This is the shelter I'm building. I hope to stay out here tonight. I found a tree that has fallen down and put up some smaller tree trunks to make the frame. Now I'm collecting some nevergreens to fill it in. Where my snow shoes to get through the steep snow. There's just a blizzard a day ago. It's about minus 10 degrees here and it's nice working in the sun. It's not that cold. I still got a lot of work to do. I've chosen to make a T.P. type shelter because I don't want to have a big fire tonight. It's going to be about minus 10 or 15 but I want to keep a small fire going in the T.P. to preserve the warmth but otherwise I'd have to collect a lot of firewood. Right now I'm just building more spending more time for the shelter. Just have a warm night but I still have a lot of evergreens to collect. It's about two o'clock. After noon I've still got a lot of work to do. The sun's going to go down soon so hope to sleep out here tonight to get finished. It's not a beautiful shelter but it's it's a should do it for the night. Wouldn't be something I'd build for a survival situation but since I've got the time and I had an early start and my dad's neighbor Joe gave me a hand just to find the location. 200 years ago the Indians, the Mac Mac Indians lived right here where I'm standing so I looking forward to a nice night out here and hope to have a wonderful experience. Most of the shelter I built I've got a fire going. It's not as patched up as I wanted it to be. I got the north side pretty tight here. It's closed off really well. There's some holes in the ceiling but because of the amount of time I have left I can't really patch side up and there's not that much material around. I got a bed made here, some spruce and small entrance to get out. It's big enough to stand in here. I'm happy with the result. I'm looking forward to a sleep outside tonight. I've got the fire burning now just try things up a little bit in here before I sleep out here tonight. I caught all the wood in here. The head of the bed Joe was nice enough to come out with his chains on cut some pieces for me otherwise I would have had to collect some wood and saw it myself which is time wouldn't have allowed that because I put too much too much time in building the shelter here so I was happy with that. I got some smaller wood over here just to get the fire going again in case it goes out. Some twigs and then a small bed I'm laying on with some pines. Yeah and just getting some cargo in here get things rounded up and then I'll head back to the house. Have a nice warm meal put on some dry clothes and then snow shoe back out here for the night. I hope I can find it. There's some nice trails and it shouldn't snow tonight so I'll be alright so I'm still shining. It's 12 o'clock at night. Fire is burning good. I'm just hoping it's gonna stay awake until it comes down a little bit to make sure nothing else catches on fire because it is quite quite a big fire at the moment but I got to get some colds going to get me get me some sleep until hopefully two or three hours. It's about minus 15 degrees now. It's really cold anywhere away from the fire so I look forward to getting back in. Happy with the fort so far it's a nice warm shelter and it's nice and quiet out here. The moon shining so it's pretty bright too so look forward to my first night in the shelter. It's a 10 past three in the morning. Fire went what I was going pretty low and I woke up because it is really cold. It feels like minus 15. I just any part of my body that's not near the fire. It's just really chilly so I was just outside. It's a beautiful night. It's a clear night. It's a crisp night. I'm glad I still got some wood left so I'll be good until the morning but it's just trying to stay awake so the fire doesn't go out and my shelter doesn't catch fire but I've been doing a good job so far so I hope I get a little bit more sleep. I haven't really slept but I just feel like I need to some more rest until the morning comes. It's 6.30 and the fire is still going. It looks like I survived the night. I'm glad the fire never died on me but it is very very cold. I woke up again or let's say I just dozed off and came back to myself because my feet were so cold. It's 6.45 and it's still dark outside. I was just out there. I have a feeling it's getting colder and colder but that doesn't matter. I've still got some wood and my fire is burning. What I'm going to do is just wait until just before sunrise and then I'll head back to Joe's for a drink maybe and then for a good hearty breakfast. I look forward to the sunrise and just the beautiful PEIA morning light. It was a beautiful night out here and I hope to do this again sometime very soon. Just arrived back at my shelter. It's been snowing for about 12 hours now which is good because the shelter is covered in snow. Give me a little bit of a little bit of break because it's really windy right now. Come out here with my snowshoes again today but the snow is so light and powdery that I've been sinking in. So the 2 kilometer walk out here has been pretty tough. I hope to get a fire burning and I got a pan with me and I'll get myself a tea. There's some spruce around and some rose hip that I'll throw in and yeah I look forward to getting warmed up so I'll get back to you later. So I just collected some spruce and some rose hip to make a tea just to show you what it looks like here. Everything looks the same so it's white with a tree. The wind's blowing hard. I walked across ice to get out here. It's a frozen river well I hope it was frozen. I got over it anyways and I counted the steps out here because I'll be heading back when it's dark so if I miss the turning point into the forest I could get lost here because if the wind's picked up and the snow storm gets worse and it's dark it might be difficult to find the way back home. I've got a light with me but you never know. So I counted 260 steps and I am looking forward to a nice hot tea. Get a fire going and see what I feel like doing next. I've got a fire started and you can hear the wind. It's blowing quite hard. It's not as cold as it was two nights ago when I slept out here in this T.P shelter mine. It's about minus three degrees so I've got a small fire going here just enough to keep me warm and dry up my pants a little bit. I've got a pan here filled with snow which I'm hoping to boil. I've collected some spruce and some rose hips so I'm going to make myself a tea and then just relax a little bit, feed the fire and enjoy the winds and just the elements of the winter. As you can see I'm making a tea here. There's rose hip and some spruce in there to be exact. Four little branches of spruce and 15 rose hip and I've squished the rose hip just to add a little bit more flavor. I'm supposed to have four times more vitamins than I think lemon does but I look forward to it. It's nice just to be able to make a tea out of whatever nature gives me out here so I look forward to a hot drink. If I wasn't making any tea I'd probably be hunting rabbit but since I just had a great lunch I don't need to hunt a rabbit but it's something I'd be doing now if I wasn't drinking tea.