FAIL - Snow Shelter Winter Camping in Alaska Using a Cheap $12.99 Emergency Kit
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- This is my attempt to do a solo Winter Camping adventure in Alaska Using a $12.99 Emergency Survival Kit. Basically challenging myself to see if I can survive overnight deep in the remote Alaskan wilderness by building a snow shelter and using a cheap ultralite survival kit. Let's find out if the survival kits are worth it and how well an emergency blanket will work in place of a sleeping bag in extreme cold.
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I grew up in Yellowstowe Natinal Park,slept mamy times in snow caves, made in drifts Harder than stacked snow. Never lay on the on the snow or ground. Cut pine bowes to get you up off the surface. I carried fire starter in 35 mm film cans, the fire starter was pine shaving impregnted in paraffin, or 300 steel wool twisted into sticks soaked in pararfin and a birthday candle. Always carry a magnesium rod and a knife I am 70 years old and still carry when snowmobiling, cross country sking and hiking
Yup didn't want to cut spruce bows for a bed, just wanted to truly test out that emergency blanket incase I ever get stuck on a glacier with no spruce bows
This guy is not smart, at all. You shave the wood. This guy is really quite pathetic.
@@TruckHouseLifehow long do those air bag back packs stay inflated
A couple pointers that always help me get a fire going in these conditions: 1, preperation is everything. make a dry base for your tinder with spruce bows or logs. 2. Make a pile of the driest twigs/old mans beard you can find. Make another larger pile within arms reach of more small twigs, and another pile of larger branches for when the small stuff catches. 3.Once your fire starter catches, place it on the base you created and hold your bundle of twigs over top until they catch, then you can keep piling on your other fuel until its hot enough to burn logs.
I have never laughed so hard when you opened that tiny foil you thought was the space blanket. Kudos for staying the whole night. I think I would have pulled out the sleeping bag
Watching you Tim on this cool, rainy day!! Love Mom 🙅🏻♀️😘
GOD BLESS YOU MOM. HAVE A BLESSED DAY
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That’s sweet 😊
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hi mom;)
Bloody hell that survival kit can get someone in serious trouble
glad you made it back. This was very informative 🇬🇧👍
Lesson learned from watching your vlog: Always have a backup plan.
That really took guts and courage.
Stay safe.
Timmy's idea of fun... Soaking wet, no fire, miles out in the frozen Alaska back country. Sleeping in a pile of snow. Remind me NOT to have Tim plan our next vacation.
lol
And you call yourself OldPackMule! Lol
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Everyone’s a critic. I enjoyed your video just like always. No matter if your camping, kayaking, snowmobiling or building something. You always give 100%.
Right on!
I do most things you do, I just don’t share them with the world. Maybe someday.
Should have used the cardboard packaging for tinder once the cotton ball was lit. Not judging just giving ideas.
The way I was yelling at him to hold the stick vertical so the fire would travel up it is insane 😂
Not only that but you have sticks everywhere dip a dozen sticks in fuel and stack them in tepe then light one and watch the fire begin 27:09
This was really great, Timmy, thank you.
I did three years of backpacking through 35 countries in the 1980s. I never had one of those cool folding saws that you used, but my little Swiss Army Knife had a little wood saw built in that cut a lot of branches and provided a lot of camp fires for me.
Fun Fact: The first popular, commercially available snowmobile was developed by a gentleman named Armand Bombardier who was from my native province of Quebec in Canada.
It was called a "Ski-Doo" and came out right around when I was born in 1960.
As a child I remember seeing the underside of Ski Doos, and believe it or not, the earliest models were propelled by wooden slats!
Love your videos!
While Bombardier is widely credited with inventing the first snowmobile in 1935. It bore little resemblance to the modern snowmobile in that it was essentially a large car sat atop skis and tank-like tracks, he brought his snowmobile to the market in 1937. Most of his early customer base consisted of medical workers in rural areas. Other professionals, including couriers and utility service providers, quickly caught on and began adopting the mode of transportation as well.
