@@thessjbacca5177 but he doesn't let people comment so it really alienates the group that are watching as some of us end up talking to the same people on these videos. Camping with Steve has one of those types of camaraderie setups with comments allowed! But I agree the outdoors boy guy does camp in some pretty harsh stuff living inside snow forts! 🥶
@@joeblow26 Yeah he kept getting in trouble because of having his kids on, when youtube started cracking down on weird comments. They are great vids though.
Always good to see someone walk the walk and be honest about the results. Comfy no, increase survivability, yes. As you said, you could talk for hours about how to make it better. A space blanket or two in a pocket would have been a world of difference, let alone a small SOL bivy. Nice work
I'll be honest I thought the temperature would be over 10-15°C because of the insulation but I was gravely wrong. It's definitely better than being stranded outside with the wind and cold but it's still not survivable unless you have extremely warm jackets. Thank you for the informativ video
actually, living in high stone areas, I never thought of looking at the stones at the base of a cliff to see how far away from the base I should stay. Great (life-saving) tip.
@@AndreFavron food generates heat, by way of bowel/gut composting; working up a sweat on a hike or pluckun grass ...is a bad thing -- under all that clothing
If you take windshield effect into account that shelter may be a lifesaver. Here in Canada you can be out with no wind and a regular coat at -15C and be just fine, a small breeze with -2C can feel like you are dying. Wind is a huge factor in how you can keep your heat!
Because if the air is still the heat transfer with the air would be through natural conviction which is fairly slow. However if the weather is windy the heat transfer would be through forced conviction which is much more significant.
@@yakmi1116 There is also the fact you got some water on your skin (sweat) and the wind will increase the speed at which it will evaporate which in turn will take heat from your body (because when water goes from liquid to gas it needs energy).
@@peterfarell7696 yes you are right. It's called the latent heat of vaporization. And this is basically how the Desert AC or the (water evaporative Air Conditioner) works
Imagine going on a nice sunrise hike in this area, and at exactly 06h15 this guy just crawls out of the shrubbery. Would be quite a spectacle. Great video, and very informative! Thank you for being able to put your money where your mouth is and prove the technique works!
@@TruthPerspecive yeah, don't doubt that at all. I went pheasant hunting out there 10 yrs ago and definitely remember the wind. I was just using such a low number as a crazy example how deadly wind chill can actually be
@@matthewklaus9970 I think every mph of wind drops what it feels like by 1 degree. And increase with dropping of the temp. T(wc) = 0.0817(3.71V**0.5 + 5.81 -0.25V)(T - 91.4) + 91.4 T(wc) is the formula . But still I get your point. Even 32 degrees with 15 mph will fell like 21.5 and -20 with same wind will feel like -45. -20 with 25 mph winds which isn’t to uncommon in ND will feel like -50 and at dark with out sun that feels like -50 is incredibly cold.
Wind is the killer most times. Guys have survived on the top of Everest totally exposed overnight with no wind. A 5-10 mph wind would have killed them.
I’m glad you were honest about the fact that it was still freezing in the shelter. Others would fake it and say it was really warm inside just to defend the shelter they built. Thanks for the honesty and great video.
I feel like if he wasn't filming and eating inside he could have covered himself with a lot more grass and then it probably wouldn't have been freezing but we also wouldn't have been able to see anything 😂
The main thing is really to protect against wind and/or snow. Wind can make the cold feel a lot worse, even if it's only 10F colder outside than inside.
@@Peter_Lynch Agree, specifically I think he made it a tad too big for the sake of the video, meaning there was more volume of air to warm with his body temperature with such an imperfect seal. I also wonder what would happen if it snows overnight; in one side if the heat of his body leaks too much it would cause the snow to melt and create a dangerous situation, but on the other side, an inch or two of snow could seal the shelter from the wind making it more comfy.
You are a trooper to have stayed out all night in the freezing cold with no real shelter except a tunnel of reeds and grass. I take my hat off to you! I honestly don't know if I could do what you did. You're amazing!
Amazing Dude… you are really a man’s man. Whatever that means… I hope y’all get it. Just a balls to the wall kinda fella. Guys like you are few and far between. Okay I’m done with the little phrases.😉thankyou for sharing your knowledge with us.
Deadfall kills even the hardest survivors. Rocky elevation can be very dangerous, like ice and snow, avalanche and landslides. While your on the topic o Deadfall always check the canopy for fallen or broken branches hanging above your position in the trees. Or for trees looking like they might fall over onto your camp. Peace
@@alexgaras1573 I'm pretty weathered and experienced, but I almost had my face ripped off by a random falling dead branch. Just hiking in the forest and looked up when I heard the snapping noise, butt end of a big fat Douglas fir branch just grazed my face but still damn near knocked me out and tore a big hole in my upper lip. Wasn't even windy, shit just breaks eventually. I Still have a bad scar.
Some ideas I would suggest for extreme circumsrances. 1. You could pack your coat and coat sleeves with dry grass, or clothing, paper if you have them. This will work as a insulation and keep your body heat in better. This is a take off of a "hobo jacket" where you loosley cumple up newspaper or a other paper into your jacket to help keep you warm when sleeping outside. It really works. You can do your pants too. 2. Layer much more grass inside on the floor and sides and bring in enough to cover you especially your feet and head if possible. Your head loses alot of heat so do all you can to keep it and you face covered. 3. The more insulation you have between you and the ground the better. Cold hard dirt just like cold stone or concrete will suck the heat out of your body. This is why you see many homeless sleep on cardboard and under cardboard it works petty well as a easy to find and free source of insulation from the cold and wind. Great two videos!
Growing kp in london england it was cool to go to the club wearing these fancy dress shirts. Walking home id shove it full of knews paper, just instinctively. Makes sense its called a hobo jacket
Yep exactly what I thought.. that softer dry grass would be excellent insulation inside the jacket and pant and all around you inside the shelter.. and around your head!
I think you'd have damn near froze solid outside of this shelter, and I believe the temperature differential would have been far greater if the weather conditions had deteriorated further. With lower temps, more wind and more snow this shelter would absolutely be the one critical survival factor in an unprepared emergency overnight situation.
For sure, in a blizzard for example, it would really show its merit! The snow packed on top would be extra insulation, and all those reeds and grass should keep most of the wind out. Windchill is what it would be great for
This is really great. Temperature isn't everything: We have to take humidity and wind into account too. Both of them will take your body heat away in no time. I think that 10 degrees warmer, no exposure to the wind and about 8% less humidity makes a huge difference.
