Quest to get on the Alone show (Day 6 Shelter Build of the 5-day solo bushcraft camping trip)

[@WildBorkysadventures]

Great shelter, good craftmanship skills👌👍

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

Thank you for the kind words and watching.

[@PHHEMRTrain]

This is great work Rich!!!

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

for the work pavilion, add some poles for support of the tarp. Make it a plow point configuration, Practice at home so that you'll know how to do it. aim the low end of the plow point at the prevailing winds. Dont take the tarp all the wy to the ground, cause you'll need head room, maybe room to swing the shovel and cut wood. Drive 3 ft long stakes 1 ft into the ground, Tie the bottom edges of the tarp to these stakes. Fill in the gaps under the tarp's bottom edge with brush, debris, then dirt. This will stop wind and rain from entering your work pavilion., but let you have a 7 ft high ceiling. Put a Siberian fire lay out front, if need-be as you work. If all is wet, make an alternative Swedish fire torch or 3 and use them to ignite the Siberian. yt has vids on both. of these. Neither can be extinguished by rain. both burn green, wet wood if need be and the Siberian projects its heat all in one direction, twice as far as a normal fire. It's vital to learn these fire lays.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

About day 30, you'll need to cover your tent with an external pole frame, and a 6" thick layer of dry debris, for insulation warmth as the temps drop. You can be bringing those items to the camp bit by bit ad covering them with the (lowered) plow point tent you can add the external pole frame at any time, but once you add the 6" layer of dry debris, you'll have to cover the debris with the 10x16 ft producer's tarp. Seal the bottom ends of both of your tarps (on the tent) with piled up dirt. which you dampen so it wont blow away. This swap of the prodcuer's tarp will mean that you have to cover the work pavilaon with everygreen boughs. which are best left uncut until the day you need them. The needles will all fall off of the boughs in 2 weeks or so, That means that you'll have to replace the boughs, if you still have need of the work pavailion. You shouldnt, cause everything productive should have been done by the 6 week mark

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

wear the 2 pairs of longjohn pants and make 3 pairs of pants out of the remainder of the 12x12 tarp and the tape. One set of pants can be used to haul raw water to your camp, Line a 7 gallon pit with the folded tyvek bivy. cover the bivy with grasses, Stone boil 5 gallons of water at a time, twice per week. Make a 6 gallon basket, line this basket with a 3x3 ft hunk of the tarp. Presto, water storage. for 3-4 days. Beats hell out of having to boil 2 qts of water at a time in a little pot, 3 x per day.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

The 3 sets of coveralls and the backpack become debris-stuffed pontoons for the outrigger raft. While still at-home, water proof spray them, Stuff them with dry debris and each pontoon will float a man. Sew and tape their seams. You only need a log FRAME for this raft, so it can be built in one day. It only requires 8 small logs to make a sea-worthy craft, when you know how. it can't be overturned, sunk, swamped, a couple of 2 ft long logs get your feet up out of the water, 2 more let you lash the camera case to the raft, and you sit on that case. One hour makes a paddle handle for the shovel, Lanyard this paddle to the raft, so that you cant lose it to the waters.

[@MountainAjar]

I’m back checking out your show , man time fly’s. I’ll catch up . Glad your doing well out there and still having fun my friend

[@TonyLee-fm2fy]

I hope you get on I would love to try out Alone

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

Thank you for the kind words and for watching. You should try to get on.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

To help warm you in the work pavilion or in your sleeping shelter when you are too emaciated to make metabolic heat, dig some 1 cubic foot deep and wide pits, in row. Into each pit, put a head sized stone, which you're heated OUTSIDE with pair of Siberian fire lays, so you can heat both sides of all of the rocks at the same time. Snuff the flames with ashes or dry, loose dirt, and bury some coals and charocal in the ashes-pit, under the small, portable, primitive A frame. Trench around the pit vs rain or snow melt The fire will remain "aive' for 12+ hours. Use the long handle youve made for the shovel to sled each stone into the sleeping shelter Put each one in a pit, with a 2" thick layer of ashes around/over it. This reduces the heat loss of the stone, so it warms your tent by 20F degrees for 5+ hours The tent should be SEALED, just one pinki sized vent hole near the top, whenever you're awake. When you'r in danger of falling asleep, pull the stick plug out of the lower vent hole, across the shelter from the top hole

