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I would try to get the Grass more dense it should provide more insulation. And also you can dig 12 inches little longer then your body because the ground is a really good insulation make the hut over the hole. And a other thing if you can get a fire heat up some rocks and put them in a corner and they will act like big hand warmers. Me I would have tried to make the shelter bi a tree to act like a better wind barrier.
I was born with an extremely low fat content and can't gain enough weight to do this. I have tried. Any suggestions that include an external heat source like a fire. A fire might be a little dangerous for that shelter.
I've slept under spruce's in snowy conditions. There's often a pocket underneath the base of the stem so all you have to do is to isolate the ground and you almost have a finishes shelter.
Personal favourite fire starter is basically this but with cattails and pine resin. Which is a slightly more of a pain to make but it ends up with quite a similar result. I work in after-school care with kids, but instead of sitting inside somewhere we pick the kids up from school and take them outside into nature even if the weather is awful where I teach them anything they want to know about survival/bushcraft etc. Near the end of summer, when cattails are ripe and plenty of dry wood can be found we forage some pine resin (and fatwood if we can find some) and make a fire which we use to help create different fire starters, we make char cloth, prepare tinderboxes and melt the pine resin we found and mix it with the cattails, we usually also make some hobo stoves with cans, cardboard and either wax or pine resin. All of these things can be stored easily and can help start fires even in absolutely dreadful weather so that we can always warm ourselves or something to eat or drink. The kids usually don't quite have the strength like we do to scrape the metal match like we would so good flash-tinder that lights at the slightest spark really helps them to be able to light the fire by themselves and in my experience few things work as well as cotton balls with Vaseline or cattails and pine resin. (I've never tried vaseline with cattails or pine resin with cotton balls now that I think of it haha but I'm sure those would all work great)
I melt my vaseline in a double burner and drop the cotton balls into the liquid vaseline. The cotton balls soak the liquid vaseline up really well, which works better then just coating them. Then I add the soaked cotton balls to a used & empty deodorant container and pack it full. When the vaseline hardens back up you've got a sealed container of waterproof fire starters. Just dial the knob up when you need another fire starter and re-cap the container.
It's for survival, I'd imagine it'd be impossible too find a lighter, none the less with fuel. The rod he uses in the video is able too be found as rocks, too.
I answered and said, "If I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, show this also to thy servant: whether after death, as soon as every one of us yields up his soul, we shall be kept in rest until those times come when thou wilt renew the creation, or whether we shall be tormented at once?" 76 He answered me and said, "I will show you that also, but do not be associated with those who have shown scorn, nor number yourself among those who are tormented. 77 For you have a treasure of works laid up with the Most High; but it will not be shown to you until the last times. 78 Now, concerning death, the teaching is: When the decisive decree has gone forth from the Most High that a man shall die, as the spirit leaves the body to return again to him who gave it, first of all it adores the glory of the Most High. 79 And if it is one of those who have shown scorn and have not kept the way of the Most High, and who have despised his law, and who have hated those who fear the Most High -- 80 such spirits shall not enter into habitations, but shall immediately wander about in torments, ever grieving and sad, in seven ways. 81 The first way, because they have scorned the law of the Most High. 82 The second way, because they cannot now make a good repentance that they may live. 83 The third way, they shall see the reward laid up for those who have trusted the covenants of the Most High. 84 The fourth way, they shall consider the torment laid up for themselves in the last days. 85 The fifth way, they shall see how the habitations of the others are guarded by angels in profound quiet. 86 The sixth way, they shall see how some of them will pass over into torments. 87 The seventh way, which is worse than all the ways that have been mentioned, because they shall utterly waste away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall wither with fear at seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they sinned while they were alive, and before whom they are to be judged in the last times. 88 "Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from their mortal body. 89 During the time that they lived in it, they laboriously served the Most High, and withstood danger every hour, that they might keep the law of the Lawgiver perfectly. 90 Therefore this is the teaching concerning them: 91 First of all, they shall see with great joy the glory of him who receives them, for they shall have rest in seven orders. 92 The first order, because they have striven with great effort to overcome the evil thought which was formed with them, that it might not lead them astray from life into death. 93 The second order, because they see the perplexity in which the souls of the unrighteous wander, and the punishment that awaits them. 94 The third order, they see the witness which he who formed them bears concerning them, that while they were alive they kept the law which was given them in trust. 95 The fourth order, they understand the rest which they now enjoy, being gathered into their chambers and guarded by angels in profound quiet, and the glory which awaits them in the last days. 96 The fifth order, they rejoice that they have now escaped what is corruptible, and shall inherit what is to come; and besides they see the straits and toil from which they have been delivered, and the spacious liberty which they are to receive and enjoy in immortality. 97 The sixth order, when it is shown to them how their face is to shine like the sun, and how they are to be made like the light of the stars, being incorruptible from then on. 98 The seventh order, which is greater than all that have been mentioned, because they shall rejoice with boldness, and shall be confident without confusion, and shall be glad without fear, for they hasten to behold the face of him whom they served in life and from whom they are to receive their reward when glorified. 99 This is the order of the souls of the righteous, as henceforth is announced; and the aforesaid are the ways of torment which those who would not give heed shall suffer hereafter." 100 I answered and said, "Will time therefore be given to the souls, after they have been separated from the bodies, to see what you have described to me?" 101 He said to me, "They shall have freedom for seven days, so that during these seven days they may see the things of which you have been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered in their habitations." 102 I answered and said, "If I have found favor in thy sight, show further to me, thy servant, whether on the day of judgment the righteous will be able to intercede for the unrighteous or to entreat the Most High for them, 103 fathers for sons or sons for parents, brothers for brothers, relatives for their kinsmen, or friends for those who are most dear." 104 He answered me and said, "Since you have found favor in my sight, I will show you this also. The day of judgment is decisive and displays to all the seal of truth. Just as now a father does not send his son, or a son his father, or a master his servant, or a friend his dearest friend, to be ill or sleep or eat or be healed in his stead, 105 so no one shall ever pray for another on that day, neither shall any one lay a burden on another; for then every one shall bear his own righteousness and unrighteousness." .....2 Esdras 7:75 /////////
