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Mystik Spiral
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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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Drummer Dave
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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.
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BushRat
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We could fold up that quote and make a good sized shelter out of it. 
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Drummer Dave
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^ lol, no doubt
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Drummer Dave
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A large buddy shelter. 
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Mystik Spiral
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I like how they extended the side wall.
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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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Brian
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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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flashlightfreak9
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Very cool.
Good for a temporary hunting camp.
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linsleyk
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cool I would stay in that. looks like it took a while to make.
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LaraCroft
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Survivor Kid 909
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Very cool Dave, great looking shelter there!
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linsleyk
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here is a shelter I found on my Yost hike
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Drummer Dave
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Alittle clean up and its ready for livin
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LaraCroft
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Great picture Linsley....
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Drummer Dave
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Nice little debris shelter
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flashlightfreak9
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Looks nice and cozy.
Did you build it or find the pic on the net?
Whoever built it did a good job.
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Drummer Dave
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No, i didnt make this one. But i like the idea of how he/she used the tree as a support.
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flashlightfreak9
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linsleyk
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wow that is good and cozy.
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