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What happens when you take a homemade tarp, a titanium stove, and your own back into a –12°C frozen forest?

In this winter camping adventure, I hike into snow for a solo glamping experience using only the gear I can carry. I set up my custom-built 4.4 × 4.4 meter tarp as a hot tent, fire up my titanium wood stove, and create a warm, livable shelter in brutal winter conditions.

Along the way, I:

Read animal tracks in the snow

Encounter two deer in the forest

Show every modification I made to turn my tarp into the most versatile hot tent possible

Set up my camp bed, stove, and firewood system

Test a new homemade sit pad

Enjoy hot food while it’s –12°C outside

During the night, deer passed right by my shelter — and even barked outside my tent, leaving fresh tracks just outside by morning. This is real winter hot-tent camping: warmth vs wilderness, comfort vs cold, silence vs wildlife.

If you love:

• Winter camping

• Hot tenting

• DIY outdoor gear

• Bushcraft

• Cozy survival in the cold

You’re in the right place.

Stay safe and have fun,

your Outdoors-University Team!

I spent a freezing winter night deep in the woods with only two items — a knife and a lighter. No tent. No tarp. No sleeping bag. With temperatures dropping to −9°C (15°F), I had to build a shelter entirely from natural materials and rely on basic survival skills to make it through the night.

In this video, I share:

How I built a shelter from the forest alone

Fire-making and heat management in extreme cold

The core survival skills everyone should know

Lessons learned from facing the cold with almost nothing

This is not a tutorial — it’s a real overnight survival challenge in harsh winter conditions.

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Stay safe and have fun,

your Outdoors-University Team!

I head deep into the woods for a quiet overnight as frost coats the forest in white. There’s no snow at first, but the cold has transformed everything into a frozen landscape. I build a parabolic shelter with a reflective tarp, set up a long log fire, and cook a warm meal over the flames. Throughout the night, I compare the temperature inside and outside the shelter to see how well it holds heat. As morning comes, I discover a light snowfall during the night. After packing up, I leave the campsite exactly as I found it — no trace left behind. A calm, simple overnight focused on shelter, fire, warmth, and respecting nature.

Stay safe and have fun,

your Outdoors-University Team!

Outdoor life isn’t perfect — and that’s the point.

This is our Outdoors-University Bloopers 2025: campfires fighting back, shelters failing, cameras falling, cold mistakes, food disasters, and a lot of laughing along the way. From sparks a little too close to hair 🔥 to slippery roots, collapsing shelters, and moments that definitely weren’t in the plan — these are the lessons you don’t see in the final cut. No serious injuries, just real outdoor learning… the hard way.

Tell us in the comments:

Which moment made you laugh the most?

Thanks for being part of Outdoors-University — see you outside!

Stay safe and have fun,

your Outdoors-University Team!

Solo bushcraft overnight building an enclosed heated tarp shelter that closes itself. Step-by-step shelter build, fire, elevated bed, cooking and a quiet night in the woods. In this video, I head solo into the woods to build a fully enclosed, heated tarp shelter that closes itself. Every step of the shelter build is shown in detail, with a focus on warmth, efficiency, and comfort. Because the terrain slopes downhill, I also build an elevated bushcraft bed to stay level and insulated from the ground. Once the shelter is sealed and warm, I cook a proper dinner, make hot tea, and settle in for a quiet night in the forest. The enclosed design works better than expected — so well that the next morning I wake up 45 minutes too late, forcing me to move fast and pack up.

A realistic solo bushcraft experience focused on shelter design, fire management, comfort, and learning from small mistakes outdoors.

Stay safe and have fun,

your Outdoors-University Team!