Snow Fort Camping in -7F Degrees (Quinzee, Igloo Solo Overnight)
what up welcome back to another episode of the michigan magnet man my name is tanner the michigan magnet man and we are building a quincy today you just saw my beautiful entrance i am currently inside of it let me go ahead and show you guys how i made this so we have all of this snow started piling up over here for the base of the quincy now i'm gonna let this sit for the next like two to three hours and what that's going to do is it's going to help all the snow compact down on itself and that's going to give me a stronger foundation to work with now when you are building these quincies you can use any type of snow whether it's wet or um like more powdery snow it doesn't really matter with this because all the snow is compressing down on itself either way um this is the first time i've built one of these so let's see how it goes i'll come back out in another couple hours we got a ton of snow the other day and we've got our car parked in the side yard just to get it out of the way look how much freaking snow is on this car guys like this is the type of snow that i deal with up here in michigan way different than the snow that i was that was non-existent when i was living in san diego but like look at this just feet of snow everywhere you can see my little hut being built back there make sure to give a huge shout out to my dad for taking a snowblower out there and helping me out and getting all that snow put up in the pile it's really made my job a lot easier i know that would have taken freaking forever if i was using just a shovel so definitely recommend doing that now that we've got all the snow piled up and it's been sitting overnight for the day we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna start digging out this quincy so let's do it and we'll just start digging this little spot out now you can already tell that this snow has compressed a lot since yesterday oh yeah i'm just gonna slowly start making a little entryway so i've noticed that the snow is compacted down a lot it's a lot icier than it was yesterday and all of the snow has compressed so i am being able to pull off full chunks in one piece with a shovel let's go ahead and keep going at it this is going to take a while uh the videos i've been watching it's going to take three to four hours to dig these out i think i might be able to do it a little bit quicker but let's see once we get in there my sister and my nephew and niece are heading up to visit today my nephew has been wanting to come out and film with me so i'm getting this started so he can come out and enjoy i plan on doing some cooking or like s'mores or something tonight in the quincy with him so i think they'll really enjoy that let's get back to digging so if you look it's slowly starting to get funneled out and starting to form a little shape in there pretty soon i'll be able to climb up in there hopefully and dig out that way i wish i had my nephew with me right now he's a lot smaller you'd be able to get up in there and pull on this snow just to show you how much the snow has compressed i cut out a giant chunk from inside now i think i'm going to be able to work by pulling out chunks like this and it'll make my job a lot faster i just get up underneath it with the shovel and i kind of pry it out with the spade and it's working really well i went and got my sled and i've been using the sled as a way to get snow out up inside i've made a decent amount of hedge way i'm just taking this little shovel and i'm breaking off chunks of snow like that so i've got my sled down here with me and i'm just loading up all the snow onto this so i can pull it about i'm probably about five and a half foot in so far um i definitely have a ways to go it's probably been about 45 minutes but the snow is starting to just fall pretty easy like i said i just drive this up and knock it off and then i just pull the pile out like this and i dump it off on the side that's fun i've made decent leeway you can see where the entrance is over here so that shows that i've gone in quite a ways i'd say i'm about eight or nine foot in i'm able to sit up in here now which is cool um all i'm doing is taking the shovel i can fit a full-size shovel in here and i'm scraping off the edge in the top until i see like a light blue color where the light's coming that lets me know i don't have a thick coat there that way if it does collapse it's not a ton of snow falling down on me it's just a thin layer fling in and out all the snow on this sled is actually quite tiresome having to get in and get out if someone were outside just being able to pull it out and empty it and toss it back in i probably could get this done like easily twice as fast so i probably get another two hours left of digging i am sweating my hair is frozen it's definitely cold outside but i am it's nice and warm inside of here there's no like wind or anything like this is going to be very warm to camping just like that big chunks are coming off and out of the way and i find that it's easiest to clear these out when they stay in these big chunks so i have most of the walls completed now now what i'm doing is i'm going through and i am just scraping off snow off of the roof now i want to go until it starts to show like blue so like the lighter the blue the more uh lights coming through it's gonna let you know when you're gonna reach your edge now i have seen people use sticks where they poke them down through the outside of the hill when they first