>>904704What you really want to do is separate yourself from the ground, even if you have a summer tent, you should be fine
Find logs and cedar to make a makeshift bed
You'll need a few logs, enough for your buddy and you. Fuck loads of cedar or any soft, cushion like material.I've used just springy sticks as a bed, not that comfy but it works. The more, the comfier.
Lay the logs out in a way that covers most ground, remember. You want as much separation from you and the ground as possible.
Now that you have your logs down, lay the cedar or soft/springy material on the logs, you'll want to layer them and put them down as close as possible, make them tight together, but not tight enough to remove the comfy factor.
Now that you have your bed made, lay down your sleeping bags and do whatever you see fit with them.
Time to make your shelter, make a shelter that takes advantage of how big your man made soft springy bed is, you want a low ceiling for max heat trappage. It may be hard to move around depending on how big you are so make the height of the ceiling tall enough to accommodate your size. You don't want a teepee more like a lean to. If you can cover your shelter on all sides that would be awesome, don't worry about airflow. I'll get to that in a sec.
So now that you have the skeleton of your shelter up, if you want to use a tarp for your roof you can do that, but i prefer the natural roofing. Good ol' cedar.
proceed by grabbing wads of cedar and putting it on top of your shelter, make sure to cover all holes so snow can't fall in when you're sleeping.
Once you've covered your shelter in cedar. Now for the fun part, deciding where the fire goes.
I like to make sure there is a hole in the corner of my shelter so the smoke can escape
I do that by driving two sticks all the way up past the the hole in the shelter, creating a frame to put any heat reflective mylar i have, or rocks, depending on what i have at my disposal.
I-I just really like cedar, okay?
