Quick - Tip: Solar Snow Melting

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Use or reuse baggies and clear bottles in the sun to melt snow for drinking water while you are out having fun. Saves on stove fuel and firewood as well as time. It's a passive method of getting things done. See all our tips and blogs at: wildernessinnovation.com

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very peacock here with your wilderness quick tip today what I want to do is use use a baggie Ziploc baggie this is one that I already used for some breakfast I'm going to go ahead and turn around use it for something else here I want to clear me off some snow a little bit here alright I'm going to take my baggy that I just filled with snow I'm going to lay it down here on this rock and I'm just going to let the Sun come in here the rocks kind of got some dark glycans on it everything I think that will kind of help this rocks actually warmed up a little bit let the Sun we let the Sun melt some snow for water here and a ziplock baggie alright I've been on a hike for about 45 minutes and it's been partly cloudy most the time I've been gone and it still melted very nicely did i'm going to just pour this off into my bottle here refill my water bottle there we go now just save that for to say that for the baggie for next go around and that my friends is today's wilderness quick tip have a great day