Carrying on from the outdoor classroom pic in the last post. We set out to build a shelter out of natural materials found in the forest. I would have liked to have built my own, but we ended up building a 3-4 man shelter as a group and it took about five hours. Not as quick as it seems when Bear Grylls makes em.so not any good for an emergency.
Yeah so this was our model built by our teacher. It took slightly less than five hours to build. It was very nice for ants, but in order to sleep three or four people ours had to be at least three times as big.
After selecting a good site for the shelter, we began collecting the materials and we needed a lot of material! Which is where I put my new axe to work.
My photos are a bit dodgy cos my camera really doesn't like the cold weather. If I'm lucky I have enough time to take one picture before it shuts down. My Nokia copes with the cold a lot better, of course. I'm using that as my main camera right now, but then I have the problem of the phone battery not lasting for more than a day so I need to figure something out for my ski trip in a weeks time.
All the supports in place and interlocking, nothing was tied on apart from the cross beam and that was just to hold it in place at the beginning.
Your probably wondering, wheres all the fucking snow? Good question, but I don't know and nor do the weather men. That's why we are now heading up north to do our ski trip, otherwise it would only have been a few hours away from here.
We used mainly pine for the main supports only because there was lots around and then birch and rowan for weaving in between cos they're nice and flexible. With the last few spruce branches going on for the roof its almost ready.
Finished. everyone happy apart from grumpy guts with his axe at the front. Hopefully the forestry guys wont smash it up when they're felling trees. There is a lake only twenty metres or so in front of the shelter so we can spend a few nights here in the spring and do some ice fishing.
Ta-da for now.
Laters
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