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Well there we go it's pretty cozy oh well guys i'm all by my lonesome today normally i have my three little boys with me but they've got school and other things going on today so it's just me but it lets me do things a little bit more extreme a little bit more hardcore.

Than i normally would and i decided that i was going to climb up this little mountain here and build a real proper snow cave survival shelter and uh i'm really happy with how this turned out i was also kind of curious how much faster i could get things done if i didn't have to look after little boys at.

The same time i was making survival shelters and the answer is i could go really fast i moved a lot of snow today it took me about an hour and a half to hike here and about five hours to build this shelter so yeah i was moving right along the snow is about seven feet deep right here yeah we had to move a lot of snow to get this.

Shelter made but using that saw to cut the snow up in blocks really saved a lot of time and it's just a lot easier on the back and you can move a lot of snow really quick and that allows you to build stuff with it too so you can get the walls really nice and strong and vertical but i really worked up an appetite i want to.

Get some dinner made let's go melt some snow oh there's all my food my stove and my pot oh the wind is really howling on this mountain we're supposed to get 20 to 30 mile per hour winds tonight it's a good.

Thing we're sleeping under the snow it's cold out here i'll tell you what it's really nice to have something to sit on rather than ice and snow oh your butt and legs get so cold sitting on the ground now that i've stopped working like a madman i'm starting to cool down and get.

Really cold so i'm going to take the hot water left over from dinner i'll put that in my coat here keep me warm for a little bit piping hot japanese curry and rice oh one of my favorite canned foods oh it's so warm and delicious gotta eat it quick before it freezes oh my goodness i woof that down.

All right time to do the dishes well i tell you what i'm in the mood for a little after dinner snack we're gonna try to make some popcorn  making popcorn over the fire so easy just put a little oil in the bottom of the pan throw in a test kernel as soon as that test kernel pops then add the.

Rest of the corn and just listen to it and once the popping slows down or if you start to smell something burning pull it off throw a little salt in there you're golden all right time to boil some more water got a bottle of boiling water gonna check for leaks lids on nice and tight i'm gonna put it inside my sleeping bag.

Get it all warmed up for me well guys i'm getting ready to go to bed but before i do let me give you a few tips about snow caves first off make them big enough leave three or four inches on either side of you so that you don't end up snuggled up against the wall of the cave that'll make you really cold make it tall enough as well you.

Want to at least be able to sit up in it it'll make it a lot less claustrophobic it'll make it easier to get in and out of it makes a huge difference you also want to leave enough length so that you have about 24 inches more tunnel than you are tall that way you don't have your head sticking out and you don't have your.

Feet up against the ice you know safety is also an important issue you don't want your snow cave collapsing on you in the middle of the night so choosing the right type of snow makes a huge difference you don't want light powdery snow you want snow that's going to stick together or that's frozen together has lots of layers of ice in it and this is.

What we got here today additionally you want to have a lot of snow between the surface and the roof of your snow cave and you want that snow to be the best type of snow going and stomping down the snow before you start digging or throwing the excavated snow on top of your tunnel as you dig will really help but remember snow caves are only a.

Temporary structure even the best snow cave will collapse after three or four days because that snow just naturally starts to sag down but if you're doing it just one night your biggest danger is having people or animals step on the roof of your cave and collapse it i've seen this happen twice once with a moose when i was a kid our boy scout troop had.

Dug a whole bunch of snow caves and a moose wandered through our camp in the middle of the night not realizing that there was boys underneath the snow and one of the kids woke up with a moose hoof just going pull right past his head and of course he screamed and that freaked the moose out and the moose started jumping around and then it.

Collapsed the roof of his snow cave now luckily everyone was okay he didn't get stepped on you know he just had a really cold night though because his snow cave collapsed and he didn't have a snow cave anymore but uh anyway that's kind of the big tips about building snow caves and on that note i think i need to get in mine.

Well guys it's getting late i'm going to turn the camera off i'm going to sit in bed and read a jack london novel here for a little bit i'm going to sleep i'll see you guys in the morning well good morning guys it's about 8 a.m and i slept pretty well i'm all nice and toasty in my bag.

But i woke up a lot last night because of the wind it was just roaring loud shook the roof just made a horrible noise but that's why you make such a complicated entrance to the snow cave if you just dig a hole in a cave the wind could get in really easy so you gotta kind of make this little.

S-shaped entrance so the wind can't blow straight into your snow cave oh but i really have to use the bathroom i got to get up i just don't want to all right let's get up 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 oh it's nice and cozy down here well it's kind of lame but i'm gonna have instant granola for breakfast but.

It's just me i don't feel like the need to cook all fancy well it's time to get packed up so i'm gonna go put the fire out ugh  so uh uh.

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