A salvaged winter camp.

Thank you for all of the positive responses!! R.A.T.- email sent. I fixed one of the pics in my second post, i never posted the pic of the Junglas and me after cutting a new air hole...i put the pic in the second post, but here it is in case anyone misses it.

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for anyone who is wondering, when you pile the snow on top of itself like that it creates friction...thus allowing you to build a structure out of it once the snow pile is big enough...you poke the sticks into the structure probably 18 inches or so..give or take, and hollow the snow pile out until you find the sticks...this allowes you to shape the inside evenly! I always dig low and build the actual sleeping chamber 10 inches or so higher than the entrance, so the cool air flows away from you..hence the trench in the middle of the two beds.

As for the bivvy bags, make sure you get as much snow off of you before crawling into one, or take your outside clothes off all together, as the bivvy bag will use your body heat against you, and melt all of the snow and ice on your outside gear and cause you to freeze to death...just a little tip ;)

anyway, i am off to bed!

have a good one boys and girls!!

-G1
 
wow, very impressive.

however this is coming from a Californian who got to ride his bike in shorts and a t shirt today, so take my praise with a grain of salt :D
 
Great post! Looks like it was a lot of fun. I used to do stuff like that back in the 70's. I'm a bit to old to do that now for fun. It' good to know I can if TSHF(of course I have a real good down sleeping bag). Keep up the good (fun) work.
 
Looks like you had some fun there!

I remember we were always digging snowcaves when i was younger, large caves with our own "bedrooms" and "livingrooms" all connected with "corridors", boy we had fun.
 
Yeah, quinzees are awesome shelters, warm and weatherproof...A few years back we were camping in a place near my hometown up in the mountains where the temp was recorded colder than -50c at night with the windchill factor...Damn cold. There was 5 feet of snow on the ground, so we sno shoed in and found a nice spot near a large group of young spruces..It looked like a cove almost. we dug down to the bare ground and built a nice lean too, then piled the snow back on the roof and sides of the lean to. We had to build stairs out of the snow to get down to the shelter and fire pit we had built...on my thermometer the temp dropped to -51c that night...but we were warm, no issues..big fire, lots of firewood.. we watched the satelites orbiting overhead as we fell asleep..i wont ever forget that.


-G1
 
snow shelters awesome fun looks like a great time!I remember my first snow shelter I ever made I was in grade school.I made what I thought was a huge snow mound in my backyard sprayed it with the hose to make a icy crust carved it out a day later,man that thing was great! until it collapsed on top of me it was my first element survival experience it was just like my first sexual experience I was all alone. it took all of my little boy might it get out from under it.good times!
 
Great post !! Brought back Scout memories. We have a high adventure camp here and do a winter survival weekend-called Okpik-snow owl. We build the quinzees and do the whole weekend in them. It's amazing how warm inside with a candle they can be. Never saw those snow claws before-need to look into them. Thanks.
 
HAHAHA yeah, we canadians are a little crazy..

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thank you for all of the responses....if anyone else has pictures of shelters of any sort that they built, please post them!!

-G1
 
Very cool!
This post motivated my and my son to build one. We don't have a lot of snow so ours isn't going to be as big. We got the snow pilled up tonight and will dig it out tomorrow.

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Bruceter
 
Have not had that much snow here in ga. Looks like you guys had fun doing it. The photos were great. Thanks for sharing.
 
Bruceter said:
Very cool!
This post motivated my and my son to build one. We don't have a lot of snow so ours isn't going to be as big. We got the snow pilled up tonight and will dig it out tomorrow.

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Bruceter
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Awesome man!!! you and your sonw ill have so much fun doing this!!
 
Great Post! This sort of stuff is inspiration to get out and do more. Thanks for the very useful information. I believe before this post I would have had the common sense to build a snow shelter in a survival situation but likely would have made a few fatal errors without some of the knowledge you shared here. Thanks for the great info!
 
Wow Awesome post Guardian!

How long did it take you to build it? So you need the walls to be about 18 inches thick?

Thanks again for the post, excellent work. If we have enough snow here in WI (it's coming down now...) I'm gonna try this next weekend.

JGON
 
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