Indeed. The evaporative effect is more powerful that we give credit, so staying out of the breeze is huge. As an example, here in Phoenix in the summer when it is often over 115 degrees, if you climb out of a 95 degree pool and the breeze is stiff, you can get the shivers. It pulls heat from you that quickly. Also, just staying insulated from the frost is a big win. This was a great pair of videos!
You are 100% correct. In Iraq it was 130 during the day and at night 95, but we were freezing cause the difference lol. But, indoors it was fine. Just any cover at all can make a huge difference in comfort.
I feel like the coolest thing about this is that you can still use this even you have a sleeping bag. Not like you're going to want to just put it outside
Having done this for real myself - if you have the luxury of time and materials, you can almost get things comfortable. You had to make some concessions for filming, but I learned that if you get about 10 times more dry grass than you think you need, piled up to the point where it looks like you can't even fit in there, it makes a big difference. The grass will compress under your weight (in which case I go get more if I can - you can never have enough between you and the cold ground). Same thing applies to the massive beaver dam of dry grass and tule I would continue to put around me and overhead until it was too dark to work anymore - if I had the luxury of doing so. This shelter looked a little thin for my liking considering how much material was available. But also realistic - you won't always have the resources you would prefer. A 10 degree difference between inside/outside, plus critical wind protection, is pretty good! And I'd rather have 25 degrees and snow than 34 degrees and rain any day in that environment. The latter is kind of a nightmare survival scenario . . .
I always carried a space blanket and a plastic "tube" tent and some rope in a small pack on a day trip if not more. I was stranded twice out by myself overnight, thankfully just overnight. Once in the summer and the second during a duck hunting trip. The later with my brother when our ride drove 200 miles back home thinking for some incredibly stupid reasoning we caught a ride. It started to blow and ended up snowing a foot. We had the right gear and supplies in our two day bags plus two nice warm Labrador retrievers with us. With our two panchos for a shelter, an abundant supply of reeds and grasses we stayed comfortable until the morning. We hiked out in the AM and found some other hunters and caught a ride to our Uncles farm about 20 miles away. We should have carried a few more small items definitely. Thank God for Boy Scouts and a great dad that taught us how to make it out in such situations. Also, that gentleman we ended our relationship with because of what happened.
Thanks for sharing! You never think it can happen until it does. I have had "friends" like your ride who are just a liability for the group and ended up doing the same, hunting or motorcycle riding you have to be able to trust the other people your with.
This is amazing, it's the first time I've seen someone build a shelter with only dry grass AND also has the guts to sleep in it overnight where the temperature can drop to below -6c. Fascinating.
It's 2023, we are now watching, on a plastic thingy, in the throngs, avidly, some dude preping to have a night's sleep in the grass in a freezing night in the wilderness. We really advanced a lot since the times we were hunters gatherers. We should not have done it, we could've just as easily stayed there, much better and healthy lives.
We were warned about this technology when we were younger. Back when they actually taught you things in school. This tech and if it fell in the wrong hands. Turns out, the wrong hands built it in the first place. Now, the great struggle they also taught us about is here. Not really taught but told. They could not teach us how to fight it, because they could not have imagined what it was going to look like. "The living will envy the dead"
Not true. There was disease and danger from predators. Nature was not predictable and sometime prey would not be in abundance. Be careful and think what you talk about
I love the reality honestly: "Is it comfy? No. But it might save you." I'm claustrophobic so that shelter looks like a nightmare, but I'd take it over freezing to death any day of the week.
Me too, any of us when faced with life-or-death decisions will take life. Think eating worms for example, I'm disgusted with the idea, but I've seen documentaries of people going desperate and dinning those.
@@GnosisJapan LIke how in outlast that one dude ate a worm in episode 1. It looked disgusting but then again they were eating seaweed for 3 days straight so yeah.
Nice video, and the fact you didn’t cop out when the temp got below freezing, props to ya. I hate being cold. Like I mentioned in the first video, maybe carrying one of those reflective foil emergency blankets in your pack would help also to wrap up in. They take up very little space and are super lightweight. Anyway, gave ya a thumbs up for sticking it out all night in the cold.
Hello, a space blanket is great to put under your body and it would be good as a waterproof roof, but if you use it like a sleeping bag you will do nothing but sweat in it. That is NOT what you want in cold weather. The better option would be to carry a quality poncho which has reinforced grommets along the edges. This old be in addition to your space blanket. The space blanket is overrated and does not reflect heat back to you. Thank you for the video.
watching you eat made me smile lol I can only imagine trying to edit this and feeling it must be the most boring thing to watch, but I assure you I am thoroughly entertained 😆
@@TheComicChild I would consider doing it again with minimal gear, what I normally would carry but winter is slipping away in that area and it is open to free range cattle now.... not a place I want to hide in the bushes ha ha ha. I may re visit this next year if possible.
Just by protecting you from the cold wind improves your chances greatly, plus also as you said, this is meant to be wide just enough for you to fit inside so it works as a sleep bag.
If it had snowed you'd have been really comfy. The added insulation the snow would have given would have kept the temperature stable. The 10 degree spread between outside and inside was impressive.
yeah and it could have been even 4-10 F° better if he insulated it better I'd say that the shelter that he used was bare minimum to be made would work amazing with sleeping bag or space blanket on top of better insulation this is no doubt great shelter for emergency because it's safe from wind and keep it warm
Ur a beast for doing this man. Almost nobody does this type of stuff anymore, our society is literally set up for us to be as comfortable as possible, and so we can have anything and everything RIGHT NOW. We are living in one of the easiest and greatest times in human history today, things used to be SOOOO much worse, and with everyone complaining about how awful everything is it's easy to forget that. Every once in a while doing something hard is a good way to stay strong, motivated, and thankful for what you have.
Just a 48 hour power outage with similar temperatures, there isn’t an empty rooms at any motel/hotel’s in town! After five hours, Home Depot and Lowes are out of generators! We have become major glampers!
