Shelter
Bug-in resilience, bug-out shelters, hardening your home, off-grid construction, and what actually keeps people alive in cold weather. From renters to homesteaders.
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Stranded in Alaska's Rainforest - 3 Days Solo Camping
Three days solo in Southeast Alaska's temperate rainforest: shelter selection, fire-building in constant rain and high humidity, water filtering, hunting, and staying warm and fed in sub-optimal conditions.
4 Days Solo Camping on Remote Alaska Island: Hunting, Fishing, and Wilderness Survival
Four-day solo survival in remote Gulf of Alaska: shelter setup in an off-grid cabin, water filtration from rain catch, hunting and fishing for food, navigation through bear country, and fire management in wet conditions.
Owner building with structural insulated panels (SIPs): planning, construction, and costs to lock-up | Ep 11
72-minute interview and walkthrough: former tradies build an off-grid home using SIPs, covering site prep, steel framing, panel installation, and bare-ground-to-sealed-box costs.
8 Days Camping & Building a Bushcraft Survival Shelter with My 5-Year-Old Son
Step-by-step construction of an insulated platform shelter in Alaska winter, demonstrating elevated bedding, fire placement, cold-weather layering, and family safety in sub-zero camping.
3 Days Stranded in Alaska's Bear Country — Camping, Foraging & Clam Digging
Three-day remote Alaska camping with hands-on foraging: identifying razor clams, butter clams, mussels and cockles; timing harvests around 20-30 foot tides; setting up bear fencing; fire management; water sourcing; cold-weather shelter and cooking over open flame.
Construction of a Modern Home (Basement Build)
Owner-builders troubleshoot ICF block dimensional variance, rebar placement conflicts, and waterproofing membrane application during basement construction.
3 Days Stranded in Alaska Without a Tent: Survival Shelters in Deep Snow
32-minute backcountry survival in Alaska interior: building insulated snow shelters, navigating 4+ feet of powder, fire-starting in extreme cold, and improvised gear repair under real constraints.
Bugout Camping in the Huron National Forest
64-minute hands-on walkthrough of bugout camping setup and gear testing in a real forest environment.
Survival Camping with 4-Year-Old: Trapping, Knapping, Friction Fire & Campfire Cooking
32-minute walkthrough of core survival skills: building deadfall traps, making fire with friction (bow drill and hand drill), flint knapping stone tools, and cooking foraged and trapped meat over an open fire.
4 Days Camping & Building a Trail to the River
Solo four-day wilderness camp while hand-cutting a quarter-mile trail through dense brush to access a remote river; hammock setup, fire-building with ferrous rod, foraging hazard awareness, cold-weather camp comfort, and family joining day-three onward.
Solo Backpacking 20 Miles to a Crashed B-29 Bomber: Alpine Navigation, Cold-Weather Camping, and Survival in Alaska
Twenty-mile alpine solo expedition in Alaska: navigating glacier and ice fields without crampons, establishing a bear-proof campsite above tree line, filtering water, sleeping in sub-freezing conditions, and locating a 1957 bomber crash site with historical context.
Time Spent At Our Remote Alaska Cabin
31-minute walkthrough of a two-week remote cabin stay in Alaska, covering shelter maintenance, food procurement, and off-grid power management in practice.
Building and Maintaining a Log Cabin Survival Shelter Over 12 Months
Year-long documentation of hand-building a log cabin with axe and bow saw, including weatherproofing, chinking, wood stove installation, and cold-weather camping in Alaskan conditions.
Tecma Thetford Macerating Toilet Issues and Repair Troubleshooting
30-minute walkthrough of common macerating toilet failures, diagnostics, and field repairs for off-grid homesteading systems.
6 Days Winter Camping in Snow Storm in the Rocky Mountains — Day 1
First day of a six-day winter blizzard camping expedition in the Rocky Mountains, demonstrating shelter setup, fire-starting, and catch-and-cook fishing in severe cold.
Survival Pack Mentality: Building Redundant Go-Bags for Multiple Scenarios
Forty-minute walkthrough of survival pack philosophy: redundancy principles (three ways to accomplish each critical task), multi-use gear, realistic bug-out scenarios, and why in-place shelter often beats wilderness evacuation.