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Mystik Spiral
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Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 1489 Location: Green Bay, WI |
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You could have a fire in your shelter if you make a hot coal bed. If you dig a trench and burn a fire in it you get hot coal, and you bury them with the dirt you just dug out of the pit. Be sure to put a water proof ground cloth down for condensation so you don't get soaked. You have to put your bag down right away too so all the heat doesn't release. I haven't tried it, but it sounds really good. BTW the coals could stay lit for weeks underground so be sure to extinguish them before you leave. You don't want tree roots to light and make a forest fire or something. 
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| Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:10 pm |
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Drummer Dave
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Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 4381 Location: B.C West Coast, Canada |
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dont all shelters look like a really big tinder bundle? | > shelters are tinder bundles  |
true enough  |
Except snow shelters.  |
That's a lot of quotes.  | That it is sorry couldnt help but add to the chaos. Shelters are giant tinder bundles. I know from experience. In my advanced standard at Tracker School, a guy was smudging his to get the bugs out, his door fell in for a second and WOOSH, thing lit up...needless to say it lit the woods up bright for a good hundred meters around at least, and we had to rush and fill buckets of water and carry them to the thing with 15' flames. Needless to say, we learned its important to be careful with your shelters  | > LOL, i just had to add to this MASSIVE quote. By all means dont bring your fire into your shelter i dont have to say why ? do I ? .........  | LOL, this is a HUGEMONGOUS quote, and I'm in the middle, and edge now lol. Somthing to make sure not to do unless extreme conditions, and only then with extreme caution is burn a stove or such inside your tent. I know someone who burnt down their whole tent because of a gas leak that caught on fire. | > Ahhh. Lol, the qoute lives on ! you can buy small fire extinguishers, about the size of a large Bear spray can.
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| Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:13 pm |
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BushRat
Saugeen Survivor

Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 998 Location: Toronto |
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We could fold up that quote and make a good sized shelter out of it. 
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| Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:47 pm |
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Drummer Dave
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Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 4381 Location: B.C West Coast, Canada |
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^ lol, no doubt 
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| Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:33 pm |
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Drummer Dave
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Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 4381 Location: B.C West Coast, Canada |
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A large buddy shelter.

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| Tue May 06, 2008 3:27 pm |
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SHoGuNN3R
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Joined: 01 Apr 2007 Posts: 18 Location: Vegas... w00t |
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 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Looks like a giant tinder bundle to me  |
dont all shelters look like a really big tinder bundle? | > shelters are tinder bundles  |
true enough  |
Except snow shelters.  |
That's a lot of quotes.  | That it is sorry couldnt help but add to the chaos. Shelters are giant tinder bundles. I know from experience. In my advanced standard at Tracker School, a guy was smudging his to get the bugs out, his door fell in for a second and WOOSH, thing lit up...needless to say it lit the woods up bright for a good hundred meters around at least, and we had to rush and fill buckets of water and carry them to the thing with 15' flames. Needless to say, we learned its important to be careful with your shelters  | > LOL, i just had to add to this MASSIVE quote. By all means dont bring your fire into your shelter i dont have to say why ? do I ? .........  | LOL, this is a HUGEMONGOUS quote, and I'm in the middle, and edge now lol. Somthing to make sure not to do unless extreme conditions, and only then with extreme caution is burn a stove or such inside your tent. I know someone who burnt down their whole tent because of a gas leak that caught on fire. | > Ahhh. Lol, the qoute lives on ! you can buy small fire extinguishers, about the size of a large Bear spray can. |
Stop quoting, you're all being trolls.  |
Should I? Yea I should lol, Dave That Shelter won't do anything in a zombie outbreak! Just kidding bud cool Shelter 
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| Tue May 06, 2008 3:55 pm |
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Mystik Spiral
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Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 1489 Location: Green Bay, WI |
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I like how they extended the side wall. 
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| Tue May 06, 2008 5:15 pm |
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Drummer Dave
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Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 4381 Location: B.C West Coast, Canada |
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 |  | I like how they extended the side wall.  | > ya i thought it would be worth the extra work to build. It would be, Wind screen/Boogy Man protector 
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| Tue May 06, 2008 5:57 pm |
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Brian
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Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 657 Location: Spencerport, New York |
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cool shelter, start adding a roof and bulking up the walls and you have a winter encampment Quite cozy from the looks of it too
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| Wed May 07, 2008 2:12 am |
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flashlightfreak9
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Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 3344 Location: Sweet Home Alabama!!! |
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Very cool.
Good for a temporary hunting camp. 
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| Wed May 07, 2008 1:44 pm |
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linsleyk
Cook Islands Survivor

Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 1387 Location: Washington |
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cool I would stay in that. looks like it took a while to make. 
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| Wed May 07, 2008 5:31 pm |
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LaraCroft
Kalahari Desert Survivor

Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 586
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Survivor Kid 909
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Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1831 Location: Iowa |
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Very cool Dave, great looking shelter there!
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| Sat Jun 07, 2008 11:58 am |
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linsleyk
Cook Islands Survivor

Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 1387 Location: Washington |
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here is a shelter I found on my Yost hike

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| Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:25 pm |
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Drummer Dave
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Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 4381 Location: B.C West Coast, Canada |
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Alittle clean up and its ready for livin 
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LaraCroft
Kalahari Desert Survivor

Joined: 16 Apr 2008 Posts: 586
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Great picture Linsley.... 
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