But you also need to feel that the place you are in, however remote, belongs to you. Man has always built shelters for protection: from the prehistoric caves to the arctic borders, whoever ventures into nature needs to protect himself from the wind, sun, snow or rain. Today I still use those tarps that the Soviets called Plash Palatka to protect myself from the cold wind that rises at dawn.Īni4x4-Bushcraft-Shelter-Plash-Palatka He made a fire, we had dinner, I don’t even remember what, and the next morning, almost by magic, he picked up the Plash Palatka that had served as our refuge and we continued our way. When the shelter was ready we did not even have a roof but a large canvas supported at one end by a branch, like a kite that cannot take off and with which we covered ourselves from the wind that rose from the valley. As soon as he called me by my name, I followed his gestures and tried to drag as many branches as he could find. My grandfather laughed without a single gesture, left the backpack at his feet and began to look for dead branches and wood. I looked towards the top of the trees, imagining that someone had built a wooden roof in the middle of the forest from which a chimney protruded. – Укрытие – he whispered, pointing to some giant beech trees. My grandfather Edvard stopped almost without a sound:
We had gone out to the mountain and it was close to sunset.
First time I heard the word Укрытие I was no more than 8 or 9 years old. If I had to translate it into English I think I would use the expression shelter. Although Russian is a fluent language, it sounds smoothly, like the great rivers of Siberia during the thaw Укрытие has another character, strong, strong as if something is coming to an end. Укрытие (pronounced Ukrytiye) is a word that the Russians use to refer to a kind of roofing or covering, to that coat with which they feel safe from the black sky that owns the nights in the taiga when the sky shows constellations as old as the beginning of time.
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