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fire is not the way to stay warm for the alone show
Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:41 am
Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:41 am
you can't cut live trees, for starters. Axe and big saw are wasted picks for another. Best learn to use insulation and good sense. Lash a 2" sapling to a tree as a ridgepole, big end towards your feet, where a tripod holds the end of the 9 ft long pole. Have this pole be 3.5 ft high at the head end, 2.5 ft high at the foot end. You do NOT want a big shelter, or a lot of weight over your head as you are sleeping!
Put the 10x10 tarp over the pole, in the diamond configuration, and slit the centerline back from the points, 3.5 ft each. That will let the ends drape down, nearly reaching the ground. Tape the back seam. The front seam, tape it about a foot down from the top, and then arrange some loop and stick toggles to hold shut the flaps. Pill up brush, debris and dirt any place that you've got an air leak. You only want enough room for your raised bed, your gear, and your body. Put heated, big flat stones under your bed, if it's really cold
Put the 10x10 tarp over the pole, in the diamond configuration, and slit the centerline back from the points, 3.5 ft each. That will let the ends drape down, nearly reaching the ground. Tape the back seam. The front seam, tape it about a foot down from the top, and then arrange some loop and stick toggles to hold shut the flaps. Pill up brush, debris and dirt any place that you've got an air leak. You only want enough room for your raised bed, your gear, and your body. Put heated, big flat stones under your bed, if it's really cold
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Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:47 am to youno
under your 10 ft long, 20 ft wide, tapering A frame awning, situated in front of your sleeping shelter, with the peak about 7 ft high, that's where you dig a Dakoat pit, aiming heat at your sleeping shelter, by means of having 2 exit holes, each with a big flat rock "lean-to" over the hole. You want 4 such stones, once it's really cold, so that you can rotate them.
Dig the entrance air hole long and shallow, so that you dont have to cut logs to length. Just feed them in as they are consumed. If you will do these things, and also stuff dry local debris in between your longjohns and your woolen outer wear, and between your outer wear and your rainsuit, you'll be warm enough. You'll either be piddling around the fire, dry, out of the wind, or you'll be out in the rain and wind, but workking like hell, taking breaks to warm up, or you'll be in your sleeping bag. NEVER wear all of your clothing ( you get 2 sets). One set always has to be kept drying, wrapped around hot stones.
Dig the entrance air hole long and shallow, so that you dont have to cut logs to length. Just feed them in as they are consumed. If you will do these things, and also stuff dry local debris in between your longjohns and your woolen outer wear, and between your outer wear and your rainsuit, you'll be warm enough. You'll either be piddling around the fire, dry, out of the wind, or you'll be out in the rain and wind, but workking like hell, taking breaks to warm up, or you'll be in your sleeping bag. NEVER wear all of your clothing ( you get 2 sets). One set always has to be kept drying, wrapped around hot stones.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:53 am to youno
never go out in an un-proven water craft while wearing your sockis o boots. they let you take tekna water sandles. Dont wear your pants, longjohns, or heavy upper body cloting and test in shallow water, with your life preserver. Have a (sheltered0 fire going nearby, with dry spare clothing right there, until you have PROVEN that your craft is not going to leak, sink or capsize. Even then,i'd avoid deep water (ie, over my head) I'd tie all the gear to the boat, and tie the boat to ME, too, in a way that I could free myself easily, if need be. Dont take any gear onto the boat that you wont need (badly) for that excursion.
Posted on 6/11/17 at 10:58 am to youno
Can I just bring you?
Posted on 6/11/17 at 11:21 am to Rize
already have a partner, assuming that season 5 is still the 2 person format. Thanks, tho.
fire means that you have to constantly go get fire wood. Keep the shelter portable, so you can just move it to where the squaw wood is, leaving the biggest, densest piece of such to where you'll hole up for the winter. Keep the fire small, and just bank a small bed of coals for nap-time, so you wont need to start a new fire each morning. Making big shelters and burning a lot of wood is wasting a lot of your time and calories. Those resources should be getting spend on FEEDING yourself, so that you'll still BE there when winter hits.
fire means that you have to constantly go get fire wood. Keep the shelter portable, so you can just move it to where the squaw wood is, leaving the biggest, densest piece of such to where you'll hole up for the winter. Keep the fire small, and just bank a small bed of coals for nap-time, so you wont need to start a new fire each morning. Making big shelters and burning a lot of wood is wasting a lot of your time and calories. Those resources should be getting spend on FEEDING yourself, so that you'll still BE there when winter hits.
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