Primitive Emergency Survival Shelter in the Mountains (Season 2, episode 8) 

I know I have said this before, but your tenacity and hard work are rewards unto themselves. I don't think many of us realize just how much hard, steady work is needed to survive, and thrive in the wilderness. Thank you brother Chad, for documenting all of the work and time needed for even the most basic needs. You are doing the rest of the world a great service. Blessing to you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

The man of fire!! Congratulations!!

Liked it. Good on the shelter and your very knowledgeable on survival. The one thing I’d say is I would be very hesitant to sleep in that shelter as you’ll go to sleep warms and wake up crispy.

wow, new season, new environment, new easier to read textboxes, new video editing techniques...very well done, thanks bro 👍

It is fascinating how much thinking and hard work was used until we reached the ability to send humans on the Moon. Hundreds of thousands of people died trying different food until we learned what to eat. Hundreds of thousands of people gave their entire life in the form of study and hard work in order to learn how to construct a modern life. We are living a beautiful modern life thanks to millions of people who sacrifice their life learning everything from nature, how to survive, what to eat, how to protect from mother nature. It is disappointing how indifferent/lazy/stupid we became after receiving so much knowledge. We are an amnesic civilization and it is miracle that we are still alive against all odds. Really whish more people play Minecraft and other games that would direct us into what is really important and what we should relearn. Keep doing beautiful important stuff. We need to relearn !

First, keep it good work Chad ☺️

Nice video chad💪💪

Very nice video

Great video and great call. The one drawback with this type of shelter is essentially youre building a giant tinder bundle 😂 so attention and care with fire is a lot more critical than with an Adobe structure but its amazing what a little effort, dry wood, bark and pine needles can accomplish. Great video as always Chad, thanks for posting 👍😆

The best bro 💯👍👍

Really amazing. Jungles and calm. And live in peace

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Keep safe always.

I like that this type of shelter has broader applications than your desert videos generally do. Few of us live anywhere near a desert, but there are usually forests all over the place. Yeah I know there are other types of habitat, but those areas are usually sparsely populated. Most people, even the ones in most cities, live within (relatively) easy reach of the woods.

Pine cones are great fuel for a fire instead of blowing on it constantly. Great video as always and that hammock impresses me every time I see it.

the yucca hammock is mazing

You should do a video where you have nothing and you have to make a clay pot and fire it so you can drink/boil the water. To see if that is something actually worth doing in a survival situation. It can also be a cool challenge! 😊

Always the best videos to watch before going sleep. Thanks brother.

Beautiful nature

Glad to see you made it through the prickly pear ordeal! Im sorry that happened to you!!

I hope one day you can film your journey outside your country. Let me say I'm taking you to the surrounding of tropical rain forest in Indonesia. I will be glad taking part.

Bravo, from Cambodia 👍

El refy está bueno y si me animo Pero encender el fuego❤️‍🔥 mejor llevar a todos lados un encendedor y serillos o fósforos 😂😂😂😂😂😁 Felicitaciones Chad gracias por tu enseñanza excelente 🌎🌴🇨🇷

The pinecone has a lot of pine nuts inside it. With good nutrition. And pinecone itself can be very good firewood with pine fragrant when it is burning.

Good

I was scared at the beginning, forgetting to turn down the sound

💪😁👍💪😁👍 Long duration please 😁✌️

Good work again. Great handrill. 😀🖖👍

I'm completely bad at jigsaw's, i would just give up in no time at all. 😮😂 No modern day tools, just you and the hard will to survive. That's what i really enjoy. Thanks Chad for bringing us along and showing us TRUE survival with mother nature in the purest form. Keep them vids coming. 👍 Stay healthy and strong. 🙏

Didn't you worry the shelter could catch on fire? It was made of really old and dry wood

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a man must live anywhere except his comfort zone

Still killing it with the content, Chad. Your outdoor skills are only matched by your editing skills.

That is a very nice looking shelter. Very good design. Cheers, Chad!

