Patching a bicycle tire tube in a remote New Mexico State Park in winter time

I went through 3 tubes in 2 days during my travel from Santa Rosa down I-40 with the detour to Anton Chico and the maze west of there and then back down to I-40 via Jerome's truck and then down I-40 to Hwy 3 and Hwy 3 to Villanueva State Park....

Basically I had no spare tubes left... I put in my last tube.... one of the "no flat" goo-filled tubes on I-40 about 12 miles east of the Hwy 3 turnoff to Villanueva State Park.

I kept the last tube I pulled out on I-40 and once I got to Villanueva State Park I decided to do a tire patch job on it...

Here's what I did:

First I used the hand pump to put some air in the tube:

Then I took it down to the Pecos River... found a quiet little pool and dropped the partially aired up tube into it... Note: if you don't have a river, fill up a sink, bucket, tub or any container of water.... all you want is something to hold water so the escaping air will blow bubbles.....if you don't have a container and you're on the side of the road...get some soap from your toiletry kit.... any kind will do.... body wash... shampoo whatever and pour / squeeze some into a ziploc bag (or if you have to... your water bottle) add water to the soap and seal up the bag and shake so you have a bag of soapy bubbles and then slowly pour the soapy solution over the aired up tube.... the escaping air will blow bubbles at the point of the leak.... Neat huh!

Anyway in this case I had a big tub of water called the Pecos River so in goes the tube....

Then I submerged it till I found the leak...and there's the bubbles...

Next I marked the leak with my pen.... one thing I noted was that this leak was on the inside circumference of the tube and was on a seam.... leads me to believe it was a tube rupture vs a puncture...anyway I marked the leak....

Then I deflated the tube and used the roughening strip from the Genuine Innovations Bike kit to clean and roughen the rubber around the site of the leak...

Next I applied the cement from the Genuine Innovations kit -

and then used the hand dryer in the bathroom to hasten the drying.... it was so cold outside (below freezing)  that I had to go into the bathroom to do the repairs and use the hand dryer otherwise the cement wouldn't dry... a prequisite for applying the patch.... if I didn't have a bathroom hand dryer I would have held the tube over an open fire....

Last I peeled the backing off the Genuine Innovation tire patch and applied it to the cemented area....

and that's how you patch a tire tube in a state park in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico in 30 degree weather....