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short pegs can serve as a dead-man anchor; the guy line is tied around the middle of the peg, which is then buried horizontally at least one foot below the snow surface at right angles to the guy line. The overlying snow is tamped thoroughly. If fir boughs are used as a floor, they should, if tent design permits, be laid after the tent is pitched, but with an adequate supply along the sides of the tent. This eliminates the tendency to roll off the edge of a fir-bough mattress. Other Shelter Under ordinary circumstances ski mountaineers should use a tent for shelter. But tents may be destroyed by fire or storm, and skiers may be separated from the member of the party carrying the tent. Therefore, every ski mountaineer should know how to construct certain basic types of shelters from field materials. In addition, snow caves and igloos are more comfortable in heavy winds and under conditions of intense cold than are tents, and if time permits will be constructed out of preference. In the spring when the snow is deep and well packed, some experienced snow campers travel without a tent, relying entirely upon bivouacs. |
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