Poncho Solar Super Shelter - Our PSSL

Description

Our Poncho and a couple little items are all that is needed to make a super shelter, a solar super shelter. Many of the coldest days of winter are a clear sky after a cloudless night. Take advantage of the sun in your shelter, we show you how.

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Tags: Poncho,Super Shelter,winter,solar shelter,camping,outdoors,Perry Peacock,Mors Kochanski (Author),emergency blanket,survival

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hey Perry peacock here with Wilmington salvation and here to show you a little a little scenario I guess I could say the temperature is not as cold as it had has been but I want to get out and show you a little a little tip for that you could use if you have one of our ponchos and you know many times as you can see here about a week or so ago the snow depth here is a couple of feet and now let's you know getting a skim right down there then oftentimes oftentimes the wintertime you have scant snow or sometimes not any snow and yet you could have a nice clear sky it can be 20 or 30 below zero so it's you know how do you deal with that situation with minimum resources so let me show you whole tip using our poncho a painters plastic and a space blanket and show you how we can rig up something here that can really make a difference in the temperature range that you're dealing with when you're out when you're outside this could really be a lifesaver at some at some times okay now you can see that I've I've erected the shelter not done with it but I've got the top Ridgeline done and I'll show you in detail a little more about what I've done here but what we what we're doing is we're creating a greenhouse and we're using the we're using the our PSS our poncho this is a PSS L long version we're using our poncho for the strength this painters plastic has you know very little strength but the our poncho will take all will bear the bear the brunt of everything and hold the strength this drapes over to create a clear windshield the sun's rays to come in so that we get trapped radiant energy in here just like in a greenhouse this allows us to be warm on a cold day even without a fire or other external means as long as you've got some sunshine right so now I've got it set up I pulled my back of the of the poncho back on the back end and use the tie out tabs back there to stake back the back in in three places and then add I'll share them and I've hooked on to the hood back there the hood drawstring and tied it off to the tree back there then pulled back so that gives me instead of inside on the back well instead of just a straight diagonal line it pulls back and it gives me a lot more a lot more space in here if I want to sit up or anything like that the shelters is heating inside right now and just with just a little out it with what I've done here now what point out you can see there is there's snow inside of there normally in a survival type situation I would cut a bunch of boughs from the junipers of that around here and put me at a nice pad of a foot or so deep of boughs in here to get on to but the area I'm in that's restricted so I'm just demonstrating without and I'm just telling you as if you watch some of our other videos you've seen how we lay out the boughs and everything like that inside of a super shelter they are creating a super shelter out of one of our ponchos and and a little just a three dollar piece of painters plastic this one here I believe is I think it's like eight by twelve or something like that I don't know but what that gives me you know a good little shelter in here the poncho is the poncho is what's taking the pull from folding the ridgeline up and it just got the painters plastic just tied in with the poncho so the poncho takes the string main down here in the bottom just like you've seen on another super shelter and we put some logs if I were if I were going to make a stay here I would take some snow around here and I'd Bank the whole thing all the way around Bank it up with snow to seal it seal it nicely seal the bottom edges and I'd leave that edge over there is going to be my door in the side and I just wouldn't Bank that up I'd just use a piece of wood to hold that and so now one thing that we do get is we get Sun coming down and hitting the snow on the ground even though there's not that much of it here and that light that radiates energy bounces off the snow in here as well so you do get the direct Sun coming through and then you get the effect of the extra reflecting off the snow into there it's kind of like you know if you have your car in the wintertime and it's really cold outside you got it facing south and you know how your car will heat up with radiant radiant energy in the Sun we're doing the same thing right here with this just portable gear now there are a couple other things I can do to even enhance that more let me show you that you know you could you can easily be in a winter situation where where it's cold but almost no or sometimes no snow or very little snow kinda like we have here if you've got a if you got a good coating of snow you get pretty good reflectivity of some extra solar energy into your shelter but if you don't these little

emergency space blankets are very inexpensive and I basically disposable further you can see all right if I'm to take this thing and get it all unraveled here

