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00:01Luke here with the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel and welcome to the interior of

00:05Alaska. I'm going to be camping in the snow without a tent for the next three

00:08days. I'll be building survival shelters, sleeping under animal hides, making

00:13bushcraft projects next to the fire, and cooking amazing food.

00:30Well, we've had a really weird winter here in Alaska, and it's been cold and hot and

00:49cold again. But the good news is the snow is not too deep and the swamps are all

00:53frozen, so I can really get out and explore places I otherwise couldn't

00:56excess.

01:03I got myself pretty wet. Looks like there's a little ditch or creek here, so I

01:08stopped to get out and walk it before I try to take the K truck into it. And

01:12there's a booby trap right here. Look at that. It's just snow floating on water.

01:20Then I walked onto it and sunk into mud up to here. I think I'll just go around.

01:26I've been driving around for about two and a half hours. I think it's about time to look

01:34around for a place to camp.

01:35There we go.

01:36I'm going to look around for some dead trees.

01:41I'm going to look around for some dead trees.

01:43I'm going to look around for some dead trees.

01:48I'm going to look around for some dead trees.

01:49I'm going to look around for some dead trees.

01:55It's going to be pitch black by 4pm today. I have about an hour and a half before sunset,

02:23and it's really hard to find dead trees in the dark.

02:40There's an invasive beetle called the Japanese spruce bark beetle. It's wiping out a lot of

02:44the spruce trees in this area. A lot of the trees are sick or dead. In the summertime this

02:49place is a massive forest fire hazard. So burning up the dead trees in the wintertime can actually

02:54be a real good thing.

02:56Seems like a lot of wood, but it's not. If you want to keep warm for 18 hours of darkness,

03:08plus have a shelter, it takes a lot. Sun's setting. I got to bust out my lights. I use these bicycle

03:14lights that have a GoPro mount. I got this on a trip to Kyoto when Tommy was just little.

03:19They're just little.

03:26Gotta get a fire going and dry my pants off.

03:53It's not a big deal while I'm moving around, but once I stop to eat dinner it's gonna get real cold.

04:11Always gotta make sure to put your flint and steel away.

04:14It's so easy to get focused on the fire and then drop it in the snow and lose it.

04:22Everything's covered in snow.

04:34Everything's covered in ice and snow so I put the firewood around the fire until it starts to catch.

04:39Then I put it out and stack it up next to the fire.

04:41Next to the fire.

04:43Let's go.

04:45Let's go.

04:47Let's go.

04:49Let's go.

04:51Let's go.

04:53Let's go.

05:03Oh, my God.

05:33I don't know.

06:03I don't have enough limbs to cover it all the way to the top, but that'll make a good

06:27windbreak

06:34Now all this wood covered in ice and snow we're going to prop it up against the heat

06:59reflector and dry it out just looked at my clock and it's 7 30 so just about five hours

07:14to cut down all these trees and build this shelter pretty proud of that that's a lot of wood

07:19I cut shelters obviously not as good as it could be but it's good as it's going to be

07:24tonight I hang up my clothes and let them dry my gloves are wet boots are wet these logs are

07:33frozen and covered in ice makes them really cold and it's going to get me wet so we got

07:38to dry them

07:47there you go I brought some caribou hides to sleep on I'm getting old I need I need padding

08:07brought along a buffalo hide too as a blanket all right need to get some dinner made

08:19tell you what I really like these heat reflectors when you build a wall behind your fire it absorbs

08:42the heat of the fire and then reflects it back towards you but more importantly it acts as a

08:46windbreak and keeps the wind from blowing the smoke in your face it's really nice all right

08:52for dinner I've got moose fajitas I prepped up all the meat and seasonings and vegetables and

08:57everything in this little package and froze it now I'm just going to put it in a pot of boiling water

09:00to heat it back up not a bad meal when you don't have time to do fancy stuff

09:04got a moose fajita with a little bit of guacamole no I'm hungry it's about 9 p.m. I haven't eaten since breakfast

09:21oh that's good all right let's do the dishes

09:33I have a little bit of firewood but not enough to get me through the rest of the night I need to go cut

09:50some more firewood oh I'm gonna sit here and eat some chocolate covered almonds and dry my boots out

10:12oh oh I'm so tired oh it's already 10 p.m. I gotta get to bed here soon

10:17now if I go to bed with wet socks my feet are gonna be so cold and if I don't dry my boots out

10:30they'll freeze in the morning and I won't be able to get them on because they'll just be like a solid

10:34is a rock so I've got to go and dry out my boots dry out my pants dry out my socks

10:39there's a steam coming off of there

10:42all right it's time to cuddle up with my buffalo hide go to sleep probably have to stoke the fire

10:54every three four hours but that's pretty normal all right guys I'll see you in the morning

10:59hey good morning oh this fire has been keeping this place really warm keep forgetting how cold

11:09it is and then the fire will die down I'll be like dang it's really cold out

11:13as long as the fire's roaring this place holds the heat pretty well

11:18all right I think it's time to get up trying to make some breakfast

11:48I'm gonna rub some butter on this warm tortilla and put cinnamon sugar on it

12:08that's good if you ever had cinnamon toast or a

12:18so papilla kind of tastes like that

12:19got some steel-cut Irish oatmeal here these are good stuff a little butter brown sugar and raisins

12:29it's about 9 30 in the morning and you can start to see a little bit of light out

12:36Sun's gonna rise in about 45 minutes oh well that was good I gotta do the dishes now

12:42it's about 10 o'clock it looks like the Sun's up need to get to work here

12:53alrighty

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13:31I can't believe it!