The first snowmobile’s success paved the way for Bombardier’s eponymous company, which today produces business jets and rail equipment.
Bombardier wasn’t the first to envision the concept of a snowmobile, though. Prior to Bombardier, The Lombard Steam Log Hauler was patented in 1901 as the first commercially-produced vehicle to use a continuous track. This helped it glide over the snow and other types of tricky terrain with ease. It went through several revisions before the first snowmobile was ever made. In 1913, Ford produced a version of their Model T car that ran on tracks and sleds.
This was around the time that Bombardier began experimenting with the concept of a snowmobile, first creating a version based on a modified Model T equipped with a propeller. The concept took another leap forward in 1924 when Earl Eliason created what was known as a “motorized toboggan.”
While Bombardier’s 1935 release is widely-recognized as being the world’s first snowmobile, know that there were several predecessors paving the way. Subsequent manufacturers carried the snowmobile concept forward as well. The first Polaris snowmobile introduced in 1956 arguably bore the closest resemblance to modern machines of any vehicle before it.
Fast-forward...
In the 1950s, Allister and George Ingham invented the first single-track snowmobile in Canada. Ski-Doo, one of the world’s most iconic snowmobile manufacturers (and a subsidiary of Bombardier Recreational Products), which got its start in 1959. By the way, the company’s name was actually supposed to be “Ski-Dog” but a typo resulted in the now-ubiquitous branding.
A real fine learning experience for everyone..cheap is not the way to go when purchasing survival gear..that kit was for warm weather survival not arctic areas..stay safe wr love your adventures 👍👍👍👍
Well said!
A tip om getting your fire started. Cut off a 1 inch strip off your sleeve, tie it securely on your stick. Dip this in your tank. You have a torch now that should be enough to get your fire started. Kudos to you man - you got balls.
One of my favorite type of videos you do--the ones you show how to survive.
Only thing is, it makes me realize how ill-equipped I am for situations like this.
Thanks man
Fantastic example of use your gear. Your inconvenience hopefully teaches someone else to get backups and test unknown items and then improve them. Like adding Vaseline to the cotton balls and tossing a couple pieces of birch bark in that kit. Combine with the fuel I'm sure you could've gotten those spruce boughs to light. Definitely enjoy watching your adventures!
Learned a lesson myself so was totally worth it:)
Tim, next time you try to start a fire with gas on a stick, soak a bunch of sticks at one time and add them to the fire one at a time to get it going.
What you gotta do is buy cotton balls and a jar of petroleum jelly, melt jelly on stove and put in cotton balls. Carry balls on outing. Burns a long time.
Timmy. That foil is what is used to put your tinder on then you put one cotton ball in the tinder then one cotton ball to start it. Sorry you didn’t make a fire. Also remember you have 2 arm cuffs of your shirt that works great. Glad your safe brother. God bless and stay safe.
I agree the foil was for the tinder. Yet, he made it safe, which is good.
Huge lesson. Over the years of hiking, I have developed a small survival fire starting kit. Mico sized bic lighter, ferro rod and striker and a couple of water proofed matches. If room in the kit, even include some dry tender and a few cotton balls coated with a little petroleum jelly. Every location and person are different so customize as needed 😀
If you get metal can that seals you put Vaseline on cotton balls and carry them.They light nice and burn longer.
Yup I figured they would be soaked in something for sure
The emergency blanket does a lot more on top of you than under you. It's aluminized mylar and it will intercept and reflect back infrared radiation flying away from your body through the air. But if you are laying on it there is no air gap.
They do 100% nothing under you. He think it's what kept him dry, but he's mistaken. Thankfully, he had the cloths already on, to where he never needed an e-blanket. Had he needed it, he would have froze to death if his snowmobile broke down...... Well, perhaps. I got a feeling he would have gotten so cold, he would have got up and wrapped himself in it properly....... but since he brought a real bag, we likely would have gotten in that, before he learned how to use it, so.
