Effective winter survival shelters prioritize warming the ground and creating a raised sleeping platform above the fire, as heat rises and ground contact is the primary cause of heat loss; the shelter should be positioned to block wind and utilize natural features like fallen trees for firewood and windbreaks, with the key principle being that keeping the sleeping area elevated above the heat source significantly improves warmth retention in extreme cold conditions.
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Well, I got a late start and the sun's going to set on me in a few hours. So, I'm really looking for a campsite. I don't have time to build an elaborate structure. So, I need a site that will allow me to get something comfy quick.
I'm not sure exactly what that will be.
There's a lot of good firewood around here. All this standing deadwood is perfect. You can rip it right off without a saw, so it's very quick and easy. And it's standing, so it's not covered in ice and snow, so it'll burn well. I can also tell from the type of trees that this isn't muddy, swampy ground. You really don't want to set up your camp on top of a frozen swamp only to have it thaw out and turn into a mud hole.
Check it out. It looks like a bulldozer just went through the forest. That's from a windstorm. fire came through this forest and killed most of the trees a number of years ago and then a windstorm came up and all the dead trees didn't have the strength anymore and it just flattened them. It only flatten this area on the ridge because the ridge is more exposed to the wind.
See something down there that might make a good campsite.
Hard to walk amongst all these down trees. They're covered with just enough snow that you can't really see where the holes are. I keep punching through and falling down.
I am so hungry. It's almost sunset and I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast. Took me way too long to get out here and the hiking has been harder than I expected.
All right, this is what I was looking for.
One of these large dead trees has fallen over in the windstorm and this root ball is pulled up. It's a giant fireproof wall I don't have to build and that's a really good thing. Not a lot of wind today, but I'm in this little nook along this ridge. So, it's pretty sheltered over here and certainly is a lot of dead wood. So, I think we need to start get going and build a fire.
Man, I tell you what, it is cold. It's about 0 degrees Fahrenheit right now. I was all sweaty when I was walking around, but I am starting to get cold in a hurry.
Heat.
Heat.
I got a piece of flint and a steel striker.
So, I'm going to need is a piece of char cloth. This is just an old linen shirt that I charred in a fire. You want to hold it somewhere close to where the sparks are going to go.
You just need one of these sparks to hit the char cloth.
See? There we go.
See?
Caught a little ember in there. Now we're going to wrap that in a cotton ball.
There we go. It's burning.
Okay, now let's get this down in here.
There we go.
Going to throw these pieces of birch bark in there. Try to get this thing going.
There we go. Starting to catch.
Oh, going to warm my fingers up.
That didn't want to light. I had to use all my char cloth and all my cotton balls to get that started. Really don't want this fire to go out. It's going to get even colder tonight. I'm sure of it.
All right, we're going to need a lot more wood.
I'm just building the biggest bonfire I can. I want to melt all the snow around my shelter. I want to heat up the ground and heat up that root ball. By the time I get ready for bed, everything's got to be bone dry and warm.
You don't want to build the fire up tall because all the heat just goes up. I want to spread it out so it'll melt that ground as evenly and quickly as possible.
All right, next on my agenda, I need to find 10 straight small spruce trees.
Heat. Heat.
This time of year, the sun sets around 5:00 p.m. and won't be up until 10:00 a.m. That's about 17 hours of darkness.
So, I've got to have a lot of firewood if I'm going to keep from freezing tonight.
Yeah.
Because I got to work in the dark so much, I've got to bring a ton of lights, both for the camera and for myself.
Every time I do one of these trips, I bring about 5 to 10 lbs worth of batteries and lights. I'm getting pretty thirsty, so I'm going to start melting some snow.
Okay, I filled that pot full of snow up to the brim and you can see it's only about a third full of water. You got to melt a lot of snow to get water.
You see there's a bunch of dirt and pieces of wood in the bottom of the pot.
No matter how clean the snow looks, there's always stuff in it. It's harmless, but you know, you don't want to drink it.
I'm going to probably have to do this four times tonight. I need a lot of water.
My inreach keeps beeping at me, saying low temperature warning. Okay, we're going to put it in my pocket.
Feels like it's getting below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. All my batteries and lights and everything will start getting really affected by the cold.
That's a decent pile of wood. That's a good start.
Well, there we go. Got myself a shelter.
Took me about 3 and 1 half hours to build it. And it is roasting hot in here. It's like sitting inside a pizza oven. All this dirt below me and behind me holds the heat really well. So, I've got heat radiating on my back. I got heat coming up from below. And I got the fire off to my left. It's uh it's pretty toasty. These logs are still a bit cold, but they'll warm up soon enough. Got a few more things I want to do before I go to sleep, but I am so hungry. I need to stop and make some dinner. All right, for dinner, I brought along some moose ribs.
These are just two ribs from the moose I shot this fall.
Got some garlic, salt, and pepper.
All right, we want to cook these on a low heat, very slowly.
Well, there we go. Still got the moose ribs buried in hot coals and dirt. The coals are really hot right now, but they're going to cool off pretty quick.
And we're just let that sit for a couple hours.
My gloves are pretty wet already. I just hang them out and dry them. Got to get everything dry before bedtime.
You can see how wet my boots are. Look at the steam coming off them. I got to get those dry, too. While I wait for those ribs to cook, I'm going to go ahead and make up some bread dough. We got some bread flour and yeast in here.
And uh just going to add a little water to it.
Got my bread dough mixed up. I'm going to let it just sit by the fire tonight.
By tomorrow, it'll be nice and fermented and ready to make bread.
While I wait for the ribs, I'm going to go ahead and make some soup for dinner.
All right, I'm going to add a little ugali to my chicken noodle soup to give it a little bit more calories. Ugali is just ground up white corn maze and it's a staple food in East Africa. Tastes like grits and it's a great way to give a stew a little bit more body to it.
Oh, I can smell the moose.
It's cooking a little too fast.
Nothing fancy. Just a thick chicken noodle soup.
Oh man, it hits the spot.
Let's check out this moose. Oh yeah.
Oh.
Oh, that's actually pretty soft. Oh, I think I nailed that. Look at that beautiful piece of moose meat.
Oh, that's so good.
A moose ribs are good. We've been eating a lot of moose this fall. That moose I shot had 567 lbs of meat.
We donated all but like 30 40 pounds of meat, but still that's a lot. We've been really enjoying it.
Got some barbecue sauce here.
The barbecue sauce is mostly frozen.
That came out just perfect.
Oh, that was good. There we go. That was delicious. Oh man, I was so hungry. All right, guys. Guys, it's 10:30. Got a belly full of food. Got a roaring fire.
Got firewood drying around the side of the fire. And uh my bed's pretty warm. I think the biggest problem is going to be my back. This is This is not comfy. It's better than sleeping on concrete, but only barely. The only thing to sleep in I brought was this wool blanket, but honestly, I'm going to use it as a pillow. I'm going to put my hipbone right on the ball of clava to try to keep from hurting my hip in the middle of the night. We'll uh we'll see what happens, but I'm going to try to get some sleep. I'm I'm pretty tired.
Anyway, I'm going to put the camera up and uh we'll see how this goes.
All right, good night.
Hey, it's about 7:40 in the morning and my back is killing me. Stayed mostly warm throughout the night. had to get up and stoke the fire a bunch. Even had to go cut a little bit of firewood around 4:00 a.m. Man. Oh, but my back is sore. I never sleep well sleeping on wood beds like this.
Yeah. I mean, it's better than sleeping on the ground, but it's hard.
My bread dough rose a bit. One side's frozen and the other side's warm.
They're kind of like meat.
I need to get some more coals going for my breakfast. So, I'm using this thinner stuff to make coals. Didn't bring a cooking griddle or anything like that.
This is real bare minimum camping today.
So, we're going to make bread straight on the coals.
It's looking pretty good.
Yeah.
Oh, my butter is so frozen.
All right.
Melted butter and warm honey.
Oh, that's pretty good. Flour is such a great backpacking food. It's so light.
It's non-p perishable and it just makes the most delicious things.
>> That's good.
>> Well, it's about 8:50 and we're starting to see some color in the sky. Sun's going to be up probably in the next 30 minutes or so.
I'll tell you what, it was definitely below zero and uh I stayed warm. My back's killing me, but I was warm. You know, I've tried out a lot of different survival shelters and hands down, this is my favorite one if you're dealing with cold weather. If you're getting rained on or snowed on or there's lots of wind, a leanto might be better. But if you're just straight up trying to survive the cold, this is the best. The shelter isn't complicated. The key is just making sure you warm up the ground and warm up whatever is going to be behind you. The second key is to try to get your bed higher than the fire. Heat goes up and so that if you're slightly elevated, you're going to catch a lot more of that fire's heat than if you were down on the ground with the fire. I think this shelter would work in even colder conditions than what I got right now. Just make these rails longer. And then if you start to get cold in the middle of the night because that root ball is cooled off too much or the ground underneath you's cooled off too much, I would just take this fire and kick it underneath the bed, then scoot the bed over here and switch places with the fire. And you could just do that every couple hours and then constantly be above hot ground. I think if you had plenty of fuel and you just kept switching sides like that, you could probably last in like -20 or some really awful temperatures. You wouldn't get much sleep, but you would make it through the night. Well, this has been fun, but I think it's time to pack it up.
