Here are ’23 Emergency Shelters That Can Save Your Life’ and those under your care. LISTEN, we are all very fragile creatures and we are creatures of comfort. Once we are put in an environment where it’s too hot or too cold and not prepared for it, we are now in a serious life or death survival situation.

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Emergency Wilderness Shelters That Can Save Your Life!

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Emergency shelters not only pertain to a fixed shelter around us but also the protective clothes we are wearing. He are the protective shelters we are going to cover in this segment. These emergency shelters were used by the Real Survivors. Let’ start with Baker Emergency Shelter:

1. Baker Emergency Shelter
2. Baker Snow Shelter
3. Blizzard Protector
4. Blizzard Shelter
5. Buried Alive
6. Buried Alive – Group 4 Falck Survival Trick
7. Civil War Dirt Bed
8. Civil War Mole Shelters
9. Daniel Boone Bark Shelter
10. Davy Crockett Fallen Tree Shelter
11. Emergency Shelter On-The-Go
12. Hidden Hide Site
13. Hide N’ Go Seek Geology Lesson
14. My Invisible SERE Hide Site
15. Polar Bear Shelters
16. Poncho Hammock Shelter
17. Poncho Hammock w/A-Frame Shelter
18. Poncho Lean-To Shelter
19. Poncho Tent A-Frame Shelter
20. Sauna In A Can
21. Wind-Proof Outer Garments
22. Winter Clothes
23. Winter Shelter

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Baker Emergency Shelter

On 11 December 1857, Baker (mountain man – Jim “Ol Gabe” Baker) and a handful of mountain men headed out westward to cross the Rockies during the winter. The bad ass overconfident mountain men were about to meet their match. After just a few miles under their belts, the snow became so deep they had to establish procedures to break trail. Each mountain man took their turn in-front making a trail in the deep snow for their peers, pack mules, and horses. The winter snow was so bad that in only 02 days, 13 pack mules were lost and most all of their provisions were gone. Each mountain man was ordered to discard all unnecessary weight. Only weapons, ammunition, blankets, and food were allowed. The starving mountain turned to eating their dying horses and mules.

As each day went by the snowfall increased. Heading for Cochetopa Pass (60-miles southwest of Pikes Peak), it took 10-days of suffering to reach the pass. Each night for shelter against the cold temperatures and blasting snow, 02 or 03 mountain men dug a hole in the snow about 08-feet square. Then two vertical poles were secured on each end of the hole where a horizontal pole was secured to both vertical poles. This was the framework for a roof. Branches and vegetation were placed over the pole framework to finish the roof providing more protection from the bitterly cold elements. A fire at the center of the shelter which provided warmth.

Reaching the pass, a few mountain men were ordered ahead for supplies while the remaining mountain men stubbornly continued on their starving death march. 10-days later, supplies arrived saving the survivors. Seeing the life-saving supplies, some mountain men cried, some cheered, and others laughed. On this cold adventure, some mountain men lost as much as 39 pounds in only 20-days! That’s almost 02-pounds a day!

Note:  In cold environments, the body is trying to maintain a normal body temperature of 98.8 degrees Fahrenheit. In order to do this, it will burn the body’s fat reserves 24-hours a day. Then it will start eating itself – namely muscle tissue. When it gets to this point the survivor is in a serious life or death situation. To AVOID this, a diet high in calories and fat are recommended. Continuous consumption of hot liquids are also recommended.

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Baker Snow Shelter

Near Yellowstone, Baker (mountain man – Jim “Ol Gabe” Baker) and fellow trappers were isolated by a fierce snow storm. The blasting snow created a high snowbank which the wise mountain men used as a windbreak (downwind side). There, they sheltered themselves and their horses against the blasting cold storm.

