It's 10:00 and I'm bored..... I'm feeling bushcraft but there's all this snow everywhere...the answer a "quinze". I'd read in one of Rays books that they were a type of shelter you made when there wasn't good enough ice to make an igloo with.....sounds like a challenge for wilderbeast . So I started by making a circle in the snow with diameter 6ft. Then just started chucking snow into the circle until it was about a 4ft high.......make no mistakes about it this takes a LONG time, on my own it took about 3 hours!! By the time this is finished the mound has re-frozen and is fairly solid so you start burrowing in. This can get quite clostraphobic as you have to shovel snow from the cealing down with your hands while your crouched inside and it often goes all over your face and down your back!! But eventually I had sculpted out the inside and it was big enough for about 2-3 people to sit down in and 1 person to sleep in.........Of course I then settled down for a brew after i'd finished.....that goes wthout saying, enjoy the pics and comment!
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Wilderbeast
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Wilderbeast