Happy Camper

So a couple days ago I spent my weekend out in the field at a mini snow survival course. For two days a group of about twenty got trucked out on to the permanent ice shelf west of town and we spent a night.
Building a snow fort is not only fun but a good way to survive when its freakin cold out. One way to do that is to have everyone pile their gear like so. Then, cover in snow.

Pile a crap load of snow on the gear then beat it copiously with shovels. After you have about 2 feet of well beaten snow, dig a tunnel under the gear and pull it out, sleeps 4.



The weather was not always pleasant.
But snow walls keep the wind down. The all blue rig was where I spent the night. The triangle shaped tents are called scott tents. Its an old double walled canvas design but it stays quite warm and stands up to hurricane force winds. The night was actually pleasant and I stayed warm enough. The downside of all this was after you do alot of hard work building walls and setting up camp you have to go back home. It would have been nice to hang out a while longer.