Hey, that is Tyler with TPP.
Got here right here with Chris. We’re doing a little bit little bit of winter survival situations. Wanna speak actually fast about water.
We’ve talked about fireplace and shelter and that is the bottom degree shelter. Shelter, additionally, and I’m going to form of reiterate this, the garments that you simply’re carrying are shelter, getting your butt off the bottom is shelter, stopping your self from the wind is shelter, which you are able to do by piling up firewood.
What’s subsequent?
Water.
So proper, if we’re gonna transfer to water, I prefer to carry a clear canteen. All it’s a single wall canteen that I can boil in. It’s a half a gallon which suggests I solely get a boil is twice a day. Lots of people will get these little cups, proper?
However mathematically what you’re about to interrupt down. It’s very labor-intensive
Sure, like16 boils. Okay, minimal, proper? As a result of one cup is what? Like an eighth – yeah – of a gallon, proper? And I don’t all the time get a full cup of water as a result of I’m boiling a half to 2 thirds or I can simply get one thing that’s massive and do it twice a day.
Once you’re saying that snow, like this handful of snow, is 90% air, right?
Sure. So, I want 9 gallons of that quantity of water to make one gallon of water.
Okay, which will get silly is absolutely fast. Yeah, so I have to fill this 9 occasions up.
Nicely, it’s a half gallon. So, for a gollon you’re doing 18, proper?
Sure, right. So, I’ve to do 18. When you can take it out of the creek, or you will get precise ice, that’s going to be extra dense and it’s going to perform. It’s going to present you water sooner.
Okay, proper.
You do have to take down two of those a day. When you’re not ingesting, no less than that a lot, you’re getting behind the curb and get dehydrated. Yeah. Okay? Another misnomers in terms of water. That’s the primary one. Folks assume you may’t eat snow, proper? Can’t eat when you miss the most important gap in your mouth. Chilly, huh? I’ll come again to that.
There’s a misnomer that you simply can’t eat snow as a result of it’s going to trigger hypothermia. Hypothermia is attributable to hypothermia. This isn’t going to drop your core temperature, low sufficient for it to matter. Particularly when you’re shifting otherwise you’re working whilst you’re out doing stuff eat snow. My proof of that is we’ve a number of generations of Eskimo, Tlingit, Inuit, Native Individuals that lived north of the Arctic Circle the place there are not any rivers, simply consuming snow. Yeah, so there’s nothing fallacious with consuming snow. When you’re going into hypothermia, cease there. Get a hearth. Get another stuff on.
There’s nothing fallacious with getting a plastic bag that you simply put snow in, that your physique melts. If it will get too chilly, take that off your physique. Boil it. Discover one other technique to take care of it. However my go to my fallback, in winter, in terms of water is melting and boiling in a can and I do know a whole lot of you’ll instantly say, effectively, what about these filters, proper? Yeah. What occurs once you fill a filter with water and you permit it out in a freezing surroundings.
Nicely, there’s going to be water in there, irrespective of how a lot you empty and that evening it’s going to freeze over and crack it.
And it’s gonna break in if it doesn’t work. So, get your self a canteen, eat snow, until you’re too chilly. Drink all of the water you may maintain. Make stews. And what I imply by that’s take, take the guidelines from pine timber, take water edibles, put them in that water. Boil it. Eat it. Get your vitamins, your vitamin C, drink two of those at the moment and also you’re good to go.
All proper. Hopefully, that’s precious for you. And thanks for watching.