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Warm and Dry - Event Date: February 23 2010

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    Posted: March 23 2009 at 10:38am

I have a guestion that I would like some answers to,if any one will give them. If you are caught out over night for one or more nights and unble to get your to supplies and you have to sleep or even just stay out side for two or three days and the weather is not nice.Let's say that it is cool and rainy and everything is either damp or wet. How do you insulate your self from sleeping or being forced to lay on the wet?damp ground? How did the Indians do it and how would any of you all do it?--Because it has been my experinece ,just with camping and fishing,if I lay or set directly on the ground and you go to sleep there,you wake up frozen and wet,and I believe that after a night  or may be two or three nights of this,you likely would to catch pneumonia or at least get very sick(at least I always have) and in a survival situation,this would mean almost certain death. How  would any one on this board address this problem? Thank,You. Johnray1 

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I believe that the Indians of the west used pine boughs (in the mountains) or sage boughs (on the plains) to sleep on. They stacked them so that it lifed them off the wet ground. What they did back east I am not sure.
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FluMom,thank you. Some one on this board should know how it is down in a rainy,wet,damp,cool,and cold region like West Virginia,Thank You,Johnray1
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Johnray ... I just ran across this. It may be what your looking for.
 
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This is true Indian Style.

Did you ever wonder why the Indians could travel so light without freezing to death? Or why they only built a small fire?

A small fire was built so they would not attract nor be seen by others, this was for safety and also for another reason. They would only need a small amount of coals from the fire to stay warm.

They would take and dig a small trench about 10 inches deep. Then they would take the coals out of the fire, spread them in the trench, and cover them up with dirt or sand depending on the terrain. They would now spread their canvas or blanket over the trench and lay down in it and pull the end of the canvas and or blanket over themselves.

The warm coals beneath them would keep them warm all night.

Most people today would just build a large fire to stay warm. This could be dangerous for a couple of reasons, you sleep too close your bedding could potentially catch on fire and a large fire means you could be found an easy target for someone who would not hesitate to harm or kill you in order to secure their own survival.

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Carry a couple of giant garbage bags, put them one inside the other and fill the space in between with drt leaves (insulation). Use this like a sleeping bag. If needed, modify it by duct taping on more bag to make it longer. Make a bed of evergreen boughs and more dead leaves, preferably under a thick droopy evergreen like a hemlock- the space under it is sheltered from rain and wind.
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Sorry, that should say dry leaves, not drt leaves. :)
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Wool blanket in the house or outdoors  as they hold the heat I have bought some at good will stores.
You want to avoid cotton blankets .  There are contractor garbages bags that will act as a tarmac.   I like the idea of a fire under you also the heated rocks .
A old bedpan heater with Rocks in in to hold the warmth.
  
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You could get by with contractor garbage bags and carry wool blankets .  No cotton cotton attracts the water from the air and is not warm enough . wool is a better vapour guard . 
We now all have high end wool blankets and I now turn the thermastate down and we stay warm and noone complains .  
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