Crew G's Flash Lake Camp Day 1
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 05/01/2020

This is a quick tour of our on-ice camp site at Flash Lake on the first day of our Okpik Trek.
We had arrived at this site in the late morning and then spent most of the rest of the day shoveling snow for quinzhees and our snow kitchen (I recorded this around 4:30pm local time...just around sunset).
Our tour starts with our ice hole where we gathered our water for boiling/sterilizing, walks past our sleds, and ends in the middle of our camp at our snow kitchen.  We would go on adding to our snow kitchen and excavating our quinzhees until about 8pm this night.

Rules of thumbs we learned:
1) build your quinzhees on ice at least 6" thick
2) space each one at least 100' feet from one another
3) initially pile snow ~6' high
4) if you trust your diggers insert 6" sticks throughout the quinzhee (12" if you don't trust them)
5) let your quinzhee "cook" or settle for at least 5 hours before starting to excavated your interior space
6) make nice windbreak walls extended out from your entrance