Well, you might have noticed this video is a bit shorter than my typical video.
And there's a couple reasons for that.
One is I am exhausted. My wife Rebecca and I just got back from a trip to Palao and we're super jet-lagged. Combining that with sleeping on that hardwood. I'm wiped out. But it was one of those things where time was tight and if I was going to get any video, it had to be a short video. Oh, check out these wolf tracks.
Oh man, those look pretty fresh.
There's another reason I'm keeping this video short. This month marks the 11th year I've been doing YouTube videos.
I've done over a thousand videos. And when I started doing YouTube videos, it was a fun way for me and my sons to spend time together. But they're in school now, and I can't just pull them out anytime I want to go do these adventures. So, I end up going by myself. And it's kind of blown up into this whole thing where now YouTube is taking me away from my children. And while there's a time and a place for dads to go do stuff on their own, it's gotten a bit much. And when I'm gone like this, it's a sacrifice to my family and my wife. So, I'm going to keep this video short, only be gone one night, and try to get home and see my family.
Look at this. This is a perfect walking stick.
Oh, yeah.
Just following these wolf tracks, seeing where they lead. They're kind of heading in the direction of my car.
Check it out. Those are vulp prints.
It's a little mouse that lives under the snow. He popped up on top, went hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, and then dove down underneath the snow. Again, foxes and owls love to eat those vos. And they have really good hearing, so they'll sit there and listen for the vos scurrying under the snow. Oh, look at this.
See, here's a fox print sprint. And you can see the fox was digging for a voy close to the car. I can hear the highway very loud now. Check it out. Those are the wolf prints.
All right, guys. That's it for now. I'll see you next time.
Welcome to the tiger forests of Alaska.
I think it's time to do some camping.
So, this is the tiger forest of Alaska.
The word tiger comes from Russian. It means little sticks. In English, we call these trees black spruce and they grow in the tundra and swamps of Alaska.
While these swamps are very difficult to cross in the summertime, once they freeze over, we can explore them. But first things first, I need to find a place to camp. And I actually like this spot quite a bit. Most of these spruce trees you see are dead. An invasive beetle called a spruce bark beetle came in here and wiped these things out. That means lots of building material, lots of firewood.
The air temperature is about 13° F and this ground is still not frozen. In the winter time, the ground temperature is usually a lot warmer than the air temperature. And the snow acts as a blanket that traps that heat in the ground. If you can strip away the ice and snow and build your shelter on thawed ground, it's going to be a whole lot warmer. And there's a bit of mud right there. This ground might be a little bit more swampy than I first thought. We'll just have to deal with it.
All right, I think it's time to start cutting some trees.
I bought this hatchet in Hiroshima, Japan last spring and I used it to take the limbs off these trees.
It's uh 3:50 p.m. Starting to get dark.
It's this close to the Arctic. We don't get a lot of sunlight. Well, I better bust out my lights.
This wood is so wet. Everything's covered in ice. Going to use one of these fire starters here.
There we go.
Yeah, that's working. You can tell everything's wet when dead pine doesn't want to burn.
Little fingers are getting a little numb.
I get all the snow out of my ear.
Oh, that feels amazing.
I've got a shelter. I've got fire. I think it's time to start working on dinner.
Gloves are a bit wet. I'm going to go dry them by the fire.
All right, I got a sweet potato and a little bit of tin foil here. We're going to wrap that up. There you go. Got a nice pile of coals here.
You bury that sweet potato in the coals for about 45 minutes.
Most foods cook at around 375° F. Hold your hand over the fire and count one, two, three. And when you can get to three without it hurting, that's about 375° F. So, right about here.
As the fire kind of changes, you can adjust your meat.
I like a little bread with my steak. So, I brought along some bread dough. I made this up like a week ago and didn't use it, so I threw it in the fridge and still good. Yeah. Just got a little bit more of that sourdough goodness.
Oh, pretty little piece of bread right there. We're going to have some herbal tea.
Oh, that's done. Put that there.
Let's take a peek.
Now, that's looking pretty good.
Some honey and butter I'm going to put on there. Sweet potato is so mushy. It's exactly how it should be. Going to put a little cinnamon on my sweet potato and on my bread.
We got sweet potato and cinnamon, honey butter and bread, and two massive chunks of seasoned steak.
There you go. This is my cow horn mug. I made this also made this griddle. I got a video explaining how I made these things. It's pretty easy. I'll put a link in the video description below.
M. That is good.
Oh, that was good. Still got quite a bit of this steak left. Just go sit it in the snow bank and it'll be good tomorrow.
There we go.
Oh, that warms me up. Peach herbal tea with loads of sugar in it. Tastes pretty good. And it's just more fun drinking it out of a cow horn.
That is good.
I really love this fork and plate. Both of them are antiques. The fork is about 150 years old. It's from the Civil War era. Handle's made out of cowbone. This is my fancy camping wear.
[ __ ] Well, now that we've had a fire in here for several hours, we're starting to figure out what the ground situation is over here. It is really soft. Like, look at this. That is just a big swampy spot right there. So, I think we're going to end up sleeping on this side. Well, it's pretty clear that I need to make a bed.
If I sleep straight on the ground, I'm going to get soaking wet and frozen.
I'm refilling my water jug just a cup or two at a time. Got to melt a lot of snow to get 2 liters of water.
These logs are all wet and covered in ice. So, I'm going to try to dry them out and warm them up before I sleep on them.
They Got all my firewood for the night and I got it propped up around the fire trying to dry it out.
I didn't bring any sleeping bags or sleeping pads, but I brought my caribou hide. Caribou have these thick hollow hairs. They're really warm. You double a caribou hide over on itself. It's pretty thick. Actually gives you some cushion and lots of insulation.
Let's see how lumpy this is going to be.
Wow, I'm tired. It's almost 10:00. I'm pretty tired.
Well, instead of a sleeping bag, I'm going to be sleeping underneath a bison hide tonight. I use the bison cuz it's one of the few animals big enough to cover me. I'm kind of a big boy. The nice thing about using animal hides when you're sleeping next to a fire is that these won't burn up. Sparks can land on them. The fire can get real hot. Doesn't matter. You'll wake up long before these things catch on fire. It's going to be very cold tonight and my water bottles will freeze solid if I don't keep them near the fire. So, I'm going to put them just right down here.
All right, I put some hot coals underneath my bed. Get it nice and toasty.
It is late and I am tired. I will see you guys in the morning.
Oh, good morning. Stayed pretty warm, but the bed is so hard.
Oh, my feet are cold though. My feet stick out from underneath the hide a little bit.
Oh, that feels good.
Get my toes warmed up.
Ah, frozen boots.
How many times have I put on frozen boots? Going to warm up the honey butter.
Oh, that's beautiful.
Got melted honey and butter. I'm going to shake that up.
Fresh warm bread and honey butter.
All right, time to get up and do some stuff. It is definitely colder today. If I'm going to stay warm, I'm going to need to make this shelter a whole lot better.
Let me show you something weird about snow. You can see this right here is the path I made with my snowshoes yesterday.
You can see where yesterday I walked on it without snowshoes and I sunk in, but today it's rock hard. If you stomp a trail down with snowshoes and let it sit overnight, it'll freeze up and turn really hard. Snowshoes are great for building paths in the snow like this.
I want to push this snow bm back a little bit and make a little bit more room. So, I've been throwing my tree limbs and logs in here. It takes a long time for the fire to melt the snow, but it's a lot better than shoveling.
There we go.
Oh.
Well, now that I got lunch in me, I think it's time to start building again.
There we go. Got my stove installed.
Hopefully, this will keep me nice and warm. Well, I got my shelter set up just in the nick of time. It's already starting to get dark. Luckily, I already have a lot of firewood laying around.
I'm not going to need as much as I did last night.
I am almost completely out of water. So, we're going to go melt some snow. Been getting a lot of pine needles and pine cones in my drinking water. So, I'm going to go find a spot a little further away from the trees.
There we go.
Got my leftovers.
Woo! It is frozen.
I'll just put it over here. Hopefully, it'll thaw out. Well, now that I've got a wood floor, instead of all that mud, I can change into my little slippers.
Nice.
I can put my boots up here on the wall to keep them from freezing in the night.
Oh, it's nice to get my slippers on.
All my wood is cold and wet, so I'm putting it on top of the stove to dry out and warm up. Then it'll burn really well when it comes time to feed the fire.
Well, it's about 5:00 and uh I'm in for the night, so I think I'm going to start making some dinner. All right, I got some black beans here.
These onions are frozen.
So that when the drummed column arrived, the British would be rotten and give way.
>> Oh, we got a little smoke going on.
The logs over on that side were starting to smolder. You can tell the logs are getting hot. There's pine sap bubbling out of them.
Have to watch it carefully. You don't want anything starting on fire.
Oh yeah, that's thought out nicely. It's warming up well.
All right. I just added some rice.
Starting to smell so good.
All right.
Put a little hot sauce on there.
I'm so hungry. This smells amazing.
And I tell you what, beans and rice are an amazing camping food. Not only are they delicious, it's non-p perishable and takes up hardly any room in your backpack.
Oh, so good.
