Posts Tagged ‘make an outdoor shelter’

Make Use Of The Poncho

I can not recommend highly enough the use of the military Poncho. If it’s good enough for the army, it’s good enough for our camping needs.

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A ‘Cottage’ Shelter in the Woods

Fig.107 represents part of the framework of one of the simplest forms of rustic cottage. In this case, two trees serve for the two posts of the rear wall.

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Shelters, Shacks and Shanties

Take three forked sticks (A, B, and C, Fig. 12), and interlock the forked ends so that they will stand as shown in Fig. 12.

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Shelters, Shacks and Shanties 2

The San Carlos Apache Indians build a dome-shaped hut by making a framework of small saplings bent in arches.

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