Originally Posted By: Denis
From an article about a snowboarder who was lost for a couple days:

Boucher said he survived the freezing nights in the hazardous North Shore wilderness, in part, by using his own urine in a Ziploc bag as a kind of hot water bottle.

Seems pretty clever to me.


Hmm, at what point did the "hot water bottle" cease to be a source of heat and become something else to keep warm with his own body heat? My guess, in about an hour maybe two. After that, keeping the bag next to you would only rob the person of heat to prevent the bag from freezing. Still, its worth the effort.