Update on space blanket from earlier post

So, a couple posts back i was commenting that while I liked the space blanket I was critical of its lack of certain features. Well, I guess I need to look harder next time because the company that makes it also makes a version more conducive to what i was doing the other day. A hooded version with pockets for your hands to help keep it wrapped around you. And, naturally, conveniently available offa Amazon. (Space Brand Sportsman’s Hooded Blanket/Poncho: Olive, Box)

Guess I’ll take the ones I already have and bump them down to secondary/backup status and replace them with this handoer version. (“Handier”…see what I did there?)

I should also point out that 9 times out of ten, when Im out in the sticks the one thing I use these sorts of tings for more than anything else is….to keep my but dry when I sit on a log or on the ground. I usually just take the folded product out, unfold it enough to be about the size of a phone book, and park it under my butt so I I can sit on wet/snowy ground. Hey, multi-taskers for the win!

2 thoughts on “Update on space blanket from earlier post

  1. Being stuck in outdoor film locations, I needed the same thing, so I borrowed a page from turkey hunters’ gear: I took a military sleep pad, cut out a butt-sized square, and sewed together a fabric cover/self pouch, and some fastex buckle straps that clip the thing to my belt. (It ca also get hooked to the bottom of a daypack. One a wet day, or when something I want to sit on in the Filthy City is too covered with Mystery Munge to plant my pants on, I unzip the pouch, the butt roll unfurls, and I’m not sitting on cold concrete, wet grass, or unknown Skid Row detritus at 3AM on an all-night shoot.

    I made another one with another piece of the GI sleep pad, made a Marpat cover for it, and it clips to the bottom of a MOLLE pack, for exactly the same purpose in the woods. You can let it flop around there, and when you’re ready to sit down, it’s already deployed. No more passive heat loss into wet ground or cold rocks, and no soggy pants.

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