survival series

again its time to turn the clocks back one hour ... an extra hour of sleep? perhaps.. so welcome back to powderkeg, the rants and raves of a madman in a mad world gone nuts.

this episode is called the survivor series. one of many such episodes you'll see here in my blog.
i devote a lot of my free time outdoors, hunting, fishing and camping. ive been a camper since i was three years old, camping out for the first time in the rockies in colorado and around the ozarks. ive got pictures of my dad and me in colorado, doing outdoor wilderness stuff. it was a lot of fun learning how to survive in the wilderness , digging out a snow cave shelter at age six in the worst blizzard to hit the north east in recorded history , gee ive had a fun life so far. so lets talk about wilderness survival in the winter time shall we. its easy to freeze to death . hypothermia is a real bad way to die. frostbite is no fun. take my advise, if you don't know how to survive in the outdoors during inclimate weather, stay inside, stay warm, drink a lot of hot cocoa and don't go out looking to get hurt or injured. cold weather isn't for sissies or uneducated blowhards who think they can figure it out. it takes knowlege , know how and brains to figure out what to do, when to do it and where to do it, and not everyone can build an igloo in less than 30 minutes . it takes practice and patience to do it, like every outdoor skill . time is important and failure is
expected the first few times until you half frozen brain catches on. walk ten miles your pant legs frozen up to your hips before you attempt to try any of this outdoors stuff.

insulated rubber boots.... if your feet are warm the rest of you is warm. a hat..you lose 45 percent of your body heat from your head . cover up ... gloves they are essential. i suggest thermal gloves. handwarmers blow up too easily and can burn the daylights out of your hands,
so id vote no on them . in cold windy conditions. layers are what protect you from windchill.
outer layer needs to be a nylon windbreaker over a thermal layer over a fleece layer over a flannel layer . me i wear sweats and fleece over the sweats and then i have a nylon coat that serves as a winter coat and windbreaker with a wooby hat. i wooby warm