Build a Super Shelter with our PST

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No sleeping bag needed for cold weather sleeping with this set up. We use our PSTL (10x10 tarp) as the basis for this modification of the famous shelter by Mors Kochansky. Sleep up to 5 adults, or use our regular PST to sleep 2 people. Very comfortable an easy to construct. See also http://wildernessinnovation.com/survival-supplies/survival-items/personal-survival-tarp/

Tags: Super,Shelter,PST,survival,winter,cold,sleep,comfort,fire,Perry,camping,Mors,Kochansky,visqueen

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okay all right so we've got our 10 by 10 PST tarp fashioned up here we pull back the middle a little bit to give us a little more room inside of there we folded it back underneath this to give us some wind seal on the backside now we're going to put a log in front and we're going to start building up pine boughs for our bedding here and then we'll go on from there all right so right now what we're going to do is we're going to build a reflector so we our fire will be here we're going to front reflect all that infrared from the fire down on to us in here so we're going to use to these space blankets we're going to tape them up underneath here and so Ben's got some duct tape right here and that works very well for for attaching this stuff to the to the tarp so Ben's going to tear off a little square tape we don't need much about an inch inch and a half square roast that will let Bend start on the corner over here just fold it over the top and tape it to the tarp and the space blanket okay all right and then I'll just come out here and I'll do the same right here I just do like this if it's really cold this for about 10 or 15 seconds till you can feel the heat of your hand kind of coming through on each other then you know you've warmed the the tape on this for the glue on the tape what that's on there that will stay really well I put white glue one of these up in the windy area for two weeks and the tape didn't come undone nothing ripped up or anything all right so we've got our gotta got together we've duct tape two sheets of space blanket up inside of here so that's all nice and secured at the inside of our tarp now we're going to use as a piece of scrap builders visqueen here that's going to make the front of our shelter and that will make the radiant heat will come into here will reflect off of here this will trap it all inside kind of make like a little greenhouse effect so me and Ben are going to fasten this this clean up here now

and it's a little bit ugly though we don't care rustic got plenty of it drape it over a little bit they can drape it over a taper that farce all right there love about a foot hanging over this gets duct tape out in the same same way that we did we everything else all right so we've got our visqueen on the front now we've we've got a piece right here what we'll do is we've got logs laid in there we're going to throw snow into here to seal this this front edge down and then that now the front is all sealed and we're ready to go yet inside we're going to go right now inside we're going to fill that full of some juniper boughs for bedding and then we'll actually secure this down after that but that's how this goes down that'll seal this all out and we'll do the same thing with a couple little pieces down the sides to close our sides in and then we are good to go for the night we can sleep on our shirt without a sleeping bag be plenty warm all right

just finishing off here putting an extra amount of BIOS in the front where most of our body weight is going to be and try to get all the point okay then we stab them in there a little bit like that so we're laying down we're not having stuff point a poke in us in the night so that's pretty good we're about this thick right now so that'll be really nice that should keep us good and cozy through the night and now just closing the walls put the front down and then we'll get our our fire we'll go right out here just pass the sled right here we want it to be about three or four feet away from the front of our shelter and all that heat will come in here directly off the fire and what and the other stuff will hit the foil of the space bike and bounce down on to us well I'll be all enclosed so I'll he will be trapped inside of here like a greenhouse Benjamin what you doing pick it up smell with us Matthew Shepard pick it up what pick it up six packs of but so then Dublin's snow what's the snowshoe it's right on you're adding a little snow to the front of this thing yes air trying to get that get that front edge bring a little bit so you have a good seal nice nice gonna be cool on this one do a fluid motion all the way through graceful graceful nailed it nailed it oh it's beautiful nice it's gonna be a good one man I wish I could show how gorgeous this night is okay so now we've got the whole shelter covered in we've got sides our sides we just cut out of some special trash bag polyethylene our insight is all packed nicely with the bottom foot and a half to two feet of juniper boughs bins covered the trough in the front of the plastic with some snow so that holds the bottom of the plastic down and now we go up inside of here and we got all our boughs we got a reflective ceiling and this is going to make one heck of a nice cozy bed no sleeping bags needed when we sleep in this type of a shelter so bow and banner inside the super shelter how does it feel in there it's seriously hot like they said it's hot there's a body that's a very simple way to sleep oh man anymore and the nice thing is if you don't even have a sleeping bag it's still tolerable you can still sleep and get the tarp space blanket and some this green whore like some garbage bags like we sliced up that works really well okay so here's our super shelter right here we've camped it up through the night is stinking warm in there right now and you see the big holes that we melted in from our black shoes against there doing the night there's the remains of our fire that we kept going through the night burning burning wood there was eight to ten feet long radiating that heat lengthwise all the way back into the shelter

round the back here we used one of the tabs on the tarp on the 10 by 10 tarp that we made it out of to pull it back in the middle which gives a lot more Headroom up inside of there so you see that from the back right here but that was pretty cozy for the three of us in there last night so that's our 10 by 10 PST personal survival tarp me and Bo and Ben I'll camped in last night and we may use some visqueen and some garbage bags on the sides too to close it all in and made a nice super shelter out of the PST so that's one more thing you can do it you

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