How to Sleep Warm Outdoors.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 42, 27 June 1913, Page 4

How to Sleep Warm Outdoors.

From the Outing Magazine. It is very popular in the Fenim '»re - Ct op ?r-Leatlier- Storking scliool of writers to have the one Indian* when night overtakes him, light his camp lire, wrap himself in his one blanket, and bid defiance to the cold. All of which is very romantic, makes excellent reading, but is several points off the truth. If some unfortunate mortal with a single blanket should attempt the stunt he would either freeze before morning, or else get up and sit before his camp fire. With all due respect t > the aforementioned school of writers, the Indian does not do it in that way. He carrier but our blanket, it is true, and with that one manages to keep comfortable no matter how the night behaves. At least 1 have .-pent s me years with the red man, and never saw him wrap himself in his blanket. Ho a t lie manages may be of sufficient interest to the sporting fraternity to merit description. Should any of the brethren he so circumstanced as to be compelled to’spend the night with ami imtim of covering it may be worth while to know how to k epw .rm even with the thermometer hovering round -zero. On my side trips int > the mountains 1 carry only a single Government with occasionally a rubber poncho The i ndian rc> >rts t > the methods to keep warm, denending upim the condit i« >n of the wcathoi I fit. is not unduly cold he lights a rather large fire, warms the oarth, rakes away the coeds, lies down upon the bare ground, and pull his blanket over him. If the cold is extreme the Indian in addition to the above heats a large boulder, and when bed time arrives, rolls it upon the ground, covers it lightly with earth, curls himself around the mould, and pulls bis covering over him. You will note that he does not wrap himself in the blanker, nor does he place any portion of it beneath him. He does, however, lie with his feet to the fire. | If Fate should deprive you of other than your coat do not atI tempt t * sleep with that upon your ! back. Remove it. heat a stone as I have suggested, lie down I and pull the c«»at over your shoulders, covering the stone at { the same time. By following the ah ,v * suggestions you may sleep c■.•inforlI ably in almost any weather, if there is snow on the ground you I will be obliged to remove it and ! dry the ground thoroughly with | your tire. Do not attempt to sleep on the snow unless you i have plenty of covering. It is not a succe -s.