5/25/2023 0 Comments Plash palatka tentOverall it worked well, one issue I had was getting into it. Originally I was going to be really traditional and only use a wool blanket at the last second I added my HPG Serape and let me tell you around 3 or 4 when the temperature dropped down to the mid 40s I was really happy to not be a starving conscript with just a wool blanket and fear of the NKVD to keep me warm. Now I cheated and used two Plash Palatkas because I wanted my shelter to have a floor so I wouldn’t be sleeping directly in the dirt because I’m a delicate little Nancy. ![]() With some added vegetation it would be really hard to spot I suspect. Now days they just come with the twine so I improvised and used my Cold Steel shovel as a tent pole.Īs you can see we end up with a very low profile shelter.įifteen feet away and it’s already wanting to disappear. So I made one and spent the night in it.Īs issued the Plash Palatka comes with two tent poles, some twine, and some stakes. I suspected a low profile shelter like the one in the link above using a single tent pole would be easy to hide out in and I was curious how useable it would be. ![]() If you’ve ever read German accounts of the eastern front during WWII one issue they constantly run into are well camouflaged Russians. So instead for my latest outing I wanted to try out the shelter method outlined in the Russian manual. I’ve been really wanting to test out a Plash Palatka shelter in the rain but all the forecasted rain recently hasn’t materialized.
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