Amazing. I never knew the power of some simple reeds and grass! The entire time I kept thinking you were like a fox 🦊 creating a burrow to live in. Would you be interested in making more survival type videos on how one would keep warm overnight, in various different environments? I think that will be really useful to know! Thank you for taking the time to create this, I thoroughly enjoyed watching ❤
Just one more suggestion. Pack a small fleece throw. Double it and wrap your feet and legs with it. Pull your empty pack up over your feet and legs. Beanies are lightweight. Take three. Layer them. A 2 X 4 foot piece of reflectix or car sun shade conserves heat. You have made it onto my ‘best camp’ list!
You know, I couldn't believe you offered this idea at the end of that first cozy scabland nook video! You are a man of your word and promise (*kinda rare nowadays, if you ask me). This was a informative survival demonsration like les-stroud or those other famous survivalists. I hope you had a vehicle nearby just in case.
Sasquatch everywhere concur! The secret honestly is fur clothes and boots. I have slept in snow caves with outdoor temps at -40C. Snow is ironically a better insulator than grass.
As a camping/bushcraft enthusiast, this is very interesting! This definitely proves your point that the technique works as a survival shelter. I would imagine the shelter could be improved by layering the thicker brush with the finer material as well. I'm very tempted to try this out. Thanks for the video!
I agree. Great video. I will remember this one. I had a ton of ideas while he was working on the shelter but basic kept him alive. So use this and improve. Please do more of these videos with the documentation of degree and warmth but don’t die!
I live in a city so I do not know how to survive without house and stores, but I love these kind of videos . Thank you for sharing this and thank you for showing temperatures in celsius . 🙂
Lol, I almost felt bad for you when I saw the views on the last video. I thought "fella is going to have to sleep outside now". I live in the same enviro. I sure wouldn't want to be bunkered down in the grass unless I had no choice. I'm going to have a scotch and watch this. My preferable way to spend a night in the mountains ;)
My cousins and O would play in the hay barns as kids and make little "houses" like that! So cool that you showed people how to do something like this to save their lives! ❤
Thank you for showing us the overnight in real time. I didn't like watching you be cold but I thank you for for demonstrating to us how it is done. I will be sharing this with my grandson. They are never to young to learn.
Some suggestions: add more grass, including cramming some into your clothing for added insulation. Make the fox hole smaller so there is much less air space. Add more grass insulation above and on the floor of the shelter. Keep spare grass to pack in during the night as the grass gets compacted.
He mentioned making some extra space to help with filming - one would definitely want to keep things tight as possible! And if this really is an emergency shelter, I'd imagine it'd be best to just use whatever time you have (everything has an opportunity cost in a survival situation!), though some extra grass doesn't sound like a bad idea considering how quick collecting it seems to be.
The algorythm has blessed you i see you've been grinding for a long time and sometimes all it takes is just 1 video that goes viral and boom you're a youtuber congrats! Keep going you actually make good content
My husband set up years ago a old swedish military wool blanket, poncho liner and a poncho an has along with our boys slept over night. In a real low lean to shelter, made with standing dead wood and debris to keep wind out, and with about 8" of broom straw floor. If I remember it got down to around 15°f. They both stayed up till around midnight then crashed. Both slept in till about 7 am got up built a fire, crawled back into lean to and let wood burn down to coals. Made coffee then made breakfast. Both said they were comfortable as for warmth. They also said the only they would have changed was put more broom straw down for a little more comfort.
The temperature difference might seem small, but the windchill mitigation can be quite significant. -2C with no wind is very different than -2C with even a small breeze. But ye, it seems like a true emergency shelter: you only want to make it if it's your only option.
I would have never thought this was an option in that kind of environment. I'm pretty sure if you had a sleeping bag that would have improved your situation 10 fold. Thank you for sharing
Your video reaffirmed my long held belief to always carry a very compact bivy in the car, boat, or when doing outdoor activities away from immediate assistance/civilization.. Thanks for both emergency shelter videos !!
Simple survival on a day trip: take a really big plastic bag with you. When the weather goes bad, find a sheltered spot and climb in, with the opening near the bottom. The bag will trap the warm air around you and keep the water out. Also keeps the bugs away.
Paul Langford Good point Paul, Orange survival bags are available and cheap, visible and lightweight, take up no space, always had one in the bottom of the ruck sack when climbing in the French Alps.
I think its also important to note that this would not be a plan A B or C but is a great "bare bones" shelter that requires nothing special and it will allow you to survive which will take precedence over comfort
Really? Is it important to note that making a literal hole inside grass and sticks keep from freezing to death wouldn't be plan A, B, or C? I'm glad you mentioned that.
Incredible tip and strong to actually sleep in it! It is obvious this shelter could very much be the difference of life and death. Thank you for your service! Liked and subscribed! Looking forward to more videos!
Agreed. It would have been nice if he'd had an anemometer to measure the wind outside. Temperature alone rarely tells the full story of how dangerous it is to be fully exposed versus being in a shelter that at least breaks the wind. Even a relatively weak 5-10 mph wind really pulls heat from you. According to the National Weather Service's "Wind Chill Calculator", and temperature of 18F with an 8mph wind drops the "wind chill temperature" a full ten degrees to 8F. So...his "makeshift shelter" temperature of 20-25 is looking pretty nice.
This is a great video on how to deal with what might be one of the worst types of scenarios: Being forced to sleep outside with freezing temperatures, no tools, no fire, not even a blanket or sleeping bag, let alone a tarp or tent. Yet this provides a quick to make emergency shelter that might not be comfy, but will greatly improve your odds to make it through the night. And it's very well possible that adding a little more grass (especially around the legs) might have improved it slightly. I think small changes go a long way. Imagine using an actual sleeping bag (even one not optimized for winter) would make a huge difference.
This is so awesome. Hopefully I'll never be in a situation where I need to do this, but my husband showed me your channel and now I'm hooked. It warms my heart he prepares for even the most random things like this
Haven't tried grass pile, but I'm guessing that a mylar blanket would have made a HUGE difference in this scenario. You've got a good structure that will keep the worst of the precipitation and wind gusts off you but as could see crawling in there's still a lot of holes. As long as it doesn't have to be your outer shelter layer then "space blankets" are incredibly effective. Use it like wallpaper to line your nest rather than wrapping up tightly in it, you need to let the moisture get out or you'll be a sad camper. Will get destroyed after a night from all the sharp stems but they're cheap enough to be disposable
Just subscribed! I like your style of not giving people BS. There's some of these so-called survivalist that come on here and claimed it's 30 below zero yet the water they had stayed a little slushy all night! No sensationalizing here and I appreciate it!!
