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DAXXY:
If you are lost in the snow and your clothes are wet, should you take your clothes off?

It depends. If the temperatures are above freezing, (32ºF/0ºC), then taking your clothes off when they are wet MIGHT be a good or okay idea/strategy for avoiding hypothermia.

This would only be helpful if you could build a fire and then take your clothes off, and dry them out by a fire or something. Then you could put them back on and stay warm.
If, on the other hand, the temperatures were WAY BELOW freezing, then you would want to keep them on, but with one distinct change: You will want to get that wet clothing away from your skin, so you will need to stuff the inside of your clothes with crumpled paper, with dried grasses, with dead leaves, or cattail down, or even bubble wrap, to give you some insulation. It will allow your body heat to start to dry out the wet clothes, and still give you protection from the wind, the cold, the snow, or the surrounding wilderness environment.

Other Factors: What kind of clothes are you wearing that is wet? If you’re wearing jeans, a cotton sweatshirt and cotton t-shirt, then yes, that’s a huge, huge problem.

If you’re wearing polar fleece or wool pants or sweaters or long underwear, or other ‘wicking’ synthetic clothing, you can keep wearing them, because those clothes will keep you warm, even when wet. However, I would take them off, wring them out, squeeze out as much water as I can, and then put it back on as quick as you can so they don’t get too cold and chill you out! That’s a ‘fresh’ feeling, putting wet clothes back on, in the winter!
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Semyon Zolotaryov Had a rolled up newspaper in his back trouser pocket.
https://dyatlovpass.com/case-files-349-351?rbid=17743

Does this tell us that by the time Semyon is in the shelter he is still not in a desperate soaking wet hypothermic state because the newspaper is still in his pocket. Also he hasn't offered it to any other casualty so maybe some in this group only need cloth wrappings to protect their feet and hands from snow contact.  They aren't yet needing to pack their clothes with newspaper.  Then their shelter collapsed.

Star man:
Interesting observation about the newspaper.  Its not generally the sort of thing you would carry around in your back pocket after several days of hiking in the wilderness.  I would be interested in the date on the paper. 

Regards

Star man

DAXXY:
Interesting that it's in his back pocket. He isn't laying on it and nobody is using it to sit on or pack their wet clothing. Hard to do tunneling with a paper sticking up out of your back pocket.  So does this tell us that the den is dug and finished and they are inside and relatively comfortable before it suddenly collapses ?

RidgeWatcher:
Why didn’t he offer the newspaper to help start the fire back at the cedar? And why the heck was that in his back pocket when they all left the tent? No shoes, no jackets, but a newspaper? Did he use it for toilet paper? Only asking that because he was better dressed and he may have been on guard that night or outside the tent talking to a man about a horse.

Star man:
He may have been using it for the toilet, or for fire lighting, but again the case files don't say enough about the condition of tge news paper.  It is odd.  I d9nt think it tells us much about the den.  Its unlikely they could have constructed much of a den.  Also the bodies were found lying together more or less, e cent Lyuda.  But tge bodies were several metres from the makeshift tree branch floor.  So why would they lie down together with Kolevatoc embracing Semyon, several metres from the branches?

Regards

Star man

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