If it were me, I'd take 2 curved limbs that have forks at the top, and good-sized branch stubs projecting away from the underside of the curve at about the same height (ideally close to the midpoint). I'd set their tops and bury their ends in the best places to stabilize them, then place a curved branch horizontally across the stubs, and use that as a bracing bar to help prevent the other curved branches from swinging around and inverting the roomy shelter space I wanted to create. I might even use natural cordage of some sort to create that horizontal bar if there were no branch stubs to help hold it in place.

love the vids good to see your better after pricky pear incident

Listo mi like 857 👍👍👍👍👍👍Me impresiona tu habilidad manual amigo ,ese refugio quedó excelente,¿Hay osos ó pumas en esa montaña?La toma de noche del refugio es hermosa ,bajo el cielo.estrellado.

Epic

Eita ja estar em outro lugar

Amazing shelter. Reminds me how as a child we would make a shelter in the woods and covering it with pine branches. 😊

Beautiful! Love seeing the different ways people build shelters and the work that goes into it

I'm really loving that hammock you made

This is a very cool shelter man.

Chad you always displaying a lot of skills. The new hammock looks really nice.

Don't mess with the mountains. Lost? Stay put. Too many times I've seen people not come out.

your videos really motivates me to get up from my compute chair and explorer the wild!! Thank you, i will push myself to achieve this new goal.

Very coll tarzan you built one heck of a shelter the hard work really paud off after you put it together keep up the phenomenal work :)

Dude you totally outdid yourself.

perks of being in the pines is them trees give ya everything. Can even snack on the inner bark.

Curved pine branches remind me of the whale rib shelters that some Inuit peoples build.

Amazing as usual Chad! Looks super cozy 😊and what fine nature you have there 😻

Great content, as always! How is the tiled floor project coming along?

Amazing..... 👋👋

Love

A multi million mansion🙌🏾😁

Love it

A burden strap always helps .

Excelente refugio. Muy práctico

Wonderful❤ Hi bro ❤

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Beware the Hairyman! You're squatting in his territory. 👹 Have a happy Halloween!

I can tell you're not in my neck of the woods, all you hear here is gun shots from the hunters 😂 I don't know whats more impressive Chad's survival or camera skills. I keep practicing the fire technique but it is harder then it looks, I would be a very cold cave chick.

Making yucca hammock gave you so much experience, that you have instantly unlocked a different biome - congratz! :D The curved shape of this shelter made it look so neat! And spacious inside, of cource.

For an overnight, I'd have just burrowed under the fallen tree, added 1' duff for mattress, wrap in hide with 1' duff above for blanket, and have a stone ring fire nearby to heat stones for foot warmers. Rain/wind/cold would require using bark covers. You've got a lodge better for an extended stay.

Appreciate your hard work man

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When’s Chad building a bow and going hunting (fishes or mammals)? Would love to see it!

i see the Big Foot.

keren bala semangat selalu salam sehat bahagia selamanya ❤

I like this more caveman vibes

Thank you for all the hard work you do to make videos Chad

Would love to see you make a try bone fishing hooks since they're are so many varieties to the design from all across the world, if you carve the bone in to a hook you could potentially increase the hook up rate.

