"10% more effort= 100% more comfort"While I am not sure about Bear's math I am sure that the more effort you put into a shelter in a survival situation the more comfortable it will be, whether we are talking about piling up boughs for a bed or thatching on a roof, more is better. Is there a point where you have put too much on the roof or under your bed? If there is I haven't seen it!
Like Jeremy mentioned, you think that canteen you are using as a pillow is closed tight? Might want to give it an extra turn to make sure
I haven't use a 2 quart canteen but I can tell you that a 1quart Nalgene works alright unless you are a side sleeper like me.
This weeks episode left me wanting, big time. There are things that people though the ages have come to understand as truths when it comes to survival like following a stream downhill typically leads to civilization. One of those rules is that rivers have bridges.
In the movie Into the Wild
Christopher McCandless attempts to leave his self imposed isolation and finds that a stream he crossed on his way in is now a raging river, flowing high on snowmelt. In the movie he resigns himself to his helpless situation and returns to camp where he continues to forage wild edibles ultimately poisoning himself. The reality isn't anywhere near that pretty, he ransacked cabins for food before staving to death but what the dumb fuck didn't notice was a map on the wall of one of the cabins showed a cable way a mere 1/4 mile down stream from his original crossing.
Had he simply walked down stream, even in the remote wilderness of bordering Alaska's Denali Park there where bridges.
If your intention is to 'Get Out Alive' the risks involved in crossing big rivers yet alone rafting down them are unacceptable.
