fire out That'll do All right, I got some this rust-oleum high-heat spray paint meant for barbecues and stuff Now a little milk got a warm fire not too bad, huh? It's really smooth and surprisingly square considering So cold all the plastic is frozen Hopefully nothing's break You have to kind of insert the pole. The elastics not very stretchy at this temperature All right got step one done. I better get this thing up and going. Oh Well, my lips are getting numb. It's hard to stalk The tarp so frozen and crinkled. It's too small to fit in all the grommets I'm having to yank on it for all I'm worth to get the stretch and go where it's supposed to go There we go We got heat. Well, it's four o'clock and we're already busting out the flashlights So this thing right here is a water tank you put a bunch of snow in here or water whatever and it heats up against The side of this stove and then you could just turn this Get hot water whenever you want it. You gotta admit. That's awesome. It really is All right. I got a caribou hide down here on the grounds could take my boots off Oh that really helps up here the very top of the tent It's 98 degrees the heat from the stove rises and collects at the top of the tent. So there's real extreme Temperature differences in here. My head's kind of sweaty, but my feet are kind of numb Let's put the thermometer down here and I'll show you the difference the chicken out here on the floor It's right around freezing at 32 degrees. I have another thermometer here on the bed You can see that this one's at 60 degrees So that makes a huge difference in temperature just being off the floor a little bit every inch off the ground you get in a hot tent the warmer you're gonna be That's why you use cots in these things. It makes a huge difference to be in a cot versus on the ground And thermometer says negative 58 What's cold this tent is made by Arctic oven and the model is called the igloo I've heard people claim. It's the warmest hot tent in the world, and I think they're right I'm going to bed guys. I'll see you in the morning Jake you up in Jake both woke up too hot in the middle of the night at some point But it's about 9 a.m. And I'm gonna get the fire cranked up. Then we're gonna get up and make some breakfast Dang Man, that is so close to negative 60. It is bottomed out this thermometer. Oh, it is cold guys All right, guys, we're at that point where I got to put the fire out And once I do it's a race against time to get everything put away before my fingers and feet freeze My lips are going numb Alright Nathan, I think this looks like an awesome spot Let's find some dead trees I'm gonna build the shelter out of a 12 foot by 12 foot tarp and a couple of these poles This is my winter well titanium Backpacking stove only weighs a few pounds. This thing is so light and it's really easy to put together The stove pipe will melt the tarp if it touches it So I've got to use these fork sticks to keep the tarp away from the stove fire Well, we're getting ready to go to bed and I have learned my lesson from previous winter camping trips I brought a wild neck bottle. Yeah We're not getting out of our bag tonight. Good night, buddy. Oh It was cold last night my bag was barely keeping it together. Hey Nathan, were you warm? Nathan's bag is so much better than mine I gotta get one of those as much as I hate to say it I think I need to get dressed and get up and doing stuff Case you're wondering how I secured the tarp to this rock face I just had these little wooden wedges and I jammed into the cracks right there and over on this side Now we're gonna get our tarp off without letting it touch the stove and get melted like I did last time They what I'm about six and a half feet tall put boots on so the snow is just a hair under six and a half feet deep and At the top of the wall. It's about nine feet Oh Kind of feels a little nice get out of the wind doesn't it? Wow. What do you think? Is that doing big enough? Well, I better get going because I need to get my tent up before my wife and kids arrive Alright guys, I got it. I got to show you one feature of our ice compound here We've got a bathroom Got our toilet paper a little camp toilet. All right. My sweet wife is putting the boys to bed. I love you You're a hero It's late, but we got everybody in one tent Man we got a lot of snow last night check it out. That's tents barely visible Well, good morning, how did you guys sleep? Hey Mimi, did you sleep? Well? Were you warm? Good Look at this place man Turned out to be quite the shelter Yeah Whoo a lot of snow got moved by hand time to get all my gear home. I gotta go dry it all out Not too bad, I think that's gonna be pretty cozy tonight. Well, this bed sure is a big improvement Holy mackerel You hear that? That's a whole pack of wolves, but I think