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Don't put the tent in a washer or during an expedition or long stann. For carrying. High temperatures or prolonged exposure to you can distribute the weight among a group by sun are damaging to tent material. TARPS Color A tarp is light in weight and low in cost, and Wann tent colors such as yellow, orange, and may offer adequate shelter fig.
It gives less protection than a tent from heat loss and wind, nonc at all from insects or rodents, and demands ingenuity on your part and some cooperation from the landscape to set up. Plastic tarps don't hold up very well, but are cheap enough that you can replace them often.
Alternatively, you can just , , tie off each corner fig. Securing a larp without grommets. The most versatile tarp size is about 9 by 1 2 feet-luxurious space for two people and their gear, and adequate for three, or even four.
Since the outer margins of tarp-covered ground arc usually only barely protected, usable space quickly approaches the vanishing point if your tarp is smaller than 9 by 1 2 feet. Put down a waterproof ground sheet, but if rain results in a surprise flood, be ready to move camp. The sack is a large envelope of the deadman in the snow. The bottom, usually of waterproof coated cord or sling. Stakes themselves can be used as nylon, goes against an insulating ground pad.
The deadman anchors by burying them horizontally in a upper side, of a breathable, waterproof material snow trench, perpendicular to the guy line. Even such as Gore-Tex, allows moisture to escape into better, prepare the deadman in advance by drilling the atmosphere. The bivy sack is designed for one holes in a stake or metal plate and attaching a person. It needs no poles or bridle, to which the guy line can be tied.
A heavy ful experience it can be. To make it work, a good snow load can even bury a tent and its occupants, shelter and insulation are essential. At the very asphyxiating them.
Shake the walls and shovcl out least, every snow traveler needs the skills and around the tent as often as necessary to keep a big equipment to survive overnight in the snow. A snow wall built around the tent helps give protection from blowing snow and Tents in the snow heavy wind.
It's easy to put up and gets you A snow cave fig. When conditions are tion. Knowing how to There arc a few tricks to anchoring a tent in build snow caves is an essential mountaineering snow, where metal or plastic stakes can melt out skill. Attach a cord or sling to the deadman, bury but a lightweight snow shovel is the best tool.
Deadma1l anchors: a, metal plate; b. Enlarge the hole if it gets too warm inside. There is even a way to build an emergency Top snow cave in shal10w powder snow fig. You need at least 6 inches of snow.
Step by step, this is the way to do it. Drive a 6-foot stick vertically into the snow. Take another and draw a circle 1 2 feet in diameter around the stake. Shovel snow into a big pile within the circle. Cross-section of snow cave down until its center is about I foot above the top of the vertical stick.
Excavate enough snow to make a small cult to use in tight quarters. Remove the vertical stake. Even with two shovels in the party, it can take 2 or 3 hours to dig a shelter for four people. Here's how to go about building a snow cave: Find a location, Look for obvious hazards. Are you on a potential avalanche slope? Could wind blow snow over the opening and seal you in? Look for fairly firm snow at least 6 feet deep. A short steep slope, such as along a riverbank or on the side of a snowdrift, makes for a better cave than trying to dig one on the flat.
Get to work, Keep your clothing dry. Work slowly to avoid excessive sweating. Dig an entryway into the slope, far enough to Fig. Snow cave built in less than 6 inches of start a tunnel. Continue to dig inward about 3 feet snow to fann the entrance to the cave, then angle upward to excavate a living area.
There should be at least 1 foot of snow on the slope above the cave ceiling to Tree-pit shelter provide enough strength to keep it from collapsing. Make the gency. For a tree-pit shelter, drip on the climbers. Put down a ground sheet to enlarge the natural hole around the trunk and roof it keep things dry and prevent loss of equipment in with any available covering, such as ice blocks, the snow.
A small tarp over the entrance will help tree limbs, or canvas. Boughs and bark can provide keep the weather out. The trench igloo fig. Dig a narrow trench and then roof the trench, A-frame style, with snow blocks. The blocks can be created as part of the process of removing snow for the trench, or they can be quarried nearby.
