Chapter 5

Shelters

TYPES OF SHELTERS

NO-POLE PARACHUTE TEPEE

5-24. Except for the center pole, you use the same materials for a no-pole parachute tepee (Figure 5-6), as for the one-pole parachute tepee.

Figure 5-6. No-Pole Parachute Tepee

5-25. To make this tepee, you should—

• Tie a line to the top of parachute material with a previously cut suspension line.

• Throw the line over a tree limb, and tie it to the tree trunk.

• Starting at the opposite side from the door, emplace a stake on the scribed 3.5- to 4.3-meter (12- to 14-foot) circle.

• Tie the first line on the lower lateral band.

• Continue emplacing the stakes and tying the lines to them.

5-26. After staking down the material, unfasten the line tied to the tree trunk, tighten the tepee material by pulling on this line, and tie it securely to the tree trunk.