Thanks for actually putting your theory to the test. It might have been a bit warmer with even more grass padding, but it was still sufficient for the purpose. It's a good reminder that your clothing is your first line of defense against a hostile environment.
watching this, im so grateful to be born in a time where most of us can have a home with actual walls and a dry warm soft bed to stay in 🙏🏻 this may keep you alive but it seems like an itchy, scratchy cold miserable nightmare to sleep in.
I bet if it had snowed, it would've been even warmer in there; fill in some of those air gaps and give that "igloo effect" with the insulation. Anyways, great vid and thanks for the info. I've considered things like this before in what-if scenarios in my head, but always questioned the viability and usefulness. Great to have those questions answered so I can make a decision with confidence should I ever have to in an emergency
Fair play ol boy. I noticed u cld c alot of sky though Ur cover in the morning shot, lots more compacted grass and reads would ave made it warmer n I reckon a bit more comfortable. Also one last tip 4 my hardcore survival crew, in that situation get clean ,dry ,compact stacked grass and' fill Ur boots' n every space between your layers of cloths. Maximum respect to the man for that 1, gr8 job, u really earn Ur coffee that morning. Peace out
Hey at the 15:40 time stamp for about 20 seconds after, when you are flashing your folding orange card , there is a ghost walking behind you from left to right. Or it’s a small Sasquatch in cloak mode, walking on fours and bi-pedally perhaps
Great video. We didn't have that type of grass where I grew up, but I remember making something similar just to play in as a kid. Definitely noticed while hiding in it, I got warmer. As you said, with a couple items with you for survival, you would make this more viable. Also, if you spent more time adding insulation to lay on, the sides and kept some extra to lay on top of you like a blanket, you'd be even better. As with anything, you could always try it again and keep improving. Nice to see a quick and dirty field expedient shelter without tools.
Dude slept outside in freezing temperatures to prove his thing works. Respect.
A few degrees warmer is better than nothing. Plus cutting down on the wind shear would help too.
Still the best way to survive is to have means to make fire and keep yourself warm. There was plenty of material to burn all over.
Bro it doesn't, 0 degrees instead of -2 does not save your life. Make a fire.
I did enjoy it. Former Girl Scout. Makes sense.
Very cool idea
Honestly, I'm extremely happy that someone documented their whole stay in their shelter, even the temperature updates is extremely nice to see
Outdoor Boys youtube channel does it incredibly well aswell. He is an amazing survivalist imo.
@@thessjbacca5177 but he doesn't let people comment so it really alienates the group that are watching as some of us end up talking to the same people on these videos. Camping with Steve has one of those types of camaraderie setups with comments allowed! But I agree the outdoors boy guy does camp in some pretty harsh stuff living inside snow forts! 🥶
@@joeblow26 Yeah he kept getting in trouble because of having his kids on, when youtube started cracking down on weird comments. They are great vids though.
EXTREMELY
you can tell he didn't sleep
Always good to see someone walk the walk and be honest about the results. Comfy no, increase survivability, yes. As you said, you could talk for hours about how to make it better. A space blanket or two in a pocket would have been a world of difference, let alone a small SOL bivy. Nice work
Snickle, Brilliant!!! That would absolutely. Great idea....
@@danielguadian2716 Thankyou. Space blankets are so light and take so little room, as do the compact SOL bivy sacks
i carry a bivvy w/me everywhere nowadays ..... and a flint
Maybe a wood stove too……😂
I'll be honest I thought the temperature would be over 10-15°C because of the insulation but I was gravely wrong. It's definitely better than being stranded outside with the wind and cold but it's still not survivable unless you have extremely warm jackets. Thank you for the informativ video
Seeing him eating those dried salami and apple in the reeds brings me joy.
Hahahaha hahahaha soooo truuueeee
Nice to see a genuine guy on here
We all appreciate you for this! Let me help pay for your future coffee! ☕️
Thank you for the tip! Very generous of you!
Where he's eating and said good apple was absolutely adorable
Your video literally could save someone's life, You would be surprised how few people would know what to do!
actually, living in high stone areas, I never thought of looking at the stones at the base of a cliff to see how far away from the base I should stay. Great (life-saving) tip.
oops - that was for the original video LOL
@@AndreFavron It's a great point👍🏻
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@@AndreFavron food generates heat, by way of bowel/gut composting;
working up a sweat on a hike or pluckun grass ...is a bad thing -- under all that clothing
If you take windshield effect into account that shelter may be a lifesaver. Here in Canada you can be out with no wind and a regular coat at -15C and be just fine, a small breeze with -2C can feel like you are dying. Wind is a huge factor in how you can keep your heat!
Because if the air is still the heat transfer with the air would be through natural conviction which is fairly slow.
However if the weather is windy the heat transfer would be through forced conviction which is much more significant.
@@yakmi1116 There is also the fact you got some water on your skin (sweat) and the wind will increase the speed at which it will evaporate which in turn will take heat from your body (because when water goes from liquid to gas it needs energy).
@@peterfarell7696 yes you are right. It's called the latent heat of vaporization.
And this is basically how the Desert AC or the (water evaporative Air Conditioner) works
Thank you for your knowledge
windchill, not windshield.
Imagine going on a nice sunrise hike in this area, and at exactly 06h15 this guy just crawls out of the shrubbery. Would be quite a spectacle. Great video, and very informative! Thank you for being able to put your money where your mouth is and prove the technique works!
Go hunting, and you'll have a lot of awesome experiences like that.
He actually put his ass where his mouth was :D
I'm over here dying laughing 😂😂😂😂 I thought about that!!!! Him crawling out, cold and pissed off😂😂😂😂
It's not technically shrubbery, but points for reminding me of Monty Python.
I think the total elimination of the wind chill was a key factor. At 10F even a 5mph wind is harmful.
5mph is still really low wind. I doubt in ND we have many days where it gets less than 5 mph.
@@TruthPerspecive yeah, don't doubt that at all. I went pheasant hunting out there 10 yrs ago and definitely remember the wind. I was just using such a low number as a crazy example how deadly wind chill can actually be
@@matthewklaus9970 I think every mph of wind drops what it feels like by 1 degree. And increase with dropping of the temp. T(wc) = 0.0817(3.71V**0.5 + 5.81 -0.25V)(T - 91.4) + 91.4 T(wc) is the formula . But still I get your point. Even 32 degrees with 15 mph will fell like 21.5 and -20 with same wind will feel like -45. -20 with 25 mph winds which isn’t to uncommon in ND will feel like -50 and at dark with out sun that feels like -50 is incredibly cold.