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Blizzard Protector

One of Mother Nature’s unforgiving killers is a blasting freezing white blizzard. Indians survived these killer blizzards by using the snow itself for a shelter. Enveloped by the blizzard, Indians would separate into small groups, place their buffalo robes over themselves and hunker down. They’d make sure they’d find a place where the snow was unlikely to drift. And they’d place a pole upright beside their spot.

Being under the snow, the pole was used to measure the storm’s intensity and indicate when the blizzard has passed. The snow would fall on them forming a hollow insulated shelter that protected them from the killer elements.

They’d stay put till the blizzard was over. When the pole stopped moving & vibrating, that indicated the blizzard was over. Plus, the pole acted as a small vent for fresh air and identified their location for other Indians to dig them out. Sometimes the snow got very heavy.

Blizzard Shelter

Many an unexperienced tenderfoot died in place from Mother Nature’s wraths – a blizzard. But savvy frontiersmen caught in a blizzard knew what to do to save their life. They wrapped themselves in their buffalo robe – coat and hunkered down. Next to him, he secured his rifle so its vertical. It was used as a vent.

He deliberately let the snow pile-up over him. The snow acted as a protective insulator against the cold temperature and blasting snow. In this position, frontiersmen have been known to last 03-days without food and water.

Inexperienced tenderfeet would fight the storm. In the process of fighting for their lives they would sweat, wetting their bodies and clothes from perspiration. This would invite KILLER HYPOTHERMIA and it reigned in cold weather environments. It was common for anyone that had close calls with blizzards luckily escaped but had toes, fingers, arms, and legs amputated to prevent killer gangrene from spreading.

Buried Alive 

If you read any of my other Survival Books, you learned from World Class survival experts all over North America and the globe to include brave mountain men like Kit Carson, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Jim Beckwourth,…

Another brave pioneer named Jedediah Smith, a hunter and explorer used a strange survival trick to save a fellow pioneer. Jedediah was the 1st to cross Great Basin. The Great Basin located in the western US covers 200,000 square miles from the Wasatch Mountains (Utah) to Sierra Nevada (eastern California) to include Great Salt Lake Desert (Utah), Death Valley (southern California) and the Mojave Desert (southern California).

Ol’ Jedediah and a party of other explorers were crossing a section of this wasteland. Their water supply was exhausted and they searched for water. One of the explorers was close to death. So to conserve – preserve the remaining body moisture of this casualty, Jedediah buried him alive up to his neck! Jedediah went forward and searched & found water and returned saving the almost dead explorer!

Neat uh! Now you know another survival trick that could save your life in a killer desert environment. See “Near Desert Survival Tragedy Getting Cooked To Death Real Survival Real People!”

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Buried Alive – Group 4 Falck Survival Trick

Let’s warm-up with a survival trick taught by Danish Group 4 Falck (Danish for Falcon).

Group 4 Falck is a private international security company. It provides international security to include the United States. It provides all types of security to all types of sites from simple access points to nuclear sites. And it also provides training to all its Security Officers and organizations not affiliated with Group 4 Falck.

And cold-weather survival is part of that training. Danish Group 4 Falck first-aid training instructor Jens-Erik Keller teaches cold weather survival to paramedics, nurses,… right in the heart of cold weather environments like Greenland.

And one technique taught to keep an injured patient warm in a super cold weather environment is to bury the patient. The casualty is wrapped in blankets and placed on the snow’s surface. Snow is dug up from the surrounding area and piled up on top of the casualty completely covering the casualty from head to toe.

The pile of snow actually protects the casualty from the killer cold weather elements and insulates the casualty’s body and keeps it from going hypothermic which is sure death in a cold weather environment – believe me. In past AASNs (Newsletters), you learned many cold weather survival tricks, now you know how Group 4 Falck survives cold weather environments Anytime Anywhere.

1st Note:  Since the casualty is on the surface and completely covered with a layer of snow, there’s still ample oxygen and access to the casualty to breathe fresh air.

2nd Note:  While you’re digging up snow, it’s not a bad idea to build an upwind wind-break (wall of snow) to further protect the casualty, yourself and remaining survivors.

