Shelter Camo

[Rush2112]

If we are forced to stay outside, we plan on using mosquito netting as camo. Serves 2 purposes, keeps bugs away and offers very good concealment, especially combined with foliage.
Some of my concerns in staying concealed are fire, human waste, and trash. These apply whether staying in or out.

[Tartar Horde]

Let's help Scythe out with this and go with his initial proposition, a woodland location where he has to be as stealthy as possible.
Determine what level of concealment is needed, surroundings dictate this. If you level is high you should not use a fire of any sort, all animals, especially humans know who's making that smoke, and it will carry for a long way, enabling you to be tracked from downwind even if they can't see the smoke. Do not smoke ANYTHING it is a dead giveaway, as are those discarded butts. Do as Midnitemo says and get yourself lowdown to the ground, in a bushy area in a bivvy bag etc and conceal yourself with natural vegetation to hide your position. If possible make sure you have a good view of ways to approach your position, and have an exit strategy that allows you to leave unseen before you are confronted. Do not move about during the day, you will have to become nocturnal only moving at night. If you think there may be dogs around then I would seriously consider shitting in a bag and burying it, because if someone has a dog and it smells your toilet you are busted, you can't defeat a dogs nose it's the best there is. Do not under any circumstances set any traps or alarms like cans, this is not Hollywood, and they will tell the people that there are humans nearby due to the fact they are alarms. The point is to remain invisible in every way. If there are paths or tracks in your area do not walk on them as your footprints will give you away, allowing you to be back tracked, and if they use dogs to patrol the area they will scent you. This level of intense alertness can only be sustained for a short time before mental fatigue sets in, then you will start making mistakes as even the smallest task becomes tiring. So if you are in this situation you only have a short timescale in which to resolve your initial problem before exhaustion forces you to move, or act rashly.

[Rush2112]

(12 April 2014, 14:00)Tartar Horde Wrote: have an exit strategy that allows you to leave unseen before you are confronted.

The point is to remain invisible in every way.

This level of intense alertness can only be sustained for a short time before mental fatigue sets in, then you will start making mistakes as even the smallest task becomes tiring. So if you are in this situation you only have a short timescale in which to resolve your initial problem before exhaustion forces you to move, or act rashly.

Excellent points TH, well said.

On the point of dogs and human waste: anyone who has had dogs can attest to their intense facination with excrement, but in the scenario we have presented, there may be so much of it around that dog handlers will have their animals avoid it otherwise they'd just be chasing crap piles all day. Thats my hope anyway. It is difficult to lose a dog that's on your scent.