Simple Wool Blanket Pocket Survival Shelter

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Haymitch in a survival say I'm going to talk about a quick wool blanket shelter stay tuned okay so right now it's obviously below freezing and snowing this is ideal conditions for the shelter I call it a a pocket shelter reason being is because it creates a pocket that's insulated to the weather okay now it's real simple real fast and it's a good shelter to use if you're trying to sit out a storm just hang out for you know a couple hours and it's something that can be thrown up very very fast pretty simple to get to from the stake my will black it off my rock

I got two options it sit on my rock which gets me off the ground which lowers conduction or I can fold my blanket underneath me I'll go for my rock this time real simple guys fold your blanket

put it back over yourself pretty simple so you just rearrange it so then that way you can try to get it so it's touching the ground all around you and that is ideal to touch us the ground everywhere around you reason why that's ideal is because it creates a pocket inside because it's three main factors the three main factors that I need to be considered that's conduction convection and radiation

okay cell conduction is from touching on surfaces objects in this case would be the ground okay so basically if you sat on a log let's say right and you're there for a few minutes and then you slide over a foot or two on the log you feel that log where you're sitting now it's colder then you are a moment ago you feel the log where you were just sitting and it's warm well that warmth didn't come from the log that's your one they got sucked out of your body it's like a equilibrium concept where the wood was warmed up by you now you lost that heat that cost you calories to make so that's conduction conduction is me sitting on the ground and trying to warm the earth up with my body I'm not going to win so I'm going to continually lose heat okay so by being on my rock or by folding blinking underneath me I've gotten rid of that second thing is convection now convection is win basically at all times with radiating heat off of our bodies and convection is wind so when wind comes by it pushes that bubble of radiation you have floating around your body at all times pushes it off so you have to replenish it that's a that's a pretty serious thing as well especially when you add water because water conducts heat off of you and convection speeds it up okay so the last one is radiation basically like I was just saying is that radiation is coming off your body at all times so you want to create a pocket inside your blanket to trap dead air space in other words you don't want convection you don't want air coming in and introducing a draft you want to create a pocket underneath a blanket to to trap the radiation coming off your body so the ideal situation with this quick pocket shelter is that you create a pocket and you are insulated from the ground either by again folding the blanket underneath you having a little spot to sit on or putting your jacket down or even taking your jacket off I have a little jacket it's like having a wool blanket I can put it down on the ground if I wanted to I just want to basically sit on the ground insulate it from it by sitting on my rock wall my blanket I want to stop convection or wind from hitting my body by putting an insulated layer which would be the blanket in between me and the wind so wind has to go through this fiber to reach me and the last thing is I want to trap the radiation my natural body heat that's coming off of me so depending on how bad the condition is depends on your reaction or rather your reaction to how you use a shelter depends on how bad the conditions are or what you need to do to have the best condition for you so you know if it's really windy like right now there's almost no wind it's almost not even an issue but if it's really windy I'm going to want my edges all the way on the ground I definitely want to be able to trap my heat right now my back and the back of my neck is nice and toasty warm and I haven't flipped open so I can talk to you guys when this is nice because you can look around and and you know you can sit still observe and just look around you can actually you know really take in your environment but also you know this is a shelter it's not really only just for you know doing a sit spot anything like that so you're trying to stay dry right because when you get wet you get cold so normally I would flip this over I got hunkered down nice and low get it all the way to the ground create a pocket that's insulated from the outside environment that's really really the concepts behind it just those three concepts and its really really simple I mean it's a simple shelter I know you know another bonus of the shelter is that just like a nice little like nest in here you know like nice and warm and trapped all your heat in you don't feel any wind and I usually like to rest you know when I'm when I'm waiting out of storm or if it's uh this is really like nasty out you know it's raining or whatever the case is and that's when I do something quick you know from a blanket over me and sometimes I lean up against trees sometimes I sit just like this on my rock and just relax sometimes I know it off you know what better way to sit through you know a trying moment a storm that normally would be a problem where you're running around trying not to get wet and you know you're trying to stay warm and trying to build a fire and also the stuff while it's raining or snowing and everything else and kind of put a tarp up and take this big deal and instead of me expending calories during the worst possible moment where I'm at the most stressful headspace I can be trying to deal with all these extra factors I'm actually resting maybe I'm napping hmm I'm warm I'm dry I'm relaxed what's better than that you know and I get to listen to the to the snow or the rain hit the leaves around me you know it's good medicine I'm telling you so I like to do the opposite you know instead of running around trying to build a home during a storm I like you just sit it out take a nap what's wrong with that right perfect because now when I do decide to build a proper shelter build a proper camp

I'm fully rested I'm ready I'm ready to crank out some calories and get some work done you know and and now the rain of the snow has slowed down or subsided completely so instead of me you know following a sleep then now that I got my hammock up or whatever the case is and it's all okay I can finally rest you know all the snow stopped you know that's when I'm actually hitting my peak when I should be the animals do the same they hunker down for a storm and they rest and when the storm stops all of a sudden you see them come out what's changed you know they look around

did it make anything new and they're scouting around and there's a lot of wisdom in that you know it's a lot of wisdom in that so usually how I use the shelters I just sit indian-style okay again I'm on my rock and I just create a pocket it's like I was saying it's all there is to it so appreciate your views com seen sport see you guys the next bit take care