In this video, I return to camp and build the shelter's fire-pit and heat reflector, and test it by finally lighting the first fire at camp in over a year of building. After making my way to camp through knee deep snow, I got to work shovelling out the front of the shelter. I cleared an area for the fire-pit, found and dug up the rock pile I collected before winter, and threw together a quick fire ring with an open front. After, I used some of the logs from my wood storage and cut them into long stakes, and pounded them in with my axe (after digging out over a foot of ice off camera). I then used the bucksaw to cut logs to length and stacked them in-between the stakes, tying it all together with paracord making sure to add in the drying string which was suggested many times in past videos. A few days later, I returned to camp right as a cold snap came through the area bringing near -50°C temperatures over the next four days. As the temperature progressively dropped, I got to work splitting kindling from some of the shelter's scrap wood, and made a shaving pile with my knife. I lit the fire with my ferro-rod, and after getting it to a reasonable size, I was quite impressed with how warm the shelter was even with the cold wind and quickly dropping temps. I spent the rest of the day relaxing and enjoying the finished camp, and coming up with more ideas for it in the future. Next up will be some camping.
Thanks for watching,
- Nicholas
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