Have you ever been struck in the woods and needed to make a temporary shelter for overnight?
If you needed to make a shelter would you choose the lean-to style placing a long limb between two trees, forming a ridge pole and adding more limbs to form a rack to place evergreen boughs, to protect you from the weather?
Or would you use a different form of lean-two with notched limbs and a ridgepole for a shelter five feet high and narrowing down to a length of seven feet or less depending on your height?
Some people talk about making a tee-pee shaped shelter because they had a plastic sheet with them to cover the sides. Or a tarp draped over a limb to form a tent.
Maybe it is the fact I read to many Boy Scout magazines, but I think I like the first choices best to provide a dry spot to sleep for the night. For fun I have in younger days built the first model of making a ridge pole and then forming a rack with other poles and using evergreen limbs to form a tight water survival shelter. But I never had to stay in one over night.
Have any of you ever had to use a lean-to in the woods? If so give your thoughts about how well they work for keeping someone dry and comfortable. Others with opinions on this subject please share your views as well.
If you needed to make a shelter would you choose the lean-to style placing a long limb between two trees, forming a ridge pole and adding more limbs to form a rack to place evergreen boughs, to protect you from the weather?
Or would you use a different form of lean-two with notched limbs and a ridgepole for a shelter five feet high and narrowing down to a length of seven feet or less depending on your height?
Some people talk about making a tee-pee shaped shelter because they had a plastic sheet with them to cover the sides. Or a tarp draped over a limb to form a tent.
Maybe it is the fact I read to many Boy Scout magazines, but I think I like the first choices best to provide a dry spot to sleep for the night. For fun I have in younger days built the first model of making a ridge pole and then forming a rack with other poles and using evergreen limbs to form a tight water survival shelter. But I never had to stay in one over night.
Have any of you ever had to use a lean-to in the woods? If so give your thoughts about how well they work for keeping someone dry and comfortable. Others with opinions on this subject please share your views as well.