>>83032k, I was thinking you don't want me to
So I said: I can't walk anymore, we have to camp. (I've blazed the trail for 2/3 of the time mind you).
My sister replied: Are we going to make it alive?
Me: I honestly, don't know.
She agreed and we started to making a shelter. We had sleeping bags, one inflatable sleeping mate, space blanket, coleman cooking stove and swiss army knife. We was out of water and chocolate.
Oh and most important thing: I had years of experience in tarp camping, also ex-military (not like it matter in that situation).
So, we was very calm all the time and accepted or fate. There was no panic, no frantic movements. I yelled only once at her when communication failed and I was thinking that we have two space blankets.
The snow was too fresh and puffy to make a dug-in shelter, it was no time for quinzee either, so I improvised.
Found fallen tree trunk with few years old fir next to it.
We both had headlamps so we both worked. It appeared what I took for total exhaustion was only dead tired legs so we was working in good pace. Still making a shelter took us about 1-2 hours. We dug hole to lay in next to fallen tree, used snow to make other walls. I made the roofing from dead sticks and covered it with all the fir branches we could get from small tree. Knife saved us a lot of energy as they are flexible and hard to break. Then we covered the roof with snow to make closed space. We lay space blanket on the floor, my sis got the sleeping pad, I've slept in my sleeping bag on the snow protected only by thin space blanket. We covered small doorway with my bag. We made closed space and when I lit stove to melt snow for tea we probably even had under freezing temperature. We have taken of shoes changed socks to dry ones. Drank some tea and as roof has already melted over the stove I let it lit and we went to sleep.
tbc