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Civil War Dirt Bed

POWs at Andersonville Prison were very lucky if they had proper clothes, footgear, shelter (above or below surface), and a blanket – especially during the cold winter months. But many unlucky POWs that lacked the essentials to keep them warm during the bitterly cold frigid winter months were doomed. Some POWs came up with common sensed to ingenious ways to keep themselves warm in cold weather. One POW at Andersonville Prison, made a shelter consisting of a dug-out trench just big enough to accommodate his body. Above it was a dome shelter of bricks. He barely had any clothes, – underwear is all he had to wear.

At night, he crawled into his trench, placed 02 small boards over his chest and asked his buddies “Now, boys, cover me over.” At this que, his POW buddies covered him with sand, covering his entire body except his head. Morning came, he brushed off the sand and would ‘declare that he felt as well refreshed as if he had slept on a spring mattress.’ He survived cold nights using this technique and according to the way the book reads (This Was Andersonville – page 250), this POW, unlike 12,000 of his comrades, survived his captivity at Andersonville Prison.

Submersion under dirt has great credibility.  Critters of all sorts burrow for protection from the elements and temperatures in both hot summer months and cold winter months. And it also aids to preserve body moisture, thus aiding to prevent dangerous dehydration.

Note:  Of the ’23 emergency shelters that can save your life’, I recently read a story of how a lone lost boy scout survived his days in the wilderness.  He partially buried himself to survive the cold night temperatures.

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Civil War Mole Shelters

Shelters at Salisbury Prison, North Carolina were for the most part unavailable, exposing about 50% of the POWs to the elements. So POWs burrowed into the ground like moles making shelters – also called manholes. The prison grounds were a honeycomb of round, square,… 03-foot deep shelters. And some were fancy and had mud-thatched roofs. Some had mud-made ovens for cooking and a vent system to vent smoke. Many POWs were found dead in their shelters with some not being discovered for days.

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Daniel Boone Bark Shelter

Bark was stripped from a tree and formed into a shelter at least a comfortable length and width of the user (A-Frame or leaned against a tree in a circular pattern). For added insulation and secureness, the bark was lined with leaves, twigs, and dirt. Daniel would crawl inside in the bark shelter that protected him from the elements. Plus it might not be a bad idea to have a layer of grass, leaves,… as a bedding to prevent body heat from escaping. On the bare ground the survivor can easily loose up to 60% of body heat.

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Davy Crockett Fallen Tree Shelter

The shelter Crockett was interested in when he met the cougar was a tree shelter, a fallen tree shelter! A fallen tree already provides all-around shelter doesn’t it? Like a debris shelter (Section 01), all you have to do is clear-out a hollow section for you and your gear.

But here’s how Crockett built his fallen tree shelter. Crockett used the top of the fallen tree for his shelter. He spread some branches and cut away others for space. The cut branches he made into a bedding. He gathered plenty of moss that was hanging from trees. He placed the moss on the bedding of branches and on top of the moss he spread his blanket.

Note:  When making this fallen tree shelter or ANY shelter take into account for wind direction. You want the opening of your shelter downwind, especially during cold weather. You don’t want that cold wind blasting into your shelter. What good is your shelter if the opening is facing into the wind (upwind)?

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Emergency Shelter On-The-Go

This survival trick comes from one of my subscribers – Mr. Lyon’s. Originally titled “Lyon’s Multi-Use Plastic Sheet”, we’ll cover one techniques for using a plain ol’ section of plastic for an emergency shelter. First let’s go over “Lyon’s Multi-Use Plastic Sheet.”.

