Using Shoelaces For a Poncho Shelter

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is John Stewart and this is how you thread the laces to suspend your poncho tent or emergency shelter. Once you've got it staked out, take one shoe lace or two in case you have to reach a little higher location to tie your poncho off. Take one of them, take and ball up the hood, the top of the hood on the poncho, take and make a ball out of it, okay. Then you're just going to wrap the rope around it and tie a knot to secure it. This doesn't have to be a fancy knot, just something that's going to grab hold of the poncho, okay. Once you've got that tied around there, you're going to take and them tie it off to your higher location, branch in the tree, another suspended line that you have, something like that. You're going to tie it off, and pull it up, you don't want to pull tight so that you don't rip your stakes or your poncho. Pull it up to where you've got room to enter inside the poncho shelter and have room to move, okay. It's not going to be that roomy, but pull it up, tie if off, and then you're set to go inside your emergency poncho shelter. So that's how you tie up and string your emergency poncho shelter."