Not to derail the thread to something else but ...



Off course, hikermor was not in a survival situation, and needed water to cool quickly, but imagine if someone was cold and wet.

A guy did the same in a survival show or video where the scenario is that he has been wet and cold. I immediately thought that the situation dictates he should utilize every ounce of heat and not waste it away. He should have hugged that hot bottle and absorbed the excess heat in his body or wet clothes instead of wasting it in the running stream..

In another video, the guy starts the esbit stove by a match, then he blows the match and tosses it aside. Although the heat in the remaining match isn't much, but we should re-program ourselves to conserve every BTU or calorie in a survival situation, so he should have tossed the match INTO the esbit stove.