A Quinzee-Inspired Winter Concept Shelter

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Hunter built a concept shelter -- a small quinzee just big enough to sleep in, with an internal raised bed made of hazel twigs. Here's how he did it!

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okay what do you do right now yes I am laying down some wood so I don't have to lay on the cold ground okay my plan is to uh over there see crawl up through there and then there's just gonna be a big snow pile okay this is lower down so then you can burrow up running into the inside alright

all the snow power all right hunter is ready to hollow it out today so inside of this structure down there you can see what I was six sticking out is that slightly elevated bed of hazel and the idea here is to dig in and then down to that bed of hazel and leave about eight inch walls which I'll explain in a second we have been using some modern conveniences and one of those is their tarp that is on top of that hazel bed so when he goes in he can clear everything off that tarp that plastic tarp and just a sheet of plastic over the snow will come off of there really easily and then he removes that it'll be nice and clean underneath it that's not necessary but it can make things a lot easier if you do have some kind of a tarp with you there's these sticks these sticks are gonna go in and tell us the depth that we need because then we're hollowing from inside we're gonna hit the tips of those sticks and we're gonna know how to stop 10 inches is a great like depth of your walls and what I like to do is make my sticks about 10 inches and then leave room on top for my fist so I measure one stick like that and measure all the other ones off of that then when it sticks in that's gonna be above the snow you can pull that out later on the reason for that being that if this is gonna be a longer-term shelter like it's going to be for a hunter if you leave those sticks in there and you get some real sunny days the Sun absorbs into the darker sticks and sometimes you can get some melt kind of a circle of mouth around the

and that's something that can easily be prevented by just pulling these out afterwards and packing a little snow into those holes we left the snow sinter or coagulate for about 48 hours it's sometimes you can just leave it for hour or so and it'll be fine but this has made it really nice and solid still you want to do this with a friend just in case it would collapse on you okay so he's gonna enter in from underneath and then it's got to dig up to where the bed is which is around there and that's gonna allow all the heat to stay inside there instead just going on his door okay so there's that black tarp which will remove and still lots of hollowing out to do but inside the finished shelter okay so you spent the night in here last night and what worked and didn't work with this design uh I stayed it definitely took away the bite of the cold you still felt pretty cool but my gloves aren't enough for this winter but inside they're just fine the hazel was a little uncomfortable and I think it was a whole bunch of little things that added up that made it so I couldn't sleep very well another thing is kind of got it going this way and some reason if my head is lower than my feet I struggled to sleep and probably no pillow that's why I didn't help either after your the cold stuff we've seen from you nobody's gonna believe you about the cold but you're saying it actually did keep the major majority of the cold oh yeah definitely took away the bite it you're still pretty cool and I tried the first night using a sleeping bag and it got pretty damp throughout the night and one thing if I were gonna spend some more time here I was gonna take the hazel bed out and fill it with leaves and other things that I found and dry down the cabin