Want to check something here. 2° Fahrenheit. Let's compare that to what's inside the shelter. Put it right there and give it a few minutes to warm up.
All right, it's been a few minutes and you can see it's just a little over 50° Fahrenheit here at the bed. I mean, it's not exactly warm, but that's a lot better than outside. But watch this. I'm going to put the thermometer on the ground.
There on the floor, it's about 22°. When you're sleeping in a heated shelter, the higher you can make your bed, the better. You want your bed to be at least as tall as your heat source. Ideally a little bit taller.
I've been in the shelter 5 hours and I've already gone through 2/3 of my firewood. So had to go out and cut some more. Oh, got to split that, too.
I think it's time to go to bed.
I'll see you guys in the morning.
Tell you what, I slept a lot better last night. It was a lot warmer and more comfortable.
But I did have to wake up a bunch to stoke the fire. I woke up uh about 2:00 a.m. the first time and then at 3 4:30 and then 6 and then 6:30ish or so. I was pretty much up.
So for breakfast, I've got an omelette.
I made this at home. It's got sausage, vegetables, cheese, eggs. Went and threw it in a vacuum sealed bag and then froze it. Now all I got to do is just warm it up.
All right, got my honey butter sitting over here melting.
It's getting hot in here. Yesterday it was cold even with my jacket on and the stove going full blast. I've got the stove turned down to halfway and it's still hot in here. And it has to do with all this mass inside the tent. There's 400 lb of wood in here. There's all my gear. There's the ground, the tent itself. All that stuff needs to be heated up and it takes a long time. But once it all gets warm, it stays really hot in here. It gets really nice. And even when the stove goes down, it stays warmer in here for a longer time.
Doesn't that look good? This is so much better than dehydrated eggs.
All right. Well, I think it's start time to get up and face the day. Oh, I got to tell you, it is so nice to have a floor in this tent. it so much warmer and it's so nice not to have my feet down in the mud. It's an absolute luxury.
Oh, look at this. My pants are all dry.
My mittens are all dry.
I always bring backup food for a lot of reasons. And I had this bit of pork here that I didn't get to use. And I was keeping it underneath my bed to keep it cold. A mouse got into it. Ate up all that pork. See that? It's probably a vo or a lemming. I'll just cut off that part. It's still good. I have more trouble with mice than any other animal, hands down. And the longer you camp in one spot, the worse the problem becomes.
It's like more and more mice find you.
When the mice get really bad, they'll start coming in at night and grabbing your hair and pulling out bits of your hair to make their nest. It's It's not great. All righty.
It's 10:00 a.m. and we're just in time for the sunrise.
Uh-oh. That's not good.
Uh, car doesn't want to start. And it sounds like it's the battery. It's 0 degrees Fahrenheit right now. So, I wouldn't be surprised if the battery is so cold that it just doesn't want to start.
and make sure it doesn't overheat. I just need to raise the temperature of the battery like 20 30°. I don't need to boil it.
All right, that's feeling warm.
All right.
I'm going to try to warm up the engine block and see if that helps.
Fortunately, the engine block is way back there.
I got to be careful. This K truck is sitting on top of 18 inches of snow. The snow gives way and it settles, it's going to squish me. All right, we're going to give that 30 minutes or so and see if that doesn't help.
Well, there she is. Once I got it all dialed in, it was really nice. This would have made a really good long-term shelter.
It's warm, but it's not hot. Obviously, this is a little bit sketchy. Got to make sure you don't catch anything on fire or melt any wires or anything.
Oh, it's like a Chich and Chong video in here. The smoke coming out.
Aha.
Woohoo!
This is living in Alaska in a nutshell.
Stuff goes wrong, things break, and you just got to deal with it.
You know, it's not like I could call a tow truck.
Engine's warmed up. Let's see if we can get out of here.
Woo! Well, that was a good time.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video.
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Well, we've had a really weird winter here in Alaska, and it's been cold, then hot, then cold again. But the good news is the snow's not too deep and the swamps are all frozen, so I can really get out and explore places I otherwise couldn't access.
I got myself pretty wet. Looks like there's a little ditch or creek here, so I stopped to get out and walk it before I try to take the K truck into it. And there's a booby trap right here.
Look at that.
is just snow floating on water. Then I walked onto it and sunk into mud up to here. I think I'll just go around.
Been driving around for about 2 and 1/2 hours and I think it's about time to look for a place to camp.
Yeah, there we go.
Going to look around for some dead trees.
It's going to be pitch black by 400 p.m.
today. I have about an hour and a half before sunset and it's really hard to find dead trees in the dark.
There's an invasive beetle called the Japanese spruce bark beetle. It's wiping out a lot of the spruce trees in this area. So, a lot of the trees are sick or dead. In the summertime, this place is a massive forest fire hazard. So, burning up the dead trees in the winter time can actually be a real good thing.
Seems like a lot of wood, but it's not.
If you want to keep warm for 18 hours of darkness, plus have a shelter, it takes a lot. Sun's setting. I got to bust out my lights. I use these bicycle lights that have a GoPro mount. I got this on a trip to Coyoto when Tommy was just little.
Got to get a fire going and dry my pants off. It's not a big deal while I'm moving around, but once I stop to eat dinner, it's going to get real cold.
Always got to make sure to put your flint and steel away. So easy to get focused on the fire and then drop it in the snow and lose it.
Everything's covered in snow.
Everything's covered in ice and snow.
So, I put the firewood around the fire until it starts to catch. Then, I put it out and stack it up next to the fire.
I don't have enough limbs to cover it all the way to the top, but that'll make a good windbreak.
All this wood covered in ice and snow.
We got to prop it up against the heat reflector and dry it out.
Oh, just looked at my clock and it's 7:30.
So, just about five hours to cut down all these trees and build this shelter.
Pretty proud of that. That's uh it's a lot of wood I cut. Shelter is obviously not as good as it could be, but it's good as it's going to be tonight. Going to hang up my clothes and let them dry.
My gloves are wet. Boots are wet. These logs are frozen and covered in ice.
Makes them really cold and it's going to get me wet. So, we got to dry them.
There you go. I brought some caribou hides to sleep on. I'm getting old. I need I need padding.
Brought along a buffalo hide too as a blanket.
Tired. Need to get some dinner made.
Tell you what, I really like these heat reflectors. When you build a wall behind your fire, it absorbs the heat of the fire and then reflects it back towards you. But more importantly, it acts as a wind break and keeps the wind from blowing the smoke in your face. It's really nice.
All right, for dinner, I've got moose fajitas. I prepped up all the meat and seasonings and vegetables and everything in this little package and froze it. Now I'm just going to put it in a pot of boiling water to heat it back up. Not a bad meal when you don't have time to do fancy stuff.
Got a moose fajita with a little bit of guacamole.
Oh, I'm hungry. It's about 900 p.m. and I haven't eaten since breakfast.
Oh, that's good. All right, let's do the dishes.
I have a little bit of firewood, but not enough to get me through the rest of the night. I need to go cut some more firewood.
I'm going to sit here and eat some chocolate covered almonds and dry my boots out. Oh, I'm so tired. Oh, it's already 10 p.m. I got to get to bed here soon.
Oh, if I go to bed with wet socks, my feet are going to be so cold. And if I don't dry my boots out, they'll freeze in the morning and I won't be able to get them on cuz they'll just be like as solid as a rock. So, I've got to go and dry out my boots, dry out my pants, dry out my socks.
Look at that steam coming off there.
All right, it's time to cuddle up with my buffalo hide and go to sleep.
Probably have to stoke the fire every 3 4 hours, but that's pretty adorable. All right, guys. I'll see you in the morning.
Hey, good morning. Oh, this fire's been keeping this place really warm. I keep forgetting how cold it is and then the fire will die down. I'll be like, "Dang, it's really cold out.
As long as the fire is roaring, this place holds the heat pretty well. All right, I think it's time to get up. Try to make some breakfast.
Going to rub some butter on this warm tortilla and put cinnamon sugar on it.
That's good. If you ever had cinnamon toast or a soapia, it kind of tastes like that.
Got some steel cut Irish oatmeal here.
This is the good stuff. Little butter, brown sugar, and raisins.
It's about 9:30 in the morning, and you can start to see a little bit of light out. Sun's going to rise in about 45 minutes.
Oh, well that was good. I got to do the dishes now.
It's about 10:00 and it looks like the sun's up. Need to get to work here.
All righty.
The statue only does a marginal job of keeping the wind out, but once you get a little bit of snow on top of it, then it's absolutely airtight. The trick is that you got to make it thick enough and far enough away from the fire that when you got a nice big roaring fire in here, you don't have drips of water from melting snow. Hopefully, we got it right.
Well, that's not too shabby. That's a proper wall. I think the next thing I want to do is improve my bed. It was a little bit narrow last night. I kept trying to roll off. I wouldn't mind having that footrest a bit bigger, too.
dry out this log before I put it in my bed.
I piled up a bunch of logs over there as a bit of a windbreak to keep cold air from going underneath my bed. Now they got the shelter built. I don't think it's really necessary. So, I'm going to use that for my firewood tonight.
Shelter's feeling nice and tidy. The bed's feeling better. I got more of a platform. Got some firewood drying. I think it's time to eat some food.
A friend of mine gave me these hot dogs.
I think they're made out of caribou.