we're gonna be nice and safe wolves. There are no wolves That's about as sturdy of a shelter as I've slept in in a little while. So it will be alright See you guys Here you go that way. Yeah, I'll come with you Hey get down in there and lay down and see if it's flat and comfortable. It's pretty soft, but dry first things first I think we need to get a bunch of firewood There is a little bit of a breeze coming in around that corner and If we can get rid of that breeze, it's gonna warm up really good in this little crevice So I've got a tarp that I'm gonna try to string over that opening Well, this tarp has blocked the wind really good and now that fires heat is really getting trapped in this space between the rocks It's warming up pretty nice You feeling better, bud? It's a lot warmer in here, isn't it? Okay, this is about as cozy of a survival shelter as I've ever had but there is a little bit of a problem here We're getting dripping. This is going up here and Melting all of that ice and it's coming down here and it's running here And then it is dripping onto my sleeping bag. It's dripping right about there. It's dripping right about there It's dripping right about there I'm hoping in a couple hours it might dry up a little bit and we might get rid of this problem But in the meantime, I better move my sleeping bag or it's gonna get wet. Well guys, we got kind of lucky the Fire has melted when it's gonna melt and the dripping stopped So I don't think we have to worry about getting wet in the night from cave drips Well, good morning. It is 7 a.m. And the Sun is just beginning to rise. You sleep well Nathan? Now I could be getting old but it seems to me that the worst part of sleeping in a survival shelter is the lumps on The ground so lay down in your shelter a few times find some good position Smooth it out because it's a lot easier to fix it now than in the middle of the night Instead of sleeping bags. We're gonna be using this bison pelt. This thing's like six and a half feet by seven and a half feet It's massive. Oh There you go, buddy. All right, buddy you warm. Hey comfy. All right, you go to sleep, buddy Good morning, it's about 7 a.m. That is a very delicious campfire donut right there This looks like a gorgeous spot All right, you're focused on one. You'll be all right. We got a roaring fire in here and it feels amazing Come on in Nathan you wake He's like I got the phone though. Hey get out in here. It's nice. We can see here inside the tent on the floor It's about 22 degrees Fahrenheit, maybe 25 And if you look at on the walls, you can see there's frost on the inside of the walls below about here So from about here below is 32 degrees and the higher up you go in the tent the warmer It gets until it feels like 70 degrees up here. I Got the door of the stove facing towards my bag and I've got a pile of wood within arm's reach All right, guys, it's pretty late. I'm going to bed. I'll see you in the morning Well guys we survived the night and look who's up Hey, Tom, you're nice and warm Look out covered in frost my overalls are All right, we're Almost 32 degrees. So right hovering around freezing inside the tent It is cold out outside the tent. It's negative 16 degrees Fahrenheit That's negative 26 Celsius. Oh, it's cold today. This tent's been a good little tent for us I'm actually really pleased with it. It's super light It only weighs about four pounds for the tent and the stove but it's a seek outside Four-man teepee hot tent and I'll put a link in the description to it but I need to start packing it up and getting ready to go cuz We're gonna run out of daylight here a little bit Tell you what, this might not be a bad place to sleep for the night. Got a flat sandy bit right there Got some water and dead wood. Oh It's like a greenhouse underneath this tarp It is so warm in here man. It feels so good and warm here on this gravel bar I can't even begin to describe it here. I need to bust out my thermometer and show you guys So I've got two thermometers and you can see right here. The ambient air temperature is about 34 degrees Fahrenheit So just slightly above freezing, but I put another thermometer here in the sunlight over here on the rocks. Check this out Look at this on the gravel bar. It is 80 degrees 80 degrees Fahrenheit There's a 46 degree difference between the temperature of the air and the temperature of this riverbank that is massive I'll tell you what, it feels pretty amazing on this riverbank right now But all that's gonna change tonight when the Sun sets it's supposed to get down to about 14 degrees Fahrenheit So we need to store as much of this heat as we can and store it in our shelter I'm gonna show you how to do that really easy So I'm gonna do is I'm gonna build up a nice big bonfire right there where I'm gonna sleep It's gonna heat