Alone S11E08 Spoiler

This season of Alonr git me thinking of how items can be used completely differently than their original purpose.

[@user-ci2mn1oy3w]

they never learn, man. The Innuit had no warming fires in their igloos, at MUCH colder temps, and for much longer periods of time. There's nothing special about snow as a building material. If your shelter is small, SEALED, insulated (with debris) and reflective, you can easily do without a fire at 0F degrees, without a sleeping bag (as one of your 10 gear-picks) You get to take and make 8 layers of clothing, and can have debris between each layer. A reflective tyvek bivy is more useful for this challenge than any sleeping bag, cause it's unaffected by its get wet.. About day 60, when it's too cold for rain to be a threat, you can convert the 10x16 ft producers tarp into a debris stuffed sleeping bag, with the reflective bivy inside of it. leaving on all your layers of clothing. Up on a raised bed, you'll be plenty warm enough and they never see 0F under current rules. When you remove the tarp from the 6" thick layer of dry debris on the outside of your reflective tarp and tape pole-tent, you have to cover the debris with a 2" thick layer of damp debris, at dusk. Let this layer freeze overnight. then you can add a "wetter" 3" thick layer of debris the next night and again the next night. So you'll have 12" inches of dry debris, 8" of frozen debris, 3 layers of tarp, one of them being reflective, one layer of reflective tyvek, 8 layers of clothing, 7 layers of dry grass/moss between the clothing layers. You are NOT going to feel cold at a mere 0F degrees, guys. They only have 2-3 weeks below +20F, and then only at night They launch in mid Sept at 50F degrees and it doesn't even freeze for a month after that. For another month, it doesn't fail to thaw out in the afternoons. Anyone can Google for a monthly temperature chart of these areas and see that I"m correct about the above statements.

[@m005kennedy]

The Innuit had much better clothing than contestants on Alone. They were not usual alone either. They were usually at least a family unit.