Survival Shelter - Winter Shelter Basics Part 1

http://primitiveskills.com instructor Ryan Douglas covers basic winter shelter concepts while building a quinzee snow shelter.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• winter survival
• snow shelter
• wilderness survival
• outdoor education

[C24B9]

Great vid! I'll guess you're proud of the boy, and dang well should be! I'd rather learn from this kid than from some adults. Kudos.

[primitiveskills]

@C24B9 Thank you for the kind words. Ryan is quite the character. I forget what these kids are absorbing by living at the School. Our community now supports a group of these kids and they feed off of each other with regard to the skills. Because it is their every day reality, we forget that some folks would view their skill sets as unique or even exceptional. Twelve year olds who can get bow drill fires are normal here, but "unbeleavable" by folks outside our reality.

[theresyourtrouble]

lmao@youth instructor thats where i wanna get my survival info, some snot nosed kid whose breath smells like similac and is all wet behind the ears

[primitiveskills]

@theresyourtrouble Ryan has spent multiple 3 days trips in full survival (no knife, no tools, blanket, or shelter) & been involved w/ the school since birth. He knows the edible, medicinal, and utilitarian uses of over 40 plants, all the needle leaf, and 1/2 the broad leaf trees in our area.  His tracking skills outshine the military instructors that come through our courses. We just figured his voice would be less intimidating for folks who have to use knives & gear w/ inflated/fragile egos.

[primitiveskills]

@theresyourtrouble You should come on out. After twenty three years we've gotten rid of any need to adopt a "schtik", and have come to an awareness that no one person can learn it all in one life time. We would love to show you what is possible beyond the mainstream "Suffer till' your found" approach to interacting with the natural world. With two generations of students and instructors, and a community of folks directly involved in the school, there just isn't the need to convince you.

[Kuploosh]

Hey great videos! I thought of an idea for keeping warm in the winter, and I want to know what you think of it. I'm in high school and recently learned in math class that, in an ellipse, if radiation is emitted from one focus, it will reflect off the walls and focus at the other focus. My idea is to build an elliptical snow wall with a fire at one focus, and a spruce bed at the other. Would probably be a lot of work, but if the snow is deep you could just dig it out. Let me know what you think.

[primitiveskills]

@Kuploosh I think it's a great opportunity! If you face your elipse south, than the arc of the sun will contribute to your heat. Just don't let it become too efficient and turn your shelter in to a solar cooker! I would hate to imagine a motivated survival enthusiast spontaeneosly combusting! Tell me how it turns out!

[tonybalonia]

*Maine

[tonybalonia]

These are the things that the boy scouts used to do! I wish they were still doing stuff like this when I was 10, instead of making maccaroni necklaces. Maybe I just should have been living in main, rather than california. Great Video! That kid will make one hell of a Green Beret some day!

[bigjimmyrocker]

great post

[ppspsd]

AWESOME VID !! NEED MORE KIDS OUT THERE JUST LIKE THIS YOUNG MAN !! To many kids today are glued to there video games,and big screen tv's they just dont have BASIC SKILLS ANYMORE !!

[Kuploosh]

@primitiveskills Lol, okay I'll let you know. I'm going to wait until I've got at least a few feet of snow to try this on. If I try it out I'll definitely make a video, so I'll keep you posted.