Then enlarge the interior and provide a vent hole. This shelter is not as easy to build as it looks, so practice first in good weather. A more basic emergency snow shelter can be built by digging a trench some 4 to 6 feet deep and large en "ugh for the party, then stretching a tarp Fig. Trench igloo over the top, perhaps gaining a slight angle by anchoring one side to a ridge of snow. This works well in wind or rain, but a heavy snowfall can Igloos collapse a roof that is so nearly flat.
The smaller Igloos are equal in protection to snow caves, but the trench, the easier it is to keep wann. Again, be the traditional dome-shaped igloo fig. Each snow builder with a good bit of expertise. Bevel the bottom of each block so the place, but makes them heavy and difficult to wall will tilt inward at the proper angle.
Hold each handle. Wind-packed snow is the easiest to work block in place as it is installed while the cracks are with. If the snow is soft, stomp it down and let it chinked with snow. The igloo entrance should be consolidate for a few minutes before starting to below floor level so that warm air is trapped inside. You insulating material that traps dead air. How wann a can buy a thin over-bag to put around the sleeping particular bag is depends on the type and amount of bag during colder weather to improve the bag's this insulating fill , the thickness loft of the fill , performance.
Manufacturers give These liners are best used at below freezing their bags comfort ratings, meant to indicate the temperatures. Methods of rating the bags vary warmer, regardless of the bag you are in. Undress from manufacturer to manufacturer, so they can inside the bag.
Secure the bag closely around your face. Bags are usually rated to a minimum Breathe through a sweater to reduce heat loss from temperature of somewhere between 40 degrees and exhalation. You can put your head inside the bag to degrees Fahrenheit between about 5 degrees help warm them both, though the water vapor from and degrees Celsius.
How closely a rating matches you personally The comfort of the bag offers a chance to warm depends on whether or not you are in a tent, the up not only you, but some of your things.
Small clothing you are wearing, the ground insulation, items, like mittens and socks, can come into the and your body size, metabolic rate, and caloric bag to dry. Don't try to dry larger items of clothing intake.
Look for a rating that matches your use. If by wearing them to bed, because they will just you're mainly a summer backpacker, a bag rated to keep you cold and make the bag wet. In very cold degrees Fahrenheit will be too warm. You may also need to make mummy bag-tapered toward the feet, hooded to room for a water bottle, to keep it from freezing. There are two basic types of synthetic Goose down is still the most efficient insulation fills.
The first is a long, stable polyester fiber, per unit weight. A widely used construction method is ing. High cost and water the shingle style, in which sections of batting are absorbency. A wet down bag loses most of its loft sewn in the bag, overlapping like roof shingles to and insulating value, making it almost worthless cover cold spots.
The second type of fill is a short, until it can be dried out. To avoid cold spots, these must be tains. These bags are still slightly heavier than comparable down styles '.
Synthetic insulation does not last as long as down, and loses much of its loft Fig. Synthetic sleeping bag construction: a. They are backed up with a tube formly distributed: sewn-through, slant-tube, or of insulating material to reduce heat loss through overlapping tube.
Most down bags are gether, be sure one zipper is right-sided and the of slant-tube construction, which eliminates cold other is left-sided. Down sleeping bag construction: a, colder than a dry one. You can buy a Gore-Tex sewn through; h, slant tubes; c, overlapping tubes. For best results, do what the manufacturer says. Rinse A thin pad of closed-cell foam, such as ensolite thoroughly to removc all soap. Squeeze water out more durable or polyethylene lighter weight , gently by hand, or put the bag carefully through the provides good insulation.
Improved designs in spin cycle of a front-loading washing machine closed-cell pads feature softer sleeping surfaces, with no agitator. The agitator ding, but it makes for a bulky roll and must be will blow out the barnes in a down bag, which protected from absorbing water.
In fact, the air in the mattress carries Hang bags to air dry; do not dry either polyester heat away from the body. A pad, such as the or down bags in a dryer. Allow more drying time Therm-a-Rest, that combines thc insulation of for a down bag several days , and shake and tum open-cell foam with the softness of an air mattress the bag frequently to break up lumps of wct down. A clean of gear to support or insulate feet and legs. If tennis shoe put in with the down bag may help you're stuck without a pad, use extra clothing, the break up any clumps of down.