pile it up and what this does is it lets you know where you've reached your limit on this so as soon as you hit those sticks you know you shouldn't dig any farther but i think just seeing the blue will make all the difference this is a slower process now making these quincies is a lot of work guys i've used a lot of energy um make sure you're drinking water as you're building this you're gonna get dehydrated man that goes a lot higher than i was expecting it's an igloo so what we're going to use it for is we're going to hang out in there you can use the sled to get in if you want make sure not to touch the top in and out so what that hole over there for his hope is that's to let oxygen in so we can breathe easily but there's a big fuel that's our entrance now the hole over here that's going to be for my stove tomorrow when i set up my hot my stove in here when i sleep out here oh okay but i'm gonna sleep in here oh we are out here in quincy and we are gonna go ahead and we are gonna spray the insides with what are we gonna use rowan what's in there water yep we're gonna spray it down with water on the inside and what this is gonna do is it's gonna make a ice um cast on the inside that's gonna help hold all the heat in and it's gonna help give some more structure to the little igloo that we built rowan is over here and he is spraying down the inside make sure you don't get your sister okay spraying down the inside with water there you go good job about the fort rowan uh it's good we could probably play a nice game of snowball fight with this hope what do you think about it yeah good do you like it yes aah okay so it is the next day guys i've got most of my gear loaded up i am really glad the caught fit it barely fit um i didn't really take that into consideration when i was building this thing but i do have it up and fit the next thing that i'm going to do is blow up my little air pad now this air pad is made by a company called invoker you saw that in my previous episode now this thing i tested it out last time guys and it worked out super well and i just found out there's little patches in here i need these for my tent i stopped and bought some today at walmart so this fills up and closes off really easy um it takes like maybe three or four minutes to blow up which is super cool this side right here is supposed to have a built-in pump but it doesn't work very well so i don't recommend this if you are looking for something that can pump up automatically this bad boy blown up there we go so my sleeping mat looks like this and it's all blown up now the way that this is designed it is sewn across right here and what that does is it compartmentalizes the air inside of this air pad a lot and it's going to create a bigger cushion for me to heat up with my body and keep me a little bit more warm now it also is easier to blow up because there's less space it feels like that you have to blow up now the reason that i'm sleeping with my head towards the door it's just in case this thing were to collapse on me tonight i'd be able to get out easy i'm also going to sleep with a little shovel by me in case i need to get out in case an emergency um i sprayed down the inside of this very well with water and it created like an ice all the way through which is super cool i'm hoping that when the stove gets going that the heat from the stove will also start to melt that just a little bit and that way um it'll create like an ice on the inside it's supposed to get down to three degrees tonight so the air on the outside i feel like we'll keep that cold enough to just freeze it almost instantly so i'm gonna go ahead and get my sleeping bag out and get this stove going i've got a crazy meal i'm gonna be cooking with you guys so stay tuned so now what i'm going to be doing is i'm going to get this stove started up and get it warm up in here a little bit after that i'm going to go ahead and cook dinner i need to keep track of time because i'm going live tonight with you guys take a couple tiny pieces now i am using these little fire deer flame fire starters these things are like amazing guys i use these every time i go out it's just easier than worrying about oh i broke it up here that's kind of cool i just removed the knot from this piece of wood i've never seen something like that but anyways um i use these little dir flame starters everywhere i go because it's just really easy to use the company that sent me this stove actually didn't send me all the parts at first and they sent me an entire stove to replace the parts that were missing so now i have two stoves i actually gave one to my cousin for his birthday so as you can tell by the last couple episodes i am a foodie now i did bring out something crazy to make and i just cut up all of the ingredients so you guys didn't have to watch all the paints taking work to cut up everything really tiny now what i am making i'll show you this here i am making italian meatballs that are stuffed with mozzarella cheese so what i have here is some italian johnsonville sweet sausage some salt pepper some parsley some basil and a shallot now the salt that i used today i am really excited about guys now this is what they call flake salt and flake salt tastes so good it's got a different taste than normal salt to me it's not as salty so i can use it more like literally you could just take it and eat it and it's not overpowering it's not too much the next step is going to be mixing up all this meat together to form these balls i've got this fresh mozzarella