Excited to try them out.
M. Oh, smell good.
That's a good hot dog. I think I worked up a two hot dog appetite.
But I want to do a little project. I want to build a cooking griddle. This is a 22 gauge weldable steel.
That's not very even.
It's an ugly freehand oval right there.
I got this little stump anvil right here.
You don't need anything fancy like this.
A rock will do.
Just put a little lip on the edge of it.
Knocked off all the sharp bits. Now it's uh really stiff and rigid and uh your food won't spill off the edge. Got a little bit of steel rod here. Heat that up in the fire.
There we go.
All right.
That's a little griddle. It's kind of ugly shaped, but that's what happens when you do it freehand. But now we got to season it. Got a little peanut oil.
And get the handles, too.
Let that bake.
You do a couple layers.
Seasoned frying pan. It's ready for cooking. Well, it's about 6:30 and I think it's time for dinner. So, for dinner, I got something special. Got king crab legs. Last winter I went up to Gnome with my son Nathan and we caught king crab through the ice.
I've got this little jar with garlic and butter in it. Just kind of loosen the lid. Sit that right by the fire.
Look at the size of that crab. Hey.
Oh, that was so warm and delicious. When you cook the crabs over the fire, too, it makes their shells brittle. Makes it a lot easier to shell them. You just use your hands.
You got to eat quick. Things cool off really quick around here.
Look at that. That's just from one knuckle. Barely fits in the jar.
Oh, that's messy but good.
Got a full belly and a big fire. Going to listen to an audio book. Just kind of relax for an hour or so before bedtime.
Well, it's getting late. I should hop into bed. Definitely feel like this shelter is a lot warmer than yesterday.
The air is just not moving as much. I got the heat reflecting off this sidewall and and the whole thing's just a better wind block.
It's nice having a little bit more of a platform to stand on. Got more room to dry my boots.
Forgot to dry my socks out before going to bed. But, uh, with this nice little step right here, I can just stick my feet out and they're all nice and toasty. I'm going to put the camera down. I'll see you guys in a little bit.
Had to stoke the fire a couple times, but stayed warm. But my back is sore.
Oh. Oh, my back. Feel like I was run over by a truck, but I'm warm.
Well, it's about 7:30. I think it's time to go test out that griddle and make some breakfast.
Okay. Corn beef hash.
Oh, it's so frozen.
Yeah, it's pretty non-stick. Slid right off.
Corn, beef, and hash egg sandwich.
M.
Oh, that is so good. I tell you what, that little skillet worked really well.
Pretty easy to make, too.
Oh, that was delicious. I wouldn't mind another one of those.
I tell you, that was a good meal. I'm definitely going to have to do that one again. But, uh, I think it's time to get packed up. I'm going to try to get home by 12 and I've got a long way to drive to get there. So, I think I better not wait for the sun to come up. I'll tell you what, I liked my little griddle.
Worked really well. All right.
This is a really nice shelter. I'm curious to see how it performs in bad weather, though. Maybe I can come back during a snowstorm and see how the shelter does. All right.
All right. Let's see if the car starts.
When it gets really cold, my K truck freezes up and won't start. But, uh, it's a bit of a ways home, so uh hopefully it'll start up on me.
Ah, sure is nice when things work.
Yeah, you definitely want to make sure that car is working before you put your fire out.
All right.
Got to work out my backing up.
going to try to go up in those mountains. No trail, so we're just going to have to find our way.
As you can see, there's a lot of dead wood around. It's why I chose this place. Plenty of firewood, plenty of wood to make my shelter, but there's also a lot of rabbits around. I'm seeing snowshoe hair tracks everywhere. There are snowshoe hair tracks. If we see one, we're definitely taking it for dinner.
More snowshoe hair tracks. That' be a great place to set a snare.
Well, I got a late start and the sun's going to set on me in a few hours, so I'm really looking for a campsite. I don't have time to build an elaborate structure, so I need a site that will allow me to get something comfy quick.
I'm not sure exactly what that will be.
There's a lot of good firewood around here. All this standing deadwood is perfect. You can rip it right off without a saw, so it's very quick and easy. And it's standing, so it's not covered in ice and snow, so it'll burn well. I can also tell from the type of trees that this isn't muddy, swampy ground. You really don't want to set up your camp on top of a frozen swamp only to have it thaw out and turn into a mud hole.
Check it out. It looks like a bulldozer just went through the forest. That's from a windstorm. Fire came through this forest and killed most of the trees a number of years ago and then a windstorm came up and all the dead trees didn't have the strength anymore and it just flattened them. It only flattened this area on the ridge because the ridge is more exposed to the wind.
See something down there that might make a good campsite.
Hard to walk amongst all these down trees. They're covered with just enough snow that you can't really see where the holes are. I keep punching through and falling down.
I am so hungry. It's almost sunset and I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast. Took me way too long to get out here. And the hiking has been harder than I expected.
All right, this is what I was looking for.
One of these large dead trees has fallen over in the windstorm and this root ball is pulled up. It's a giant fireproof wall I don't have to build and that's a really good thing. Not a lot of wind today, but I'm in this little nook along this ridge. So, it's pretty sheltered over here. And certainly is a lot of dead wood. So, I think we need to start get going and build a fire.
Man, I'll tell you what, it is cold.
It's about 0 degrees Fahrenheit right now. I was all sweaty when I was walking around, but I am starting to get cold in a hurry. Heat.
Heat.
I got a piece of flint and a steel striker.
So, I'm going to need is a piece of char cloth. This is just an old linen shirt that I charred in a fire. You want to hold it somewhere close to where the sparks are going to go.
You just need one of these sparks to hit the char cloth.
See? There we go.
See?
Cut a little ember in there. Now, we're going to wrap that in a cotton ball.
There we go. It's burning.
Okay, let's get this down in here.
There we go.
Got to throw these pieces of birch bark in there. Try to get this thing going.
There we go. Starting to catch.
Oh, going to warm my fingers up.
That didn't want to light. I had to use all my char cloth and all my cotton balls to get that started. Really don't want this fire to go out. It's going to get even colder tonight. I'm sure of it.
All right, we're going to need a lot more wood.
I'm just building the biggest bonfire I can. I want to melt all the snow around my shelter. I want to heat up the ground and heat up that root ball. By the time I get ready for bed, everything's got to be bone dry and warm.
You don't want to build the fire up tall cuz all the heat just goes up. I want to spread it out so it'll melt that ground as evenly and quickly as possible.
All right, next on my agenda, I need to find 10 straight small spruce trees.
Heat. Heat.
At this time of year, the sun sets around 5:00 p.m. It won't be up until 10:00 a.m. That's about 17 hours of darkness. So, I've got to have a lot of firewood if I'm going to keep from freezing tonight because I got to work in the dark so much. I've got to bring a ton of lights, both for the camera and for myself.
Every time I do one of these trips, I bring about 5 to 10 lbs worth of batteries and lights. I'm getting pretty thirsty, so I'm going to start melting some snow.
Okay, I filled that pot full of snow up to the brim. And you can see it's only about a third full of water. You got to melt a lot of snow to get water.
You see there's a bunch of dirt and pieces of wood in the bottom of the pot.
No matter how clean the snow looks, there's always stuff in it. It's harmless, but you know, you don't want to drink it.
I'm going to probably have to do this four times tonight. I need a lot of water.
My in reach keeps beeping at me.
Saying low temperature warning. Okay, we're going to put it in my pocket.
Feels like it's getting below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. all my batteries and lights and everything will start getting really affected by the cold.
That's a decent pile of wood. That's a good start.
Well, there we go. Got myself a shelter.
Took me about three and a half hours to build it. And it is roasting hot in here. It's like sitting inside a pizza oven. All this dirt below me and behind me holds the heat really well. So, I've got heat radiating on my back. I got heat coming up from below. And I got the fire off to my left. It's uh it's pretty toasty. These logs are still a bit cold, but they'll warm up soon enough. Got a few more things I want to do before I go to sleep, but I am so hungry. I need to stop and make some dinner. All right, for dinner, I brought along some moose ribs.
These are just two ribs from the moose I shot this fall.
Got some garlic, salt, and pepper.
All right, we want to cook these on a low heat, very slowly.
Well, there we go. We got the moose ribs buried in hot coals and dirt. The coals are really hot right now, but they're going to cool off pretty quick. And we're just let that sit for a couple hours.
My gloves are pretty wet already. I just hang them out and dry them. Got to get everything dry before bedtime.
You can see how wet my boots are. Look at the steam coming off them. I got to get those dry, too. While I wait for those ribs to cook, I'm going to go ahead and make up some bread dough. We got some bread flour and yeast in here.
And uh just going to add a little water to it.
Got my bread dough mixed up. I'm going to let it just sit by the fire tonight.
By tomorrow, it'll be nice and fermented and ready to make bread.
While I wait for the ribs, I'm going to go ahead and make some soup for dinner.
All right, I'm going to add a little ugali to my chicken noodle soup to give it a little bit more calories. Ugali is just ground up white corn maze and it's a staple food in East Africa. Tastes like grits and it's a great way to give a stew a little bit more body to it.
Oh, I can smell the mousse. It's cooking a little too fast.
Nothing fancy, just a thick chicken noodle soup.