Huddle together with is your pack. When it's time to settle down for a your bivouac-mates for as much warmth as bivouac night, put your feet inside the empty pack, possible. The answer Wear a waterproof parka or poncho to take care of depends on a lot of other factors, including your the rest of your body.
A mountaineer in top shape, who climbs fonable affair, where you can get by comfonably 1 50, feet a year and has a positive outlook, by donning some extra clothing and sitting on a might handle several planned bivouacs and perhaps small insulating pad in front of a fire while you a couple of emergency overnighters each year with enjoy a hot drink. Most bivouacs aren't so no difficulty. Experience has shown this climber pleasant.
Always conserve body and carrying too little. The an of camping includes the ability to set up larger folks. You will have to determine what is a safe and comfonable camp and to provide food best for you depending on how demanding a trip that's tasty and nutritious.
Good sources of quirement of camping food: it must taste good, or carbohydrates include whole grains, rice, potatoes, you simply won't eat it. If fueling your body cereals, pasta, bread , crackers, and granola bars. Fats occur naturally in small amounts in cerned about salt intake, you can use "sports vegetables, grains, and beans, and when these are drinks" that help replenish fluids and supply eXlra combined with fish, red meat, or pouhry, your salt, sugar, calories, and minerals.
High-fat foods tional water will also help. On a day trip, you can carry it from home. Stored body fats protect vital organs from On longer trips, your sources will be lakes, shock and act as insulation to protect your body streams, and snow.
You can often melt some snow for drinking by carrying it packed inside a water bottle. Slart with Eating for endurance a bit of water already in the bottle in order to hasten How efficient your body is in using its energy the melting time. When there is both sun and fuels is closely related to physical condition, resl, enough time, you can set out pots of snow to melt.
The better your condition, the Or, find a tongue of snow that is slowly melting greater the efficiency with which food and water into a trickle, dredge a depression below, let the will provide energy during heavy exercise. You can also try catching the drips from difficulties from exertion, heat, cold, and illness. You need it stove, though this obviously takes time and uses up for energy metabolism, controlling your core and cooking fuel.
During strenuous activity, particularly at Water purification high altitude, the amount of fluids lost through Clear, cold water looks pure, but may well be perspiration and evaporation of moisture from the contaminated with harmful bacteria, Giardia, or lungs can be as much as 5 quarts or more per day. For personal protection, it's best to purify replaced, the body's chemical equilibrium is upset all water. Common methods of purification are to and illness is more likely.
The body can survive for put iodine in the water, to boil it I minute at sea a long lime without food, but not without water. For for a day or for a week. On very short trips, you can carry homemade Selecting the menu sandwiches, fresh fruits and vegetables, and just A group can pack along just about whatever its about anything else you wish.
You can concoct a grocery-store stew from weight packs and plcnty of good, nutritious food. You want to avoid unnecessary weight, but at the Canned or packaged items can be cooked together same time you need to ensure that right down to the in one pot, then eaten with bread, a hot drink, and last meal, there is enough food for all. Meals can be planned by the group or by a Cup-cooking works well for one-person meals.
For longer or more complicated trips, weight and packaging become more critical. Outdoors stores carry a large array of these too bulky and heavy for most trips, so repack the prepackaged meals and snacks, and their variety food in plastic bags.
Smaller packages can be placed in quire little or no cooking; you just add hot water, larger ones that are labeled in broad categories, soak for a while, and eat from the package. Others such as "breakfast," "dinner, " or "drinks. Items such as jam, peanut thing: main courses, potatoes, vegetables, soups, butter, and honey pack best in squeeze tubes or in breakfasts, and desserts.
Persons with access to a sma] plastic containers with airtight hds. A common, carefully rast is merely the ftrst installment of lunch. Another typical arrangement trip, measuring a prepared cold cereal such as is to leave breakfast and lunch to each individual, granola , raisins or other fruit, and powdered milk with only dinner, the most complicated meal or the into a breakfast bag.
