This is a two fold mistake that will cost you your life in a Wilderness Survival Situation. The first fold of this mistake is not having a proper shelterwith you, the second fold is not having the knowledge to build a shelter from nature’s tools which are all around you. When talking about someone or a group of people who died in the Wilderness there is a common term that you will hear come up, exposure. Whether it is hypothermia or heat stroke, the bottom line is you either did not have shelter (tent, tarp, sleeping bag with bivvy) or you didn’t have the knowledge to build a suitable shelter to shield yourself from the elements. Remember, Staying Dry is the first rule of Survival.
1. No Shelter
This is a two fold mistake that will cost you your life in a Wilderness Survival Situation. The first fold of this mistake is not having a proper shelterwith you, the second fold is not having the knowledge to build a shelter from nature’s tools which are all around you. When talking about someone or a group of people who died in the Wilderness there is a common term that you will hear come up, exposure. Whether it is hypothermia or heat stroke, the bottom line is you either did not have shelter (tent, tarp, sleeping bag with bivvy) or you didn’t have the knowledge to build a suitable shelter to shield yourself from the elements. Remember, Staying Dry is the first rule of Survival.
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This mixture of mud and grasses can be used for a multitude of projects, from construction of shelters, cooking structures, kilns and food caches, to wrapping food for clay baking (as seen in my articles on these subjects in Wilderness Waymagazine ) and much more. These mylar sleeping bags protect an individual much like mylar blankets by reflecting a persons body heat and trapping it inside. They are waterproof and windproof and retain 90% of your body heat. It doesn’t have the openings on the bottom which is where most of the heat is lost in the emergency blankets. It can be used for water collecting,shading,or a signal device just like the mylar blanket They are Actual: 84" x 36" x 36" weighs 4oz in the package and is 3" x 6.5" x 1" when folded up. At thesurvivalcache we sell them for $6.25 a piece or 3 for $18 Contributed by Penny Furman We can survive for several weeks without food, several days without water, but most of the time only several hours without shelter. Do you think you could make shelter out of sticks and leaves? If you have a decent survival kit, you will include a tube tent, solar blanket, solar sleeping bag and most important some form of accelerant or fire making items to start a fire. Below are three types of shelter that are easy to build with relative ease. TARP SHELTER This is the easiest to set up. Simply run the cord through the middle of the tarp, pull the cord up and tie off on trees or other objects. If need be build your own pole stands to tie the tarp to. Then place large enough rocks on the corners of the tarp to secure it to the ground. The tarp can also be used to collect the dew that forms. Make a dent in the tent that leads to a container and let nature take its course. A mylar blanket also known as a space blanket, or emergency blanket is a blanket used in emergency situations to reduce heat loss in a person's body in five different ways:convection,conduction,thermal radiation, water evaporation,conduction, and respiration. Mylar blankets where first created by NASA to protect Skylab from the intense heat of the sun. The insulating material, a strong, plastic, vacuum-metallized film with a highly-efficient, infrared-reflective, vapor-deposited coating of aluminum, was created to be very lightweight in order to minimize weight impact on vehicle payload while also protecting spacecraft, equipment, and personnel from the extreme temperature fluctuations of space. When he was a teen Richard dreamed of making a home out of a vehicle. After a decade he met Rachel and soon after she agreed to move aboard a bus, they were planning their new mobile home.
“All of our family and friends were confused by the decision because they had never seen anything like this,” explains Rachel, “I think my mom's reaction was 'this isn't the sixties'". As the couple explain on their blog, their reason for choosing a bus as a home was driven by their dream “to own our home, produce all of our necessities of living and have the option to go where we wanted”. The the foil like blanket is called mylar blanket and is created by depositing vaporized aluminum onto thin plastic sheets. The results are a thin and flexible material that is able to provide superior thermal-reflective properties. The highly pure aluminum coating is carefully matched to the substrate to efficiently redirect infrared energy to create either first- or second-surface reflecting. In some instances, the material is intended to deflect the infrared rays, and in other cases, it is meant to conserve them as a passive warming system. Mylar blaknkets created to be very lightweight in order to minimize weight impact on vehicle payload while also protecting spacecraft, equipment, and personnel from the extreme temperature fluctuations of space. Provides compact secure protection in all weather conditions.It consistently retains and reflects 90% of body heat each blanket is in individually sealed packaging folded to compact size for easy storage. |
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