Fireside Blanket Bed

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as mission 8 survival so I'm going to go over our sleep set up stay tuned alright so for this first set up I'm going to be laying down on the ground next to my fire so I want to remove all the debris little sticks and twigs and things so I'll feel them not laying on them alright so now unfold leggett of course alright so here's my wool blanket and I have a right next to my fire I'm probably a foot maybe a foot in a quarter off of it now the distance the distance that i use it depends on the temperature so basically the colder it is the closer I am to my fire up until about this distance about a foot I usually never go closer than a foot because it's just so hot now also the length and shape of my fire changes with the temperature as well you know in the summer I have a very very small fire it's really just for smoke and it's only purpose is basically to ward off mosquitoes

now when it's colder like like right now we're in the winter and it gets to zero degrees sometimes colder sometimes 30 degrees below zero you know that's 60 degrees below freezing it's pretty cold you know right now it's hovering around mid 30s so it's really not too bad but you know when it's in the teens and I sleep out which happened last time I was out with my buddies saj farrier and Fox Walker was I don't know i think was so much 17 degrees out we built our fire so it was at least half as long as we were laying down you know we're each on the sides of the fire you know you can fit four guys around a fire that's properly sized and each basically have your own side so the key is is to make your fire wide enough so it's at least half your width and I have it be right in my core so we're talking right around like my knees to like my neck is the width of my fire okay and it's pretty much a square we use the log cabin fire that works very well my buddy Sarge turned me on to that one last time we were out I've used it before to boil water and things but it really came to its own at night when was really cold I really kept us warm because it just kept a huge amber base that was open right to us you know I mean it was insanely warm you know here it is 15 16 17 degrees up and you know it's frost everywhere and everything's frozen and you know you keep your cup more than a foot foot and a half from the fire and you know your coffee freezes cold right and I mean I was smoking hot you know I got I got a cold enough to put socks on because I wasn't wearing socks and I will blanket you know I used my my wool scarf as my pillow let's use you how I sleep at night I just just lay inside my I will blanket and I use my scarf as a pillow and just now go up to the fire you know this is the easiest most convenient way to sleep outside for me this is a very convenient sleep set up sleep next to your fire and you make it why make it as wide and big as you need to depending on the temperature and you want to make sure that it's heading towards your core now no thing that I do is is that I always keep the blanket completely covered up into my my neck right at my jawline and I keep the bottom there as a barrier for me and the ground but I keep the rest fold it over me so my heads right here and I face I put my face towards the fire I face the fire and my face is just waked warm you know really cooking it feels really really great you know because it's really cold out but to me I'm breathing warm air I've got heat on my face you know really feels awesome you know you just snuggle right up and you just get that warm air in your face and it also helps you know when the fire has died down like that while you're sleeping you know you might sleep three hours and all of a sudden your face isn't quite as warm as it was and you open your eyes and the fire is dying down so then you just reach over we have your firewood stack up next to you and just lay on three four more logs depending on their size and you just fall right back asleep absolutely beautiful so I like sleeping right next to my fire and with the heat right on my face keeps me nice and warm I like to make it wide enough so it's at least half as wide as me half half my length and width so it keeps me nice and warm I mean it's warm warm you know I really don't care what temperature it is you know if he fires big enough and you're close enough it's irrelevant right and if you've had your fire going all day this whole area a couple feet around your fire if it's really cranking you know at least the first foot two feet is dry so it's not like I'm laying down on you know cold wet ground or anything like that so there's no worries you know throw will blanket down and I'm good to go all right so there's many sleep setups that can be used this is just one that works really well when the ground is an overly soaked or covered in snow all rights permission in a survival appreciate your views comments me support see you guys in the next one take care