Finding or Creating Shelters

Since we carried out the geographical orientation and determine , at least approximately , where to find the next task should be finding or making shelter .
Shelter protects us from the sun , wind , rain , snow , high or low temperatures . Also protects us from a variety of reptiles and wild animals .
Certainly it is better to first find or excess materials to create shelter and then seek food and water , but do it later on when it gets dark , the external temperature , when nocturnal predators move in the hunt ...
Due to the rapid hypothermia may hurt , but due to lack of food and water .
It is not necessary to do some shelters that will last for years , but also not good to do shelter slapdash percent and this construction method can backfire ( such shelters are usually not resistant to some of the external influences - wind, rain, cold ... sometimes they just do not think that the weather could suddenly to change )

Refugee to dictate various conditions ranging from those by which the equipment at its disposal, to the type of terrain we are, how we can improvise the missing tool ...
Making sure the shelter should begin several hours before dusk ( bear in mind that depending on the geographic location of our darkness into the mountains for example comes quite earlier than the plain ).
The best is that it is at least 3-4 hours before dark.
The size of the shelter is also very important . What is the shelter of larger more material will be required to produce , but more time and greater heat loss .
Before making shelters best flyers on the ground and mark the length and width of the shelter by their dimensions .
First you need to make a bed and then work over the bed shelter . It is easier than the reverse order .
The position of the shelter should not be too close to the river , which can muffle the sound of animals ( in war : the enemy ) , near the shelters should have enough trees for making fire, and drinking water should be neither too close nor too far from shelter .
If it is possible to verify a direction of blowing wind to shelter set in the cover ( forest , hillside ... ) , and in any case the input shelters should be facing down the wind so the wind would not blow through the entrance to the only shelter .
Also the position of the fire should be a series of wind compared to only shelter , as well as the place where the gradients physiological needs .
As prevention of atmospheric precipitation should strive to shelter set up at some hills and not in the depression where water can collect and fog .
Sloping terrain should be avoided because it is not good for sleep, before making need to check whether it is close to the anthill or other holes which may forever live in a variety of animals .
Attention also should be paid to : the proximity of wildlife watering hole , the possibility of landslides and snow stone etc.
Shelter should never be made ​​on a wet spot in the thick grass , which is a good indication that the soil is moist .
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The substrate for sleep

Direct contact of the body and the soil can lead to a loss of 80% body temperature . Therefore, great importance should be given to the preparation of the surface for sleeping .
It is best to surface for sleeping so we do what may be the first country to lay the thicker branches , then smaller branches and finally leaves , grass or pine branches . Over that can be set up what might have with him - sleeping bag , their curtains , parachute ...
Natural shelter may be all that is found in nature - has fallen tree , a hole in the rocks , caves ... Also we help of found materials ( twigs , leaves ... ) to fabricate improvised shelter that can protect us sufficiently .