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

about day 60, the 10x16 ft tarp must be converted into a sleeping bag. Fold it in half, stuff it with about 6" of dry debris, fold it in half again and secure the edges with cordage from the un-raveled rope-hammock. Remove enough of the tents internal stuffing-debris to move this sleeping bag onto your raised pole-bed, Replace as much of the internal debris as possible. The reflective tyvek bivy of course goes into the debris-bag. By then, you wont need the pontoon outrigger raft any more, so the coveralls can again become clothing, The backpack becomes your pillow, holding shut the flap-door that is taped to the inside of your sleeping tent. Put dry grasses or mosses between each of the 8 layers of your clothing, for enhanced insulation, It will never be cold enough, while you are there, to need a heat source inside of your sleeping tent.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

get some $1.50 each clear plastic painter's "drop cloths" from lowe's, wally's, home depot, menard's. Tape the 9x12' sheets together and cut them off, leaving a 12x12 to practice on, like your tarp will be. Lay out the tent and the pants on the plastic with a magic marker, Use scissors at home. On the reflective tarp, for the actual show, lay out the pieces with permanent marker. and cut out the pieces with the knife blade of your modified Crunch multitool You can have the tent up in 3 hours, the raised pole bed in 3 hours to include stuffing the tent with dry debris. Dont need the bed the first few days, Get the stone-boiling pit going. .the basket for water storage made, the 3 pairs of pants made of tape and tarp. Do the bed later. You want to do the unraveling of the cotton rope hammock at night, by firelight or with your headlamp, light on the camera. Save daylight for things that require daylight. Unraveling the rope can be done by firelight, but unraveling the strands into their 44 threads (each strand) and assembling/spinning 5 threads into string, thats daylight stuff. You can make netting by firelight, tho

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

search youtube for vid on the alternative Swedish fire torch and the Siberian fire lay. The Siberian projects all of its heat in one direction, twice as far as a normal fire. It can sit out i the rain while producing safe heat that goes under your work pavilion's tarp and warms you, dries clothing, etc. The Swede torch is used to ignite the Siberian when all is wet. Neither fire lay can be extinguished by rain one they are burning well Both fire lays will burn green, wet wood if need-be

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

make the tent 8 ft long, triangular in cross section 3x3 ft at the foot end, 4 ft high, 3.5 ft wide at the base at the head end. Make the bed 5 ft long, 30" wide, 10" high. drive 4 forked sticks as the corner posts and use 5 ft long, 1-1.5" poles lengthwise. Lash together the tops of two 1.5-2.0" OD poles, both 9-10 ft long, overlapping 1-2 ft of their small ends. That's your ridgepole. Tie one end of this pole into the fork of a small tree, away from big trees, for safety in windstorms. Make a small tripod, stake down its poles and guy it out to other stakes, Put the foot end of the ridgepole in this tripod and tie it in place. Doht have heavy logs above you as you sleep! dont hurt yourself trying to lift 80 lbs logs 7 ft in the air, either. You dont want your sleeping tent to be much bigger than a coffin. Make a separate work pavilion out of the 10x16 ft tarp that the producer's give everyone. do NOT leave the producer's tarp up when you're not right there watching it, or the wind will have it! Rig it with loops and toggles, so you can take it down in a minute flat, and stake-weight it down. use green, springy branches, tied into a "u" shape as 'shock-absorbers at every tie out point on every membrane that is exposed to the wind, and use the gorilla tape to reinforce such connections, or you'll soon regret it.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

you can save 1-3 weeks other waste on shelter building. 2 weeks that they waste on firewood, a week that they waste on boiling water and 2 more weeks (at least) that they waste on bowhunting small game and hook and line fishing. Make netting and boxt traps out of netting and stick frames, to catch rabbits, birds, crabs. Build brush piles around the traps, so animals/birds feel safe from raptors and other predators. Leave the traps un-set and bait them regularly. When you see the animals using the traps, THEN set the triggers so you dont waste time or calories checking the un-set traps and a "near-miss doesn't educate the critters to the dangers of the traps. Dont set traps any place that you dont walk on a daily basis, for other reasons. small game and birds dont offer enough calories to be worth tramping all over the place, twice per day, checking a trap line. Of course, always have your projectile weapon at the ready as you check your traps, etc. Bring milk-jug plastic sheaths for your broadhead arrow tips, dummies. if they wont less you do so, make such sheaths out of bark and tape.

[@mikeyheltonjr]

Wow Rich, the shelter is coming along great! I can't wait to see it finished.

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

Hoping to get back down there the second weekend in Aug for days 7 and 8. I appreciate you watching.

[@mikeyheltonjr]

@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz I appreciate you taking the time to do this my friend. I know how much time and effort goes into a shelter build like that. The videos font do justice to the time you have spent working.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

dont dig the other 3 pits under your bed until they are needed. That just teached mice to avoid your trap. keep debris and dirt dry under you bed and in your shelter. If you're not USING the work pavillion tarp, lowe it to the ground and stake/weight it down, vs wind storms. when you're not using the raft, remove the pontoons and secure them vs wind and flooding. Dont be in water that's over your head with the raft and dont be out there without the life vest (on) that they give you. Dont wear more than one set of longjohns and the tyvek bivy while on the raft and consider tying the raft to some part of your body, so a current can't take it from you if you fall off. Have an anchor rope/stone on the raft., and also anchor it to a tree, boulder, etc, for the night.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

