Winter Bushcraft - First Fire at Camp - Firepit & Heat Reflector | Entry 6 - Building Camp Deadhorse

In this video, I return to camp and build the shelter’s fire-pit and heat reflector, and test it by finally lighting the first fire at camp in over a year of building. After making my way to camp through knee deep snow, I got to work shovelling out the front of the shelter. I cleared an area for the fire-pit, found and dug up the rock pile I collected before winter, and threw together a quick fire ring with an open front. After, I used some of the logs from my wood storage and cut them into long stakes, and pounded them in with my axe (after digging out over a foot of ice off camera). I then used the bucksaw to cut logs to length and stacked them in-between the stakes, tying it all together with paracord making sure to add in the drying string which was suggested many times in past videos. A few days later, I returned to camp right as a cold snap came through the area bringing near -50°C temperatures over the next four days. As the temperature progressively dropped, I got to work splitting kindling from s