Oh man, it hits the spot.
All right, let's check out this moose. Oh yeah.
Oh.
Oh, that's actually pretty soft. Oh, I think I nailed that. Look at that beautiful piece of moose meat.
Oh, that's so good.
A moose ribs are good. We've been eating a lot of moose this fall. That moose I shot had 567 lbs of meat.
We donated all but like 30, 40 lbs of meat, but still, that's a lot. We've been really enjoying it.
Got some barbecue sauce here.
The barbecue sauce is mostly frozen.
That came out just perfect.
Oh, that was good. There we go. That was delicious. Oh, man. I was so hungry. All right, guys. It's 10:30. Got a belly full of food. Got a roaring fire. Got firewood drying around the side of the fire and uh my bed's pretty warm. I think the biggest problem is going to be my back. This is This is not comfy. It's better than sleeping on concrete, but only barely. The only thing to sleep in I brought was this wool blanket, but honestly, I'm going to use it as a pillow. I'm going to put my hipbone right on the ball of clava to try to keep from hurting my hip in the middle of the night. We'll uh we'll see what happens, but I'm going to try to get some sleep. I'm I'm pretty tired.
Anyway, I'm going to put the camera up and uh we'll see how this goes.
All right, good night.
Hey, it's about 7:40 in the morning and my back is killing me. Stayed mostly warm throughout the night. Had to get up and stoke the fire a bunch. Even had to go cut a little bit of firewood around 4:00 a.m. Man. Oh, my back is sore. I never sleep well sleeping on wood beds like this.
Oh. Yeah. I mean, it's better than sleeping on the ground, but it's hard.
My bread dough rose a bit. One side's frozen and the other side's warm.
They're kind of like meat.
I need to get some more coals going for my breakfast. So, I'm using this thinner stuff to make coals. Didn't bring a cooking griddle or anything like that.
This is real bare minimum camping today.
So, we're going to make bread straight on the coals.
It's looking pretty good.
Yeah.
Oh, my butter is so frozen.
All right.
Melted butter and warm honey.
Oh, that's pretty good. Flour is such a great backpacking food. It's so light.
It's non-p perishable and it just makes the most delicious things.
>> That's good.
>> Well, it's about 8:50 and we're starting to see some color in the sky. Sun's going to be up probably in the next 30 minutes or so.
I'll tell you what, it was definitely below zero and uh I stayed warm. My back's killing me, but I was warm. You know, I've tried out a lot of different survival shelters, and hands down, this is my favorite one. If you're dealing with cold weather, if you're getting rained on or snowed on, or there's lots of wind, a lean to might be better. But if you're just straight up trying to survive the cold, this is the best. The shelter isn't complicated. The key is just making sure you warm up the ground and warm up whatever is going to be behind you. The second key is to try to get your bed higher than the fire. heat goes up and so that if you're slightly elevated, you're going to catch a lot more of that fire's heat than if you were down on the ground with the fire. I think this shelter would work in even colder conditions than what I got right now. Just make these rails longer. And then if you start to get cold in the middle of the night because that root ball is cooled off too much or the ground underneath you cooled off too much, I would just take this fire and kick it underneath the bed, then scoot the bed over here and switch places with the fire. And you could just do that every couple hours and then constantly be above hot ground. I think if you had plenty of fuel and you just kept switching sides like that, you could probably last in like -20 or some really awful temperatures. You wouldn't get much sleep, but you would make it through the night. Well, this has been fun, but I think it's time to pack it up.
Well, you might have noticed this video is a bit shorter than my typical video, and there's a couple reasons for that.
One is I am exhausted. My wife Rebecca and I just got back from a trip to Palao, and we're super jet-lagged.
Combining that with sleeping on that hardwood, I'm wiped out. But it was one of those things where time was tight and if I was going to get any video, it had to be a short video. Oh, check out these wolf tracks.
Oh man, those look pretty fresh.
There's another reason I'm keeping this video short. This month marks the 11th year I've been doing YouTube videos.
I've done over a thousand videos. And when I started doing YouTube videos, it was a fun way for me and my sons to spend time together. But they're in school now and I can't just pull them out anytime I want to go do these adventures. So I end up going by myself.
And it's kind of blown up into this whole thing where now YouTube is taking me away from my children. And while there's a time and a place for dads to go do stuff on their own, it's gotten a bit much. And when I'm gone like this, it's a sacrifice to my family and my wife. So I'm going to keep this video short. I'll only be gone one night and try to get home and see my family.
Oh, look at this. This is a perfect walking stick.
Oh yeah.
Just following these wolf tracks, seeing where they lead. They're kind of heading in the direction of my car.
Check it out. Those are V prints. It's a little mouse that lives under the snow.
He popped up on top, went hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, and then dove down underneath the snow. Again, foxes and owls love to eat those vos. And they have really good hearing, so they'll sit there and listen for the vos scurrying under the snow. Oh, look at this. See, here's the fox print. And you can see the fox was digging for a vole really close to the car. I can hear the highway very loud now. Check it out.
Those are the wolf prints.
All right, guys. That's it for now. I'll see you next time.
Come on.
Well, there we go. It's pretty cozy.
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 that are a little bit more extreme. a little bit more hardcore than I normally would.
And I had 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 can go really fast. I moved a lot of snow today.
Took me about an hour and a half to hike here and about 5 hours to build this shelter. So, yeah, I was moving right along. The snow is about 7 ft 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 just a lot easier on the back and you can move a lot of snow really quick and then 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.
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 mph winds tonight. It's a good thing we're sleeping under the snow. Woo! 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 and 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 camp foods.
Oh, so warm and delicious. Got to eat it quick before it freezes.
Oh my goodness. I woofed 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 going to try to make some popcorn.
Making popcorn over the fire is so easy.
Just put a little oil in the bottom of the pan, throw in a test kernel. 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.
Right, time to boil some more water.
Got a bottle of boiling water. Going to check for leaks. Lids on nice and tight.
Going to 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 in 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 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 any rate, 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. Just going to sit in bed and read a Jack London novel here for a little bit. I'm go to sleep.
I'll see you guys in the morning.
Well, good morning, guys. It's about 8:00 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 got to 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. Wa! 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 going to have instant granola for breakfast.
Well, 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 going to go put the fire out.
Woo! Well, it took an hour and a half to get up the mountain and half an hour to get down. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. If you want to see more adventure videos from the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel, don't forget to click subscribe. We put out new videos every Saturday morning. and check out our camping adventure playlist with over 60 of our best camping videos all in a list. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next Saturday morning.
I hate when it does that. As I cut away the sides, every so often the snow will settle and just go. It's a nice little noise and scares the beebies out of me.
Heat. Heat.
This is a pretty cozy little shelter.
I'll tell you what, that is a beautiful view.
I've got room to sit down, cook, sleep.
This is perfect. And it only took me four hours to make this thing, which is a lot less time than some of my other snow shelters.
Oh, this smells so good.
A beautiful chicken mango curry.
That was good.
Check for leaks and put the hot water bottle in my sleeping bag. Get all nice and toasty. I'll tell you what, this is just one of the best snow shelters I've ever made. There's a couple key features that are really important to keeping you warm. First off, you don't want your sleeping area to be the lowest point in the shelter. The cold air tends to collect the bottom. Another thing is you want to make sure your snow shelter has lots of corners. You don't want to allow the wind to blow straight into your snow shelter. Additionally, when you do have a corner, make a little extra room so that the wind comes down, it goes past the door instead of being funneled into the door.
Likewise, on this end, I've got two entrances so that if the wind blows crosswise, the wind continues through the shelter instead of getting funneled down into the shelter. But I'm going to get a chance to really test this shelter out. It's supposed to be a pretty good snowstorm tonight. We'll see what happens.
Looks like I had some sit on my face.
The snow here is really soft. Hopefully, it'll freeze really good tonight. Then my stairs won't fall apart. The type and quality of the snow really affects how much energy it takes to build one of these shelters. This was really easy stuff to work with. So, things went really fast. I moved a lot of snow in just 4 hours. The inside of this shelter is about 5 ft wide and the roof is a little bit over 6 ft tall. So the very back of the shelter to the mouth is 11 ft. I had to move about 230 cubic feet of snow to excavate this part of the shelter. So at the bottom of the entrance to the top of the snow bm, it's a little over 10 ft deep. But the original surface of the snow was about 8 8 1/2 ft deep. The distance from here at the top of the stairs to the back of that wall is about 17 ft. Plus there's this little bit I excavated right here.
So, my rough estimate is that I had to move about 423 cubic feet of snow to build this shelter. A little over 15 1/2 cubic yards. That's the max capacity of a commercial dump truck. I earned my hot chocolate tonight.
Well, it is getting late and it's getting cold. Got some peanuts for a bedtime snack.
Well, it's getting late, so I'm going to go ahead and eat some peanuts and listen to an audiobook and go to bed. But tomorrow, I'm going to do something interesting. I'm going to see what it takes to make this tunnel collapse. I know a lot of people have wondered whether or not these snow caves will fall down on you. And honestly, I don't know. We'll test that out tomorrow.
Oh, good morning.
Oh, I'm nice and warm. I got to get up and make some breakfast.
Oh, look at this. Got a lot of snow last night.
