When we teach debris shelters we always make a big deal about the importance of getting off the floor. It’s incredibly important to get get something between you and the ground as the ground will literally suck the heat right out of you. So here’s a video of Peter making a bed for a debris […]
A wiki-up is a type of shelter used by nomadic Native Americans in the southwestern United States. Essentially it’s a conical frame covered with mating or brush. I’ve been thinking about building a wiki-up shelter for a while now and back in November finally got around to it. We were running a 5 Day Bushcraft Course, […]
I’ve written posts previously about debris shelters, including this one describing how to build a one person kennel and this one showing you how to build a 2 person kennel. Although we’ve had lean-to debris shelters at our ancient woodland camp for a good few years I haven’t got around to writing about them previously. […]
We built a 1 person debris shelter on our 5 Day Bushcraft Course in November. We went for the standard ‘A frame’ or ‘Kennel’ shelter. I wrote a post recently about one that we built on our trip to the Isle of Arran in a coniferous woodland, but this one, built in our ancient broadleaf woodland, […]
We’ve built plenty of debris shelters in the past at our ancient woodland camp in Kent, generally using either leaf litter or bracken as thatching, I’ve written about it previously here and here. Well, on our fantastic trip to the Isle of Arran with Arran Bushcraft & Survival, we had the opportunity to build a debris shelter in […]
We teach debris shelters on our 2 Day Bushcraft and 5 Day Bushcraft courses, mostly 1 person shelters rather than a 2 person debris shelter. We tend to focus on the structure of the shelter, so making sure that it’s robust and won’t collapse, but don’t spend too much time covering them. We have some […]