He's got a lot to learn. I hope he does before he finds himself in a real bad spot.
I was out sledding with my buddy deep in the woods and he fell in a creek . I ripped my sleeve off my undershirt and dipped it in the gas tank. Shirt burned for a long time getting the Dead Pine branches going . Great video
Ferro Rod.... Great Adventure, Glad you made it in spite of Set Backs ! Always Great Videos Thanks Timmy !
Pull cloth fibers from your socks. Pocket fuzz works. Fibers from other clothing materials. This is how you make fire starters in a desperate situation. Find some pitch. Frito corn chips or Corn Nuts work well as fire starters.
Great video Two things i always bring with me. When im out hiking. I have two lighters with me. And stored in ziplock bags. A lighter is on of the best survival tools you can have
When building an emergency fire, I’ve found it’s best to carry a Bic lighter and a roll of duct tape, many great Bushcraft influencers have tried and trued this method of emergency preparedness. A decent ferro-rod is also a great piece to carry.
I've heard that top-down is the best. Let the already-burning stick get the air it needs to heat the other wood. (High) temperature spreads flame, not vice versa. In other words, the flame doesn't spread automatically, only if there's sufficient heat
Wow! That's really going the extra mile for your channel! Personally, I would have totally forgiven you had you used your sleeping bag!
Just a personal challenge, just wanted to see if I could make it through the night with a $3 foil bag lol
One of the tricks to using a hot spark fire starter is to shave a bunch of the flint onto your cotton or tinder (or turn the wheel real slow a whole bunch in the case of this one) to build up a small bit of unspent flint on the cotton, THEN strike the wheel with the intent of causing spark. The spark will catch the unspent flint granules, which causes a more sustained, localized heat directly on your cotton or tinder. And since this $12.99 emergency kit is probably more than likely intended to be a disposable one-off unit, they probably intended for the entire cotton ball to be used in one shot. It may have also helped if you had taken your pocket knife and made a whole bunch of tiny fillets in the surface of the tinder and kindling to help them catch the very fleeting flame from the cotton. Also, those space blankets just kind of reflect your body heat back to you, so laying on it on the snow probably defeated the insulating properties of it. You'd have done better to sit on the cooking foil and wrap the blanket around yourself and tried to sleep in a sitting up position. That igloo sure was sketch, but it actually probably helped a little bit. It would have been even better if you'd have been able to block up the door so any heat you built up didn't immediately blow out the door.
Anyway, good attempt.
That’s some hard-core snowmobiling!
Omg the sight of that camper would make me think nothing but warmth anfood and happy thoughts.
Tampons to did in your fuel tank is always a good hack for fire starter. Also when your sled is on its side like that, use the track to saw into the snowpack as you lift and its way easier than trying to muscle it out. Powdered coffee mate is also a great fire starter.
Very cool episode
Luv the change of pace video I think it will spark for you a lot of interest from your fans and hopefully bring you new watchers sooooo at the end of the day you can pimp that new cabin build out 😁👍🙏
Timothy my name is John and I live in Florida butI was born in New York I watch your episodes on TH-cam I want you to know that I respect you a great deal for being the kind of person you are you're your own man and your multi-talented don't usually respond to anything on TH-cam or anywhere else but one of the tell you that we are alike in many ways we care for people but we have to do what we think is right no I have gone from living in the snow to Sunshine which is my choice I respect what it takes to do what you're doing no you enjoy yourself it still isn't easy to do what you show in your videos appreciate it be careful take care of yourself and continue to be your own man and that's where we are alike
That was painful to watch. I felt so bad for you! You are so awesome! ❤️
I liked the video to! If anything its a good lesson for everyone to learn what makes a good fire kit and probably build your own compared to a store bought kit like you showed here. Glad you made it back and got the sled out from those stumps close call!
yup sure was lol
You scare me to death , but I love watching you here in February in Oklahoma! . .. I am 80 years old and have gathered cattle as a ranchers daughter , but love you and pray for your protection..!!!
