Survival Shelter overnight camping in 16 degrees - Full Video!!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Holy smokes!! Lots of editing!! Camping fun in the winter! Full build of a lean-to survival shelter. #camping #outdoors #shenandoah #nature #backcountrycamping #outdooradventure #survivalskills #winteractivities #shelterbuilding #wintercamping #shenandoahvalley
Great video! You’re in your element and living the dream. Keep the videos coming. - Cousin Mike
Thanks dude!! Having a blast out there for sure! Hahaha
Keep going
@@sampogba7362 thank you for the support and encouragement!
Such a beautiful property!!!!
Thank you!! We love it!!
Great video man! I’ve gotta learn how to build a shelter too one day!
@@Yonnysoccer thanks buddy!! We’ll get you guys out in the woods!
You made a number of mistakes here, you mentioned a few of them, but not the biggest ones. Maybe do another video where you analyze everything you did.
Thank you for taking the time to watch! I definitely made a lot of mistakes on this project. What do you think was the biggest?
@@Campingatthehamptons
Not in any particular order, and most of these you already know, but you didn't utilize them quite right.
It seems like the wind was blowing snow and smoke into the shelter. I take from that, that the whole shelter faced into the wind. The back of a lean-to shelter needs to be between you and the wind. It's better if you can build a shelter at a few degrees off 90 to the wind so smoke doesn't swirl into the shelter by wind eddies coming over the roof.
My guess is that you saw the fallen tree and designed the shelter around the bottom of the root ball and the wind direction slipped your mind. Make sure that you have enough boughs piled up to completely block the wind at the back and both ends. Pile snow to cover gaps that are low to the ground.
Go to a good website that shows weather data for your area and find out what the typical wind direction is for your area in the winter. Also, look to see if it shifts back and forth during the day, which happens in my valley. Keep that information about typical wind direction in mind, especially winter, nighttime, wind directions. Also, look at weather forecasts before you leave the house to see if it's going to be coming from some unusual direction. Storms, like those caused by hurricanes a couple of states over, often create winds that blow in non-typical directions. One other thing about shelter orientation, try to have the open side face the sun if you can, but blocking the wind is more important.
The angle of the roof from the ground is important for a few different reasons. Make the roof fairly steep, about 45 degrees to help to keep the shelter as small as possible so the heat from the fire is better utilized for heating you, and not extra space behind you. That roof angle also increases the effectiveness that the back reflects heat onto you. The roof angle on the shelter you built was so close to level that there was a lot of cold space behind you. The heat from the fire was not reflecting back from it as well as it could. Also, the angle of your roof didn't shed moisture fast enough, it leaked on you.
Put the fire a little bit further from the bed than you had it. Don't cook yourself, and don't burn down your shelter.
Having a back behind the fire is a good idea, but it's less important than the design of the shelter. You didn't do it, but some people make a ring out of stones for their fire. They don't realize that the stones nearest them block radiant heat from the fire. If stones are plentiful, make a tall back for the fire from them. But before you go on your next outing, experiment with stones in your area to see if they pop when heated in a fire. Some types of stone do, others don't. Learn which ones do which on a day when your safety is not in the balance. I've heard people give advice about rocks and fire, but I think there are too many variables to make total blanket statements. Heat up every kind of rock there is in your area and see if any of them blow up. I think you'll see that not many blow up, but some come apart. I have seen sandstone, and rocks taken from rivers, used around fires without a problem, but people often say to avoid them. Igneous rocks are always good, but you need to identify them.
Pile evergreen boughs on your bed for insulation, as well as comfort. But shake them well to remove moisture first.
The one thing people fail to say about these shelters is that they are for emergencies, not for use as a long-term camp. They are so inefficient with firewood that if you use one for long, you end up cutting all the dead wood within a comfortable walk of it. That's great if you intend on using it for forest fire management, but it's not good for convenient camping. And one other thing that never gets mentioned is that carrying a lightweight hiking tent and sleeping bag is a great idea. The thought seems to be that we need to be able to survive with nothing but an axe and a flint. Well, that's a good idea, but it's smarter to be prepared. The Boy Scout motto actually means something.