Traveler's Compact Blanket

Compact, lightweight blanket of aluminized, non-stretchable polyester. Remains flexible in the cold. Reflects body heat back to the body. Windproof and waterproof. The "space" blanket, also known as the Mylar, thermal, or rescue blanket, was developed for NASA in 1964. It is made of thin plastic film, mainly PET, with a metallic coating. Typically, these thermal blankets have a golden or silver color. The material of the thermal blanket is capable of reflecting up to 97% of the heat radiated by an object that is wrapped in it. Also the material of this blanket is waterproof. These properties of a thermal blanket can play a key role in saving a person’s life, especially if it's cold. If you wrap a blanket around the body, it will prevent the development of hypothermia and frostbite in cold and frosty weather. Also in rainy weather it can work as a raincoat. In addition, most of the rescue blankets that are on sale are “cosmic” blankets, and are intended for use in any weather. They are not disposable and rather durable. Also, some models of such blankets have grommets around the edges and can be used as an awning for making shelters, for protecting equipment from moisture or as bedding if the ground is cold or wet. If there is more than one thermal blanket in your gear, you can make up a small tent (like tents). Also do not forget about the waterproof properties of such a blanket that allows you to use it as a raincoat. But now let's talk about unobvious ways to use the "space" blanket. 1) Extraction of fire - As shown in one of the TV shows about the survivalists (Fat Guys In The Woods (Season 2, Episode 1 ″ Operation Desert Patrol "), parts of the space blanket can be given a concave shape and can be used to concentrate the sun rays, which set fire to the fire for the fire.Although it is quite a long way of extracting fire, it works, you can also simplify the system and use just any bowl or even a hole in the ground to concentrate the sunbeam on the kindling and set it on fire. or hole with gently sloping edges of the thermal blanket, the reflective side facing out, and making it so that the light beam is in its center and the walls of the concavity are used as a reflector (as in flashlights). After that, it is in that place where the light rays are concentrated any dense stand (so as not to spoil the blanket) and wait until the kindling starts to fester. 2) Cooking and purifying water - In the manner described above — you can create a peculiar bowl with a thermo blanket or a hole in the ground. uhovku, which with the help of concentrated sunlight to try to cook food or heat a small amount of water. To heat the water, you will need a clean metal or plastic container, such as a cup. Ultraviolet rays and the temperature when heated with a concentrated beam of sunlight on an average of 6 hours clear the water of most of the harmful bacteria and parasites. Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Salmonella typhi, and E. coli, for example, are killed at 140 ° F (60 ° C), and Hepatitis A at 149 ° F (65 ° C), but in order for this to happen it is necessary to influence such a temperature for a long time and since you will most likely not be able to measure the temperature of the water, let it stand under the sun as long as possible. 3) Signal tool - With the help of a thermal blanket, you can create a signal mirror or hang it up as a marker for search groups so that it can be seen from the air. For ease of use and carrying it can be mounted on a branch, a piece of plastic or wood. 4) Rope - The material of the rescue blanket is quite durable, and if you cut it into small pieces, you can weave a rope out of it, or even just use the obtained tapes to tie and secure loads and structures. Yes, the material of the blanket itself is easily punctured and torn off, but the ropes from it have a rather large tensile strength. 5) Protection from sunlight - The blanket can not only retain body heat when you are wrapped in it, but also prevent too much sun from getting on your skin. But for this you should not wrap up in it, if it is too hot on the street. Simply create a canopy that protects you from sunburn. 6) Bait for fish - A piece of shiny thermal blanket can be used as bait when fishing. 7) Means of extracting rainwater or collecting dew - You can wrap a saving blanket around branches with green vegetation, put a weighting agent in the form of a pebble inside the bag and leave it overnight to collect the dew accumulated in the morning. To collect rainwater, you can dig a hole in the ground, you only need to pre-select a place not contaminated by animals with excrement or poisonous plants, then cover the hole with a blanket so that you can get a kind of container. Only it is necessary to fix the edges of the blanket well so that no rainwater gets inside only from above, and does not flow down from the edges along with the soil. 8) Thermo-reflective screen near the fire - Stretch out or just hang a blanket behind the fire, so that the heat of the fire reflects in the direction you want. Ideally, if you have several blankets, then you will make a canopy or a tent out of the pair, and one more - you use to create a heat reflecting screen. 9) Dryer for clothes - To speed up the process of drying things, you can use a mylar blanket. If you dry things in direct or diffused sunlight, or do a dryer by the fire, things are laid out on the heat-reflecting surface, they will dry faster. If you get wet and it's cold outside, one of the blankets is used as a shelter for drying clothes (that is, you wrap yourself in it), and the second is used as the basis of the dryer. Before you put things on the dryer, they must be squeezed out very well, then straightened as best as possible, and dried, turning over periodically. 10) The most obvious, but still worthwhile, is to once again pay attention to the way - the creation of a shelter. In a stressful situation, when you need to use survival skills, often you can simply not think of some thin piece of foil that lies somewhere in the first-aid kit. But it is better to keep in mind that you can not only make a shelter out of the mylar blanket, but also a rain cover and protection from snow. Using it can really save your life. There are also several ways to use a rescue blanket. For example, the creation of sunscreens on the windows in very hot sunny weather, and in winter - curtain doors to prevent excessive cooling of the room. The heat reflecting screen from the rescue blanket attached to the radiator will help speed up the process of heating the room. Also mylar blanket is used in first aid. If you are injured, you can use it as a last resort to make a tire or fix a damaged limb. And with abundant blood loss, the wounded man is wrapped in a blanket before being transported to the hospital to avoid hypothermia.
Necessary thing in traveler's baggage!

 Size: 52 "x 82.5" (132 x 210 cm)
 Weight: 1.5 oz. (42.5 g)