I Built a Survival Earth Shelter with a Stone Fireplace..Using ONLY Hand Tools!

I built a survival earth shelter using only hand tools – my knife and pick, in one of my fav Bushcrafting camp trips.

A fun day of bushcraft to say the least. I arrived on site at 9am, and the shelter was complete by 8pm. A long day of hard work.

On my hike in, I spotted some shedding trees and large stones, which gave me the idea for this type of shelter. There were many downed Green pine trees as well – so I could scavenge those to aid in the build.

The hardest part was moving the large boulders and getting them out of the ground. It’s peak blackfly season as well, so I was getting attacked ruthlessly throughout this build – which all added to the feeling of success and accomplishment to overcome them.

#bushcraft #shelter #survival

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