Oh, yeah. That's got to be at least a foot. Consequently, the roof is sagged a little bit. It's about an inch or two shorter. I'm having to hunch over a lot more than I did last night. Snow caves will actually do that. They'll sag quite a bit over time. If you're going to use them for more than one day, often you have to redig out the roof. If you're a bit claustrophobic, it can make it hard to sleep at night knowing that the roof is slowly sagging over your face.
All right, let's see if I get my pants on. Oh, my pants are frozen.
Steel cut oatmeal and sliced fam for breakfast.
All right, this steel cut oatmeal is so good. Got some butter in there, brown sugar, raisins, a little hot spam to go with it.
It's not bad at all. All right. Well, I'm going to clean this place up and then we're going to go explore outside.
We got a lot of snow out there.
All right, let's go see what it's like outside.
It's a proper little snowstorm up here.
It is really snowing. All of this fresh snow is going to make the avalanche danger go through the roof. Luckily, we're not in any avalanche zones, so we'll be okay. Above the ceiling right here, the snow's pretty thick. But yesterday, I could see light shining through in that corner of the cave, which means there's less than 2 ft of snow between the ceiling and the surface of the snow. You can kind of see what I mean. Right here, there's this blue color. That's light shining through the snow right here. You can see that's about 2 ft of snow. So, I'm really curious to see whether this roof can stand up to 200 lb of me jumping up and down on it.
I couldn't feel any movement.
Yeah. I mean, it looks perfectly fine from here. Well, this one hasn't collapsed yet, but all snow caves collapse eventually. All right, I think it's time to get out of here.
Oh, look how deep this snow is. Even with my snowshoes, it's going up to my kneecap. There's probably 2 and 1/2 ft of fresh snow since yesterday. I got a sneaky suspicion that my car might be very stuck when I find it.
I think I got some digging to do.
Yeah, we got a good solid 2 ft of snow and I've got about 100 yards of unplowed road to go. It's going to be tricky.
We've got absolutely no visibility.
Don't need visibility unless we can drive somewhere.
Hey, not bad. I got like 75 ft with that. Let's dig it out and try it again.
So, I'm going to take my snowshoes and beat a path to the plowed road.
Oh, that's a long way to go.
I was giving it a bunch of throttle and it just popped on me and I kind of smelled this burning smell and now only two of the wheels are spinning. I think I boogered up the all-wheel drive. Got a gentleman in a big 4x4 pickup who might be able to help get me out.
That's pretty sick.
Oh, I'm about to go for a ride.
Oh, we're doing it.
>> All right, man. Thank you.
>> Yep. Thank you.
>> Hey, you, too.
>> That pickup truck was a monster. If it wasn't for that, I would have been here for a long time.
Well, I'm all by myself now.
I've got lots of different ammo. I've got slugs for bears and I've got birdshot. It's a nice thing about shotguns. They're versatile.
There we go. Just going to leave my gun case in the bushes. I'll get it on my way back. Well guys, welcome to the temperate rainforests of Southeast Alaska. It rains over 270 days out of the year here and we're about 45 miles northnortheast of Catch Can, Alaska.
All right, we got to get trucking. Got a long way to go.
Look at this place. It's a cold jungle.
Everything is covered in moss.
Look at the size of this log. This is crazy.
Look at this.
That's pretty cool.
Well, this is the lake I was trying to find. Unfortunately, I'm on the wrong end of the lake. And it's a big lake.
Sure is pretty.
Hold on. There's a little something over there.
Check it out. It's an old trolley.
All the woods rotted away, but you can still see the metal frame.
Oh, that is slick. You see the trolley pretty good here. I think normally the water level's a little bit lower and you can walk out to that thing, but hey, I got a great view of the lake.
Look at this.
Looks a little beat up.
National Forest Service left these canoes here for anybody to use. As long as you take care of them, put them back where you found them, everyone can enjoy them. It's a real great thing.
Woohoo.
You know what? Rain or no rain, this is still pretty cool. Look at this.
There's a couple ducks right over there.
I think I might go get them.
Oh, there they go. Well, they didn't let me get close to them, but they're here.
And that's a good sign. If I get up early tomorrow morning, I think I might have a good chance at him.
There we go. We got ourselves a nice little shelter. Going to need it cuz I've already wet my pants.
Well, this is a pretty slick little shelter. It was built in 1937, so it's almost 90 years old. Just made with logs and cedar shingles. Got a nice little shelf up here you can sleep on or use for storage. Look at it. Big old solid benches here.
Got even a little bit of wood here I might be able to chop up. This is a pretty cool spot, but I got to get my tent set up. I am really wet and cold.
Well, check this out.
It's a volcanic hotring. Look at all the steam coming off this water.
Oh, that's warm.
See if we can jam this hole up.
There we go. It's filling up with hot water pretty quick.
Scalding hot right there.
This right here must be the source.
Woo! Yeah, that's boiling. This over here is just warm. You can see all the steam coming off the hillside. There's probably other hot springs popping out higher up there. Now, there's a hose over there bringing hot water down the hill. We got to figure out why it's not working.
There we go.
That's hot. All right. So, we got cold water there, boiling hot water there, and warm water flowing in here. And you can kind of use the three to adjust your temperature. Oh man, I want to jump in this right now, but it's getting dark and I am getting hungry and I need to give this some time to clean out the pool and get it nice and warm.
Woo!
That is so awesome. I think the only thing that could be more exciting than that is a hot meal. Oh, I am so hungry.
These broughtwur are pre-cooked, so you just want to warm them up. Really, put a little bit of water in the bottom of the frying pan. Bring it to a boil. By the time the water evaporates, the broughtwur is piping hot through and through.
Oh, that's delicious. It's not fancy, but it's warm and it's quick. Two things I really appreciate right now.
There you go.
I'll tell you what, guys. I am exhausted. I had to get up at 5:30 in the morning to catch my flight. Spent all day on a plane and then had to hurry as fast I could to get here before sunset. Didn't even have time to eat lunch.
Got my hot water bottle here. Checked for leaks.
All right, looks good. Let's put that in there. Well, I got some bread flour with me. And tomorrow morning, I'm going to eat hot fresh bread. So, I'm going to go ahead and mix up a little water with it.
Give it a little mix. Let it sit overnight and it'll be fermented and all ready to go tomorrow morning. Making fresh bread is one of my favorite things to eat on a camp out and I get people asking me all the time how you do it. I did an entire video on how to make campfire bread. It's really easy.
Just going to hang it up on this clothes line so mice can't get at it. Well, I think I am ready to get out of these wet clothes.
All right.
Well, the sun set about an hour ago and it's only 7:15. It is getting dark so early nowadays.
I'm just going to kind of hop into bed and eat some snacks and listen to an audio book. I've got a pumpkin pie infused Gouda cheese, which is going to be kind of wild. Got some chocolate covered hazelnuts, a wicked salami, fig cake, and some pilot bread. So, yes, I'm having an awesome time.
Sun's just barely up and it's not raining. So, I think I should go do some duck hunting. Oh, yeah. These didn't dry out at all last night. This is not going to be fun.
That flock of ducks is right back where they were yesterday. I'm going to try to stalk them.
Oh, there's about 15 ducks in that flock and they flew off before I even got half as close as I needed to be. But I'm sure they're not the only duck on this lake.
Malard ducks actually have a language of sorts. There's a hey baby, I'm here call.
There's that num num this is tasty call.
There's the basic quack.
Well, that duck came right into the call and I was able to close the distance with him pretty good. But when I got closer, I could tell he wasn't a malard.
He's some sort of diving duck. And those usually don't taste as good as malards.
So, I'm just going to kind of let that one go.
I'm just working my way up and down this river and around the lake just looking for sloohs and marshy spots.
Oh my legs.
Well, I spent about 3 hours paddling around looking for ducks. Didn't shoot any. And oh, I am tired and hungry. I think I am ready for breakfast.
Little something to keep me warm while I cook.
Got a little butter and honey in this jar.
We're going to let that warm up.
Pour some honey butter on that. Some fresh pan fried bread with honey butter and pork chow bacon.
Few things in the world taste better than fresh homemade bread smothered in melted butter and honey. Well, I'll tell you what, the rain has eased up a little bit. I want to take advantage of that. I want to go get some firewood and bring it into the shelter so it can dry off a little bit. And maybe, just maybe, I can build a fire tonight. If nothing else, cutting firewood will keep me warm.
Look at that. There's water all the way through that log.
There we go. Got a nice pile of wet wood. It's mostly dry on the inside, but it's so wet on the outside, it's going to take a lot of heat to get it dry so it can ignite. In order to get the fire started, I'm going to need dry kindling and lots of it. And the problem is is where do you find it? All the branches and moss and grass here are just soaking wet. I got these two dry pieces of wood I found in the shelter. So, I need to chop them down and make them into kindling and keep that kindling bone dry.
Each dry piece of wood I'm going to lay over here where it's nice and dry.
Another great fire starter is charcoal, but this stuff's soaking wet. So, we're going to dry it out.
There you go. That works real good.
Also, use your stove to dry out other pieces of wood.
I'm out of water. Luckily, around here there is no short supply of water.
If the water you're filtering out has a lot of sediment, it'll gum up your filter really quick. So, I use the carrying case for my water filter to kind of do an initial screening.
