Survival?=Here's something to think about!

Dantheman62 · 12-16-2008, 04:24 PM

Yeah Humble, snow is a piece of cake, it's the cold that's bad! Myself and two friends in high school decided to go to one of my dads cabins and spend the night. We couldn't drive into the cabin because the snow was too deep, so we strapped on snowshoes and walked a mile through 2 feet deep snow, got to the cabin and somebody had stolen the pot-belly stove, by that time it was dark out so instead of turning around and going home we decided to build a big fire and spend the night outside by the cabin, well big mistake!, the next morning after not sleeping at all and listening to wolves all night out in the distance we went back to the truck and it wouldn't start, so we had to walk another mile down the road to find someone to give us a jump! After being frozen solid all night and finally getting the truck started we left, and as we were leaving my brother showed up and told us it was -32 degrees last night. So the whole thing about this story is there was not a big enough fire to keep warm!, we built a fire that was 6 feet across and 6 feet high and it made no difference at all!, we could not build a big enough fire to stay warm outside at 32 degrees below zero!

12-16-2008, 04:24 PM	#26
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Re: Survival?=Here's something to think about! Yeah Humble, snow is a piece of cake, it's the cold that's bad! Myself and two friends in high school decided to go to one of my dads cabins and spend the night. We couldn't drive into the cabin because the snow was too deep, so we strapped on snowshoes and walked a mile through 2 feet deep snow, got to the cabin and somebody had stolen the pot-belly stove, by that time it was dark out so instead of turning around and going home we decided to build a big fire and spend the night outside by the cabin, well big mistake!, the next morning after not sleeping at all and listening to wolves all night out in the distance we went back to the truck and it wouldn't start, so we had to walk another mile down the road to find someone to give us a jump! After being frozen solid all night and finally getting the truck started we left, and as we were leaving my brother showed up and told us it was -32 degrees last night. So the whole thing about this story is there was not a big enough fire to keep warm!, we built a fire that was 6 feet across and 6 feet high and it made no difference at all!, we could not build a big enough fire to stay warm outside at 32 degrees below zero!