Sunday, January 13, 2013

Long Term Survival - The Mors Kochanski Super Shelter

Keeping warm during the cold winter months can be a challenge. Using this technique for your shelter can be the differnce of a comfortable nights sleep versus freezing all night, possibly to death.

Survival Instructor Mors Kochanski pioneered this design. I am sure many others have thought of using some aspects of this shelter without being exposed to his work, but he is evidently the first to be recognized for it.

Cody Lundin and Dave Canterbury used this design on one episode of Dual Survival when they were stranded on an island during the winter.

Here is a video featuring this concept.

Mors Kochanski Super Shelter


Here is another video of the same concept.

Build a Super Shelter with our PST


Posted by Selous Scout at 2:47 PM

7 comments:

  1. ...good vids, long time back we built a couple of these(similar, second vid, no mylar, just tarps and canvas) under the ninth street bridge, below the dam of besser lake, in alpena michigan(thunder bay)...three days(two nights) of steelheadin'...used sterno cans for heat, was plenty warm...no one went back to the cabin, we all stayed, we all caught fish, temps were in the single/low double digits for highs, and (-)single digit lows...

    ...i guess it's a bit different doing it for fun, versus necessity, but it works nonetheless

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  2. Hi Ken, glad to see you made it through the holidays!

    I hope that I only ever use it to have fun. Sounds like that fishing story was good times...

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  3. Very cool - I live waaaaay down south, so have very little knowledge of camping in snowy cold conditions, so visual aids like this are great teaching moments. Thank you Selous Scout.

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    1. My pleasure. Glad you have found it of some use. I believe it could be a lifesaver for someone stuck out in the cold.

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  5. I'm not impressed at all. Quite "cub scout" if you ask me. You better have your Den mother close by.

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    1. Woe is me!
      I am crushed by your rejection!
      I live to impress only you!
      Now what ever shall become of me!

      (by the way, no one asked you in case it escaped you)

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