3 Days in Arctic Survival Shelter - Solo Bushcraft Camping & Blacksmithing.

Luke here with the Out Boys YouTube channel and welcome to the interior of Alaska I'm going to be camping in the snow without a tent for the next 3 days I'll be building survival shelters sleeping under animal hides making Bushcraft projects next to the fire and cooking amazing food [Music] well we've had a really weird winter here in Alaska and it's been cold then hot then cold again but the good news is the snow's not too deep and the swamps are all Frozen so I can really get out and explore places I otherwise couldn't access [Music] I got myself pretty wet looks like there's a little ditch or creek here so I stopped to get out and walk it before I tried to take the K truck into it and there's a booby trap right here look at that is just snow floating on water then I walked onto it and sunk into mud up to here I think I'll just go around been driving around for about 2 and 1/2 hours and I think it's about time to look for a place to [Applause] Camp yeah there we go look around for some dead trees it's going to be Pitch Black by 400 p. m. today I have about an hour and a half before Sunset and it's really hard to find dead trees in the dark [Music] there's an invasive Beetle called the Japanese Spruce bark Beetle it's wiping out a lot of the spruce trees in this area so a lot of the trees are sick or dead in the summertime this place is a massive forest fire hazard so burning up the dead trees in the winter time can actually be a real good thing seems like a lot of wood but it's not if you want to keep warm for 18 hours of Darkness Plus have a shelter it takes a lot Sun's setting I got to bust out my lights I use these bicycle lights that have a GoPro Mount I got this on a trip to Kyoto when Tommy was just little [Music] got to get a fire going and dry my pants off it's not a big deal while I'm moving around but once I stop to eat dinner it's going to get real cold always got to make sure to put your flint and steel away so easy to get focused on the fire and then drop it in the snow and lose it everything's covered in snow everything's covered in ice and snow so I put the firewood around the fire until it starts to catch then I put it out and stack it up next to the fire [Music] I don't have enough limbs to cover it all the way to the top but that'll make a good wind break all this wood covered in ice and snow we're going to prop it up against the Heat Flector and dry it out oh just looked at my clock and it's 7:30 so just about 5 hours to cut down all these trees and build this shelter pretty proud of that that's uh it's a lot of wood I cut shelter is obviously not as good as it could be but it's good as it's going to be tonight hang up my clothes and let them dry gloves are wet boots are wet these logs are frozen and covered in ice makes them really cold and it's going to get me wet so we got to dry them there you go I brought some Caribou hides to sleep on I'm getting old I need I need padding brought along a buffalo hide to as a blanket tired need to get some dinner made tell you what I really like these heat reflectors when you build a wall behind your fire it absorbs the heat of the fire and then reflects it back towards you but more importantly it acts as a wind break and keeps the wind from blowing the smoke in your face it's really nice all right for dinner I've got moose fajitas I prepped up all the meat and Seasonings and vegetables and everything in this little package and froze it now I'm just going to put it in a pot of boiling water to heat it back up not a bad meal when you don't have time to do fancy stuff got a moose vitao with a little bit of guacamole oh I'm hungry it's about 900 p.

m. I haven't eaten since breakfast M oh that's good all right let's do the dishes I have a little bit of firewood but not enough to get me through the rest of the night I need to go cut some more firewood I'm going to sit here and eat some chocolate covered almonds and dry my boots out oh I'm so tired oh it's already 10 p. m.