14:01this thatching only does a marginal job of keeping the wind out but once you get a little bit of

14:26snow on top of it then it's absolutely airtight the trick is that you got to make it thick enough

14:30and far enough away from the fire that when you've got a nice big roaring fire in here you don't have

14:35drips of water from melting snow hopefully we got it right

15:00well that's not too shabby that's a proper wall i think the next thing i want to do is improve

15:11my bed it was a little bit narrow last night i kept trying to roll off i wouldn't mind having

15:17that foot rest a little bit bigger too

15:19dry out this log before i put it in my bed

15:26i piled up a bunch of logs over there as a bit of a windbreak to keep cold air from going underneath

15:35my bed now they got the shelter built i don't think it's really necessary so i'm going to use

15:39that for my firewood tonight

16:09shelter's feeling nice and tidy the bed's feeling better i got more of a platform

16:22got some firewood drying i think it's time to eat some food

16:26a friend of mine gave me these hot dogs i think they're made out of caribou excited to try them

16:42out oh smell good that's a good hot dog i think i worked up a two hot dog appetite

17:01but i want to do a little project i want to build a cooking griddle this is a 22 gauge weldable steel

17:15that's not very even

17:20it's an ugly freehand oval right there

17:25i got this little stump anvil right here

17:33you don't need anything fancy like this a rock will do

17:39just put a little lip on the edge of it

17:55knocked off all the sharp bits now it's really stiff and rigid and your food won't spill off the edge

18:00got a little bit of steel rod here heat that up in the fire

18:25there we go

18:46there we go

19:00there we go

19:05all right

19:19that's a little griddle it's kind of ugly shaped but that's what happens when you do it freehand

19:33but now we got to season it got a little peanut oil and get the handles too

19:40let that bake

19:46do a couple layers

19:52seasoned frying pan it's ready for cooking well it's about 6 30 and i think it's time

20:11for dinner so for dinner i got something special got king crab legs last winter i went up to

20:17gnome with my son nathan and we caught king crab through the ice

20:23i've got this little jar with uh garlic and butter in it just kind of loosen the lid

20:28sit that right by the fire

20:37oh look at the size of that crab leg

20:44oh that was so warm and delicious when you cook the crabs over the fire too it makes their shells

21:02brittle makes it a lot easier to shell them you just use your hands

21:10you gotta eat quick things cool off really quick around here

21:16look at that that's just from one knuckle barely fits in the jar

21:24oh that's messy but good

21:25oh i got a full belly in the big fire i'm gonna listen to an audiobook just kind of relax for an

21:36hour or so before bedtime

21:40well it's getting late i should hop into bed definitely feel like this shelter is a lot warmer

21:46than yesterday the air is just not moving as much i got the heat reflecting off this sidewall and

21:52the whole thing's just a better wind block

21:57it's nice having a little bit more of a platform to stand on i got more room to dry my boots

22:05forgot to dry my socks out before going to bed but uh with this nice little step right here i can

22:10just stick my feet out they're all nice and toasty i want to put the camera down i'll see you guys in a

22:16little bit i had to stoke the fire a couple times but stayed warm but my back is sore

22:31oh oh my back i feel like i was run over by a truck but i'm warm

22:36well it's about 7 30 i think it's time to go test out that griddle and make some breakfast

22:57okay corned beef hash oh it's so frozen

23:06yeah it's pretty non-stick slid right off

23:36corned beef and hash egg sandwich

23:51oh that is so good tell you what that little skillet worked really well pretty easy to make too

23:58oh that was delicious i wouldn't mind another one of those

24:06i'll tell you that was a good meal i'm definitely gonna have to do that one again

24:17but uh i think it's time to get packed up i'm gonna try to get home by 12 and i've got a long

24:23way to drive to get there so i think i better not wait for the sun to come up i'll tell you what i

24:27like my little griddle worked really well all right this is a really nice shelter i'm curious

24:38to see how it performs in bad weather though maybe i can come back during a snowstorm and

24:42see how the shelter does all right all right let's see if the car starts when it gets really cold my

24:52k truck freezes up and won't start but uh it's a bit of a ways home so uh hopefully it'll start up on me

24:58oh sure is nice when things work

25:10yeah you definitely want to make sure that car is working before you put your fire out

25:17all right

25:24gotta work out my backing up

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