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oh no I have lost my way

whatever shall I do

all right guys I'm in the middle of

nowhere here in Alaska and I'm going to

show you how not to freeze to death if

you're stranded in the woods in the

wintertime first things first we gotta

start moving some snow

the snow is never all the same there's

layers of powder and layers of crusty

ice you can cut up the Crusty isolators

with the knife

you're gonna move a whole lot more snow

if you can take it out in blocks rather

than handfuls

all right we got down to the ground and

cleared out a section about the size of

a queen mattress looks pretty good it's

got to be hard well draining soil we've

got frozen mud standing water ice any of

that stuff you gotta change spots you're

not going to last if you try to sleep in

the mud or sleep on the ice a little bit

more slope than I'd like but I'll take

it I think it's time for a little snack

break my wife made me a block of butter

coconut mochi hmm it's a Japanese

Hawaiian dish made with rice flour

butter and loads of sugar it's got like

a bazillion calories and stays fresh

forever

it's a great Trail food

just save this for later

this right here is a dead Paper Birch

you can see this little papery bark that

is an excellent fire starter and that's

how we're going to get our Tinder for

our flint and steel got to make really

sure not to stick this in the snow

though

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keep all these snowflakes off our Tinder

and I cut this birch bark and try to get

this really fine stuff for Tinder

a nice little pile of dry bark

oh there we go

oh that is gonna go up quick

the heat from this is intense it's hard

to stand next to this thing we've got to

thaw the ground out if we sleep on warm

dry ground it'll make all the difference

in the world so I've got to build a

massive fire and I gotta keep it going

for a long time

foreign

check it out we got a bunch of water

right here can't sleep in that

well the fire has done a great job

thawing the ground out and pushing the

walls of the shelter back but we're

getting water pooling up here and here

now hopefully once the ground gets a

little more thawed that water will just

go straight down it won't be a problem

but if we can't get rid of that standing

water I'm gonna have to make a raised

bed and that's going to be a lot of work

cutting to do but I'm gonna get a start

on dinner I'm gonna be making some baked

beans

all right

got a bag of Great Northern beans here

dump them in there

gonna let those beans simmer and soak

for a couple hours while we work on our

shelter

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all right I'm gonna move the fire and

see if the ground's drying up at all

if anything it's muddier

you see all the snow and ice it's

melting is just draining straight down

into this corner

and to a lesser extent we got it going

on over in this corner too I'm hoping if

I can dig little trenches on either side

then the water will go out this way and

I can make the middle nice and dry so I

have a place to sleep we'll see what

happens but this is the problem in the

winter time you really don't know what

type of ground you're dealing with until

you get it all shoveled out and thought

out the ideal place to do this is like a

gravel bar or a sand dune or a beach on

a lake

but you don't always get what you want

so you just gotta adapt

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I want to make a platform to sleep on

