Not having shelter in a survival situation is a costly mistake that may cost you your life in a Wilderness Survival Situation. All Shelters are not created equal poor knowledge on how to build a shelter from nature’s tools which are all around you may be the difference between life and death depending on the elements mother nature places you in during your ordeal. When people discuss the major mistakes of people who died in the Wilderness there is a common theme that you hear and that is the inability to shelters onesself from the exposure of the elements. Whether it is cold weather, heat or exposure to intense winds chances are you did not have the knowledge to construct a shelter to keep you out of the elements.