Hi All
could you give me some tips with the following please?
Or links,
I would like to build a one/two man shelter/ base camp in keeping with my surroundings in my woods, so I can spend nights there without my tarp and hammock etc, I would like it to be as warm and dry as possible, I want to try and use as much natural resource as possible, cordage etc if i need to put a tarp up as water proofing I will but will try and disguise/blend it in, my woods are two fold, the area has flat and hilly area`s mainly covered with dense birch and the odd spruce/pine also ash and the other area is mainly pine, douglas, again hilly and flat with a river at the bottom running through.
which area would be best suited?
· on what side do I have the opening, eg south north
· how big should it be height wise
· should the bed be raised and how
· near water or not
· on a slope or flat
these are some of the questions Id like help with please and any other do`s and donts you have had experience with
Cheers
Bill
could you give me some tips with the following please?
Or links,
I would like to build a one/two man shelter/ base camp in keeping with my surroundings in my woods, so I can spend nights there without my tarp and hammock etc, I would like it to be as warm and dry as possible, I want to try and use as much natural resource as possible, cordage etc if i need to put a tarp up as water proofing I will but will try and disguise/blend it in, my woods are two fold, the area has flat and hilly area`s mainly covered with dense birch and the odd spruce/pine also ash and the other area is mainly pine, douglas, again hilly and flat with a river at the bottom running through.
which area would be best suited?
· on what side do I have the opening, eg south north
· how big should it be height wise
· should the bed be raised and how
· near water or not
· on a slope or flat
these are some of the questions Id like help with please and any other do`s and donts you have had experience with
Cheers
Bill