Bushcraft in the wet snow

Finally got some substantial snow. Got some snow the other day and it melted almost immediately. Today's almost a whiteout, as you can see looking over the field there. But the bad thing with that is with the snow came the drop in temperature. All this was frozen the other day. Oh, there's no snow on the inside of it, but it sure is soaking wet. There's a couple of pieces here that aren't too wet, but all the bottom, the bed, the seats all soaked. Well, this should be a challenge on the search for some dead standing. Oh, looks like he's seen something. What are you doing? Come. I smell something. Come, come, come. What is it? Anyways, like I said, on the look for some dead standing, preferably with some bark on it. Try and keep the water or the moisture out of it as much as possible. So something like this would be ideal. I'm not going to take it because it's a little thick for what I want to use. I just don't want to take down that big of a tree. It's pretty tall. I'm not going to be out here for too long. I'm not going to burn it up. And if I take it down, then it's just going to get soaking wet. So I'll save it for another time where I'm actually gonna use the whole piece. Alright, here's a cluster of maples I want to take this one here Nice and thin, it's about a little bit smaller than my wrist. In the winter time you can't tell if something's dead or not I just like to give it a little slice with my knife. It's not green underneath Which it's not. In the winter time firewood warms you three ways Collecting it, cutting it, and burning it. I believe that to be true I posted a while back, actually a long time ago, about using my Mora knife as a striker and getting charcloth to catch, and there had been a little bit of interest in it recently. I had a couple private messages and somebody asking me how I did it, so it's definitely not my idea. So I just take my knife, my Mora, and I hold it with the blade point, like the tip of the blade pointing up, and I'll hold my flint with my left hand because I'm right handed, I'll just place the char cloth as I would as if I was using a normal striker Then this is gonna work is how I want to try to start my fire today Like I said, it's gonna be a challenge. Okay. Now I'm gonna leave that in there almost smoldering for a minute So I gotta get some ---- flamed up on me. So I gotta get my fire pit ready I didn't want to put the bark slabs down too early because then it would've got wet. This is very delicate Go start to do this and film at the same time do this period but it is so wet out here I can't even stress. I know I've said it 10 times, but it is ridiculous.