Building an A-Frame Snow Shelter - Daylight Version
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- An A-frame snow shelter built on a snowshoeing trip in the mountains of northern Utah in February 2014. Smaller than an igloo, but much faster and easier to build than an igloo, quinzee, or snow cave if working alone. This one took me about an hour to complete and was large enough for one person to sleep in very comfortably.
Well done, quick and efficient. Especially like the roof construction with the over lapping block, as no need to balance two blocks trying to keep them from falling in your trench.
Wow.. impressive!
Thanks for the video...
Great idea the staggered joins. For sure easier than balancing two at once.
Thank you. It does make building the roof much easier.
Keep up the good work.. I really enjoyed ur work
Come to Greece to avoided loosing ur time at snow..
Fascinating.. definitely learned some good suvival things here!
Glad you enjoyed it!
im probubly going to do thes in winter thanks for the inspeasion man!
The what? Lmao
This was 2 years ago. He's probably 10 years old now
Wow, you have my respect man!
I live in Australia, I’m watching a video about how to create a shelter in the snow from 6 years ago. Why?
Because idk man! Maybe it’ll snow some time 🤤
Fantastic 🙌
Great video. I would recommend always building a "cold sink" when making snow shelters. I can easily envision your A-frame concept with a cold sink. Did you actually sleep in this? Separating your body from the ground is extremely important as well. Any chance you can do a follow up video with ideas for sleeping or making the bed?
Yes, I've spent the night in this kind of shelter a number of times, and I've always slept very comfortably. There's usually very little room inside for a cold sink, but sometimes I've been able to position the shelter on a slope so that cold floor air drains out the door. My main goal with this type of quick emergency shelter is to get out of the wind in a hurry.
Of course, the snow blocks the wind and provides some insulation. Definitely, with or without cold sink, it is better than being exposed.
wait, did that really take you only 1 hour? thats amazing. i think im going to try this. what happens when youve been inside for a while? with humidity
You should wear a trench coat when you are digging out a trench.
Very good Greetings from Germany.
Nice!
Ok this is coffin like… a little claustrophobic
brilliant
Great video!!! What kind of saw is it that you are using? Never seen one like this before. Do they have a special name?
It's a combination meat/wood backpacking saw commonly used by big game hunters in the Western U.S. and sold under a variety of brand names at local sporting goods stores. I love mine and use it for lots of additional purposes. It almost always goes with me in my hunting/hiking daypack.
Thanks for the info, much appreciated. I live in Europe so I'm not sure wether I can find such saw here or not. But at least now I know where to look for it.
One of my saws is made by a company called Danielson and another by a company called Knapp. Both companies call their products sportsman saws. Perhaps you could find one of them online.
I know it blocks the wind and blowing snow but what would be the average temperature difference between outdoors and the shelter?
A difference of 30 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit is not uncommon when outside temperatures are below zero
do you ever dig a "cold trench"?
Is it strong if someone steps on it by accident?
Every worried of the shelter collapsing ?
Ben Lee It's not enough snow to worry about, you would be able to sit up and be fine. It wouldn't fall in without really bad winds or something anyway, snow is surprisingly good for structures.
jesse julian ah okay thanks. Live in a area where snow shelters dont exist :P
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