cheese these little tiny mozzarella cheese balls are so freaking good so i'm just gonna take and drop a bunch of them into here going to grab a little ball of the meat i'm gonna place that in the center and then i'm just going to wrap the meat around the little piece of cheese now i have heard that the so you want to make sure you've got enough meat on there where the cheese isn't going to come out i've seen people say that the meat or the cheese will come out and to not be alarmed by that so i'm not too concerned but these are what my little balls are gonna look like and now i've got all of the meatballs formed up and put together i'm gonna go ahead and get my pan hot with some oil all right so now i am going to add some canola oil to this pan now the reason i'm using canola oil is because it has a neutral flavor so you don't need to worry about it changing the flavor of your food as much and i'm just gonna let this pan warm up and get nice and toasty spreading this oil all the way around i am a big fan of using cast iron pans and there's a few different reasons why one thing that i really enjoy about using cast iron is that the heat gets distributed pretty evenly all the way across the pan so you get that nice sear at the bottom another thing i like about cast iron is they're really nonstick if you take care of them and you season them properly you won't have any issues using cast iron they are my go-to's you should hear that sizzle letting you know that the pan is hot it is smelling so good in here guys i wish you could smell it the smell of that italian sausage mixed with those shallots oh my gosh to die for i swear all right looks like these are about done it is 60 degrees inside of this quincy that was pretty warm coming right up my parents are stopping by to grab some food let's go ahead and take a bite into one of these beautiful meat the cheese has melted in there that is a good meatball man just something about cooking food out in nature normally i'm in a hot tub this is a completely different thing i can't believe i'm in a quincy eating meatballs a minute ago up top here it was about 65 degrees so it's nice and warm in this little quincy guys like i was kind of skeptical about it i know that in my tent the walls kind of help prevent the cold from leaving and it keeps the heat inside the tent but i didn't know how snow was gonna do that so that this is gonna be a big change compared to using the tent now tonight like i said it is gonna be reaching about three degrees fahrenheit so it is gonna get really cold hopefully i'm prepared for it i think i am i got my sleeping bag and my mat and everything behind me i think it's gonna work really well i am gonna go ahead and relax for a bit i'm about to go live so i will hop back and let you guys know how things are going after i get done going live it's been burning a little bit i just got off alive thank you all so much for joining me over on youtube and instagram for my live sessions i really appreciate all the help that you've given me and i appreciate you guys showing me some love i've had such a great time out here camping um today was really nice getting all this firewood cut up with my uncle was a good time and getting this whole thing built with my dad was awesome i really appreciate him helping out um look at this nuts today was very cold it's gonna get colder tonight while i sleep but this fire is keeping me nice and warm so far so i'm a big fan i'm gonna hang out for a bit watch some movies i think i'm gonna call it a night so um there's not much else to see so see you guys in the morning good morning guys see my breath it's about 5 30 in news cold i woke up a couple times last night to get the fire going it burned pretty good um i went through just about all the wood that i had um i do have some of the dura flame sticks left still so there's that um i'm about ready to get packed up and go inside and be warm i'm gonna take a shower i think i'm gonna get some coffee or a cup of hot chocolate i haven't decided yet and let's relax out here by the fire for a couple more minutes and wait for that to burn out before i go inside all right so it is the next day um i went in about 4 35 o'clock this morning it got really really cold it got down to negative seven degrees fahrenheit um i'm gonna go over a little bit what happened to the quincy last night it was a little bit of a scary moment um let me go ahead and show you that now so as you can see the snow was melting out pretty good from where the quincy was exiting its heat from the stove if you look down in there you can see that that's where the stove is at and that's where all my stuff is um i left everything down in there until this morning so i can pull it out when it's light out but other than that we just have a couple bigger holes where the um i put some ventilation spots so that's really the only issue i had it stayed fairly warm throughout the night um it was probably about 34 to like 40 degrees most of the night it did get down at one point to about 25. i burned through a decent amount of wood last night i still have a nice chunk a nice set left um but i'm gonna go ahead and get everything packed up it was a great adventure out here guys that's gonna be all for today's episode guys go ahead and get those alerts turned on and hit subscribe for me i post new clips to my instagram every single day and i post new clips on my youtube every single friday morning so i'll see you guys next week just make sure we don't throw near the camera please
2021-03-18 13:11
