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Snow Insulated Bed - part two

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Part two showing how snow can be a great insulator and keep you warm. Used our blanket, and fleece in this video and a tarp to wrap up in. All gear at our website, http://wildernessinnovation.com

Tags: snow,insulation,winter,outdoor,camping,winter sleeping setup,survival training,snow camping

Video Transcription

well this didn't turn out quite as I thought it would getting this picture here the sporty but anyway this is my bed here it's nice and cozy I mean for my waist down I am just actually plenty warm you can just throw down on the surface of the snow or whatever and if it snows on you in the night if the snow is light and fluffy like it is here it will actually be an insulation to you and you'll be you can be nice and toasty warm you know if the snows really heavy and everything this isn't going to really work so much because the snow I'll have so much water content everything it'll be that the water will fill the spaces where the where the air should be like in this dry fluffy snow well here I am I'm up up and atom but anyway I mean I was nice and cozy och time colder now that I've got out then I was inside of there I didn't get quite as much snow as I had anticipated through the night maybe about four inches or so I guess but all in all not bad and anyway so you can see it's thing is color everything collapse once i got my body out of there my idea was what i wanted to do was anticipated having my camera inside of there on the selfie stick and I what I wanted to do is shove it out first thing in the morning and try to get a picture but the process of moving around to get all that out I I knock some of the snow off the very front so it wasn't it wasn't as cool as I thought it would be not to practice on i guess but anyway very cozy very very nice and warm and again this is because the snow is the snow is just the snow is just fluffy and dry so the temperature is cool enough to to keep it dry so it's a good insulator it's really light and fluffy so anyway I suppose I'll start packing this stuff up I'm going to do is I'm just going to i'm just going to all my all my beddings inside this tarp so i'm just going to pull this whole thing off here and on down to the way here to where the trucks parked and then all I have a big cloud area they were I can put it all up so this perry peacock with wilderness innovation it's still snowing fact it started snowing I think more now than probably a good part of the night but but anyway I got to go get about my day here we got we got things to do at the shop gear to make stuff the ship so anyway everybody have a have a good day I'll post this quick little video up and we'll call it good kind of a the morning after enjoy your time out in the outdoors like i do i love i love this i really love this time of year well i love all the season but this is just fun once when you get into the winter and the snow Rudi comes and you get to have a lot of fun in it so take care of a great day be safe perry peacock wilderness innovation

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Wilderness Innovation

Wilderness Innovation

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