You should always access everything you have first. I would have put some small tinder wrapped in that tin foil and put it under the good of the machine to cook any moisture out of it. No way i would have went without fire, especially with a snow machine that has fuel and spark. Also drying capabilities. I have even cooked food in foil on my muffler.
It is nice to see what you do do when things don't go perfectly....cuz we all know most likely your gonna run into a problem....so thank you for videoing when things don't go right
Great vid love these ones, personally would’ve just dug out a 4x10ish spot in the snow and tossed the emergency blanket over the top with 2ish feet open to have a fire.
Also, not to say that wasn’t a bad emergency kit but you needed to get better kindling instead of just trying the same thing 3 times hoping for a different outcome lol.
add bow branches to your snow pile that’s like adding mesh too your cement. it binds your snow .
That was FUN- since YOU were doing all the work and I was just watching‼️ Youare so smart- I’m sorry the gas didn’t work‼️
Man, I remember making one of those snow shelters in my backyard as a kid. Everything was going good until it collapsed on me while I was inside. It was prob only like 30 seconds that I was stuck before I was able to dig out, but damn it felt like it was a year.. They can be dangerous if you do not know what you are doing, like myself back then. I have learned when you just have a flit to use, if you roll the flit a lot, don't let it spark and gather some of the dust and put that on you cotton, it will usually catch the spark from the flint and catch a flame easy. I have really enjoyed your channel, I am glad I found it.
when you pass a birch tree. gather some bark thru the day. keep it warm and dry.
You need more height on that bundle of tinder with a channel for oxygen under the pile so it can breathe. Soak several sticks with gas and then light all in a row to have a hotter heat source to dry wet tinder.
He could have used the sleeping bag but kept to the plan -- and survived. The ONLY thing he got out of the "survival kit was that aluminium ground cover. And he could have survived without it. Total waste. Me, I would have slept warm in the camper for a couple of hours. Great effort, guy. The comment about not wanting him to plan their trip -- I'd be happy for him to. Great survivalist, for sure.
You need to add oxygen to get a fire started, lightly blow on the flame. Just putting a small flame on wet wood don't cut it
You should have named this, "what not to use in an emergency situation", lol.
yup, or what kit not to buy lol
Man, no fire was rough. You freaking endured though. Good job.
Just found your channel, love the videos man keep it up they are super cool👍🙌🏼
Thanks!
That survival blanket might have kept you dry from the snow, but that is not how it is intended to be used. It's concept is that you can use it to wrap yourself in, and it will create an area of air that will be warmed by your body, and that is how it will keep you quote unquote warm. The blanket has no insulating properties so it will transfer heat directly from the snow to you if there's no air gap.
Good to see you back in action, Timmy
Don't worry not going anywhere;)
Bro after seeing that missing person poster on tha tree...a malfunction an a new video would've popped up on my end...JS, thank God you made back safe...🤙
Glad its got a zip lock bag. Youi can haul your poop back out. Modern day Les Stroud. Survival Timmy. It's no joke to practice this some. Just in case. Could be stuck or injured bad. You never know. Need to pack that snow as you pile it. Helps when you are pressed for time. Like now. Dip a little gas out of the sled. Or get some oil off a dipstick if it has one. You made it. Great sunrise. Stay WARM. Good vid Timmy
I am dying inside of how Hilariously and scary that fake survival kit is! 😬
You could have torn the duct tap into strips and used it along with the cotton balls for a fire starter.
GREAT ADVENTURE U GOT SOME PALLE! [BALLS]
I have never heard someone call a snowmobile a snow machine or say theyre going snow machining. Thats a new one for me
Lol cool Timmy I seen you outside of Wasilla
The duck tape and fire starter combined will keep your fire going if trying to get one started. Also you mentioned you have birch bark. The combo of all will make a good fire. The gas makes a great fire too.
I saw you driving to that, Fred Myers!
Been up here a year and was wondering when I'd see your truck.
