Testing Personal Size Dome Canopy

Description

Part of the fun of what I do is trying and testing designs. In this video shot during a snow, I'm working on a small dome canopy designed to be used over a fire.

Tags: parachute,dome shelter,canopy,winter,cold,camping,fire,snow,outdoors

Video Transcription

hey perry peacock care of wilderness innovation up here mess around with our with our mini canopy for use by one two three or four people and we got a fire in the middle here which I'll show you this stays nice and toasty warm inside of here anything from here up from the bottom of here up is warm I can pitch this lower higher whatever I need to I can do it to make this thing work really well you see right here I got a fire down in there now warm air rises kind of like a hot air balloon it goes up inside of there and up and up in there can get 120 degrees or so and I warm air radiates down on top of you and creates a nice warm feeling inside of there this thing thing works really nicely if you watch some of my videos last year last spring I did three or four of them with our regular p stl tarp are ten by ten square tarp and I kind of did this kind of setup with it worked really nicely but this thing right here is very very lightweight packs it almost no space whatsoever and like I say I can pitch it lower or higher depending on how I want to retain the heat if I'm sitting on the ground I might want to pitch it lower if I'm standing I want to buy what a pitch a little higher Here I am inside the shelter and I've got got my fire in here and it's amazing that second I step inside of here how much warmer it is the inside the shelter we just look up here to watch the top this the panel right here that goes around is the ventilation panel it helps to reduce some of the smokiness inside of here a little bit escaped you are too much getting out because you want to hold the heat as much as possible so so just a little fire like this makes this shelter considerably warmer than outside see we got snow coming down here its lease no duh least not a couple inches in the last hour so I just been Trump around out here in it if we get right up here on it you can see a little bit of smoke kind of venting out of some of these holes here now you see some steam coming off the panel here because it's it's pretty warm inside of there and this and the snowflakes falling down on here they're getting melted off and evaporated so you see some steam out there so it's a very nice so here we see the shelter got me a decent little blaze going on there you see the steam coming off yeah that is so nice and toasty warm inside I mean it's it's unbelievable you