Arriving After A Snow Storm | Alaska Cabin Life

What's up guys. I'm pulling up to my cabin. I've been away for a few days and it freaking snowed. I just got out here to find a massive four-foot berm just stacked right in front of my driveway. So I guess I'm gonna get all my winter stuff on and we're gonna try to break a trail. Not only did it snow a whole bunch but it's also negative three right now. We've got tracks here. A lot of snow. All right so the thing about being gone from the cabin for a couple of days when I get back it's just ice cold. I'm totally snowed in. My driveway's blocked. But right now I've got to get this cabin warmed up so I'm gonna get that wood stove cranking. I'm gonna use my good old trusty birch bark to get this fire started. When you first start a wood stove the draft doesn't always want to go because the chimney has to get hot for the draft to actually work. But if you build the fire up closer to the top it'll actually heat the top of the wood stove quicker and get a good draft. You can see some smokes coming out but it's actually pretty good. The wood stove takes a really long time to actually start heating up the cabin so I have a secondary source of heat as well which is a little propane furnace. It works really well to just kind of take the chill off and get heat going into the cabin immediately. I'm gonna hold the pilot light down for a couple minutes. Even with the wood stove and this thing going it's at least an hour before we get above 32 degrees. Before I head over and get the generator going I'm gonna put some seriously big logs on this fire. I want this thing to just be absolutely cranky when I come back in. I'm gonna put a big piece of birch on there. All right I've got the wood stove packed full so I'll start putting out some good heat here soon. All right now that we got a really good fire going I'm gonna head out and get the generator started. I use a little 2000 watt Yamaha generator for all my power out here. I actually just did a review video on it. If you guys are curious what kind of power I use check out that review video I made for the generator. All right guys if you don't want to know why I use this generator you're about to find out. It is literally below zero Fahrenheit. I want to see if we can get it to fire up. Look at that. The very first pull this thing started. That's amazing. Once this generator gets up to temp it'll go into eco throttle and get a lot quieter. Man there's a lot of new snow out here. Now it's just a matter of time before we got a warm and cozy cabin to hang out in instead of a frozen dark ice box of doom. Wow just in those like five minutes it took me to get the generator started it's already so much warmer in here because of that propane heater. That thing really cranks out some good BTUs and like quickly there's no like warm-up period it's just like instant heat. All right but now I gotta hike all the way back out to the road to where my truck is and get all my gear. I got my clothes and groceries and stuff like that so. I almost forgot I have one more cabin tour to do. I'm gonna head out and fill up my hot pot with snow. I have a gravity fed hot water into the sink which I then have a bucket for. All right I'm just gonna kick back by the wood stove and take it easy. Ton of work to do tomorrow so I'm gonna get a good night's sleep and I'll catch you guys in the morning. I'll be a monkey's uncle. The nearest neighbor which is about a mile away showed up just now in the middle of the night with his plow rig and I think he's gonna try to plow out my driveway so that's cool. Morning everybody. It's time to make some coffee and breakfast. I don't normally use the coffee pot when it's just me but I've got my good friend Tim Johnson, Truck House Life, showing up here in just a few minutes so I'll put on a pot of coffee for the two of us. He spent the night up in Hatcher Pass last night outside in the cold so I imagine he's gonna need something hot to drink. Well that sucks. Son of a b****. Well that's perfect. As you guys saw, as soon as I clicked start on the coffee pot the power went out because apparently the generator had its last little bit of gas in it and when the coffee pot kicked on and tried to make a draw on the generator it just died. So now I get to go outside in the negative two, I think it's minus two right now, and gas up the generator so I can get this coffee started. All right let's try this again. There we go. Coffee's getting to me. Good morning buddy. What's going on? The Timmy J. Johnson of Truck House Life has arrived. You all know him. Here he is in the flesh. He's supposed to be breakfast. That's right. He slept out last night in the cold and he's gonna help me shovel today. Oh yeah. That was it, Timmy. All right let's get to shoveling. One area I really screwed up is I didn't put good overhangs on my shed and outhouse and woodshed and then I have to shovel out these massive areas in front of them in order for the doors to actually swing open. So I'm gonna shovel that off and this summer I'm gonna build nice big overhangs. Gotta do a hole opening for the door. This thing swings out this way. I gotta get it shoveled all the way to here. Really nice log stairs that my buddy Steve, who you guys remember from the tree cutting video, built for me out here. It's actually all him. He did the whole project, thought it up and built them and had them all installed. So I just got a notification that I just hit a thousand subscribers on YouTube and I just want to give a huge heartfelt thank you to all you guys for watching and subscribing to my channel. That's just way more than I anticipated for only been on here for two weeks. So I really appreciate you guys for watching and it really motivates me to keep making good content for y'all. So stay tuned, lots more to come. The other thing that needs to be done while I'm out here is split some kindling. I'm all out in the cabin so I'm going to restock the kindling pile. While all my trails are cleared out I got my wood cache restocked so I'm pretty much done with the chores for the morning. So I think I'm going to go up to the mountains and play in the new snow. If you want to see more about kindling cutting and birch collection check out this video right here. I think it's a good one. Once again guys I really appreciate y'all watching my channel. Please subscribe. I'll see you guys on the next one.