A sheet of plastic has more uses than you have fingers and toes. And Mr. Lyons has witnessed first-hand the many uses of a plain ol’ sheet of plastic by folks in 3rd world countries. A plastic sheet comes in real handy and it’s up there in the ‘Must Have Tools Department’ alongside a knife, firemaker,… It’s super lightweight, it’s durable, it folds-up small,… Them indig may not have much, but a plastic sheet is part of their valuable personal property and it can be used for every day survival like:

• Bedding
• Burial Sheet
• Container(s) for equipment
• Fire
• Equipment Stash (cache)
• First-Aid
• Poncho
• Shelter (several types)
• Sleeping Bag (with leaves, pine needles,…)
• Water Container
• Windbreak
• and much much more

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Hidden Hide Site

On 27 March 1944, 11 Officers executed an escape while on a work detail at a rice field located 6,000 meters from DAPECO (Davao Penal Colony – Philippines). The POWs attempted to take the guards by surprise but it turned into chaos. One POW, Cpt. Wohlfeld was shot with a bullet grazing his left arm but in his weakened condition, it meant a serious wound.

To stop the bleeding he took a large green leaf and placed some mud on it and secured it to his wound. The mud bandage did stop the bleeding and he carried-on with his lone evasion through the super thick jungle.

While evading, Cpt. Wohlfeld found a perfect hide site for a night’s rest. He found a large tree that had an underground root system. In that root system was a small cave that he could use as an underground shelter. He crawled in and covered his tracks and entrance with clumps of ferns. In his underground shelter it was impossible to detect him.

Note:  While in SERE School, I used a similar hide site. I found a large tree on the edge of a cliff-like terrain. On the cliff side was the entrance. Once inside there was enough room for a few people. There’s was no way a searching patrol could find me in this underground hide. It protected me from everything (patrols, weather, ornery critters,…). Patrols couldn’t possibly patrol on the entrance side of this hide. See My Invisible SERE Hide Site.

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Hide N’ Go Seek Geology Lesson

We (US Army SERE School students) got a real quick class in geology (structure of Earth). We were taught to look for boulders on the surface so to hide underground! And sure enough some evading groups found underground shelters that could fit 20 or so people! We couldn’t find them even if they gave us several hours! You just have to find the indicators for an underground shelter and shimmy through the giant rocks to get to the underground shelter. Great hide sites!

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My Invisible SERE Hide Site

When attending the US Army SERE Instructor Course (Survival Escape Resistance and Evasion), in the jungles of Panama (US Army SERE Course [Special Forces] came to Panama), the very last phase of the course I was assigned an isolated sector of land in which I was to construct various field-craft to include a hide site (shelter).

I have to tell you that I found the best ready-to-go hide site and if the situation surfaces in the future where I’m running for my life, I hope to find this same hide site cause – well keep reading. Wandering my area, I eventually made a very detailed map with sketches, routes, positions of all field-craft and hide site with distances and magnetic azimuths to each position. This sketch map was part of the grading system. Anyway, walking every step of my assigned area, the center of my assigned isolated sector was a small hill top and I used this hill top as a bench mark to navigate to all my hidden field-craft sites and my invisible hide site.

The sketch map was a life-saver cause I was deteriorating fast and I used my sketch map many times to FIND everything I set up for the grader to get tested. When I mean deteriorating fast – we just finished days of evading 02 platoons of infantry (80 men) and we were all severely dehydrated, malnourished, dog tired,…and our minds were shot. Being so severely dehydrated our memory was shot, we had trouble just talking coherently. And to prove this I tried simple math problems like 35 divided by 07? It took me 30 – 45 seconds to solve this simple math problem. I was messed-up. They told us about this during classes “Lack of water dulls the mind” – but I didn’t believe them. Now I do!

Anyway, here’s the BEST hide site I ever used. I was reconning my isolated sector and in one area it dropped off real steep. Not a cliff of 90-degrees but like 60-degree steep slope. And in this particular area there was this huge tree with a network of roots on the very edge of this slope. I looked at it and decided to climb down. Holding on to the huge exposed roots, I climbed down lower and lower to find a hollowed-out shelter dead center under that huge tree. I could easily fit myself and 03 or 04 other people in this underground hide site.

