Winter Solo Survival Challenge with Minimal Tools! | Bushcraft Shelter, Spit Roast Cooking Wild Food

Being stranded in the woods is no day at the park, but with $10, or more like $13 or so worth of items from the dollar store and a rabbit I shot that morning, “survival” can be pretty darn comfortable!

I bushcraft build a simple tarp shelter costing just $3.50 with some paracord rope over a ridge pole. I make a bed with spruce bows topped with dead grass as an insulator. Using just materials in the woods around me, it’s possible to endure harsh Canadian winter conditions!

Next I open a can of corn worth about $1.5 using a cheap yellow box cutter $1.25 and garnish my meal of wild rabbit I shot in the morning with some olives $1.25. Find out how I cook the rabbit I shot using a traditional hair removal technique and cook it over the fire without a pot or pan.

I break standing dead wood with my bare hands and with the help of a leaver system naturally made by two standing trees.

Is fire easy to build using just a lighter from the dollar store? Find out.

Surviving without professional tools is very challenging, but if you find yourself without, you may need these skills to save your life.

This is a short version of the overnight dollar store challenge or the 48 hour survival challenge, as I opt not to stay overnight.

Other survival challenges use only a knife, but while this is possible, using basic survival tools is more fun.

I did not invent the dollar store challenge, but I should give Joe Robinet credit as he inspired this challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0dXIyfXva4
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