and to do that I need to get rid of all

these little branches I don't have an ax

and doing that with my knife will take

forever so I'm gonna use the fire

foreign

there we go dry ground

my little gutter trick seems to be

working we got firm dry ground right

here

all right we're getting there

foreign

got a little sleeping platform to keep

me out of the mud and it's a little bit

softer than the ground the wood bends a

little bit

got this just in case it starts to snow

really bad tonight I can throw my

blanket over the top and use it like a

tarp well I think my beans are about

done and I've worked up quite an

appetite so I think it's time to make

some dinner now I know this is a

survival video but I have a very

important rule I live by I don't mind

being cold I don't mind sleeping on the

ground and I don't mind being hungry but

I only do one of those things at a time

so tonight I'm eating like a king

time to cut up some firewood

oh

my blanket got a little wet from the

snowstorm so I'm just drying it out also

kind of makes a nice little Windbreak in

my back

all right let's test the beans

nice and soft

add a little pepper add a little salt

add some ground mustard

brown sugar and tomato paste

beans are almost done so I'm gonna go

ahead and make some bread I have this

dough I made up last night

take and wrap

this bit of cheese a little bit of bread

dough with that gouda inside

eating bread on the coals is really easy

either you make a disc and you lay it

straight on the coals and flip it or you

make a ball and you bury it into coals

a little bit of campfire actually gets

stuck to the bread tastes just like

flour

coming along nicely

all right we're gonna put that right on

the coals

just like the bread the coals are going

to stick to it while it's rare and once

it's cooked the colds will fall off

yes that is perfect

a little cheese filled biscuit cooked in

the ash right there

oh

she got the melted gouda in there that

is so good

oh those are good beans it's got so much

pork jowls in there and the brown sugar

these are good beans

oh that is delicious steak

this bread dough is so easy to bring on

winter campouts you just tear off a

piece and bake yourself some fresh bread

whenever you're feeling like it

if you refrigerate it it'll last three

four days without any problems it just

slowly becomes sour dough if you let it

sit for too long

I'll have bread was good I'm gonna make

some more of that

that is good prime rib nice glue

oh look at that

that's gorgeous

but it looks like it's going to be windy

and cold tonight

dinner was really good but I am so

thirsty so I need to clean my pot out

and start melting some snow get some

water

foreign

well the wind is really kicking up and

it is getting cold and the sun's setting

and I don't have enough firewood to get

me through the night so I need to go and

start chopping some more wood

well there we go that's a healthy pile

of firewood and I got a bunch of Tinder

over here as well

this Pine Burns about one inch radius

per hour it's about a two and a half

three inch radius so this piece of wood

should last three hours in the fire you

need about four of these to have a fire

so I'm gonna burn up about four of these

logs every three hour so I have about 12

hours of firewood right there

foreign

got my water

my socks are all sweaty I'm gonna go

ahead and try to dry my feet and boots

off before I go to sleep I got all the

steam coming off my feet

yeah my socks are really wet

oh that makes such a difference

my feet are all dry I got all my

firewood I think it's time to go to bed

I'm gonna be waking up throughout the

night to stoke the fire so better get to

bed sooner rather than later but before

I go to bed I'm going to show you one

little trick that's going to make my bed

very warm

thank you

well there we go got my bed set up where

my fire used to be they got all those

hot coals and Hot Rocks underneath there

it's gonna be so toasty warm oh wow yeah

that is awesome now if you're gonna do

this you want to make sure you use a

real wool blanket I did this with a

synthetic blanket or a polyester blanket

it would melt and cause me all sorts of

problems

nice and warm I can feel the heat from

the ground coming up through the bed it

is really nice

I'll tell you what it is so toasty in

here I'm low enough that the snow berm

is blocking the wind I've got the heat

from the ground coming up underneath me

and this fire is just baking me but I'm

gonna have to get up and soak the fire

several times throughout the night

so I better get going to bed

it's gonna be a long night I'll see you

in the morning

oh good morning

well there you go I didn't freeze to

death I even got some sleep was it

comfortable not particularly did I have

to Wing up a lot and soak the fire yeah

but it's pretty warm in here

oh had a little bit of snow last night

you know I woke up with these snowflakes

hitting my face which is really annoying

when you're trying to sleep I was able

to pull my face under the blanket and

stay dry but my blade gets a little bit

wet so I think I better dry it out

all right I think next step is to soak

the fire up and get some coals going so

we can make breakfast

all right I think it's time to cook some

breakfast

I got some leftover dough some leftover

pork chow bacon and a jar of honey and

butter

I think we're gonna make something good

all right I got honey and melted butter

like a little bit of pork gel bacon here

honey butter

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fresh bread slabs of bacon smothered in

honey butter this is nice

that is so good

oh I'll tell you what guys I've built a

lot of lean twos and Bushcraft shelters

but hands down the best way to stay warm

is to build a big fire clear out the

snow dry out the ground then move the

fire over and sleep on the warm ground

if you get really cold you can switch

places with the fire throughout the

night but unfortunately you need to be

able to make fire and you need access to

a lot of firewood for this to work and

if you don't have that there's another

trick I've heard about when I was a boy

my grandfather told me a story about a

Native American woman in his community

who got lost in the mountains crazy

blizzard came in dumped multiple feet of

snow deadly cold and when this Native

American woman realized that she was

stuck in this blizzard she found a tree

went under the branches and went to

sleep and so what my grandpa told me is

that you don't freeze to death without

waking up at least once and so when

she'd wake up cold instead of ignoring

it and going back to sleep she'd pop up

and run around the tree until her blood

was going and she was hot and then she

would go back under the tree go back to

sleep Apparently after two days the

blizzard broke and the community went up

into the mountains looking for and there

they found her and she just been running

around this tree for two days she was

tired miserable and cold but she was

alive but the more survival Bushcraft

camping trips I do the more I realized

that this survival stuff is really a lot

of work you're gonna have to push

yourself for hours every day just to

make it if you're not willing to work

hard and if you don't have that

self-discipline you're just not gonna

get it done

but on that note I think it's time to

start packing up

oh

just blows me away how good of a job

that fire does in clearing away the snow

it actually reminds me of the Donner

Party they had a fire pit like this and

it snowed 15 feet on them and the wall

of their fire pit was so high that they

had to carve stairs to be able to get in

and out of the fire pit well guys

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