And from what I figure, an enemy patrol would never find me in my hide site unless they had expert trackers or dogs to pick-up my scent. No patrol would normally, no NEVER walk on a 60-degree slope. If they patrolled, they’d walk above me while I’m in my underground hide site. So bottom line, look for a hide site on very steep terrain with a large or huge tree on the edge of that steep slope. Odds are it’s naturally hollowed out or a few good storms should do it. And odds are real high a patrol looking for you will never find you (sans tracking dogs, expert trackers).

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Polar Bear Shelters

For this segment, I’ll talk about the mother and her cubs. The mother polar bear, the “Queen Of The Ice!” Polar bears are always “digging in” to avoid the killer cold arctic winds.

• Horizontal Hole:  For example, the pregnant mother bear will hibernate for approximately 05-months in a snow cave (horizontal hole). A snow cave she dug out with her claws and big enough to accommodate her size. About mid-way through her 05-months of hibernation, the mother bear will give birth to her cubs (02 or 03). These cubs depend on the essential protection the snow cave gives them from the killer arctic weather conditions. At birth the cubs are barely weighing in at 16-ounces (01 lb) and they’re deaf & blind! Wasn’t for their mother & snow cave, they’d be dead instantly!  For the next couple of months, the cubs and their mother will stay in their protective cozy snow cave. The cubs will feed on the super nutritious and fat-laden milk of their mother. At the end of 02-months the cubs will emerge out of their snow cave weighing in at 20 pounds or so! Anything less the cubs are called under-bears and are probably doomed. But for the first 02 months of the cubs lives and during the mother’s hibernation, the snow cave is their life-saver from the killer arctic weather!

• Snow Bed:  Another “dig-in” technique used by polar bears is the “snow bed”. When those 100mph arctic blasts of killer cold temperatures approach, the polar bears will make shallow trenches to lie in so to protect themselves from high super-cold winds. Even though they’re designed to withstand the cold arctic temperatures down to 80 degrees below zero with their black skin that absorbs heat, extra layer of fat and thick white coat that shields them from the killer cold and it’s their natural camouflage, these polar bear critters are still smart enough to get out of the killer cold by digging snow caves (horizontal holes) to hibernate and scratch-out snow beds to escape 100-mph arctic blasts. Maybe you can learn from the biggest predator on the Earth!

The whole point to this topic is if you can’t get into an already made shelter (cabin, holes, underground crevices, caves…), or construct a field-expedient shelter; you gotta seek shelter like the critters. Use the vegetation, deadfall,… and put it between you and the elements of weather. You can also burrow into the ground vegetation or the ground itself for protection from the elements. Critters do this all the time. And like the polar bears, you can use that same killer element in your favor to build your own Polar Bear Shelters.

Oh before I forget. If you plan on venturing into areas where polar bears habitate – you better know that they’ll know about you looooonnnng before you ever see them! With the polar bear’s keen sense of smell – they’ll easily pick up your scent 20-miles away!

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Poncho Hammock Shelters

A thick poncho should be used. Spreader-bars (sticks 01 inch by 10 inches long – insure sticks are flat at each end and not pointed) can be used to add comfort. While inside the poncho hammock, you could button-up the poncho hammock in case of bad weather to “cocoon” yourself! See Sketch.

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Poncho Hammock w/A-Frame Shelter

Using another poncho secured over your poncho hammock could bring additional comfort and shelter from the elements of rain, snow, sleet, wind… See Sketch.

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Poncho Lean-To Shelter

The best poncho to use is the thick poncho. It is more durable and water resistant. Ditching the poncho (placing dirt on it where it comes in contact with the ground) will insure its stability and protection against the elements. See Sketch.

Note:  Insure the hood is secured to prevent rain pouring / leaking into the Lean-To.