Wind is the killer most times. Guys have survived on the top of Everest totally exposed overnight with no wind. A 5-10 mph wind would have killed them.
@@RJT80 Getting wet is really what'll kill ya.
I’m glad you were honest about the fact that it was still freezing in the shelter. Others would fake it and say it was really warm inside just to defend the shelter they built. Thanks for the honesty and great video.
I feel like if he wasn't filming and eating inside he could have covered himself with a lot more grass and then it probably wouldn't have been freezing but we also wouldn't have been able to see anything 😂
Who would lie about that
The main thing is really to protect against wind and/or snow. Wind can make the cold feel a lot worse, even if it's only 10F colder outside than inside.
@@Peter_Lynch Agree, specifically I think he made it a tad too big for the sake of the video, meaning there was more volume of air to warm with his body temperature with such an imperfect seal.
I also wonder what would happen if it snows overnight; in one side if the heat of his body leaks too much it would cause the snow to melt and create a dangerous situation, but on the other side, an inch or two of snow could seal the shelter from the wind making it more comfy.
@@Tomiply You have anime pfp dude, stfu
Not only is it going to be warmer, but it removes almost all of the exposure to wind. Impressive improvised shelter, well done.
Yeah if I had to do this I would get as much grass as possible 😂 I would want to sleep in a haystack
You are a trooper to have stayed out all night in the freezing cold with no real shelter except a tunnel of reeds and grass. I take my hat off to you! I honestly don't know if I could do what you did. You're amazing!
Amazing Dude… you are really a man’s man. Whatever that means… I hope y’all get it. Just a balls to the wall kinda fella. Guys like you are few and far between. Okay I’m done with the little phrases.😉thankyou for sharing your knowledge with us.
I don't know why, but these kinds of videos are just so enjoyable to watch at night while I'm in my own comfy bed tucked in under my blanket :)
yes
Saying thank you Jesus, but if I need to know it’s a good tutor.
Thanks for the advice in the last video about falling rocks. I would definitely have put myself at risk there.
Deadfall kills even the hardest survivors. Rocky elevation can be very dangerous, like ice and snow, avalanche and landslides. While your on the topic o Deadfall always check the canopy for fallen or broken branches hanging above your position in the trees. Or for trees looking like they might fall over onto your camp. Peace
@@alexgaras1573 I'm pretty weathered and experienced, but I almost had my face ripped off by a random falling dead branch. Just hiking in the forest and looked up when I heard the snapping noise, butt end of a big fat Douglas fir branch just grazed my face but still damn near knocked me out and tore a big hole in my upper lip. Wasn't even windy, shit just breaks eventually. I Still have a bad scar.
@@joalyincontroly4379 they call them widowmakers for a reason. Glad you didn’t get taken out!
Plus rocks are freezing, they'll suck the heat out of you. (Heat constantly goes to where it isn't.)
@@joalyincontroly4379 A scar with a cool story: "I escaped a widowmaker", better than "I had this huge pimple...".
Some ideas I would suggest for extreme circumsrances. 1. You could pack your coat and coat sleeves with dry grass, or clothing, paper if you have them. This will work as a insulation and keep your body heat in better. This is a take off of a "hobo jacket" where you loosley cumple up newspaper or a other paper into your jacket to help keep you warm when sleeping outside. It really works. You can do your pants too. 2. Layer much more grass inside on the floor and sides and bring in enough to cover you especially your feet and head if possible. Your head loses alot of heat so do all you can to keep it and you face covered. 3. The more insulation you have between you and the ground the better. Cold hard dirt just like cold stone or concrete will suck the heat out of your body. This is why you see many homeless sleep on cardboard and under cardboard it works petty well as a easy to find and free source of insulation from the cold and wind. Great two videos!
My post is nearly the same as yours lol
Growing kp in london england it was cool to go to the club wearing these fancy dress shirts. Walking home id shove it full of knews paper, just instinctively. Makes sense its called a hobo jacket
The saying in the army (Sweden) is: If you got 10 wool blankets, you use 9 for your mattress and one as a blanket.
Yep exactly what I thought.. that softer dry grass would be excellent insulation inside the jacket and pant and all around you inside the shelter.. and around your head!
That could work but I'd rather bring my rv instead
I think you'd have damn near froze solid outside of this shelter, and I believe the temperature differential would have been far greater if the weather conditions had deteriorated further. With lower temps, more wind and more snow this shelter would absolutely be the one critical survival factor in an unprepared emergency overnight situation.
yeah especially the fact you are protected from most of the wind really helps
For sure, in a blizzard for example, it would really show its merit! The snow packed on top would be extra insulation, and all those reeds and grass should keep most of the wind out. Windchill is what it would be great for
@goose183 only problem is I would be concerned the weight of the snow would flatten it
I think you're right man.
@@jarlballinofswagrun444 Not really a problem if you’re already in it
we dont need videos with a lot of cool stuff to do. we just need survival and the raw footage of doing nothing in the shelter. awesome stuff man
So nice to find an authentic channel in the world of overproduced, staged, hyperbolic stuff that’s out there these days. Thanks for doing this
This is really great. Temperature isn't everything: We have to take humidity and wind into account too. Both of them will take your body heat away in no time. I think that 10 degrees warmer, no exposure to the wind and about 8% less humidity makes a huge difference.
or even 3 Degrees - a good 70's pop song can lift the spirits
Indeed. The evaporative effect is more powerful that we give credit, so staying out of the breeze is huge. As an example, here in Phoenix in the summer when it is often over 115 degrees, if you climb out of a 95 degree pool and the breeze is stiff, you can get the shivers. It pulls heat from you that quickly. Also, just staying insulated from the frost is a big win. This was a great pair of videos!
@@matthewpeterson3329 Wind chill can be terrible. Getting out of the wind like that can save your life.
You are 100% correct. In Iraq it was 130 during the day and at night 95, but we were freezing cause the difference lol. But, indoors it was fine. Just any cover at all can make a huge difference in comfort.
@@sgtgriff9967 you were freezing in 95 degrees Fahrenheit?
