No Tent Bough Bed Survival Blanket Camp in Snow

Description

A simple arrangement allows me to sleep much of the time in the snow without a tent or tarp nor need a carry along sleeping pad. I like to use my PSBL Survival Blanket on boughs. I show how this is done. Check out the Survival Blanket here: http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=2782

Tags: Snow camp,winter camp,no tent,no fire,survival blanket,survival training,pine bough,survival gear

Video Transcription

hey Perry peacock here with wilderness innovation and I'm up here going to show you just a little bit using our survival blankets or you could use whatever you've got to weight them to lay the foundation for a bed or a mattress when you're in a snowy condition and you don't have much else to work with here's a way that you can do this and it's very simple doesn't take very long to do and it can make all the difference in sleeping comfort when you're out in the wintertime like this so later in the year when the snow gets deeper I'd have my snow shoes on I'd come in here and pack some stuff down but where the snow is not quite as deep I just like to make sure it's packed down a little bit so first thing you want to they want to knock off whatever snows on there then you want to go in here and you want to reach back a little ways and usually get back into up to maybe finger size twigs or whatever that you can just snap off you don't have to cut these you'll have to cut these things off with a ax or anything like that and so while we're doing and this is juniper now some some junipers pretty gangly and you don't get much you don't get much out of it when you're getting them others is you know the it's a lot better pines are really good usually but we'll just start gathering stuff like this and then we'll haul it back to the site where we're going to be sleeping all right so here's a little bit different variety the the boughs are a little little softer some some of your junipers and cedars the boughs are really sticky and prickly and that's the kind you got then you want to touch the thing you've got around then you want to put those on the bottom more against the ground to find some software stuff like this four on top but once you start once you start doing a little bit of this you'll soon you'll soon find it's it doesn't take long to gather a bunch of this few armloads of that was like this and we'll be good to go you know in a survival situation you're just here grabbing whatever you can get us quick as you can get it the idea is to get as much of the fluffy boughs as possible the core sure get a try not to get wet in the process but it's just simply like that right there now some kind of trees the boughs are long you know you can break off pieces it's three feet long that are all you know fluffy and and all that sort of thing but you just have to take what you can get get two or three arm loads like this then you're good to go to build a bed all right so the way we want to start out is I've done this a number of ways like I've done it where you hit the snow is deeper I just jam the the stub into this end of the snow at an angle about a 45 degree angle and I just worked my way from one end to the other and that works pretty good but the snows not that deep right now so what I'm going to do so I want all my stub ins the sharp end facing out because I don't want to be laying on those maybe laying these out of in a herringbone pattern so there were they alternate here back and forth so that puts all my sharp Stubbins at the outside and I just keep on working at that like that and I'll build my layers up however deep they need to be okay so more of that that goes that way listen good this way the next one here goes that way the next one here goes this way and so forth and we just keep working our way down what this also does this helps to interleave them so they don't squish all out on you when you get on there so you see we just keep working at it here and the thing is like I say I usually put very little at the foot end of me all right I've got a pretty good layer down here now I'm about this I'm about this thick over where the bulk of my body's gonna lay and that's that's going to be pretty good because when I squish it down it'll be about like this which that'll insulate me out of the snow also keep me from getting wet from the snow because all this material here is dry and I've knocked all the snow off and all that sort of thing so now I'm not gonna lemon ate the wet problem from the snow and the cold problem you

a lot of times I use my bag my blanket comes in and stuff it full of stuff for my pillow so I'm gonna take my blanket here and I'm gonna let it overhang out the end there a little bit one of the mistakes you make it's common to make is to put the top of your blanket when it's folded right at the end of your bed but you actually you actually want your blanket to hang over a little bit so you can get right inside of it and let it hang over your head on this in oh wait there's a little draft or something you're not really feeling it come into you then when I get down here to the foot end of things I just do like that sometimes I like to fold up the bottom just a little bit or you can use the shock cords that come with each blanket there's a pair of them and you can just gather the bottom and cinch it down like you've seen on some of the other videos but anyway so basically there's my bed and you know I've done just like this I don't you know typically I don't need much of anything else or anything else to go on top of here to be comfortable alright so I can just get right in here I'm not going to take my boots off right now but I'd normally take my boots right off

now see I can get so I can get all the way inside of here and it's very it's nice and comfortable you know I wind up not feeling any cold from underneath initially for a few minutes you might because your boughs that you've gathered our cold but you've knocked all the snow or ice off of them and what body heat goes through to them will actually warm them up in a few minutes and actually you'll feel quite comfortable from underneath so anyway this is how you can make yourself a bow bed and slate you up off the ground throw a blanket on top and get right inside of it and you're comfortable and cozy now one thing about these blankets as they do handle the moisture very well so your body moisture you're breathing that sort of thing typically passes through them and you don't really have a problem with that now you see you get used to this sort of thing making up a bed like this you know you can you can you can make a bow mattress to lay on in 10 or 15 minutes sometimes less depending on how the material around you you know the availability what kind there is but you do whatever you can to get some elevation off the snow you get in here you set up this is really comfortable because there's nothing poking me or sticking me I mean I am there with being this thick to start with you know I've got a lot of cushion in here so it's very very comfortable and it works really well and generally depends a lot on your conditioning what you're used to if you're out in the woods a lot in the wintertime your body's gonna be used to the cold better than if you don't go out very much so that makes as much difference as anything and how much does it take to keep me warm I've been out in the winter time video made a couple years ago up on top of the up there and and I just threw down like I did right here through a blanket on and it's pretty windy sight through my poncho over the top as a windbreaker and and it worked very well I just had the one blanket and in just I just wore the clothes I had on and that worked really well so anyway this is Perry peacock with wilderness innovation just showing you how to make a very simple bow mattress or a bow bed and use it with our with our survival blankets so be safe have a good time outdoors mess around with some of this kind of stuff and get acquainted with it experiences your best is the best thing the more you try something like this you get used to what you need personally and how the best way is for it to for things to work personally for you so take care see on the next go-around once again Perry peacock wilderness innovation so now I'll just shove my blanket down in here stuff in the blanket is the best easiest way to do this especially for lazy people like me zipper down and we're ready to go you