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Poncho Tent A-Frame Shelter

The openings of your Poncho Tent A-Frame should be perpendicular or not in-line with the direction of the wind. The wind direction should be hitting the sides of your shelter. Ditching both sides is also recommended. To increase inside space, pull-out both sides of the shelter by tieing string to both poncho hoods and anchoring them to tree limbs on either side of the shelter or directly overhead. See Sketch.

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Sauna In A Can

Of all the ’23 emergency shelters that can save your life’ this survival application – ‘Sauna In A Can’ can Save Your Life.  While in the military, 0I’ve used it even when it was cold outdoors and I was soaking wet.  It probably saved my life.  OK, here’s the whole true story.

The following is a life-saving survival trick I learned as a young know-nothing soldier while serving with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Here, let me give you some background information first – so you can better appreciate this life-saving survival trick when your only life is threatened by killer cold weather.

I entered the service (US Army) right out of high school in the early summer of 1973. The Vietnam war was still going on but they were already pulling troops out of Vietnam by then (March 1973). But all the teachers I had from Basic Training till I arrived at A Co. 2nd Bn. 505th Infantry – 82nd Airborne – were all fresh out of Vietnam.

The training and actions by my superiors above me by today’s standards would be called training abuse. But I feel I got the BEST TRAINING in the world compared to the military training conducted today. There was a saying I heard over and over again and I still believe it today:  “What you do in training, you do in combat.” In other words, if you half-ass it in training, you half-ass it in combat – thus soldiers die unnecessarily. I’ve talked about this in my Newsletters but we’ll carry-on.

Anyway, this training was no sissy training. I was brought up and raised in one of the most least desired and most miserable jobs in the Army – Airborne Infantry. The word infantry just brings miserable thoughts to the mind even to those that never served in the military.

Here I was jumping into drop zones in the middle of the night with all this heavy gear, nauseated sick as hell from the rollercoaster plane rides and in some cases bitterly cold and already soaking wet from sitting there in the dirt at Green Ramp waiting to board the plane at one o’clock in the morning and that C-130 or C-141 was hundreds of meters away. The rain never let up and here were a couple hundred paratroops all miserably shivering cold just like I was but NOBODY quit, NOBODY planned on quitting, NOBODY,… We all carried-on like the miserable, soaking wet, shivering paratroops we were – for God and Country!!

Anyway, as a young know-nuthin’ soldier in the Airborne Infantry, I was put into environments where I was miserable for several days at a time. The time dragged-on so so s l o w while we were in the field.

Our only shelter were the foxholes we dug and the bottoms were often filled with super cold water. I’m telling you, those 03 1/2 years with the 82nd Airborne, many times I thought I was going to die from the miserable cold and many times I was scared to go to sleep, fearing I’d never wake-up.

Well, here and there we did some neat survival tricks to stay warm even if we were soaking wet. And one that I learned was what I named – “Sauna In A Can!”

As a young know-nuthin’ soldier, I had the opportunity to attend a school called 82nd Airborne Recondo School. It was a baby 03-week U.S. Army type Ranger Course. But as it turns out after I attended and completed U.S. Army Ranger Course several years later, I felt pound for pound, the 82nd Airborne Recondo School was more intense. Probably because back then I didn’t know anything about patrolling, tactics, or leadership. It all hit me cold in the face.

As it turned out, like all the other schools I attended, this was a great NO SISSY school. It was taught by a cadre of all Army Ranger qualified instructors. My class – we had about 07 Marine Force Recon Marines attending the course – the elite of the Marine Corp but mostly made-up of Army soldiers from the 82nd Airborne.

And from the 1st seconds from the “Duffel Bag Drag” from the hardtop of Manchester Road thru the deep sand leading to the base camp that seemed 10-miles away – it was all out – one ass whoopin’ after another complimented with the bitterly cold wet weather.

