SNOWIEST PLACE ON EARTH! | Winter Camping in a SNOW CAVE! (campfire, meal, hiking)

Tale of Two Travelers
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Hey guys welcome back to our channel. Today we are driving up to the snowiest place in the world
where we're gonna build and camp in our very own snow cave. The snow is supposed to be about
200 inches deep this time in mid-april so we should have plenty to work with.
We're gonna carry our snowshoes until we need them.
Yeah we're gonna carry our snowshoes for 500 feet.
So we think we're gonna dig straight into the north-facing slope here.
It should be plenty deep to do everything we want. Right here? So yes or no? Yeah but we're
gonna dig kind of inward. We're building like a slide. Maybe we should have gotten shovels with
more grip. So I need you to dig it in the ground. So this initial dig probably needs to be around
seven feet deep because we've got about two feet of roof and I don't necessarily need to
stand all the way up. Just saying that the straight down hole will be about seven feet
from the surface maybe even more because I might not be able to stand up but as long as I can hunch
over and lay down. I'm taking a little break while Rosa takes over inside. I just can't help but look
at that view. That is something else. Why? Fulfilling a childhood dream in my favorite
place in the world. This is your favorite place in the world? Well we're about two-thirds of the
way done with the snow shelter so now we think we're gonna make dinner. Our refrigerator worked.
They inflated a little bit because of the altitude. Look at that! That is puffy out of the open.
After a day of long hard work. All right like a half a day. About a half a day of long hard work.
Three and a half hours. Three and a half hours of long hard work. We're hungry so we're about
that's two-thirds of the way done. I mean it's our first time eating all day and it's like five
o'clock. So now it's dinner time. Does the thing not go out? Oh my god! For dinner I am making breakfast tacos.
This butter is so hard. My refrigerator worked a little too well. So we have some nice fresh cut veggies
that I pre-cut because that's just easier and I'm lazy. We're adding my favorite ingredient
garlic salt with parsley which you called fancy stuff when we first met because it had green in
it. Well if there's green specks in your mac and cheese you know you're eating good. It's parsley.
We're adding that because it makes everything better. You get water? I've got your water too.
That's good. Ah my butter. Butter is life. So our breakfast tacos are going to consist of veggies,
eggs, beans, cheese. Veggies, eggs, beans, cheese, tortillas, and guac. Oh and I brought guac.
We brought guacamole. That's new and exciting. I'm adding garlic salt again to the beans.
So for the eggs we beat up about 11 eggs yesterday. Put them in this nice Alaskan
glacier water bottle and it's just an easier way to transport eggs when you don't want spillage.
I mean most. If you haven't noticed she makes most of the meal plans.
Well that's because if it was up to you we'd get Cain's uh or Chick-fil-a takeout and bring it here.
Yes we would. Yes I know. How many do you want? I feel like salting while this fork is working.
How do people eat gracefully? That tortilla was stuck in the top of my mouth.
After that awesome meal we're re-energized. I am. Well you can take a nap. I'm gonna get
back to digging so we have a space to sleep. I feel a lot colder now so I'm putting on some gloves.
Enough for us to sleep. The sun is just about to set on this amazing day. Almost done with the snow
cave. Now that this is mostly dug out I'm gonna do a size test with Rose's sleeping net. We've got
plenty of room. Well it got pretty dark so now we've got our light inside but this is looking
pretty pretty close to finished. Well I turned on the light and I saw that I had more work to do
just to make it better. Oh yeah. Well we're both gonna fit no problem.
It's very hard to judge if something is your height. You know what I mean?
Especially in an enclosed space like this. Well there we go. After a full day of digging,
most of the day of digging, we have a space to sleep long enough to support me so probably about
you know probably got a few inches so maybe it's like six foot five or six long. A little sink
for the cold air and now we're gonna have a campfire just outside. Hopefully warm us up.
We made a fire. Steve would be proud. Should I have my step two? You should have your step two.
This is step two. If you watch camping with Steve you understand what's going on. This is for you.
Hopefully the fire can warm us up and dry us off. You're making me sit like 10 feet from the fire.
Oh my gosh. I am cold. I need to dry off my pants. Your pants are so... look at that booty.
We chose to keep the fire pretty small because anything bigger than this would be overkill and
would probably melt too much snow but it's definitely warming us up and in this little hut
we built here we've got plenty of wood and plenty of warmth. That's burned pretty deep.
A couple inches. Is it s'mores time? Wham crackers? Of course. And stupid fancy chocolate because this
guy doesn't like Hershey's chocolate. Nobody likes Hershey's chocolate. Which is very insulting because
people tolerate Hershey's chocolate. Hershey's chocolate is from my home state. It's Pennsylvania. I live two hours from Hershey's
chocolate factory and somebody thinks it's no good. That's me. It is really bad. Hershey's
chocolate is an abomination that if you close your eyes and plug your nose you might eat it
without knowing it's even chocolate. I'm telling you. It tastes really good in a s'more. No it doesn't. Yeah we'll do a taste test.
All right I'll tell you it's disgusting. And I guarantee you will not be able to tell the difference.
You put money on that? Guaranteed. That is an awful bet because I can taste different things.
I will bet. That's such a stupid bet. A dollar. I'm gonna know it by smelling it. You're not gonna know it.
You have too much confidence in yourself. And my ability to taste the difference between two
drastically different foods. They're not drastically different. Yeah one is gunk that's dyed brown and
the other one is beautiful quality chocolate. Oh my god it's not even that good. It's pretty good.
It's whatever. Find us some sticks. No I'm going through this wood pile. I'm gonna find myself a stick.
And you can find yourself a stick because you're a big boy.
I threw a temper tantrum. Children I'm sorry.
I'm using this twig. More volume to your marshmallow. Decided to get steamy. Well the beds are all made
so that's what it looks like in here now. That's our little entrance. This is our sleeping area.
It'll be pretty tight but nothing we've never done before and hopefully having it wide open
like this won't be too cold. Look at that fire ring. Isn't that crazy how much bigger that has gotten?
Made it to the end of the day. Yeah well we're in our sleeping bag. I'm warm are you? I'm excited.
We're ready to go to sleep. Fulfilling one of your childhood dreams? Yes exactly. Fulfilling a
childhood dream. All right I am going to bed. I'm going to bed first. We'll find out. Just woke up.
How'd you sleep? You're allowed to say it was bad. I mean I think I slept okay
because it was better than the other time. The last sleep was the best sleep
because I was having like dreams and so I knew I was asleep but
I feel way more rested than I did at artist point.
That's so cute.
There we go. Oh packed up and done. Ready to start the hike back.
I want the chips. I want the chips. We made it. We made it back to the car in one piece.
Oh yeah sorry I thought my phone was scratched. Priorities right? Yes we made it back to the car
in one piece and we're finally getting to sit down on something comfortable. Oh the bed was
pretty comfortable. You didn't sleep that long. Because my pants were wet. Your pants were wet
too. I slept like a baby. You did not. At the end I slept like a baby. For the last like two hours
I slept too because my pants dried out by then. Well what we wanted to say was thank you so much
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