The carrying case will filter out all the sand and sticks and other things.
I just hang up the dirty water and gravity pulls it through a filter down the hose and fills up my water bottle.
All right, let's go and pinch it off.
Rumor has it there's brook trout in this lake and uh I haven't caught a brook trout in a long time. I got my rod rigged up with a little fly. Got a black leech with a gold bead on it. I don't know a ton about this lake, but most lakes like this in Alaska have leeches in it, and trout love to eat leeches.
I think I want to bring a hot water bottle with me fishing, but I don't want to sit and wait for a pot to boil on my stove.
Woo! Yeah, that's toasty.
Oh, that feels nice.
Well, the fishing isn't going great. The rain's picking up and I am soaked to the bone. I think I might head back.
I am soaking wet and very cold. My hot water bottle is lost its oomph. I think I need to do something to warm myself up. And I got an idea.
All right, let's get warm. I'm starting to regret my idea.
Okay, half of me is being boiled alive.
Half of me is freezing to death. And there's just a little bit of sweet spot.
Okay. Oh, I think I've got the temperature dialed in pretty good. That hot water pipe is just a touch too hot.
So, I got a little bit of that warm waterfall coming in mixing with it. Just just perfect. Between the hiking and the canoeing, I'm a little bit sore. This is nice.
Oh, well, I missed lunch and I'm a bit hungry, so uh I think I'm going to have a hot spring snack.
So good.
Oh, this is nice. But I'm starting to get overheated.
Oh, a little lightheaded getting out of that hot water.
I don't have any towels, so I'm just going to have to put on my clothes wet and dry out slowly.
Honestly, I don't feel any wetter than I did before I got into the hot springs, but man, I'm a whole lot warmer. I'm starting to get hungry, so I am going to make a tin foil dinner.
Little salt, pepper, little pork gel, bacon on there, green onion, and a whole bunch of cilantro.
If you're doing this at home, use Italian sausage or kilbasa instead of broughtwurst, and it's even better. But hey, you know, use what you got.
All righty. Oh, I think the rain eased up. I'm going to make a fire. I better do it now.
There we go.
Even with a dry kindly, that fire isn't taking aggressively. There's so much humidity in the air.
I put these wet pieces of wood up here so they can dry, but they'll also act as a roof if it starts to rain, which will protect the fire.
I can hear it sizzling in there. It's so nice. Working the fire is drying my pants out. Look at that.
There we go. I forgot to bring a fork, so I made some chopsticks. That is smelling like it's ready.
There.
M. That smells good.
Oh, that sweet potato is so good.
Oh, that was good.
The meat and the sweet potato, a little bit of salt. Man, that's good stuff. I uh I think it's time to roast a marshmallow.
Oh, that's good.
Got some uh lemon pound cake here. Cup of hot chocolate with some cake for dessert. Not too shabby at all.
I gotta tell you what, I'm feeling very fortunate right now. Got a nice warm fire. The rain has been really light. I got a full belly. I think there's a really good chance I'm going to go to bed dry and warm. Really, the only thing I can complain about right now is that I've got two visitors.
Oh, go. Get out of my Get out of there. Get out of there.
Okay. Come on. Come on. Uh yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Come on. This way. This way, buddy. Come on. Come on.
There we go. There's mice all over. Oh, mice can cause a lot of damage. Anything fuzzy, they want to steal it and take it to their nest. So, they'll chew holes in your sleeping bag. They'll pull your hair out. They'll chew up your jackets.
And of course, they can get into your food and ruin your food.
Dude, that's a different one.
He's a little fatter than the other one.
I'm just going to try to clean up really well and get all my stuff off the ground so they don't chew it up.
Sure, a mouse can still get to it if they want to, but at least I'm not making it easy.
Hopefully that'll keep my stuff away from the mice.
Oh, these socks are so wet.
And it feels so good to be warm and dry, but it's late. I've got to turn off the camera and I'll see you in the morning.
Oh, good morning. I had this nightmare that I was rabbit hunting and I shot a rabbit and when I got close and picked it up, it was someone's palm ring. Tell this old lady that I shot her dog and thought it was a rabbit.
Oh, everything is so damp. You hang up your clothes and they do not dry at all.
I've got an entire change of dry clean clothes, but I'm saving it for the airplane ride home. Don't want to get the airplane all gross.
Oh, it's raining good outside. It's going to be wet today.
Oh, this blade is disgustingly dirty.
Well, they're not exactly dry, but they're worlds better than yesterday.
I'll tell you what, this has been a pretty cool little adventure, but I am ready to get out of the rain. I think it's time to head back to the beach. I got a plane to catch. Oh, I'm going to get soaked.
Heat.
Heat.
Oh, there's a seal right there.
Well, I got a bit of bad news. I just got a message from the pilot that they're weathered in at catch can and they can't come get me. I don't know how bad the weather is. I don't know how long it's going to last. All I know is the pilot said he'd give me an update in 2 hours. That's how it is here in Alaska. You have to bow to the weather.
The weather doesn't bow to you.
I need to get out of this rain. I'm getting soaked.
Oh, it's good to get out of the rain.
I'm wet from the waist down and a little bit cold, but at least I'm not in the rain anymore.
I get cold just sitting here. But if I go out and walk around, I get more wet.
So, I've got to do little exercises under the tarp to try to stay warm.
I don't have any more cooking fuel and I don't have a ton of food left. So, just having a really simple lunch.
Well, the rain eased up and I got a message from the pilot. They're still socked in in catchin, so I'm not getting rescued anytime soon. Maybe in a couple hours or something will change or maybe I'll be stuck here for a day or two. I'm using the break in the weather to walk around. I'm freezing. I'm just going to walk up and down this beach till I'm warm.
I can hear a plane. There's the plane.
Thank you so much.
I got to catch my flight to Anchorage.
So, they just dropped me off on a dock right here outside the airport.
Oh, heat.
Got some dry clothes on.
>> Give me a hug.
>> I missed you. and Jacob.
>> Yeah, >> I kind of wanted this.
>> Oh, well guys, it's good to be back home and with the family. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. If you want to see more videos from the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel, make sure to click subscribe. All right, I'll see you next video, everyone.
I think the first thing I'm going to do is explore a little bit.
There's plenty of wood.
Looks like a coyote's been walking up and down this beach.
Keep finding tons of these little skeletons. They feel really light, like they belong to a bird.
Little sea urchin.
It's a fish jaw. Look at all those teeth.
That's the top half of a beaver jaw.
Look what I just found.
Those are bear paw prints right there.
Not sure what kind of bear it is, but this is where I want to build my campsite. Well, I walked about 2 mi round trip down the beach looking for a spring or creek. Didn't find anything.
Got about 4 lers of water, and that's enough for today and tomorrow, but probably not enough for all four days.
But right now, I've got to focus on building a shelter. It's getting late.
Got you. Got you. Got you.
Well, thank you.
What?
All right, I got camp set up and not a moment too soon. It's getting dark.
Well, with the rocks behind the fire and the canvas behind me, this is really toasty, which is good because it's gotten chilly outside. I could see my breath. I knew I'd be getting to this spot kind of late, so I packed a pretty simple meal. I got some uh got some cured salami and I got some smoked salmon and pilot bread. I caught some silver salmon a couple weeks ago and I smoked them up and then I mixed the smoked salmon in with brie, honey, walnuts, and garlic.
For dessert, I have chocolate covered macadamia nuts.
Got myself some blisters right there and there.
It's late. I've got a lot to do tomorrow. I'm going to put up the camera. Hopefully, we won't have any bears joining us tonight. See you guys in the morning.
Oh, good morning.
It's cold outside.
Oh, that's gorgeous.
Well, before I get the fire started and I start cooking breakfast, I think I want to complete the fire ring.
I need to find a couple perfectly shaped stones.
That one's promising.
I wouldn't mind another one of those.
I'm sitting here finishing breakfast and I can see a flock of seagulls diving on bait fish right there.
Maybe I need to rig up the rod.
Just checking my bait and I reeled in a flesh-eating starfish.
All right, I'm going to go put him back.
That's an eagle feather. That's from a young bald eagle.
Well, the surf fishing wasn't really paying off and we've got a few hours before high tide. So, I'm hiking back to the kayak to see if we can go do some kayak fishing. While I'm at it, I want to keep an eye out for a water source.
Only got about a liter and a half of fresh water left. So, I've got to go look for water.
Tell you what, I was just thinking I wish I had a hat. I hope there's not lice in it. Check out the bald eagle up there.
Oh, those are such a big bird.
All right, we got some water.
That's uh that's brackish. There's definitely a fair amount of salt water in that. So, this right here is a tidal river. It changes direction based on whether the tide's coming in or out. So, I think I'm going to put my kayak in and catch a ride out into the bay. See if we can't catch some fish.
Going to stop and do a little bit of lunch before I get on the kayak.
Lingi mui covered mango.
We let the current take me down the river. We'll fish a little bit in the lagoon. When the tide switches, we'll catch the current back.
Sure nice not having to paddle, but I'm hearing an ominous roaring noise down that direction.
We got some pretty serious breakers here. But if I flip over in this, I'm going to go hypothermic immediately. I mean, there's literally ice washing up on the beach. This water is so cold, it hurts to put your hand in it. But I've been sitting here for a few minutes and I haven't seen any breakers off to the left. So, I think that's the trick.
