Building forts, shelters, ect...

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:12 pm

My friends and I are putting the finishing touches on a wigwam. $\:D/$
It's working out great. We plan on camping out in it this summer. Do you build stuff like that? Have you in the past?

Emily Witt · Post by **Emily Witt** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:14 pm

When we lived in a different house with more woods in the back yard, I used to build entire multi-room "houes" outside. They were made mostly of grape vines hanging from trees and mud and branches... but I would get really into it... I would build little tree-trunk furniture and plant gardens outside the front door and little "spider free" areas to read in... it was a blast. I miss being fun and creative.

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:20 pm

That sounds really cool! Our wigwam is near a river, and we plan to go fishing and rafting! $\:D/$

WINDSHEAR · Post by **WINDSHEAR** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:45 pm

you sound like a bunch of little kids $\:D/$

I wish I could do that myself

Elgian · Post by **Elgian** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:45 pm

Wow, that's nice. The most I can say for myself is a crude, survival shelter made at camp.

darcie · Post by **darcie** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:54 pm

Emily Witt wrote:I miss being fun and creative.

I know! I got to do all that fun stuff as a kid! Made a survival shelter and a hammock to sleep in during Girl Scouts, helped put up a (pre-made) tee-pee while working at a Boy Scout camp... sounds cheesy, but those of you that have a chance should totally get involved in those. And for older (14+ I think) join the Explorers for high adventure stuff or whatever you want to do. Plus, it's co-ed.

Or just go ahead and be creative and make your own fun! Before it's too late (looks out at the suburbs all around her and little trace of blue sky under all the smog). Too little outdoors will make you crazy.

Trinarius · Post by **Trinarius** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:10 pm

That looks really cool, Shad! $\:D/$ I've never done anything like that before, but it would be kinda fun to do something like that one of these days!

It'll probably never happen, but I can dream, can't I?

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:18 pm

When I was on spring break we had some snow storms, and me and my brother made a little snowhouseigloo type thing. We didn't get a picture though.

And then of course there's the good old fashioned fort in the basement ^_^

http://goodenough.50megs.com/cgi-bin/i/FC5.jpg (I'm in the mirror there)

http://goodenough.50megs.com/cgi-bin/i/FC3.jpg (mirror again)

Laura Ingalls · Post by **Laura Ingalls** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:49 am

I used to LOVE making little forts and houses and stuff both inside and out. $\:D/$ *sigh* I wish I could still do that...

When we lived where we had woods, Watson and I used to play Indians.

I made a little area with a "fire pit" - it was so much fun. I can't remember what we were pretending to be when we decided to dig deep trenches to hide in.

Those were pretty cool...no one could see us if we scrunched down in them. Except when we were digging, I think we uncovered a pipe or something...we hurriedly threw some dirt back in to cover it up.

I've always thought it would be neat to have a treehouse...

NatetheGreat · Post by **NatetheGreat** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:26 pm

Laura Ingalls wrote:I've always thought it would be neat to have a treehouse...

*thinks* Let's see... when we used to live in the woods, I had:

a fort in the hayloft of our old shed...
a fort in our old (unused) dog house...
a teepee in the field back behind the old shed...
2 treehouses, one way high and rather small, one lower down and much bigger...
a fort in a sucluded spot in the woods that me and my mom raked clean and added stump chairs and a fire pit to,
and a fort under an old fallen pinetree waaaay out in the woods.

Ahh, happy days.

But than we moved to the city.

Laura Ingalls · Post by **Laura Ingalls** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:37 pm

Awww...too bad.

The country is the best! $\:D/$

Aelwyn · Post by **Aelwyn** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:50 pm

Bradley and I and our older brother have built some little 'shelter thingamajiggys'. It's been a while since we did that. We even made 'houses' in bushes once.

Lonesome Dove · Post by **Lonesome Dove** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:06 pm

Way back in our pasture (I live on a dairy farm) there is a little grove of trees, we all (my siblings and I) call "The House", but we have never slept there...at night... We have an awesome hay mow, there's a rope that hangs down from the ceiling that we swing on.

Aelwyn · Post by **Aelwyn** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:08 pm

Sounds like fun! I have an uncle and aunt and cousins that live on a farm, and we have great times together.

HarlowRoxMySox · Post by **HarlowRoxMySox** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:11 pm

Snowforts are a lot of fun. We used to dig them out of the huge piles of snow that the snow plows made. They got pretty big!

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:16 pm

I have some pictures of our wikiup.. I might post some.

We're in the 'final stages'. We're gonna go out in the woods with nothing but hatchets and fishing poles for 3 days next week! Weeehhee!! $\:D/$

NatetheGreat · Post by **NatetheGreat** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:17 pm

HarlowRoxMySox wrote:Snowforts are a lot of fun. We used to dig them out of the huge piles of snow that the snow plows made. They got pretty big!

I've made some snowforts infrount of our hose(in the city), but I've had to shovel my own pile.

HarlowRoxMySox · Post by **HarlowRoxMySox** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:18 pm

Shad Lexer wrote:I have some pictures of our wikiup.. I might post some. We're in the 'final stages'. We're gonna go out in the woods with nothing but hatchets and fishing poles for 3 days next week! Weeehhee!! $\:D/$

Sounds like fun! You'll have to tell us how that turns out.

(Just hope you don't come back like this:

)

Shad Lexer · Post by **Shad Lexer** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:06 am

Why would I come back like that?

Arwen · Post by **Arwen** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:04 pm

I ought to try to build a wigwam. I probably could do it. I haven't done a lot of forts, but I've tried a few times. My brother's working on a "lean-to" right now, but other than that, we don't have anything.