In the patrolling part of Recondo School, it seemed we walked from one end of North Carolina to the other and everybody was hallucinating from lack of sleep. Plus, we were all hungry, we’d often look to the ground for food in C-Ration cans tossed away months or years before. And throw-in the stinging cold in our hands & fingers, feet & toes, and the unthinkable of failing,… And the revolving student chain-of- command from the Patrol Leader (PL), Assistant Patrol Leader (APL), Squad Leaders (SL) were constantly kicking butt on the super tired, super hungry, hallucinating,… Recondo students.

And when it came my turn in the leadership position, here I was an APL. We were static in a 360-degree position pulling 50% security at night. The PL was under his poncho, shiverring non-stop with his red lens flashlight writing an OPORD (Operations Order) for our next mission.

It was after midnight and super stinging cold. I was constantly walking around kicking people to make sure 1/2 of the patrol was awake pulling security like they were supposed to.

And I kept walking by this one position with this one soldier who kept smiling up at me every time I walked by his position. Here he was wrapped-up in his poncho in his foxhole and he smiled at me every time I walked by his position. “What the hell is wrong with him?” I asked myself. He’s supposed to be miserable, shivering, cold,… just like the rest of us. Why does he keep smiling?

Well the next racetrack I did, I was going to ask him what was wrong with him. Approaching his position, there he was looking up at me smiling again!! I said something like “Hey, what are you doing?” He told me he was staying warm!!!!!!!!

“How?” I asked him. How can you stay warm in this miserable penetrating wet cold of North Carolina? This is what this young Private was doing. With only his head sticking out of the hood of his poncho, below him he had a small can of sterno burning away. The heat it put out was plenty of heat to keep him warm (keep reading) in the bitterly cold weather but the burn was so low it didn’t violate Noise & Light Discipline. I couldn’t see any light at all coming thru the poncho so I let him carry-on. The burning heat from the can of sterno was contained within his poncho.

So after Recondo School, I copycatted his technique and used it several times while in some very cold weather. All I did was sit down up against a tree with my heavy poncho wrapped around me. I lit the small can of sterno and regulated the heat by placing a portion of the lid on the opening of the can (1/4th covered, 1/3rd covered, ½ covered). I adjusted the heat by how much the lid covered the opening.

I’m telling you, I’ve used this technique in miserable “cussing” cold weather even when I was soaking dripping wet. I even had my head tucked under the hood instead of my head sticking out of the hood itself.

There were no ill effects to me at any time. And I’m quite sure the many times I used “Sauna In A Can”, it kept me from suffering from life-long cold weather injuries and probably to a sleeping death!

And YES YES YES – it feels so good from the miserable shivering cold to a super comfortable heat – it really feels like a soothing warm sauna!!!!!! That’s why I named it “Sauna In A Can” and it can really save your life Anytime Anywhere! But be careful, it can really get hot – real hot so you have to regulate the temperature (keep reading). And in my book it’s safe.

Like I’ve said, I’ve had my head tucked under the poncho with the burning sterno for several hours and had no ill effects. Heck, those chefs use sterno all the time to keep food warn in enclosed indoor environments and you don’t see anybody having any ill effects over the burning sterno and fumes. Well, there you go!!!

WARNING:  NEVER NEVER NEVER, one more time, NEVER use any type of military or civilian heat tabs using this technique or in any enclosed environment. Heat tabs are extremely toxic. Remember, back in the 1970s and 1980s, the training was superior compared to what it is today. When the weather is kicking your butt, the war doesn’t stop. That should give you an advantage to kick butt on your enemy cause he’s hunkered down feeling sorry for himself. And “Sauna In A Can” provided me a 2nd, 3rd, 4th,… chance to refit real quick and carry-on with the mission.

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Here’s “Sauna In A Can Follow-Up”:  Depending on the size of sterno cans you use, regulating the size of flame,…them “Saunas In a Can” can last a long long time and at least help you recover and PREVENT killer hypothermia. I’ve used it when I was soaking wet, shivering cold, cussing and hating life!! I hunkered down, got under that poncho – my head too, and lit that baby. Boy did it feel good. And the temperature rose so much inside the poncho, I was steaming steaming cause I was soaking wet. You’d think I was cooking vittles under the poncho!!

