During our hike in we decided first we'd find a water source once we felt we were "deep enough" in the forest. Once we found the water source we searched the area for semi level ground, dense large diameter trees and semi dry ground. Finding that we stripped 4 trees of low level branches to just above head height, saving all the materials for the canopy. Then we searched for small diameter dead fall that we could use as the support beams for the canopy. You can see the one on the top of the picture. We just used simple twine to secure them to the trees (how you tie them is important). Then we just used large needle/leave free branches to connect the support beams in preparation for the green branches to be placed on top as an insulator and waterproofing. The hardest part was finding enough green branches for the canopy. Luckily we found a tree that had the upper half fall and all the branches still had all their needles, so we used the branches from the fallen half and then cut down the still standing half. It takes a lot of evergreen branches to create a completely covered canopy of this size. We ran out of that time that day because at this point its almost 6pm and we still needed to collect firewood and we wanted to insulate the ground (but we ran out of time for that and putting up walls). I'll type up the walls and ground insulation from the next day later.