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Survival Skillset

Lesson 6 of 12

Water in the cold: snow, ice and fuel

35 min

A winter day in the Cairngorms. You are surrounded by more water than you could drink in a lifetime, and you are dehydrated. Your bottle froze at the lid an hour ago. You have not felt thirsty all day, you have not wanted to stop in the wind to drink, and your urine this morning was dark. By mid-afternoon you feel flat, slow and oddly cold, and the decisions you…

In this lesson

  • Cold-weather dehydration
  • Why the cold dries you out
  • How to stay ahead
  • Common mistakes
  • Myth: eating snow
  • Why it fails
  • What to do instead
  • Snow, ice and glacier water as sources
  • Melting snow and ice efficiently
  • How
  • Melting snow without fuel
  • Fuel is water: planning in snow

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