I feel like the coolest thing about this is that you can still use this even you have a sleeping bag. Not like you're going to want to just put it outside
Having done this for real myself - if you have the luxury of time and materials, you can almost get things comfortable. You had to make some concessions for filming, but I learned that if you get about 10 times more dry grass than you think you need, piled up to the point where it looks like you can't even fit in there, it makes a big difference. The grass will compress under your weight (in which case I go get more if I can - you can never have enough between you and the cold ground). Same thing applies to the massive beaver dam of dry grass and tule I would continue to put around me and overhead until it was too dark to work anymore - if I had the luxury of doing so.
This shelter looked a little thin for my liking considering how much material was available. But also realistic - you won't always have the resources you would prefer.
A 10 degree difference between inside/outside, plus critical wind protection, is pretty good!
And I'd rather have 25 degrees and snow than 34 degrees and rain any day in that environment. The latter is kind of a nightmare survival scenario . . .
@@Crooked_g Any advice is welcome, even teachers can learn something new.
@@Crooked_gyou'll never learn with this kind of mentality..
Thank you for translating the temps to Celsius, very useful! And congrats for keeping your word AND surviving this night in the cold!
I always carried a space blanket and a plastic "tube" tent and some rope in a small pack on a day trip if not more. I was stranded twice out by myself overnight, thankfully just overnight. Once in the summer and the second during a duck hunting trip. The later with my brother when our ride drove 200 miles back home thinking for some incredibly stupid reasoning we caught a ride. It started to blow and ended up snowing a foot. We had the right gear and supplies in our two day bags plus two nice warm Labrador retrievers with us. With our two panchos for a shelter, an abundant supply of reeds and grasses we stayed comfortable until the morning. We hiked out in the AM and found some other hunters and caught a ride to our Uncles farm about 20 miles away. We should have carried a few more small items definitely. Thank God for Boy Scouts and a great dad that taught us how to make it out in such situations. Also, that gentleman we ended our relationship with because of what happened.
Thanks for sharing! You never think it can happen until it does. I have had "friends" like your ride who are just a liability for the group and ended up doing the same, hunting or motorcycle riding you have to be able to trust the other people your with.
This is amazing, it's the first time I've seen someone build a shelter with only dry grass AND also has the guts to sleep in it overnight where the temperature can drop to below -6c. Fascinating.
It's 2023, we are now watching, on a plastic thingy, in the throngs, avidly, some dude preping to have a night's sleep in the grass in a freezing night in the wilderness.
We really advanced a lot since the times we were hunters gatherers.
We should not have done it, we could've just as easily stayed there, much better and healthy lives.
We were warned about this technology when we were younger. Back when they actually taught you things in school. This tech and if it fell in the wrong hands. Turns out, the wrong hands built it in the first place. Now, the great struggle they also taught us about is here. Not really taught but told. They could not teach us how to fight it, because they could not have imagined what it was going to look like. "The living will envy the dead"
Not true. There was disease and danger from predators. Nature was not predictable and sometime prey would not be in abundance. Be careful and think what you talk about
Kudos for that guy who does not only advocates for a survival solution but demonstrates himself that it is really efficient
I love the reality honestly: "Is it comfy? No. But it might save you." I'm claustrophobic so that shelter looks like a nightmare, but I'd take it over freezing to death any day of the week.
Me too, any of us when faced with life-or-death decisions will take life. Think eating worms for example, I'm disgusted with the idea, but I've seen documentaries of people going desperate and dinning those.
@@GnosisJapan LIke how in outlast that one dude ate a worm in episode 1. It looked disgusting but then again they were eating seaweed for 3 days straight so yeah.
The idea of bugs with the grass and stuff petrify me but yeah better than death.
its winter, aint no bugs there bro@@bloorb0569
its too cold for bugs to be out there only thing you might see is coyotes and such @@bloorb0569
Wow, what a dramatic reveal for outside the shelter! 10F is no joke, and the frost on everything makes that evident. Great job!
I watched the first video not an hour ago, and here you deliver! Perfect timing, my tea is nice and hot. Cheers.
Nice video, and the fact you didn’t cop out when the temp got below freezing, props to ya. I hate being cold. Like I mentioned in the first video, maybe carrying one of those reflective foil emergency blankets in your pack would help also to wrap up in. They take up very little space and are super lightweight.
Anyway, gave ya a thumbs up for sticking it out all night in the cold.
Gotta say though, the difference between a low of 20 and a low of 10 is huge. The shelter did better than I'd expect.
You are also protected from the wind.
10 and windy is much, much colder than an “indoor” 20
Hello, a space blanket is great to put under your body and it would be good as a waterproof roof, but if you use it like a sleeping bag you will do nothing but sweat in it. That is NOT what you want in cold weather. The better option would be to carry a quality poncho which has reinforced grommets along the edges. This old be in addition to your space blanket. The space blanket is overrated and does not reflect heat back to you. Thank you for the video.
Lol I want a cup of coffee. This video and the last has the potential to save someone’s life. First class video.
Great Experiment.
Greetings from Germany ❤
Just avoiding the wind chill is a big difference.
watching you eat made me smile lol
I can only imagine trying to edit this and feeling it must be the most boring thing to watch, but I assure you I am thoroughly entertained 😆
Thanks! inspiring! Gives hikers like me hope that we can survive in a wider range of conditions!
Think he will do another campout but with like mylar, blankets, yoga matt?
Thank you for the tip it is greatly appreciated, I am glad the video was useful to you, it was a great learning experience on my part as well!
@@TheComicChild I would consider doing it again with minimal gear, what I normally would carry but winter is slipping away in that area and it is open to free range cattle now.... not a place I want to hide in the bushes ha ha ha. I may re visit this next year if possible.
Just by protecting you from the cold wind improves your chances greatly, plus also as you said, this is meant to be wide just enough for you to fit inside so it works as a sleep bag.
This is the most realistic test that I've ever watched.. I mean He risks his life to show how to survive without tools and fire.
Appreciate you ovelaying the deg c for us in the rest of the world. Great stuff btw
If it had snowed you'd have been really comfy. The added insulation the snow would have given would have kept the temperature stable. The 10 degree spread between outside and inside was impressive.
yeah
and it could have been even 4-10 F° better if he insulated it better
I'd say that the shelter that he used was bare minimum to be made
would work amazing with sleeping bag or space blanket on top of better insulation
this is no doubt great shelter for emergency because it's safe from wind and keep it warm
The issue was mostly that he made the space really big so he has room for the camera
Ur a beast for doing this man. Almost nobody does this type of stuff anymore, our society is literally set up for us to be as comfortable as possible, and so we can have anything and everything RIGHT NOW. We are living in one of the easiest and greatest times in human history today, things used to be SOOOO much worse, and with everyone complaining about how awful everything is it's easy to forget that. Every once in a while doing something hard is a good way to stay strong, motivated, and thankful for what you have.
yup
Just a 48 hour power outage with similar temperatures, there isn’t an empty rooms at any motel/hotel’s in town! After five hours, Home Depot and Lowes are out of generators! We have become major glampers!
