Bushcraft Camp Stacked Log Walls, Knot Work, Original Axe, Entry 3 Building Camp Deadhorse

After nearly a year away, I return to Camp Deadhorse and pick up the building series right where I left off last fall. In this entry, I get to work using my axe, knife, and handmade bowsaw by cutting, sharpening, and bevelling over 30 stake logs. I pounded them into the slightly frozen ground along the shelter s frame using my old mallet, and tied them in place at the top with jam knots to prevent them from spreading apart. After, I used the logs stashed in my wood pile, and cut and fitted over 46 of them to the shelter by stacking them inbetween the stakes and cutting the roof s angle onto their ends, resulting in a tight fitting and strong supporting wall all around the shelter, and getting one huge step closer to this camp finally being usable to sleep in. Amazingly, not a single thing changed at camp in the time I was away from the project. The shelter s frame is as sturdy as the day I built it, the mallet is still together well, and the saw is still sharp although the spruce branch