Boy it felt good every time I used it I didn’t want to come out from underneath that poncho (thick poncho – heavy) is best). Heck just about any cover will do. And yes, if you have a casualty going hypothermic, this would be a great remedy when no professional medical attention is around.

Let me get back to the burn duration of sterno. I currently have an 08-ounce can of “STERNO” made by Candle Corporation of America. It advertises that this 08-ounce can of sterno will burn for 02 1/2 hours (150-minutes). And its temperature output is 205-degrees Fahrenheit.

Remember I said you can regulate the heat by placing the lid over the top of the can to cover 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4. I’m telling you, 205-degrees Fahrenheit will get you toasty warm real quick. Oh, before I forget, for packing purposes, I always used the small sterno cans and I still had to regulate the heat output so those big cans should definitely be regulated.

Here are some approximate times you should know about concerning the burn times for this 08-ounce can of sterno:
Open Wide——————02 1/2 hours
1/2 Covered—————-05 hours
1/3 Covered—————-07 1/2 hours
1/4 Covered—————-10 hours
I hope “Sauna In A Can” has you more ready Anytime Anywhere!
See Ya, – Joseph A. Laydon Jr.

Yes, there are more neat survival tricks like this. You must see www.survivalexpertbooks.com

WAIT WAIT – HERE’S AN UPDATE:  15 January 2014 (Wednesday)”
Last night I was watching a TRUE story on Netflix. The movie was called Bravo Two Zero. I won’t give up the story but it’s about them badd ass British SAS (Special Air Service) soldiers on a live mission. In a couple parts of their mission they were hurtn’ bad cause it was sooo coooold. Watching this movie I thought “Too bad they didn’t know about Sauna In A Can!”

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Wind-Proof Outer Garments

More than 50 years ago, New England fisherman had a technique to shield themselves from the unforgiving blasting wet ocean winds. Their outer garment was made of cotton. This cotton garment was coated with seal oil and proved to shield them against the blasting wet ocean winds which fisherman had to brave during their fishing expeditions.

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Winter Clothes

You may know about the famous Shackleton Expedition to Antarctica in 1914. Special warm clothing was wisely planned for this cold weather expedition. Since the Endurance crew were marooned on the ice pack in Weddell Sea, they were ordered to put on this special warm clothing.

The warm clothing consisted of: 02 Jaeger wool shirts, long underwear, Shetland wool mitts, Shetland wool jersey, Burberry tunics and trousers (tightly woven fabric that was windproof but not waterproof).

Note:  Shelter, one of the 8 Elements of Survival (Fire, Water, Shelter, First-Aid, Signal, Food, Weapons, and Navigation), not only pertains to shelter as in a lean-to, A-Frame, igloo,…, shelter also pertains to the shelter around your immediate body – your clothing and outer garments to include socks, footgear, headgear, gloves,… And that clothing, special garments, and other equipment along with color should protect your body, and your personal equipment against that particular environment and threats inherent in that particular environment.

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Winter Shelter

In November 1822, Jedediah (mountain man Jedediah Smith) wisely picked a strategic spot for a winter shelter. He picked a patch of cottonwood trees that satisfied several factors:

a) Patch of cottonwood trees provided concealment & protection from Indian attacks.

b) Patch of cottonwood trees provided shelter from winter storms.

c) Cottonwood poles provided framework for buffalo hide shelters.

d) Cottonwood provided fuel for fires.

e) Cottonwood bark provided winter food for horses.

f) Cottonwood saplings provided framework for bullboats (built during winter months).

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MOST IMPORTANT NOTE:  Now that you read & viewed ’23 emergency shelters that can save your life,’ – You’re Ready Anytime Anywhere.  However,before you go out on your next outdoor adventure, please re-read “How To Plan Your Outdoor Adventure!”

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