troutfisher13111
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Ok, you guys have got my attention with the poncho shelters. Where can I find a good, durable, poncho that packs up small and can be used as a shelter? Preferably cheap. Thanks!
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Poncho Shelter Picture Thread (Pics of poncho shelters only!)
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This is the same bed frame I posted earlier from a different angle. You can see that this bed, including all lashings and lines that hold up the poncho are made from vines.
Same poncho at 4500 feet elevation. The student (Reanto) spent two nights in this shelter and we got ripped by a severe storm the second night. I was down slope in a cave and fairly well protected. Each of my guys had a poncho and two contractor bags for shelter construction and Renato ended up using both of his to improve his shelter the second night. Keep in mind that these were the first and second nights he had ever spent in the bush, period.
In the morning I went to check on him and see if he got washed off the mountain. He stayed dry that night in his bivy. The head area was well protected. On my visit I shot a short (28 second) video clip. VIDEO OF THIS SHELTER IN HIGH WIND. The poncho held up just fine but the high winds had shredded the contractor bag he added as a rain skirt.
This is the basic idea for my area. Poncho, grass bed, bivy sack. it always helps if you can locate next to some form of shelter rock but sometimes, as in this case, you're doing good just to find a level patch of ground.
This is the same shelter re-rigged as a sunshade for an afternoon nap.
Mac
This is the same bed frame I posted earlier from a different angle. You can see that this bed, including all lashings and lines that hold up the poncho are made from vines.
Same poncho at 4500 feet elevation. The student (Reanto) spent two nights in this shelter and we got ripped by a severe storm the second night. I was down slope in a cave and fairly well protected. Each of my guys had a poncho and two contractor bags for shelter construction and Renato ended up using both of his to improve his shelter the second night. Keep in mind that these were the first and second nights he had ever spent in the bush, period.
In the morning I went to check on him and see if he got washed off the mountain. He stayed dry that night in his bivy. The head area was well protected. On my visit I shot a short (28 second) video clip. VIDEO OF THIS SHELTER IN HIGH WIND. The poncho held up just fine but the high winds had shredded the contractor bag he added as a rain skirt.
This is the basic idea for my area. Poncho, grass bed, bivy sack. it always helps if you can locate next to some form of shelter rock but sometimes, as in this case, you're doing good just to find a level patch of ground.
This is the same shelter re-rigged as a sunshade for an afternoon nap.
Mac
No pics, but I've slept under poncho hooches many a night. I put the poncho at roughly at a 30 degree angle, with the low end on the ground. I don't like wind or rain whipping through. The top end is usually just bungied to trees. I trench around and put some dirt on the bottom of the poncho. A second poncho is the ground cloth although it can be wrapped all the way around the poncho liner or sleeping bag. Gotta be careful wrapping a poncho around you because you can get condensation.
If its going to be well below freezing, you need to be adding debris insulation and maybe making an entire debris shelter and simply waterproofing with the poncho imo.
Sit selection is pretty important too.
If its going to be well below freezing, you need to be adding debris insulation and maybe making an entire debris shelter and simply waterproofing with the poncho imo.
Sit selection is pretty important too.
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Trout fisher any Mil spec. usgi poncho is a good place to start.
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In Australia, we call them Hoochies, and they make great shelters. I've slept under them in my time in cadets when I was younger. They worked fine when it was raining, when it was 1 degree and when it was 35. If you have a good sleeping bag they work really well, provide you know who to set them up correctly. As for rain, we dig trenches with our boots and that drains the water away from the shelter.
US army poncho
Bombproof
used this method for years in wooded and non wooded areas in the Eastern Seaboard mountains and in the British mountains
In non wooded areas you need two sticks or hiking poles
Kept me dry and warm in torrential cold weather storms
I used the poncho to hike in
I carried an old Army rain coat to walk around at camp in the rain when the poncho was being used as a shelter
Bombproof
used this method for years in wooded and non wooded areas in the Eastern Seaboard mountains and in the British mountains
In non wooded areas you need two sticks or hiking poles
Kept me dry and warm in torrential cold weather storms
I used the poncho to hike in
I carried an old Army rain coat to walk around at camp in the rain when the poncho was being used as a shelter
