This is my shelter for the first half of the third year of my journey. I'm back at my old stomping grounds - my hometown - Miskolc, Hungary. It lies right on the edge of the Bukk Mountains National Park. It had been a long time since I spent the summer in Europe, so I was very excited to do this here. It is a very different environment from South New Jersey where I built my last shelter. It's a hardwood forest, where I knew I would have good debris to make use of, but unlike last year I had no idea what kind of place I was going to build beyond that.
Well, it turns out I got lucky in more ways than one (Tracker lucky, I like to call it). So much so that I’m happy to report that no live/uninjured trees were used to make this hut. A large European Beech (they named the park after them – Bukk = Beech) came down - the roots gave out for some reason – and took another, already dying tree with it. When I saw that, I knew right away that was place I was going to build my new shelter. As a matter of ...
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