up the ground store a lot of energy down in the rocks Those will go to dry out the ground and it's gonna make it really warm inside the shelter There we go just move the fire over a little bit bury the coals with a little bit of dry sand and we're gonna have a really hot foundation to put our shelter on top of Tell you what guys it is warm in here. My legs are cooking This sand is just hot with the coals underneath it. I've got the heat of the fire And then it's just not that cold out here because I'm sitting on this baked sandbar. It's just absolutely great Tell you what guys I think I might be getting a little bit of a cold Tell you what, I slept really warm last night I never pulled down the side of my tarp and the fire went out and I was just really good last night It was really nice Well, the fire and the shelter are doing a great job nice and warm in front a little chilly on the back But not bad. It'll probably get down to the negative numbers tonight And I think we'll be just fine as long as we can keep this fire stoke What's about 10 p.m. And Nathan is snoring away. He's just snug as a bug in a rug. I'm doing pretty good I'm staying warm. My back's a little cold, but it's not a big deal Mostly I'm just on the lumpiest piece of ground It's kind of hard to find a good comfortable position You slept in a lot All right We're accomplishing three things with this fire one is we're making the shelter a little bit bigger thawing out the ground and making it warmer and We're leveling out the ground by burning out all the stumps and moss and little things so that we can have a nice flat warm Surface to sleep on that nice and warm There we go. Got the roof covered in boughs. So we get a good dump of snow tonight Tarpon cave in there's a stuffed animal buddy Jake you want some hot chocolate? I'll tell you what though. This is as cozy of a winter shelter as I've ever made It is so much warmer in here. All right, I'll see you guys in the morning Good morning Bed wasn't too hard. That's not too bad Definitely got snow last night Every time you dig one of these things you never really know what's gonna be under the snow You could have big stumps or rocks or you know, who knows what luckily we just got a few willow bushes So we're gonna get those out of the way All right. Now I just need to put a roof on it So if we get a big dump of snow tonight, we don't wake up under a foot of snow I hope I built this roof sturdy enough because if we get a foot or two of snow, it's gonna get really heavy but we've got a lot of cross members to try to distribute the weight and We'll see what happens a lot of these self inflating mattresses don't work as well in the cold Well guys I have slept better tonight than I have in a long time We slept ten and a half hours It's almost nine o'clock right now and the Sun's still not up. Well, we got a bit of a storm last night. Oh Yeah, we got some still up there definitely got some snow last night all the firewoods covered in snow yay Man you could really hear the wind now the snow insulates the sound so much Just couldn't hear how loud it was. It's really roaring out here All right, Nathan. Shall we pack it up? It's no shoot out of here Well, it's not a great roof, but I'll keep the wind off us and if we get a little skiff of snow Shouldn't be a problem When you build these shelters you want to make them in a zigzag s pattern So the wind never can have a straight shot into your sleeping area. It helps a lot And you know these little logs you can buy for the fireplace if you don't want to build a proper fire Well, I got like half of one of those That feels nice on the hands my fingers have been so cold on this trip Little chunk right here will last about two hours So between that and this I've got about four to six hours worth of campfire right there Temperature is dropping out here. It is cold I'll tell you what the wind is absolutely howling down in the valley It's wind chill is below negative 15, but we're really sheltered We're at we're right up against the hill and next to some trees and then once you get down below the the snow line It's nice and still in here, so you're not you don't have that wind chill to deal with all right The thermometer says zero degrees Fahrenheit all right We're gonna take the thermometer down here see what the temperature is at our bags We can see down here by the sleeping bags. We've got about 16 degrees Fahrenheit So definitely cold, but a lot warmer than it is above the trench And that's the beauty of snow caves if you build them right there always about 16 15 degrees Fahrenheit No matter what the weather is like outside All right guys. I'm getting to bed. Oh my goodness. We slept in so long Well hey Jake you awake Good morning Thanks for watching guys. 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