0:36 What a beautiful spot. First things first, I need to find a place to sleep. Needs to be sandy, flat, and dry. There's standing water down there. Looks like more ice. More frozen water. More ice there.
1:10 I can see some gravel under that log. [Music] This log is frozen to the ground. So, we got to free that.
2:00 We got a pretty stiff breeze coming from this direction. So, just getting underneath this log and behind the snow bank really makes a difference. I'm a little worried about my sleeping situation, though. I need dry sand or gravel to sleep on. I've got clean gravel here. Got clean gravel here, but I've got a giant frozen puddle right here with probably three to five gallons of water frozen. So, I need to go and thaw out this ground and dry it out in order to be able to sleep on some warm,
2:32 dry gravel. Melting ice takes a lot of heat and energy. It's going to take a lot of fuel, a lot of fire, and a lot of time to thaw this all out. Got a bunch of these root balls here I can chop up. Get a lot of good dead firewood out of that.
3:07 There's a lot of wood around here, but it's all frozen and covered in snow. I luckily found a little stash of some dry stuff. Look at all this. This is bone dry driftwood. That is going to help me out a lot. It's got all this nice dry wood. I want to keep it dry. Not going to lay it down in the snow.
4:06 [Music] All right, got the fire going, but now we need to make it big. Real big. So, uh, I
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