Amazing. I never knew the power of some simple reeds and grass! The entire time I kept thinking you were like a fox 🦊 creating a burrow to live in.
Would you be interested in making more survival type videos on how one would keep warm overnight, in various different environments? I think that will be really useful to know!
Thank you for taking the time to create this, I thoroughly enjoyed watching ❤
Just one more suggestion. Pack a small fleece throw. Double it and wrap your feet and legs with it. Pull your empty pack up over your feet and legs. Beanies are lightweight. Take three. Layer them.
A 2 X 4 foot piece of reflectix or car sun shade conserves heat.
You have made it onto my ‘best camp’ list!
Holy crap that looks cozy! I think I'm ready to move out of my bedroom and into that thing!
You know, I couldn't believe you offered this idea at the end of that first cozy scabland nook video! You are a man of your word and promise (*kinda rare nowadays, if you ask me).
This was a informative survival demonsration like les-stroud or those other famous survivalists. I hope you had a vehicle nearby just in case.
Thank you for your generosity and kind words, I am glad you liked the video.
Came here to say this vid reminded me of Les Stroud as well!
Sasquatch everywhere concur!
The secret honestly is fur clothes and boots. I have slept in snow caves with outdoor temps at -40C. Snow is ironically a better insulator than grass.
ha ha ha, yes I was hoping to catch more snow... it snowed the day before and day after I filmed this of course.
@@Scablands_Scavenger that’s how it usually works out lol.
As a camping/bushcraft enthusiast, this is very interesting! This definitely proves your point that the technique works as a survival shelter. I would imagine the shelter could be improved by layering the thicker brush with the finer material as well. I'm very tempted to try this out. Thanks for the video!
I agree. Great video. I will remember this one. I had a ton of ideas while he was working on the shelter but basic kept him alive. So use this and improve. Please do more of these videos with the documentation of degree and warmth but don’t die!
The more light mass with air space you can cream around you the better
I live in a city so I do not know how to survive without house and stores, but I love these kind of videos . Thank you for sharing this and thank you for showing temperatures in celsius . 🙂
Damn, that was freezing cold!
Thanks again, you delivered as promised.
Tons of respect! Great job👍
Lol, I almost felt bad for you when I saw the views on the last video. I thought "fella is going to have to sleep outside now".
I live in the same enviro. I sure wouldn't want to be bunkered down in the grass unless I had no choice. I'm going to have a scotch and watch this. My preferable way to spend a night in the mountains ;)
Ha ha ha, I will be careful with what I promise in future videos ha ha, thanks for watching!
@@Scablands_Scavenger We appreciate it. Pretty ballsy!
@@Scablands_Scavenger ✝️
@@Scablands_Scavengerwhat state do you live in, sir?
Yep, basic but doable. Difference between getting through the night or not. Nothing wrong with a grass shelter.
Works a treat when must.
My cousins and O would play in the hay barns as kids and make little "houses" like that! So cool that you showed people how to do something like this to save their lives! ❤
Thank you for showing us the overnight in real time. I didn't like watching you be cold but I thank you for for demonstrating to us how it is done. I will be sharing this with my grandson. They are never to young to learn.
Some suggestions: add more grass, including cramming some into your clothing for added insulation. Make the fox hole smaller so there is much less air space. Add more grass insulation above and on the floor of the shelter. Keep spare grass to pack in during the night as the grass gets compacted.
He mentioned making some extra space to help with filming - one would definitely want to keep things tight as possible! And if this really is an emergency shelter, I'd imagine it'd be best to just use whatever time you have (everything has an opportunity cost in a survival situation!), though some extra grass doesn't sound like a bad idea considering how quick collecting it seems to be.
The algorythm has blessed you i see you've been grinding for a long time and sometimes all it takes is just 1 video that goes viral and boom you're a youtuber congrats! Keep going you actually make good content
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My husband set up years ago a old swedish military wool blanket, poncho liner and a poncho an has along with our boys slept over night. In a real low lean to shelter, made with standing dead wood and debris to keep wind out, and with about 8" of broom straw floor. If I remember it got down to around 15°f. They both stayed up till around midnight then crashed. Both slept in till about 7 am got up built a fire, crawled back into lean to and let wood burn down to coals. Made coffee then made breakfast. Both said they were comfortable as for warmth. They also said the only they would have changed was put more broom straw down for a little more comfort.
I’m watching this because I respect a man of his word, this is great!
Excellent! Thanks for posting the celsius temps. Your clips are viewed worldwide,
The temperature difference might seem small, but the windchill mitigation can be quite significant. -2C with no wind is very different than -2C with even a small breeze.
But ye, it seems like a true emergency shelter: you only want to make it if it's your only option.
Slap a fire outside the door and it could be a lot better, only problem is catching on fire lmfao
@@Entropy67 Oh, you‘ll get warmer alright. 😁
Briefly.
I would have never thought this was an option in that kind of environment. I'm pretty sure if you had a sleeping bag that would have improved your situation 10 fold. Thank you for sharing
Your video reaffirmed my long held belief to always carry a very compact bivy in the car, boat, or when doing outdoor activities away from immediate assistance/civilization.. Thanks for both emergency shelter videos !!
There’s something so wholesome about this fella. His last video was in my recommended now I’m here. He just has that comforting, honest presence.
Cool that you kept your promise! Something so simple can really save somebody's life, and be overlooked!
Simple survival on a day trip: take a really big plastic bag with you. When the weather goes bad, find a sheltered spot and climb in, with the opening near the bottom. The bag will trap the warm air around you and keep the water out. Also keeps the bugs away.
Paul Langford Good point Paul, Orange survival bags are available and cheap, visible and lightweight, take up no space, always had one in the bottom of the ruck sack when climbing in the French Alps.
Then you suffocate yourself instead
And keep you trapped and helpless when a bear or mountain lion find you...