Holy crap.
That was a lot crazier than I intended.
Yeah, I may not be going back that way.
Well, this iceberg's making crazy noises. It sounds like it's being deep fried. The ocean water is about 40 45° and so it's substantially warmer than the ice. Oh, that is cool.
I want to see if I can catch myself a fish for dinner. And usually the fishing's better when you're fishing underneath cliffs as opposed to beach.
Oh, hello Liz. It's a little baby salmon.
Oh, I think that's a little baby silver.
Won't fill me up, but he'll taste just fine. We'll we'll keep him.
Oh, look at this kelp greenling. Nice little kelp greenling.
Oh, there we go.
Oh, little baby kelp greening.
Oh. Oh. Another kelp greenling.
Kelp greening aren't horrible, but I like other fish better. And I think I'm going to catch something. Oh, got something. Oh, yeah.
That is what we want. There we go. Look at that black bass.
Where there's one of those, there's usually more. Oh. Oh, we got a big one.
We got a nice fish.
Oo, look at that. I believe this is a copper rock fish. I'm going to go ahead and put him back. You're only allowed to keep one of those per day.
Oh, there we go. Oh, another black bass.
You're allowed three of these per day, but I'm not going to eat both of these suckers. I got enough food. Oh, there we go. Oh, look at that beauty. What a feisty fish.
Little puffin swimming right by me over there. Oh, another black bass. I could have limited out.
There we go.
Another big black bass.
Well, the fishing's been pretty awesome.
I've got dinner and I've lost count how many fish I caught, but I'm getting thirsty and water's getting really low.
I need to go find a source of drinking water.
I'm so glad to see this water.
That is all the water we had left.
This is the best water filter system. It just pulls it through with gravity.
I got four lers of drinking water and 3 lers I can filter later. Oh, that feels good to have water. I was stressing about that.
Dang, some of those waves are popping up six feet tall.
I'm just going to page the kayak over this little spit of land over here. That way I can avoid all that craziness over there.
There we go. We're back in the river and we're rapidly moving the opposite direction we were a few hours ago. Man, that current is ripping. If I were to stay on this river, it would take me to a lake full of icebergs and an enormous glacier that's cving into the lake. I really want to go see that, but that'll have to wait for tomorrow.
Son of a gun.
Well, that wasn't great.
Well, there we go. We caught dinner and survived to tell the tale.
It was a little cold last night and it's supposed to get even colder as the week goes on. So, I'm going to bust out my stove.
All right, I think it's time to cook some fish.
And a little bit of maple syrup.
There we go. Put it in the smoke but out of the heat.
Got a little bread flour in the east here.
Walking miles on those rocks with these boots has just been killing my feet.
That is some beautiful fillets right there.
Little pepper. Smoked paprika.
Chicken and mole here.
There we go.
We got chicken and mole, green hatch chilies, and lots of rockfish. Some salsa.
Rockfish is such a firm white meat.
Really good.
Oh, that was good.
For dessert, I'm going to finish off my bread with a little bit of honey. I don't know what it is, but there are few things better than warm bread and honey.
That was good.
I will see you guys in the morning.
Good morning.
Putting this stove in last night was the best idea ever.
It's so toasty in here.
Oh, pancakes are hard to beat. I guess technically this is breakfast in bed.
Nice.
There you go. My smoked salmon's done.
It's tiny, but good.
Well, despite the weather, I really want to go see that glacier.
This is a bald eagle's footprints. Look at the size comparison to my hand. From one talon to the other, that's probably 8 in.
Oh, darn. I missed the tide. It's heading the wrong way. I might be able to get up against the current. We'll see.
In the middle of the river, the current's moving faster than I can paddle. But maybe if I stick to the sides, I can sneak up.
Oh, my hands are so cold. All right, check out that eagle.
A bunch of pink salmon right there. Look at that.
I think I made it to the lake that feeds the river.
Now, it's hard to see with all this fog, but there's an enormous glacier falling into this lake somewhere over there. I just got to see if I can find a way through all this ice.
Oh, that'll bump out. I got to be careful going in between these icebergs.
Some of these weigh more than buildings, and as the tide goes up and down, they're going to shift and move around.
This clear water can disappear, or worse yet, you can get squished in between two big icebergs.
Place is just full of seals and sea otterters. I've seen like 20 of them.
This ice pack goes on forever.
ice that comes from the bottom of the glacier is super compressed and has that really cool blue color.
The fog lifted and I can see the face of the glacier. The tide switches in about an hour and a half and it's taken me 3 hours to get here. So, I better get heading back.
I know I'm hungry when I'm double fisting it.
Oh, that kayaking wore me out. That was about 5 hours.
Well, it's almost dinner time and I got some bread dough left over. So, I think I'm going to make a bushcraft bread oven.
We got the oven stuffed full of wood.
Got the dough rising in the pot.
Just stick it over here and let it rest.
Aha. There we go.
Is there anything better than warm fresh bread? Yes. Warm fresh bread with honey butter. Oh.
That is so good. Oh, the crust is so crispy on this thing.
Oh, I'm getting so full. I've got a belly full of warm bread and it's nice and cozy in here. I'm going to just kind of take it easy. I'm sore after all that kayaking.
writer wasn't writing away in the summer.
>> It went off. You think so?
>> It's signed and numbered.
>> She description.
>> Here we go.
Nice little wooden spoon.
Well, I think I made a little bit of a mess here.
It's been a fun, relaxing evening, but I've got to get to bed. I've got to get up early in the morning. I'll see you guys then.
Good morning. I've got to hurry up and get packed.
I hate packing up in the rain. All of my gear is soaked and dirty.
Now I just got to wait for my ride. Look at that. There's a whole bunch of seals right out there trying to catch pink salmon.
Oh, there's my boat.
Oh, I don't don't need my shower for the month now.
>> Yeah, you know, you're going.
Well, guys, I hope you enjoyed this adventure. If you want to see more camping videos from the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel, make sure to check out our camping adventure. Boys, it's time for bed.
>> Where did those boys go off to?
Where are they?
No, you sit down there all one.
This is not connected. Tommy look like a giant vo right here.
Now from up here second level >> we have left >> not the one you set it up This is sturdy.
>> Yeah, it's sturdy.
>> I'm just going to see.
We're going to defend us from mom and dad. We mean a lot of Nerf guns.
>> Yeah. Let's go.
>> I need to get down.
>> You know, I got a gar gun.
>> I love these guns.
I got I got >> boys. Where are you?
Boys, those boys aren't getting ready for bed.
There you are.
>> I told you guys to get ready for bed and now you're down here playing. You go get ready for bed or you are in deep trouble.
>> We're not going to bed because we got Nerf guns.
>> If you shoot me with that Nerf gun, you're going to go into a timeout and never come out.
Big mistake.
>> He just called lucky sock. Yeah. Mom, catch with a Nerf gun. That was a lucky shot.
That's a really good song.
We're going to make bigger guns.
Hey, Luke here with the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel, and today I'm going to show you how to make a knife sheath out of a dead squirrel. Oh, hello.
Becca's in trouble. Time to bring the pain. Spear. Spear. Spear. Axe. Axe.
Axe. Axe. Axe. Gun. Hog spplitter. Here we go.
This is what we need.
>> Get the guy in, mama.
Heat. Heat.
They're better armed than I thought. I got a plan, though. We need leverage.
Cease fire. Cease fire. I've got Mimi.
>> No. Mimi.
>> Come to bed or Mimi gets it.
>> Tommy. Tommy. Do what she says. She's crazy.
>> Don't worry, Nathan. I got a plan.
>> Let's stay up or Jacob gets it.
>> They have Jacob. They have Jacob.
>> Don't worry, babe. I think I can get the shot.
>> No. Oh, hold on. I got an idea. Hey, Tommy, look what I've got.
>> No. Hey, Dad. Look what I have.
>> He's got my fishing wheel. Becca, do what he says. Do what he says.
>> Give us some stuff that we or your fishing wheel gets it.
>> Let's not get crazy, guys. Let's do a prisoner exchange.
>> Okay, we'll exchange prisoners.
>> Oh, Jacob, baby. Oh, Jacob, buddy. Oh, buddy. Oh J.
>> Oh. Oh my fishing reel. Oh, you're safe.
You're so I missed you.
>> All right. Now send over Mimi and Pikachu.
>> Pikachu.
>> All right, guys. Enough of these games.
It's time you two went to bed.
>> Never.
Luke, that didn't work at all.
>> I've got a new plan, Becca. We're to use stealth.
I think I see something.
>> I think there's a sniper in the room.
>> Let me see if this devil will white.
>> I don't see anybody.
I can't see anyone.
>> What are we going to do, Tommy?
>> Don't worry. I got a tank.
Ew. I think I see a butt. All right, Becca. These little rug rats need to go to bed. We tried frontal assault and that didn't work. So, I got a new idea. I need you to do a distraction.
Can you do it?
>> Yeah.
>> Go get them. Okay.
>> It's bedtime, boys.
Put the hands up.
Bedtime for Bonsos.
All right, guys. It's bedtime.
>> Mama, do you love me? Yes, I do, dear one.
It's like this every
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