>>2444605>just carry a space blanket if you are worried about a "survival situation"i'm up in the cascades at least once a week space blankets are so bad for that climate. good chance it'd just get you wet and kill you here honestly.
why's survival situation in quotes? if you're ever on rainier wander a little off the climbing lines and take a look at how many dead bodies and missing peoples cases line the paths to the summit. i see new ones every time lol.
>Also, building a Shelter in a "survival situation" is just stupid, you are going yo waste a lot of Time and energy building agree for average lost hiker, disagree with semi regular practice in the same environments and common sense to start during daytime. sometimes the exchange isn't worth it but you can't make that call without practice. if you have to stay the night unprepared then it is worth the effort. if you think you can get out or be rescued before night then its not.
>will not stop rain depends on your region and plants available. i can't make rain proof shelters here from my surroundings, so i have to rely on a tarp for this. when i was in hawaii it was stupidly easy to make waterproof shelters.
>or even keep you warmunless i'm way above the treeline my environment does provide an abundance of evergreens which provide a very comfortable and high r value mattress which keeps me off the snow, for very minimal effort gathering and almost zero effort gathering. and i can most certainly build shelters to block wind, which keeps me very warm since i personally mostly hike on mountains.
>energydepends. a real world typical survival shelter is a lot more basic than you probably have pictured.
>timeworst thing the average scared lost hiker does is takes too long to select where they will spend their first night. when i get lost or gear soaked or whatever else, i'm thinking about it hours before sundown. average lost hiker's thinking about it at or after sundown. no time wasted, ideally.