if's 50F degrees when they launch, and wont freeze for a month. The rivers freeze solid in many areas, The fish MUST migrate. So in a month, you're done fishing if you are not on a lake. In any case, you need to make a LOT of netting in the first week. Take the sale, pemmican and gorp, and mix in some diced, boiled, then fried cambium. dont eat anything the first 2 days. Then you'll have 1700 calories per day for a week of hard work. The next day, no food, will still be functional. 10 days, you'll have made the pontoon outrigger raft, and 1500 sq ft of 4" mesh netting, or 700 sq ft of 2" mesh netting. That will be feeding you. acceptably, mixing in a bit of cambium. Netting can be wrapped many times around stick box frames and used to catch rabbits, crabs, birds.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

show them that you dont need axe, shovel, ferrorod, sleeping bag, paracord, gillnet, snarewire, fishing kit, belt knife bow Instead, take a Cold steel shovel which youve modified to have 8" of real deal saw teeth. Take a modified Crunch multitool, the block of salt, the rations of pemmican and gorp, the 2 person cotton rope hammock, the reflective 12x12 ft tarp, the reflective XL size tyvek bivy, the big roll of gorilla tape and one of chief Aj's slingbows, with 3 piece, take down arrows. Put Judohead blunts and flu flu fletching on 6 of the arrows When you make the pottery, make 50+ cerarmic balls as 'ammo" vs small game and birds, so you dont waste arrows on such targets. You can make a fine tent out of the tape and half of the tarp. in 3 hours, with 2 hours of that being the finding cuttig and hauling of the needed small poles. Same time to make a raised pole bed. and to convert the 10x16 ft producer's tarp into a work-pavilion. Use the latter only when it's too windy-raining and you need to get stand up work done. Rig the pavilion with loops and togges, so you can raise or lower it in a minute flat. When it's in the stand up "mode', never turn your back on it, or the wind will have it!. Rig springy stick "u-clips" as shock absorbers for all of your tarp tie downs. Reinforce all such tie downs with the Gorilla tape, in advance, so that they dont get torn. Make your sleeping tent very small, 8 ft long, triangular in cross sectio, 4 ft high at the head eend and 3.5 ft wide at the base of the head end. At the food end, the dimensiona are 3x3 ft. You will do nothing but rest and sleep in this tent, using a chamber pot basked with earth. This saves lots of calories, time. You dont need more than this tent and bed, stuffed with dry debris, to stay warm for the first month Keep it small, so you dont need a heat source.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

they launch in mid Sept, at 50F degrees It's not going to freeze for a month. I'ts not going to fail to thaw out in the afternoons for another month. under current rules, it's never lasted 11 weeks and usually, it's 9-10 weeks. so you'll need see 0F degrees, cause you'll never see the second week in December. season 10 was gone by thanksgiving! google for a monthly temp chart of these areas and you'll see that I"m correct about the temps. They TALLK a lot of crap about sub -20F, but that doesn''t happen until late January and they never see 1 December, so it's bs. You dont need a sleeping bag's portability, cause you can't leave a 1.2 mile radius from where they drop you off. Debris offers plenty of insulation, IF you know to trap it between two layers of tarp. and IF it's dry. There's a way, in one day, to dry out all of the debris you'll ever need while on this challenge. It's done with a pile of hot rocks and 4 Siberian fire lays. The debris is lain on a 'bed" of hot stones, with two opposing Siberian fire layers projecting heat at each other, over the stones . Another pair of Siberians is heating a low "wall" of stones. nearby. Replace cool stones with hot ones ad stir the debris to help it dry. . Keep the debris (and some loose earth) dry under your work pavailion

[@L0stG0d]

I hope you achieve your desire with your motivation... I to at one point considered the idea... Unfortunately was met with the understanding of observation.... Of their screening process... If you pay attention... They are selective on the "Skill Cap" of participants.... consider this ... SEASON 2 Jose Martinez Amoedo... Had the skills and obvious abilities to Thrive... And as of my opinion was and has been the only contestant ever allowed with such a high aptitude.... Yet he left so soon, cuz he got a little wet? Since then... It has been hard to find or witness contestants with the know how, as to removing a Hook with a piece of string... Leaving cuz of animal presences, easily combated by a wall of sharp sticks set into a tri-pod... To people flat out drinking salt water? My point being is they have an agenda and intention. While I have my own HigherSelf understanding of what it is ... That may be up to you to evaluate... But just wanted to say the above stuff to point out... It's just another reality T.V. being made with the same mindset type producers as "The Real World" or the "Kardashians".... So maybe it is time to consider just taking the few extra moments to make it your own reality, your own TV show... Channel...Podcast...what have you. You have a drive... You are already doing it. Be well And good luck

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

Thank you for watching and the kind words. I will really take your advice into consideration and ponder on it for awhile. Again thank you.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

they care more about your videograpy than anything else. Dont show them anything that I've told you. If you do, they wont let you on the show, cause you'll make everyone else look like the campfire girls that they ARE