Camp at the very lowest elevation next to your serene babbling brook and you will chill far quicker and burn all the more calories as the cold air descends and pools all around you during the night. Having said that there are ideal settings the most overlooked is elevation. Use your head and go with the spot that offers the crude best of ALL averages. See? So we cannot afford for all the criteria of “the perfect spot” to be demanded. Three trips in to our bed and we’re fresh out precious calories with no more in the pot. Or there may be a ready made cave that is perfect and cozy, but it’s a killer of a scramble to get to it. We don’t even have a container (made yet) to even put water in so we are better off to be in a so-so spot near a water source than in a perfect spot way away from water. For example: We don’t have the caloric surplus to hike all God’s creation to find a perfect spot. So the best I can boil it down to is to pick the greatest combination of several decent averages. Also when was the last time a backpacker factored in “there’s a mother load of limbs and leaves on the ground here to use in shelter construction!” ?
NAKED INTO THE WILDERNESS FULL
We do not have three liters of water & a backpack full of calories.
NAKED INTO THE WILDERNESS HOW TO
I see many armchair survivalists merely cut & paste text on how to go about picking the perfect “camp spot.” But we are not camping. It’s hard to describe the site one should choose for their primitive shelter and associated new home in The Great Lost. You must have this much insulation +++ over the frame- at all points of the shelter. I will teach you how to layout the arrangement and proportions of the frame in the coming pages- but let it sink in from the beginning that regardless of the insulation you use, it must be so deep at -A MINIMUM-, did you get that? MINIMUM, as in AT LEAST, as in MORE IS BETTER… that if you carefully worm you hand down into/through the insulation towards the underlying framework you quickly find yourself extended armpit deep into the debris but CAN’T reach/touch the frame with the tips of your fingers. Regardless of the material you use the most important part regarding your insulation material IS YOUR ARMPIT. In other geographical areas you simply use the litter and duff found on the ground. In a deciduous forest we use leaves as depicted in the following photographs.
Here is where I see the vast majority of students nullify the shelter as well as make a total waste of their overall effort. But anybody can manage with gear, the scope of this article is getting by pretty good “naked” or with –nothing.-)ĭepth: of debris/insulation. Yes you can get away with a little roomier accommodation in summer (or maybe three seasons if you have managed to get lost with some warm gear. Do your body a favor by making the space it must warm the smallest feasible. We are using the word “shelter” but you need to be thinking more along the lines of “permanent, waterproof, immobile sleeping bag.” The only heater warming the square footage will be your tired, fatigued and hungry body. There are only two deal breakers for this shelter: And it can be made when standing naked in the woods with nothing practically as efficiently as if you had your “survival kit.” And it does not rely on any auxiliary heat source unlike the totally inefficient lean-to of outdoor lore does. Here is the basic method of making a great survival shelter than can be made in most places with nothing but bare hands, good effort and what the landscape provides.Ī Debris Hut when made to the proper dimensions & depth will keep you comfortably warm in SUB bitter cold conditions & totally dry in a day after day down poor. Naked into the wilderness Chapter two: The Debris Hut.
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