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Canadi-Anna

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  1. With no sleeping bag you will be frozen minutes after a fire goes out, and after -20 your fire won't keep you warm enough without a bag to sleep in no matter which shelter type unless you make a quinzee only big enough to trap your body warmth with a candle, kind of like a coffin; not practical. Two inches of snow is not even remotely enough to make an igloo or even a quinzee. Igloo blocks must be cut from a particular type of snow that is hardpacked but naturally windswept the right way by nature so that they are light, easy to cut, hard but filled with the right amount of air. Igloos must be replaced often as they lose their effectiveness. They are only temporary shelters for nomadic Inuit or hunting parties. They are not conducive to having hot fires, (oil was used) nor wood beds off the ground (no wood in the actual arctic) and require an animal pelt barrier to sleep on the ground. A better option would be to dig into a hillside for an ideal shelter -- at least half of it, with a rock fire place and sod stacked walls on the outer parts. I don't know if that's practical with the tools brought, but if it were me I'd be using that axe to hack through the hillside roots and hollow out a small home, using the sod I'd removed from the hill for at least part of the walls. If no hillside available, digging downward is good too. Heck as kids we'd make underground forts just for fun. No better insulation than mama-earth. Canadi-Anna
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