a day, half of that can be used upgathering the branches. If you've already got the pile of brush or boughs, the rest takes half a day. cover the wood with a tarp, kick snow onto chunks of tarp or your jacket, plaster it onto the tarp, starting at the bottom, going round, like laying courses of bricks. when you get the 4" layer on, sprinkle on some water, forming crust. Go gather more snow. Repeat. 2x, 12" thick walls. The dummy contestants take 1-4 weeks, to make shelters that wont shed rain and which require a fire inside of them. :-)
Last edited by lonee; 09/26/20.
