if you need a fire, your clothing/shelter suck.

a Kochanski super shelter, with all the clothing the Alone people get to take with them, is easily good to 0F, and probably to -10F, without a fire, if you know to make a raised wooden bed and use dry debris as insulation. Debris can be dried out with hot rocks, under a tarp. You only need a few bushels of it, at most. If they'd size their 5 layers to let them wear all of it at once, with debris between each layer, They could handle being out in -20F all day, no problem. I wouldn't even need a sleeping bag.

The lean to is 100 sq ft of the 12x12 tarp. That leaves 40 odd sq ft of reflective material Out of that, you use the big roll of duct tape to makea ponch, leggings, etc, in an hour. Stuff debris between your outermost clothing and the poncho-leggings and tie it around you. They give you a 20x20 tarp and a 10 x10 tarp that are not part of your 10 gear picks. So fold the 10x10 in half, stuff it with debris, fold it in half again and tie it around yourself and the poncho clothing and debris. Inside of a sealed shelter, that will suffice to -30F. Thats how you dont need to waste a sleeping bag, or 2 hours a day hauling/processing wood.

Long before it's that cold, you'll have the 2 inches of snow that are all you need to make an igloo. Inside of a properly made igloo, you dont need a fire down to -40F. cause it raises the temps by 50F degrees, using just your trapped body-heat. It is THAT insulative, sealed, and reflective. When you'll be at risk of falling asleep, you poke a couple of 1/2" holes, on opposites sides of your igloo. In the tarp shelter, you pull a bit of tape loose on each side. During the day, you'll notice if it's getting hard to breathe, and you can open the vent holes. But normally, they should be kept sealed-off, with tape or snow.

 

Welcome to the board.

Why not drop an intro post to let folks know who you are

read the board for a while, maybe make a few comments.

Then demonstrate your mad survival skillz

Oh, wait. Never mind....

 

On Hiatus

 

WOW, Troll much! LOL

Survival ain't a hobby, and you don't get to choose the "W's" of survival!
The REAL trick is training and experience, and ATTITUDE!
Most here KNOW that!

 

hehehe. You can kick the fire just so often before your boots light off and you get a hot foot.

 

Something here just went right over teh top of my head... frequent flyer troll?

 

Lol. He almost sucked me in.

 

Seems I have seen that one elsewhere, maybe a Monkey Groupie.

 

I wondered bout this guy, hit it hard and fast with his "Facts" and his obtuse observations with out ever asking, only ever telling us how it is! Must be lonely up there in his head with all that superiority bouncing about, Bless his Heart!

 

Well kinda figured that waz coming considering whom it is and everything....lol

To bad considering how much fun that dude is to play with....and get hm twisted off and all...lol

 

I must not have been around here long enough to have made his acquaintances before now, Busting Trolls is a specialty of mine, and i'm kinda sad I didn't get to play around with my prey this time!

 

Oh well,Most know whom he is,We have had a lot of fun with him in the past....''D''weed never learns...lol

 

Dunno about the troll - came across like a 12 YO Know it all.

 

I smell a gunkid....

 

Now THAT guy I have run across, was epic to say the least! What a ton of fun it was busting on that Beta Dude!

 

You're nose is on target babydoll !

 

Early release due to covid would be my guess

 

Twin brother maybe?

 

What??? A super bug out mad attack wheelbarrow is not a good idea?