here we go all done and then I lay this out here okay settle down a little bit I've got a little stick here and a few sticks around I could throw no I could throw a little snow on there whatever to kind of kind of hold that down whatever you want to do you have some rocks of course you can use rocks and even with people throwing some sticks on here I would I would typically throw a little bit of some snow around too just to especially around the edges just to keep the wind from catching up on a on an edge if the wind came up so so now I've increased how much solar radiation can bounce up into there of course here again it depends on the angle the Sun and we've got a pretty low angle the Sun so that's going to go I can see I can see about two and half feet up I can see a line right here where this where the light bouncing off of this thing is hitting right there so we're bouncing right into there so that's a that's a way to enhance what's going on inside of there okay now it's saying if you don't have a painters plastic or something however this right here is a clear garbage bag fifty-five gallon and I can use that to do the same thing just cut the bottom off and slit one side it'll open up it will open up flat now it won't drape clear over the top like this does but you can tie it off along the front or pin it with some easy clips or and whatever you might want to use then you could clip this on also in emergency too to give you some a clear deal besides a painter start but painters type like you say I think this is about three not bucks and you just make sure you get clearance to the white bottom or white let me show you a couple other things I just pumped my head inside and it's got to be at least 75 in theirs for you pretty toasty okay so here I am inside of here and I wouldn't want it to be any warmer in here would be unbearable I'm now I'm getting a lot of I'm getting to feel a lot of energy off that space blanket I threw out front and just a tremendous amount of energy coming straight in here from the Sun and even with this well I just barely opened it up but even with the door open on this side it is I'm sure that I'm sure at head level here it's probably 80 or 80 or 85 degrees in here even down even down at ground level it's very cozy very comfortable like I said if I had a I just have a little I just do that garb clear garbage sack on the ground to sit on here but but even sitting on the snow right here it's so it's so of this so warm so hot in here it actually feels good to sit on something cold for a little bit so here here we can take something that can drought dramatically change your experience outside just utilize I take my I take my poncho with me everywhere that's that's a piece of my shelter that I always have and if you just throw in a painters tarp and a one or two of these space blankets why you know you can you can dramatic we change your life now here's the deal everybody will be saying well that's all fine and good but at night time there's no Sun I'm going to freeze the death in here well in the worst circumstance is what you want to do the important thing is you want to try to get your 8 hours or so a day of good sleep so if this were the case what I would do is is I would sleep during the day I would I'd sleep during the day in here when the Sun is what I've got even if it's only partly cloudy or you know off and on I'd sleep in here during the day when it's warmer and I can sleep good and then during the night I could be up pedaling around you know doing whatever proving shelter gathering wood if I need to do that or whatever just walking around because you want it you want to make sure you get your sleep and a lot of times people get hindered by the by feeling like well it's nighttime I need to sleep it's daytime I need to be up but there are conditions where you really want to sleep in the day when you can take advantage of solar radiation like this and be able to be nice and warm and cozy now I've I've monitored some situations like this I've seen I've seen easily 70 and 80 degree differences in temperature inside of here versus outside so you know if it's if it's chilly outside you get into something like this this could be the difference between life and death of times or or at least allowing you to get a good nice nice sleep or whatever versus a fitful cold rest or whatever so yeah this is I've got to get out of here it's about it's about too hot all right let me just show you some other views of the setup here I've got my my reflective blanket out front now then right here there's a couple ways you can tie off what this is the a tab that's on the there's 12 of them around the poncho so this is one of the tabs right there and what I did I just put a rock inside of there and then I pulled my plastic off and I spaced it evenly so it overhangs the poncho on either side and then I just kind of balled it up in there and then this is just a larks head basically over the top of there holding that in place so you see the plastic is tight but the taut the poncho is taking all the stress and the strain I showed you on the other side how I tied that off I put a rock in the in the tie out tab on the poncho and put everything over that and tie it off to other larks head this side here what I did is I actually made a sheet Bend out of my parachute cord and my and the tab that comes off the poncho even back here along the back edge of the tarp I would Bank all that with snow as well just so we kind of seal it seal it up especially the colder it gets the more sealed up you want to be now I usually always this is the hood on the poncho and I usually always when I set up a lean-to with a poncho pull back on where the hood is so it gives me more room inside and all I've done is this is the drawstring that pulls the hood down I just tightened it up and tie the cord to that and then tied it off to a tree biker behind me to pull out it gives me another foot and a half or so of headspace in there if you watch some of our other super shelter videos you see you can take a space blanket you see the ten back side here this is our this is our woodland camel a ten blackout on the underside and that's why it's ten colored here light color really lightens it up inside of there and get some a little bit of reflectance too but if you're watching two other videos you can see that you can duct tape or use some of our easy clips and you can clip another space blanket emergency blanket inside of there on the roof line so that you get a bounce down effect from more radiant energy and so I mean there's a lot of options a lot of different ways you can throw this thing out but this is very very very simple

well so now there you go a little bit about the poncho if you you see I have where this punch will probably considerably more than most people would think Oh throughout the winter and everything Stephen right now you know I'm just wearing the poncho it's not that bad out here but the the poncho can give you 10 15 degrees temperature increase just from wearing the punch over what if you got on just because it helps contain the environment inside the core of your body and preventing wind and such from getting at you and driving out to heat and that sort of thing around your body so I love the poncho man I got it all the time always with me as you see here today I had a couple little things and you got a you got yourself a nice little shelter very very very in a very