Outdoors Winter Shelter

Snow Fort in the Woods

Materials:
Snow
Small buckets
Shovel
Sticks
Plastic lined table cloth


Creation:
For this assignment I went out into my backyard and looked for a place to build a shelter. The first spot that I chose Did not have much to work with so I eventually settled on a low tree branch surrounded by some tall grasses. I first tied the corners of my piece of plastic onto the tree branch. I buried the other end of the plastic in snow. I used some buckets to make "bricks" of snow that I stacked up along the back and side. The snow was very dry and kept falling over on the wall side so I used sticks to complete that wall.

Ideally I would've used enough sticks to completely cover that side, but I did not want to kill too many plants. For the floor I used dried leaves to keep out the moisture from the snow. This shelter is only 1/4 of the size that I would have liked to have made it, but the plastic that I had was not big enough to make it full sized. I could just about fit my whole body inside if I laid sideways, but it definitely would not fit 2 people. The wind was very strong outside but the shelter's location in the woods as well as protection along the windiest sides made it pretty well protected from the outside elements.