@@mr.constitution that is what the 44 mag is for
army buddies always tell me how cold the desert gets and how trash bags and battle buddy kept them warm
Really like how genuine this fellow is. Learned a new skill...thank you.
idk about everyone else, but I love the feeling of being tucked into a little shelter while it's ice cold outside.
Thanks for the Celsius readouts! At first i almost started to google it :D
Awesome! I'd love to see more content like this, focusing on emergency shelters with no fire.
I love how someone recommended he do an overnight stay and he actually did it. This is wholesome. Thank you!
Dude kept his word. Said he would do an overnighter if the last video did good. Thank you brother I appreciate the knowledge and the awesome video.
Thanks! That was an awesome demonstration. I have a lot of respect for you for sticking it out.
Shelter from the wind is important
I think its also important to note that this would not be a plan A B or C but is a great "bare bones" shelter that requires nothing special and it will allow you to survive which will take precedence over comfort
Really? Is it important to note that making a literal hole inside grass and sticks keep from freezing to death wouldn't be plan A, B, or C? I'm glad you mentioned that.
@@carltaylor2975 Lmao but to be fair some people man
@@SiegeNoob289 Lol, he even says in the video the damn shelter is for an emergency when you have no other options.
Incredible tip and strong to actually sleep in it! It is obvious this shelter could very much be the difference of life and death. Thank you for your service! Liked and subscribed! Looking forward to more videos!
This shelter may not be comfy but the temperature differences in/outside speaks for itself. Well done.
Agreed.
It would have been nice if he'd had an anemometer to measure the wind outside.
Temperature alone rarely tells the full story of how dangerous it is to be fully exposed versus being in a shelter that at least breaks the wind.
Even a relatively weak 5-10 mph wind really pulls heat from you.
According to the National Weather Service's "Wind Chill Calculator", and temperature of 18F with an 8mph wind drops the "wind chill temperature" a full ten degrees to 8F.
So...his "makeshift shelter" temperature of 20-25 is looking pretty nice.
This is a great video on how to deal with what might be one of the worst types of scenarios: Being forced to sleep outside with freezing temperatures, no tools, no fire, not even a blanket or sleeping bag, let alone a tarp or tent.
Yet this provides a quick to make emergency shelter that might not be comfy, but will greatly improve your odds to make it through the night.
And it's very well possible that adding a little more grass (especially around the legs) might have improved it slightly. I think small changes go a long way. Imagine using an actual sleeping bag (even one not optimized for winter) would make a huge difference.
A True Man Of His Word!
This is so awesome. Hopefully I'll never be in a situation where I need to do this, but my husband showed me your channel and now I'm hooked. It warms my heart he prepares for even the most random things like this
Haven't tried grass pile, but I'm guessing that a mylar blanket would have made a HUGE difference in this scenario. You've got a good structure that will keep the worst of the precipitation and wind gusts off you but as could see crawling in there's still a lot of holes. As long as it doesn't have to be your outer shelter layer then "space blankets" are incredibly effective. Use it like wallpaper to line your nest rather than wrapping up tightly in it, you need to let the moisture get out or you'll be a sad camper. Will get destroyed after a night from all the sharp stems but they're cheap enough to be disposable
Just subscribed! I like your style of not giving people BS. There's some of these so-called survivalist that come on here and claimed it's 30 below zero yet the water they had stayed a little slushy all night! No sensationalizing here and I appreciate it!!
So refreshing to see a real survival shelter no tools great vid peace and love from 1 leg UK England
I watched the first video and was skeptical, but, now that I've seen you actually survive, if I'm ever stranded, I'll keep this in mind.
Brings back memories. I used to solo camp a lot with just a pack back in the 90s. Great video, very solid advise. Thank you.
Thanks for actually putting your theory to the test. It might have been a bit warmer with even more grass padding, but it was still sufficient for the purpose. It's a good reminder that your clothing is your first line of defense against a hostile environment.
watching this, im so grateful to be born in a time where most of us can have a home with actual walls and a dry warm soft bed to stay in 🙏🏻 this may keep you alive but it seems like an itchy, scratchy cold miserable nightmare to sleep in.
yeah i believe most of us are here because of your last video ❤️😌👌🏻
Honesty is so refreshing!
Cool. Helpful seeing the temperature readings. You can post a time lapse video of your experience.
I cannot thank you enough for this tip. You really just showed me another way to survive in a bad winter situation
Yes-- a mylar blanket will help a lot for warmth and actual rest. Thanks for the demo as you did it-- WITHOUT that sort of help. Great video 🏆
Big Respect bro thanks for sharing stay safe
I have so much respect for you ! I would be crying if I had to do that and you chose to do it for us ! Thank you 🖤🖤🖤
I bet if it had snowed, it would've been even warmer in there; fill in some of those air gaps and give that "igloo effect" with the insulation.
Anyways, great vid and thanks for the info. I've considered things like this before in what-if scenarios in my head, but always questioned the viability and usefulness. Great to have those questions answered so I can make a decision with confidence should I ever have to in an emergency
The temperature difference is pretty significant at 10pm. It actually got warmer while the outside got colder!
Fair play ol boy. I noticed u cld c alot of sky though Ur cover in the morning shot, lots more compacted grass and reads would ave made it warmer n I reckon a bit more comfortable. Also one last tip 4 my hardcore survival crew, in that situation get clean ,dry ,compact stacked grass and' fill Ur boots' n every space between your layers of cloths. Maximum respect to the man for that 1, gr8 job, u really earn Ur coffee that morning. Peace out
That one "yeah" after you got up out of their sums it up for me. Thank you for enlightening us, good job man!
Hey at the 15:40 time stamp for about 20 seconds after, when you are flashing your folding orange card , there is a ghost walking behind you from left to right. Or it’s a small Sasquatch in cloak mode, walking on fours and bi-pedally perhaps
Its a mystery for certain!
Great video. We didn't have that type of grass where I grew up, but I remember making something similar just to play in as a kid. Definitely noticed while hiding in it, I got warmer. As you said, with a couple items with you for survival, you would make this more viable. Also, if you spent more time adding insulation to lay on, the sides and kept some extra to lay on top of you like a blanket, you'd be even better. As with anything, you could always try it again and keep improving. Nice to see a quick and dirty field expedient shelter without tools.
Very interesting! I can definitely see how this can be the difference between an uncomfortable night and a life threatening night.