I love you ❤

Чед у вас есть чему научится вы клас ❤

La vidéo est trés interéssante

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Hello again my friend. I'm guessing it was anywhere from 20-40 mins working that hand drill to get your ember. Well as I mentioned previously here is another story this time about my grandfather. If you remember from when my grandfather and his friend Red gaffed that huge Sunfish or Mola as some people call them. Well a few months after that they left San Pedro before dawn enroute to Catalina Island in that little ol 16 ft boat with two small outboards lined with gas tanks. However on this trip something different had happened.After 45 mins of running my grandfather was always able to see the outline of Catalina Island.For folks that might be reading this....this was back before Catalina Island was populated. So anyways my grandfather decided to stop running and wait for the Sun to come up and proceed from there. Yes folks this was also in a day time and era where ppl didn't even use a compass.They grew up their entire life doing this type of fishing for decades. So when the Sun came up my grandfather asked Red if he saw any land anywhere.He said no he could not.Well being daylight now my grandfather proceeded on in the direction he felt for sure would get them to Catalina Island.Another hour goes by and nothing.Then another.By this time my grandfather looked at his friend Red and said,"We got big problems." Red replied,"Problems...What do you mean problems?" My grandfather proceeded to tell him yes they were indeed lost..no land in site and now half their gas was gone. They both decided to stop running in hopes of seeing another boat.But being this was in the 1940's not too many boats were around. Well about an 2 hours before Sunset Red said,"Hey look..What is that coming at us?" They both looked and as it got closer they could see it was the periscope of a submarine! It got fairly close...and it came to the surface.The top hatch opened up and a sailor on a megaphone asked,"Are you guys lost?" My grandfather replied,"Yes we are!" The guy went down and another gentleman came back up.This time it was the captain.He asked my grandfather where they were headed and he told them. He said,"Man you guys are 40 miles from there." How much gas you got? My grandfather told him that they should have enough to go that far.He then asked if they had a compass to which my grandfather said no.The Captain said something to the sailor next to him and then said they could do one of two things. They were going into San Diego so they could leave the boat and come aboard with them or they could head them in the right direction. They decided to take their chances. The Captain said to take a rope of about 20 feet long and toss it behind their boat and tie it off.Now when they got going one person was to constantly monitor the rope and tell the other person which way to steer to get them back on course. They headed out..thanked the Captain and started their journey home. Well as night fell luckily it was a full moon so Red could still see the rope.As my grandfather told Red that they were just about to run out of gas Red said," I see it..I see the rocks !" YES THERE WAS THE JETTY THEY LEFT FROM ! After this my grandfather always kept a compass...and a few other items on board. Well my friend I hope you enjoyed. If you have a story please share. Take care my friend.

Chad, you survive anywhere. All that's left is for you to go to Siberia or Alaska 😅

Dave of coalcraker bushcraft mentioned something that makes lot of sense: you can't reflect light with wood or rock. Heat is infrared light for the most part. What works though is the material absorbs the heat and then radiate it back. So you're still right for the shelter but the terminology isn't! Also the shelter prevents convection; there are less cold air that replaces the hot air inside the shel ter.

Hi, a really interesting vid. If you made the shelter fully waterproof as you suggest, would smoke from the fire become a problem?

I think in terms of thermodynamics, the rock face doesn't reflect the heat like a mirror (as the term "heat reflector" would othewise imply), so much as it absorbs the heat that would othewise be lost away from the fire & the person needing the warmth due to unchecked radiation. Then that heat re-radiates back out of the rock, back into the shelter, once it reaches a point of saturation. This rock-absorbed heat is released much more slowly than it is directly from the flames & coals of the fire, meaning that shelter will stay a lot warmer for at least a few hours after the fire has died down than it otherwise would be.

Looked really cozy, Chad. Did you only have berries and water for dinner? No pemmican?

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When I went to get my haircut and while I was waiting my turn I encountered a Garter Snake slithering around the salon luckily the beauticians that worked there got rid of him! I did a video about what Sarima would do if she encountered a Garter Snake.

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I'm kinda surprised that you haven't made a stone axe to use for cutting wood yet.

Hey man, where are you making videos? It looks like a nice place😄

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If chad were to pump one off, what would he think about? Prickly pears?

Put a warning sign saying highly flammable

Make a shirt it's becoming winter

Hmmm , new hut and new view MR.Chad ??? .....we know you dont like dust .... Maybe this answer all question you not comfortable with Dust

ты сильный человек

I can't imagine how does your travelling routine look like. I mean, you need to rest at least every night, but building a shelter takes almost entire day, so you can't really move further. Can you explain how does your routine look like and what distance do you make in a day or a week?

Is this still in the mountains of Baja?

I hear you can eat tree bark in winter, do you what kind and do you recommend it?

Where are you in this video? Judging by the biome, I feel like your somewhere in eastern Oregon

Y el canto de un cuervo acompaña a chad