Love love love your snow mobile paint job…
You inspire me thanks for doing the videos
Thank you:)
When your trying to light cotton pull, put it apart a little and it'll take easier.
Best fire starter in the world take a cotton ball smudge it thoroughly with vaseline pack and old 35 mm film canister full of them, one cotton ball will burn for 10 to 15 minutes in a pouring rain and lights super easy !
yup those work great!
I would have taken a tinder bundle and wrapped the bundle around the snow machine muffler. Turn it on and let muffler dry out the bundle..
The start the fire with dry wood with a little gas.. Good effort though for sure!
if all you have is a stick and you're desperate for a fire smash the end of the stick kind of like a broom stick, and if you have a vehicle dip it in oil first then petrol, the splintering will help absorb more oil and petrol
It’s wild to me in Alaska you have a Fred Meyer store. I’m from Michigan and we have Meijer. I thought it was made by the same guy but after some investigation it’s two different guys…. Kind of messed up my comment lol.
I just started watching your video and I love them, you’ve inspired me to do somthing like this eventually. Happy camping 🤘🏻
I think just living in Alaska is a survival situation! Man no gym needed the constant snow shoveling is an all over body workout.
Yeah I have about 6 ways to start a fire in my bag including some steal wool and a 9 volt battery. Dryer lint compressed down and you just pull it apart. Yeah dipping that cotton in Vaseline will make it burn better. But with wet wood you don't have many options.
That's great you took a sat phone. I've seen so many shows on people getting lost and a sat phone and a flare gun would have made their rescue much faster.
Glad everything went well and thanks for taking us along! As usual a great video and lots of scenery! I wouldn't be able to do that on my own, I would have to have a half dozen friends and a few rifles just to feel somewhat safe!
Wow, what a trip. You must have got about 90 minutes of sleep. Like sleeping in an ice cooler.
Could’ve used part of an article of clothing or the whole thing to get the fire started too
I really like that setup you got! It's so homie. The porch is so cool!
It’s better to grind the flint a few times to get a pile of shavings on the kindling. Then strike it.
Love the vlogs and in-depth content. I was just now watching this video from a couple months ago I believe. But I seen you do something or should I say forgot to do made me laugh till I cried. First off I have done this exact same thing before. Bro hook your tether kill switch on your riding suit somewhere. When I forgot to hook mine up well it was a steep long hill I had to chase it a long time. 🤣🤣🤣. And with you being alone out there safety is a must. Keep up your endeavors buddy. Love your show.
The song “Dumb ways to die” after the slip on the sled deck. 😂😂😂😂
lol
Hotdogs are fully cooked, so you could have eaten them. Although not as good your belly would be happier and you would have the calories for heat generation.
We’ll you did survive, good thing you had somewhat of a shelter, sucks about the fire
You could also have ripped some of the foam off the snomobile seat and dangled it witb a shoelace. Many survivors have done this. I was thinking it would make a good video on what's in your survival bag. Charcloth is a lifesaver....
You also had 2stroke oil, should have dipped a stick in the oil, and then lite it with the gas stick, also you mentioned birch bark, was there any around?
no birch trees around, it was the first thing I looked for
If your fire wood is wet, you're in trouble. I've used cotton balls and alcohol (cheap and safe), saved in a zip lock. But still need 'tender', i like pine needles or wood shavings, before the twigs and sticks....OOh AND hair can be used, but it has the life expectancy of cotton...
That snow machine looks awesome. Graphics are insane.
You should def start caring a Farrow rod in your snow machine bud! I think you gave up too quick on the fire. There are places to find dry tinder even when it’s soaked. You had the answer all along with birch bark
yup no birch trees around where I was camping haaha
@@TruckHouseLife The undersides of branches can have dry old man’s beard and other tinder as well, even when everything is soaked. Even in the PNW winter rain, we can get a spark 😉
Bears need to eat too!😂
My hat is off to you sir for this trip alone would have been a challenge for me. I don't see how you know your way around there. I'm in GA and only went skiing on the fake stuff in N.C.. So I have no clue about a snow machine or how to navigate the trails in the snow. Thanks for sharing
i grew up in GA and remember skiing on green golfing turn down a ramp my first time holding the pizza wedge with the skis lol!
