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If you're ever caught in a real-life wilderness survival situation like this, what you need to do to survive will depend heavily on the resources you have at your disposal. So, what I do here, in the Pacific Northwest, may be very different than what I'd need to do in another location. With that said, several of these survival skills can be applied in a variety of circumstances. This is real world whiteout survival!
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As a forest owner, I've taken many classes on how to help the trees on my property and have seen what selective thinning can do to reduce overcrowding, improve wildlife habitat, reduce fire danger, etc... In many cases the best friend of the forest is a chainsaw. Another well done Clay.
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Hi Clay, I homeless in the central Oregon. I lived a large portion of my life in the bush of Alaska and frequented the swamps of the south in my younger years. A week and half ago we had 3 sub zero nights. Watching the weather 2 days before I decided to head out in the Ochoco's. I dug a pretty big scout pit deep as I could. I collected about 1/2 a cord of wood over 2 days. The day the cold was coming I built a huge fire in my pit and pilled rocks on the fire. It was 36 that day with forecasted negative temps for the night and for the next 3 days. At dark I covered up the rocks and coals with about 12 inches or so of dirt and built a insulated covering over it. I climbed in for the night but had to either add dirt or remove dirt every few hours. The next day about noon I tore it all apart and repeated the same process for the next couple of nights. I made it but one of my friends died in town and another lost his lower legs. Both fell asleep drunk...
Every time we get a cold snap coming, I head for the woods where resources are readily available. It's allot of work, next year I'm doing southern AZ, at 68 this catching up with me. Little things: I opened all of my canned food and put into Ziplocs so they were easy to thaw and not have to get out of a can. I also did the same thing with my water. I prepped about 5 gals of water for 3 days and used it all.
Next time I want a candle lantern, my headlamp died.
I really enjoy your practical real-world common sense approach to things. Most crap in books will get you killed.
Thanks😀
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I taught survival in the British military and it's not about being comfortable it's about not dying. Two things for me stand out in this video: your humble admission that you learnt from your experience and that you'll use this lesson next time. Tells me everything about your exceptional character. You may wish to consider a long fire across the front of your shelter, takes more work but more evenly spreads the heat. Good drills. Looking forward to the next one. 🏴
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A bough bed works best if you can seal it off along all four sides. Otherwise, it allows air to circulate underneath you. A bed like that is only an insulator because of TRAPPED air. If you can form a box with two long logs and two short ones, then fill it in with bough or leaves, that works. Otherwise, fill in around the borders with direct, rocks, pine needles, but don't leave any way for air to enter BELOW your body. You'll still get some circulation from the top, but it will be much warmer than just a stack of boughs.
Another thing I might suggest is to build a reflector wall out of green logs. Just three or four leaning up against the stump on the far side would reflect the heat more evenly, and more heat total than just an open fire. And eventually those logs will burn as well, at least somewhat.
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Dad is 91 this month and grew up without electricity. He said they would lay clay bricks by the wood stove to heat them up, and wrap cloth around them and carry them to their beds. They would hold heat for hours. We live in Kentucky. It was zero degrees Fahrenheit here last night. Windchill was minus 9.
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As a 45-year Scouting volunteer and an Eagle-1973, and as a wilderness survival instructor from the military , you did a very good job !!
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People; When lost, a very important point to remember is 'Don't wait too late to build your shelter'. Those who are lost should want daylight to see what you are doing as you build your shelter just like you did. Too many wait too long to start working on setting up their shelter and wind up working into the night.
Well done Clay.
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People that advocate for not cutting trees or woodlot management are also the ones that have no understanding about hunting and helping with the health of the overall herd. Clueless because the have done no research and want to spout the latest feel-good BS. Keep up the great work you're doing, Clay! Keep putting out the truth, it will get some folks attention!
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Thanks for freezing out there for us! Things learned: pine stumps burn for hours, cold water in cowboy coffee sinks the grounds to the bottom, a pine bough bed is not a reliable insulation in cold nights, hot stones are your friends. Another great lesson, thanks Clay!
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When I solo hunt in the wilderness, I carry an emergency sleeping sack, a space blanket, and an emergency bivi sack. Those three items weigh less than a pound and take up very little space in my day pack. I also carry a first aid kit and emergency rations, fire starter and a headlamp with extra batteries.
