all right here we are oh.

We're back here at our bushcraft survival shelter we got a little problem one of our trees fell over see how we have this tree here supporting our cross members this one fell over well looks like we better get started we got a lot of work to do they could be getting cold all right.

I'll get a fire going oh so when it's snowing like this you got to be really careful where you put your tools down they'll disappear and get buried like that stuff gets lost really easy.

When it's snowing like this and you won't find it till springtime got to make sure you always put it somewhere not in the snow hey hey jake you like that yeah  so.

So so so  uh so did you see your all right oh okay get down here.

All right well guys i've been rushing like a madman to get to this point but we got a shelter up so we can keep the snow off all of our gear which is great because it was getting this wet and i got the caught up it got a little bit higher this time so i got room to put the sled down on here with their.

Gear and i got a little bed area that i'm gonna make for jacob but we need to block the wind and i need to put something over here and over here and maybe over here to make this a little bit more windproof  a lot of wood cut but it's all wet.

Covered in ice we gotta prop it all up by the fire they're so wet so hey jake how you doing you warm oh you're super warm there you go you like that is that is that less smoky jacob.

Yeah you feel you feeling warm down there good well it's getting late i think the sun's gonna set here in a little bit so i think i better get some dinner made i got a little boy who's pretty hungry open the boat oh.

Okay sit down on my lap oh look at that meatball i want them it's spaghetti and meatballs with a hammock oh yes you had a good time good stuff you know it seems like every time we go.

Winter camping i burn up at least one item i'm up to two so far this trip i stick my water bottle by the fire to keep it from freezing and um apparently i stick it too close by the fire yeah it's got a goiter now and check out jacob's boot it was sitting here by the fire and not only did it melt the tread but it caught on.

Fire it was yeah it was bad oh  i can tell it's gonna be an expensive trip got some very frozen marshmallows here warm cup of hot chocolate with a marshmallow it tastes pretty good on a.

Night like tonight oh you okay well you know we've actually done better with time management on this trip than we have on others you know we've got dinner done at a reasonable time and we've got a bit of time to kill do you want to watch a movie together we're kicking it with old school.

Transformers we had a great time watching shows together but jake is out like a light which is good it's as fast as bedtime but i got a few hours before i'm gonna go to bed uh so i'm just gonna slowly get things ready and i'm going to show you a little bit about the shelter here.

All right here's a real popular trick you take some boiling water and you put it in one of these hard plastic thermoses and then you stick it in your sleeping bag and it warms your sleeping bag up really nicely the one thing i really don't like about this trick though is if that bottle leaks oh man you are in deep trouble so you.

Really really want to make sure that the lid's on properly and you've got zero leakage it'll be nice and toasty when you're ready to get inside all right let's go and measure how efficient our shelter is today so it looks like we're about 16 degrees out here in the shelter so really.

Similar attempt to what we had last time so it's supposed to get down to six degrees tonight you can see we've got about 38 degrees fahrenheit here in the shelter definitely cooler than my last shelter but better than being outside all right down here on jacob's bed we've got about 24 degrees fahrenheit here so.

Significantly colder here on the bottom luckily he's got caribou hides hand warmers and a negative 25 bag yep well despite all the improvements i made to this shelter i don't think it's a better shelter it's colder noticeably colder in here and that's because it's more spacious i accidentally set the tripod up about a foot and a half.

Further back than where it was last time and so i've got a lot more volume in here and the fire just doesn't do as good of a job heating it up but the good part is that the the bed's higher so that jacob's got room to sleep out of the snow and that's a huge deal but also it means the bed's higher so you can't sit on the bed and use it like a bench.

In front of the fire when you're not sleeping which is also another downside so that's why we're kneeling on the ground over here which is hard on my own back these are the little details i'm constantly working on when i build these shelters there's so many little finicky details that you need to watch out for all right gonna hang my socks up to dry.

Before i go to bed warm dry socks that feels good good morning it's 7 00 am and i'm deep inside my sleeping bag i need to get out and build a fire all right well i guess it's time to get some breakfast going but a lot of my ingredients are frozen so we got to thaw that out we just put this frozen block.

Of cream here in this hot water bath sit it by the fire it'll be thawed out in about five minutes all right nice and liquid foreign so.

Hey bud dad would you like some bacon no you want some oatmeal oh my gosh okay you want me to set it right there yes i didn't wait too well it was definitely a little nippy last night but uh we did okay shelter.

Definitely got the job done now we got some food in our stomachs and i think we're gonna go and get everything slowly packed up but jake really really wants to go hunting and shoot the 22 rifle a little bit so well she's been a good shelter for us.

Just a little bit big but next couple snowfalls we'll fill in those gaps in the wall and uh it'll be a lot more airtight next time hey jake you want to shoot the 22 you want to shoot the gun no okay see that little stuff oh there's more blood you see.

See i put the holes right there all right when we walk back to the car we're gonna look for some snowshoe hair they're a rabbit that changes color they turn white in the wintertime and they have little black noses little black eyes and the rest of them is all white so they're really camouflaged i'm gonna do a hunt in one.

Swats all right here we go we just gotta go really slow through the woods and take our time the old rule of thumb is if you're walking fast enough to stay warm you're going too fast you got to go real slow and look under every tree.

I actually seen some tracks some are covered up with a little bit of snow and others are looking fresh you see right there there's a fresh track right there that's the hind feet those are the front feet he's heading this way and you can see there's fresh tracks on top of old tracks.

So this is a spot he goes quite frequently might not be a bad place to put a snare you want to go back to the car all right guys i think it's time to call it this is a very short-lived rabbit hunting trip but sometimes those are the funnest ones well guys i hope you enjoyed watching.

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