Bushcraft Dugout in Winter Forest - One Year After Construction - Steak on Charcoal - ASMR

Almost a year has passed since I single-handedly built a dugout in a wild forest on a hillside.

There were many reviews that if you do not use waterproof fabric for wall insulation, then everything will quickly fall off, be damp and moldy. The fireplace will crack and fall apart, the stones will burst...

Now I was able to return to my dugout in the middle of a snowy forest and stay there for some wonderful and very comfortable winter nights.
Nothing has rotted or collapsed over the past year, I did not find mold either. The fireplace was covered with small cracks, but this did not affect its stability.

But the mice ate my linen bags, from which I made a mattress 😄
The rest is all right.

I had firewood ready, which I used on the first day. After several hours of burning the fireplace, the temperature inside the dugout became very comfortable, the humidity decreased, and the wooden walls became warmer.

I cooked a wonderful charcoal beef steak (very tasty, I tell you, a charcoal steak in a well-heated stone oven :) ) and enjoyed the sights and sounds of the wild forest burning in the fireplace.

The second day passed unnoticed. I managed to prepare firewood for the following nights, slept well and tasted hearty buckwheat porridge with beef stew cooked in a steel army pot.

Thank you for watching!