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When I lived in Oregon and did a few very cold camping trips with a back pack, I learned to carry a clear medium gauge clear plastic sheet with me. If you have a shelter like yours and place that clear sheet over the front you would be much much warmer and even warm enough inside to slightly heat the ground under you. A few dollar space blankets lining the inside walls also would reflect a lot of heat on to you from that fire. I think its all about having just a few must have pieces of gear with you for just such emergencies. Survival in extreme cold is no joke so never be without a few basic things to help you survive. And practice your craft before you need the skills. Negative temps are no time for trying survival skills you have never really used. Great Video Sir.
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This is just one more video to teach the fortunate that click and watch your content that may save their life someday. Great stuff, as always, Clay.
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What I love about this video is that he is not dragging out the latest and the greatest. No awesome sleeping bags or cool gadget. Besides his saw, cup and some tea and coffee, he’s not that privileged. And he is right, this is practice. Until you get out and do it, you don’t know. Listen to his sinuses and his general look. It was a hard night. This was a good challenge.
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Sorry you have to deal with hate mail Clay.. what an unfortunate byproduct of being a YouTuber. Keep up the good work and thank you for your content !
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Love the pine stump fire! I’ll have to remember that. I’m on the east coast of Canada so around here, it’s usually white pine that produces fat wood. At a bare minimum, I’m packing a mylar blanket when out in the winter wild. Small, light and flat, it’s a bit of cheap insurance. It would’ve worked really well lining the back wall of your shelter and reflecting some of that heat back at you. Also, I’m sure you probably already know this but with regards to your bough bed, you might find it a bit warmer/comfortable by orienting the boughs in a particular manner. Looking at pretty much any conifer, you can see the branches grow out of the trunk and curve up. If you lay the boughs so that natural curve faces up (lay the boughs upside down) and jam the cut ends into the ground as best you can, you’ll create loft as well as a more supportive/springy mattress as the natural curve of the boughs acts like a bed spring of sorts. You’ll need a shit-ton of them but more boughs you use like this, the more you will be supported and insulated from the ground = warmer.
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This is what it is really about, real life stuff. Thanks, I will keep you’re experience in mind. No gear review, no "make" a fire, no BS. Just plain making it! Really enjoyed this vid!
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I was born in Canada, but in the 9 months I lived there, I didn't do a lot of hiking. In fact I was learning to walk on the ship that brought us over the North Atlantic to New York. However, my parents and sister needed all their cold weather gear on the ship, so I still have some of it. The gear includes quilted, knee length, under coats and heavier over coats. Animal skin and fur played a big role in the warmth of the coats. Under the coats there was a wool undershirt and a Pendleton wool over shirt. The coat collars and hoods were beaver lined, but the front of the extended hood was coarse wolf hair to catch your breath as it freezes. The hood had a drawstring a few inches in front of your face to close it off from the wind. Inside the had you wore a wool cap with ear flaps. You really couldn't see with the drawstring pulled, so that was more for inactive periods. The lower half started with surprisingly thin, wool, long underwear. The over pants and socks were also wool. Shoes were felted wool uppers with a wooden sole. Mittens were seal either with the skin facing out or with the fur facing out. If you were hunting you wore wool gloves inside special mittens which allowed your trigger finger to peek out.
They said they often complained about the cold weather, but they never complained about being too cold when they were out in it.
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I like that you showed how rough it is to sleep in a hastily prepared shelter. That it DOES work, but that it isn't easy sleeping in it (or staying warm). The fact that you critiqued yourself is incredibly useful to the rest of us, because it helps prepare for things ahead of time in the future.
For instance, having a long fire would have helped, but would have taken more prep work. Having a long lean-to may have helped, or may have not, but having some gap-fill of some sort on the pine needles might have helped keep in heat as well. Having a solid wood base for the bed (and then pine needles on top) would have afforded you more insulation as well but... end of the day, this kind of thing isn't about being comfortable, it's about not freezing to death and having the energy to work on survival the next day too. Appreciate the video.
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I've spent a few nights in -40, the peace of -20 or lower is incredible but sleeping is more like napping even in negative degree gear. The Outdoor Boys does a great job showing this as well.
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@preppingforprophecy7680
3 months ago
If you want to learn cold weather camping start in a place near your car... NEVER learn or test your gear in the wilderness where you won't have the ability to retreat in case of major failure...
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