The number of people in a cooking group A hot drink is a pleasant addition to a cold should rarely exceed four. The milk, coffee-cocoa mocha , tea, eggnog, and in-. Other possibilities for breakfast are cooked One-pot meals with a carbohydrate base of grains such as oatmeal or rice, toaster pastries, noodles, macaroni, rice, beans, potatoes, or grains bakery items, dried fruits, nuts, meat or fruit bars, are easy and nutritious. If there's time, you can prepare a tein, fat, and flavor, you can add other ingredients full-scale breakfast, with such items as potato such as canned or dried chicken, beef or fish, slices, hash browns, omelets, scrambled eggs, sausage, freeze-dried vegetables or fruits, butter or bacon canned or bars , and pancakes with syrup margarine, and a dehydrated soup or sauce mix.
Meals from the grocery store are relatively easy to fix and many are quick cooking, such as Lunch and snacks spaghetti, macaroni, rice mixes, ramen noodles, As soon as breakfast is over, lunch begins and is and instant salads. Eat small amounts and aged in Styrofoam cups: just add boiling water, eat often. A good munching staple is gorp, a mixture of Freeze-dried meals offer a lot of dinner choices: nuts, candy, raisins, and other dehydrated fruits.
Other snack items are fruit leather and meal is complete. Bouillon is an old favorite that fruit pemmican. Ing: Side dishes of freeze-dried vegetables or beans Protein: Canned meats and fish, beef jerky, add variety and substance. They can also be added precooked sausage, meat spreads, cheese, nuts, to soup, along with instant rice or potatoes. For those more interested in chips or pretzels, and granola bars. Fruit: Fresh fruit, fruit bars, jam, and dried fruit such as raisins, peaches, and apples.
It should added to many dishes. Margarine, which keeps be both nourishing and delicious, yet easily and better than butter on long trips, improves the flavor quickly prepared. Dried butter substitutes are available, but such as soup. A cup of soup makes a quick and they don't have the fat content of the original. A typical quick gain to a reiatively high elcvation is the weekend ascent Drinks and desserts of Mount Rainier in Washington State, where Cold drinks after a hot day on the mountain are climbers normally spend Friday night near sea necessary and can be especially satisfying.
Just tidewater, reach the 1 4 ,4 1 1 -foot 4,meter add water. Hot drinks such as cocoa, tea, or mocha summit. Many climbers fall victim to symptoms of taste good after the evening meal. Freeze-dried desserts include ing for the same blood supply. Trial and error will teach you what foods challenging, at best. Cooking that requires boiling your body can tolerate at altitude.
As you gain altitude and the tinue to eat and drink, whatever the effort, for the atmospheric pressure decreases. Therefore, it takes only reinforce the debilitating effects of rcduced longer to cook things. For every drop of about 1 0 oxygen. The weight of the fuel you The simplest eating utensils are a spoon and a have to pack is another argument for simple single large cup or small pot. Some people like to add a bowl; bowls are available in plastic, stainless Fig.
Boiling point of water steel, metal, and lexan polycarbonate. Cook sets fig. The size or the set you sea level 1. You can cven get it down to onc if you use only freeze-dried. Wind can increase the time to as much as Stoves are now a necessity for backcountry 25 minutes, or even prevent boiling.
Also see that the ditions. For heating food , tain, even in cold, wet, or windy conditions. A stove kept in good working pot on the lid. Some stoves have an adjustment order will last for years. Check the stove frequently valve that pennits you to further control the stove's for dirt and carbon build-up. Stoves with pumps heat output and prevent scorched food and wasted periodically need replacements for deteriorated fuel. All fuel. If you don't have a shield for your units. All stoves also need a way to vaporize the stove, improvise a way to block the wind.
Most liquid fuel before it is burned. With butane stoves. It faster and hotter and brings water to a boil more tends to bum hotter than butane and is excellent for qui ckl y. Stoves that boil water fastest often do not melting large amounts of snow, boiling water, or simmer well, while those with a lower heat output heating food quickly.
Unlike kerosene, white gas. Multi-fuel stove: burns most fuels--white lb'.. I , diesel fuel or No. Use only Solid fuels such as candles and canned heat refined or white gasoline prepared for pressurized serve primarily as fire starters. The correct fuel is less likely to clog Most are carried for emergency use only, along jets, build up excess pressure, or emit toxic fumes.
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