Lucca Nate here at the outdoor boys YouTube channel and today we're at seven and a half thousand feet above sea level in the Rocky Mountains and we are going to be doing some winter survival camping you already need.

The snow is so deep so wet every step is so much work pulling Nathan on the sled uphill through the deep snow is just too much it's killing me but the snow is too deep for him to walk through so I'm fighting what I got to do is go up and break trail and break trail back and try to make it a little trench the width of the toboggan and I can pull the toboggan.

Up and Nathan can walk behind it toboggan but it's doubling my work cool well I think I just found our campsite there's a couple dead trees I can chop up and use for firewood and building materials the snows deep enough to help me build my shelter all right let's break trail back and get Nathan this is very different winter campy and.

What we did in Alaska a couple weeks ago in Alaska he was about the cold the snow was so light and powdery it was only like 30 inches deep this is heavy wet deep snow and is fighting us every step of the way so exhausted and I haven't even begun building camp you tired buddy I'm exhausted.

You got a snow chair   well the stairs aren't exactly to code but they'll do now I could be gettin old but it seems to me that the worst part is sleeping in a survival shelter is the lumps on the ground so lay down in your shelter a few times find some good.

Positions smooth it out make sure it's not level get the rocks out of there because it's a lot easier to fix it now then in the middle of the night all right I've done a lot of digging now it's time to do a lot of chopping there we go nice dead-ass pin right there has some firewood we're at seven a half thousand feet above sea level it's.

Almost a mile and a half it's just harder to catch your breath I find myself getting winded so easily this log isn't that heavy but I have to chop it up into smaller pieces because if I pick up a 50 or 70 pound log I sink so far down in the snow it's just grueling to get anywhere I have so much trouble with snowshoes.

Because they were a size 14 boot I usually can't get the heel strap around the boot so I'm constantly coming out of them they just don't fit well big boy problems  well it's looking pretty good from this angle but we gotta get inside and see if we missed anything yeah hey big hole.

Right there and it's thin in the back anything what do you think of this so far here go inside yeah go check it out no that's for sleeping look at that look how far back in there you said is it warmer it's back there if I'm gonna sleep well tonight I need a good insulator between me and the ground and I'm gonna be using reindeer pelts.

They've got these hollow hairs that are excellent insulators and they're quite thick and just it's analog Sharia thing to sleep on now me and Nathan have used these a few times in winter camping and I just love it 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 but.

It is so thick and that should keep me innate and plenty warm tonight oh I'm exhausted but I'm excited I have not slept in a snow cave since I was a little kid we used to do it all the time up in Alaska I was a kid now I need to get a fire started and to do that I need some dry pine it's not covered in snow and ice only get the branches that don't.

Have snow on it when it's cold and everything is caked and ice it takes a lot of heat to get the wood to ignite so grab it as much kindling as you can get your hands on we went to all this effort to find dry wood now we got to keep it dry don't lay it in the snow don't handle it wet gloves find a place we'll touch as.

Little ice as possible let it sit there while you get your fire ready so I've got two of the big logs stacked up to act as a little bit of a heat reflector I'm putting a couple other logs over here to thaw out just need to start building a fire take some of these relatively dry wood chips we're gonna start with the fine stuff we want.

This should make a nice crunchy sound if it's bending too much it's green it's gonna be a hard time lighting it I got my favorite fire starter which is a bag of shredded jute shredded jute is just shredded twine I take a big ball of twine and put it on a belt sander and it just does this to it and it lights up like crazy and if I'm not gonna use.

Matches my favorite thing to use is a blast match it's just as ferrous rod and a piece of steel you hold this tab down and you just strike it like that it makes a spark lights up really good check this out see that you see lots of smoke like that means you're smothering the fire but that's.

Kind of a necessary evil in cold weather I put all this wood on it and let it heat up before it'll catch fire nice little no-match campfire oh that's roaring well the Sun is setting and the fire is roaring and Nathan here is hungry so we need to make some dinner but being the kind of strange person that I am I didn't bring.

A frying pan or a pot or any normal stuff like that instead what I did is I got this fifteen dollar aluminum shovel which I knew I would need I stripped all the paint off it and polished it and then I seasoned it like you would cast-iron using peanut oil and a butane torch and then I baked it in my oven at about 500 degrees for three hours so.

This is a food-grade nonstick avalanche shovel and we're going to cook fajitas and quesadillas on this thing got the shovel up against the fire drying and letting it get nice and hot okay I made this absolutely gorgeous fajita marinated a and put it in this jar it's basically orange juice lime juice cumin paprika and worship sorcerer sauce I.

Made up some tomatillo salsa some guacamole yeah sour cream pico de gallo so nathan is not much of a fajita man so for him I'm going to make a quesadilla yeah I need I need some kitchen space here all right there we go all the cabinet space you could ever want in the kitchen now check that out is that a.

Good quesadilla combine the meat in the vegetable I'll warm up my tortilla here okay there's not too bad I've got Nathan here with me roaring fire a root beer and all the fajitas I could eat huh like I said I didn't bring any cooking utensils so I just got a number-10 tin can and a bit of wire and that's gonna be our kettle.

For today I'm gonna put one reindeer height on top of Nathan they're gonna wrap up in the buffalo hide whoa there you go buddy hi buddy you warm hey you comfy huh all right you two go to sleep buddy well Nathan's tucked in under a big pile of animal hides and the fire's doing its thing I'm just gonna sit here for a little bit and relax I'm.

Gonna call it a night all right I'm gonna try to get in here but Nathan's a bit of a bed hog so we'll see if I can fit my feet are sticking out a little bit so that's a little worried but we'll see how well this goes I'm warm right now we'll see if it lasts I'll see you guys well good morning it's about 7:00 a.m.

And we're pretty toasty warm fire went out long time ago I was hoping to start the fire off the coals but it's looking pretty dead I'm not feeling any heat but let's root around see if we can't find the hot spot one tiny little coal got my tin can cooking pot make sure it's bone-dry and we're gonna add peanut oil to it we're just gonna use these.

Little dinner biscuits to come in the can it doesn't really matter which brand take them they're grubby dirty camping hands make a little ring out of it alright let's test the oil and see where we're at there we go that is a beautiful donut well it's still hot a little oily dump it into a bag of powdered sugar that is a very.

Delicious campfire doing it right there you want to use my stick warm Donuts that's not too bad we're doing it mmm and these things are hot they just taste absolutely delicious just like a homemade donut but once they cool down they kind of taste like a biscuit itself this is a food enjoyed fresh and hot you got a little white powder on your nose.

There that's how he stays so active his camping trips always follow the same pattern the first day is so hectic I'm chopping wood I'm building shelters all this stuff second day just relaxing and cooking food like that all right now we're gonna make lunch and for that we're going to make corn dogs what I have here is corn dog batter it's really.

Simple to make this is actually the recipe based off of the famous corn dogs at Disneyland it's basically one part cornmeal one part flour a couple teaspoons of baking soda honey and sugar and touch of salt it's kind of a sweet batter stick a hot dog on a stick oh oh look at that look at that is that not a gorgeous corndog all right.

We'll just let it sit there and cool for a little bit just give it a bite right there on the corner with yeah you kind of like that so you know what we got to do before we leave we've got to burn all of this wood including the roof you got to burn the roof down what what because it's such a high risk area for forest fires in the summertime we don't want to.

Leave any piles of dead wood laying around including the boughs that we used for our roof Nathan you ready to go down the mountain yeah well it took us like an hour or so to break trail uphill Nathan's gonna do it in seconds well we hope you guys enjoyed watching this video as much as we enjoyed making it unfortunately.

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