When it comes to emergency bivouac during winter in the mountains it is easy. You can use the snow as building material.  In your pack you also normally got a wind sack(shelter) you can use. But during the summer and autumn it can be a bit more challenging. But here comes a suggestion. First of all, when and why do you need to build a emergency shelter? Probably something has went wrong. Either you got injured or you may have got lost, or you’ve been surprised by severed weather. So now you need to act fast, and here comes one/two suggestion of how to build a emergency shelter that might take less than twenty minutes to build.

What you always should bring is a cord with a length of at least 5m. I always carry a wind-sack if I don’t bring any tent. Also bring a emergency blanket and now you got all for building a shelter. You need protection from wind, water and cold. So let us now begin. Step one, find three sturgeons in the same length as your self. You tide them together with the cord. Put two of them in the bottom and one up on the others.

Start the cord with a clove hitch knot(sv. dubbelt halvslag). Then turn the cord 10 rounds around the sturgeons.

Then secure them with a pair of length along them, and voila, you got  ”three-leg”.

This is the base for the shelter. Now you take your emergency blanket in the bottom and fasten them in the and sturgeons. Next step will be to put the wind-shelter or the outer tent on at the top. Secure the blanket among the sides with shorter sturgeons. Using dry sturgeons means you don’t need a saw.  But be careful, the emergency blanket is sensitive for tears etc.

(Really nice and cozy in here…)

If you need or want a lower emergency shelter use two shorter sturgeons in the opening. (50-70cm) otherwise use all in the same length as you are. So now you know what to do in a emergency situation….Ps. how did you spend your Easter? I did it building an emergency shelter:-)

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See ya soon…