@@TruckHouseLife Lol not the pizza wedge! My first day skiing I just fell on purpose at the bottom of the slope in order to stop until I figured it out.
Make your own survival kit. You are still very young.
The price of foil might have helped get the fire going, placed under the cotton with twigs. But the wet was soaked into the twigs. You are still learning about survival. Talk to a person in their 70s.,
One little hint, a stick of butter makes a good accelerant in winter.
I like his old style of videos more. They were so relaxing. Now these thumbnails etc look like every other channel. I understand if he’s trying to grow though. Still love you Tim
Just playing around with different videos, this was a challenge I wanted to try, always wanted to see how well those emergency blankets worked
That's quite a beast
Awesome, very informative video. Thank you 😊
breaking trail does not look like fun. I admire your patience!
I would have made a fire in your cabin and took a long nap after that night! lol
I knew that you would survive because you uploaded this video :) Snow scares me to death. Too intimidating.
Lucky he never see no 🐻❄️
You know you're in Alaska when Kroger carries survival kits 😂
I give up. I would not have survived, but thanks for a true test of that $12.99 kit.
You need to learn how to build a birdsnest to start fires ,the cotton balls are for getting a birdsnest started then you start adding kindling.....
WOW, that was crazy and intense!!!!
you're bad old fella for lighting fires,
fortunatly we have and are watching this video so we know you are alive for us freak out people.posative thinking...
Hahaha. Mate, you do nothing but 🐐 shit. I love it!!🎉🎉
I have done a fair amount of solo winter camping in Colorado. No snow machine but would snowshoe several miles back in and stay for several days. I think if I was soloing on a snowmobile I would carry a lightweight pair of snowshoes. Just saying.
This is how NOT to use an emergency blanket. No one should copy anything they see in this video. I'm glad you took a real mat and a real sleeping bag. Keep in mind, you also have to be prepared to walk out as far as you're willing to ride in on a snowmobile, in the event it breaks down. 30 miles with a small pack of hotdogs would have been a tough one, if you didn't have cell service. 10 miles a day would have been possible but only because of the snowmobile trail. If not trail to walk back on, it could take all day to hike 5 miles in snow... if that.
Emergency blankets are made to go against bare skin. Laying on them does nothing. You would have stayed dry on the snow itself because your body heat wouldn't have melted it anyway. So it did literally 0.0% like this.
NEVER use them on the outside of cloths either, because your sweat will soak your cloths.
Emergency blankets are not for sleeping in. They are for surviving in. You strip down 100% naked and wrap yourself in it. You have to sit up, not lay down on the ground because the ground will rob your body of all it's heat. Not even your little backup foam pad (just 2R) was enough to lay on and keep you warm enough in 32F or below temps.
A fire isn't going to do much more than help with moral. Naked in the e-blanket will keep you warm. You were out in REAL winter gear so you wouldn't use it. It's an e-blanket for when your caught out without those types of cloths on. This is why they are great for day packs, when you don't expect to be camping and something goes wrong where you can't get out, you have this to into 100% naked. You sit, wrapped up in it, leaning up against a tree basically... surviving, not camping, with it. It's enough to keep you alive. Here it doesn't do this. Your winter cloths do the work.
Make your own survival kit. Watch at least 10 videos by reputable survival channels, and toss out the info that doesn't match the majority.
Learn how to properly use one of these blankets because it could literally save your life some day... Not like you THOUGHT it did here.
Love your channel!! For a fire trick try burning the duct tape with the cotton ball although they should have put chapstick in with the cotton.
I haven't tried it but I've heard a tampon dipped in the fuel tank works great.
when building your snow shelter wouldn't it make since to pack the snow mound as you go so it doesn't collapse so easily when you dig it out??