Dressing for Winter Survival

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it says mention native survival and today we're going to talk about winter laboring concepts so don't go away okay so with layering your most vulnerable areas are your seams now the most common areas are seams are your feet your waist your wrists and your neck so we're going to start with the feet work our way up all right so you want to shingle your layers and what I mean by that is you want to make sure that when they overlap if cold air and snow would be on your layers it's not going to get right to your skin immediately and it's not going to have a direct shot it's got to change directions alright so in this case if cold air and snow were to get through my sock underneath my insulation layer is facing this way so the snow and cold air is going to keep going this way it's going to go a whole nother direction to get to my skin alright so there's three main layers if your base layer your insulation layer and you're exposed outer layer okay so by using also another concept that I like to use is that by using two socks I don't have to add a new piece of kit a new piece of gear to my kit you know I don't to have a special winter sock anything like that I already have this in my bag so I just put that over what I already have and it creates a thickness of having two socks but I'll have to add extra gear carry anything special just for winter so in this case like I was saying if snow goes this way actually gets under this layer what you're done which would be my insulated layer for my foot now in the overlaps mine it's a little insulated layer for my legs but it's still going to run into more layers alright then it's going to have to go up to get to my skin so that's key you want to try to shingle your layers and you want to try to change directions if you can so let me show you the difference all right so if both my socks were over this and snow went down my sock it would reach my foot that's a problem okay so that's a one direction right to my foot you don't want that so by putting my first layer underneath alright when it gets underneath my my first layer I'm sorry my second layer it's going to run into my first layer on my base layer so when it gets under my insulation it stills my base as the last protection also one other thing that I like to add is uh I put my pants over my boots when there's only a few inches of snow on the ground say like when the snow is to about here so three inches or so if I'm walking through snow that's shin D shin knee waist-deep

I always tuck my pants inside my boots because if not this is like a big umbrella when I walk through thick snow it just pushes right up inside here I run into all kinds of problems I'm just asking for trouble so by tucking it inside I'm not going to completely do right now just give you a little demonstration here by tucking it inside it just gives that much more protection and forces the snow to try to wedge its way inside there and then it's still going to run into the same problems that I've already set up before I even did that see it's all about situations if it's really really windy then the winds gonna be busting up through here all the time I'm going to be tucking it right in I'm going to close that gap right up and seal the seam but for the most part my legs are moving all the time they get warm if there's any any air coming up it's actually a good thing it keeps my keeps my core healthy and not too warms I don't want to start sweating alright so now we're going to go over the waist alright so for my waist layer my waist seam rather this is a critical area because it goes right to my core all right so basically I have a very similar situation where I have an insulator layer which is my sweater underneath I my base layer which is my shirt and then my skin from there so with my jacket that's three layers over my core and then I have my seam right here it's a very critical scene because my jacket my sweater my base layer shirt and my insulin my insulation land for my legs and my base for my electrode is my underwear all come to the same spot and they all stop here so I have to make sure I Shin GLE them it's very critical to shingle them on the waist properly or the winds really going to cool down my core okay so that's very simple I want to I want the wind to go from inside my jacket where it's going to get it's going to get in guaranteed and I want it to run along my insulative legs that's my warmest layer I don't want to bypass it and get underneath so I start by tucking my base layer which is my shirt over my insulated layer from my legs all right I do the same thing with my insulated layer on my chest so I put that over my insulated layer from my legs so what that creates is a shingle so I'm not air goes down my insulated layer here and it runs down the seam what's going to happen is is that it's going to shingle right onto my insulated layer on my legs and it's not going to get to my skin and it's got to change direction so it's two directions again alright instead of having everything over if I didn't talk anything in all the air will just go right up into my skin so you start you start tucking in but you don't want to go underneath your insulative or your underwear because then that's just a straight shot right to your skin so you want to go over those layers that you wear underneath your legs and it creates a nice shell right there

all right so then you cover it all up with your last outer weather barrier and you're good to go it protects the most vulnerable scene that you have the most important scene because it's right over your core and all the seams run into the same spot all right so now we're going to go over the hands and in the wrist right here okay so this seam is very important as well because usually you're you know grabbing materials resources things like that so snow and air can get in here pretty easy because you know your hands move around a lot okay so the first thing is I take my set I can show it to you guys take my shirt because it's long sleeve of course I'm up there and I talk it underneath my first layer I base on my hand all right which is like a fingerless glove here then I take main slative lair put it over of course okay when I do is take my glove same concept applies put it over my insulative lair okay so I get that in frame - gasps okay so now that's over my insulator laughs and then I take a jacket and seal the seam up alright so again cold air snow gets inside it's going to run into my insulator look my my insulator layer again it's very important to have that be a first offense it's got to keep you one

you can't bypass this that has to go through a whole nother direction to try to get to my hand surprise surprise more layers okay so it's going to run this way it's going to run into more layers it's gonna have to run back again and then back again alright so this one really is very well guarded and its key its key to have your seam solid okay so my neck I have a neck warmer right here and it goes on top of my insulated layer so again cold air comes down my face down my neck hits my nice little air and goes all the way around my neck and it goes underneath my hat and over my ears so it creates two layers over my ears my hat obviously it's over my ears as well all right so that's two layers over my neck the back of my neck rather and over my ears and what this does is allows me so obviously keep my neck warm and to pull this up in like a balaclava type of situation all right so now I basically have a bell clavo without having to carry that and that's a very specialized piece of equipment it does that very well that's all it really does so this kind of gives me the option to break down my Bell clobber in half maybe so if it's not really really cold but still cold enough to have my hat and my other layers on I can take this off I'm starting to sweat and my neck when face will be exposed it gets really cold really windy I can throw this on and I kind of can build up or break down my balaclava in two pieces with my hat and neck warmer instead of one piece all right so I just wanted to show you the neck as well and how it all ties in it's basically the same situation where cold hits my hat shingles on to my neck warmer she goes on my insulated layer all right now there's one more layer I can add and that's my foot obviously so if it gets really nasty out like it wasn't my first snow scalp bit it was like 20 degrees without the windchill probably 35 mile an hour winds that day throw my hood on makes all the difference in the world okay let's have a mentioned data survival thanks for joining me today and I really appreciate your comments you views and your support now see on the next one take care