05 May, 2009
Don’t Get Caught in the Woods Without Your Survival Gear
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All adventurers should take the time to learn wilderness survival skills. Situations can always take a turn for the worst and knowing how to survive often depends on learning some very necessary skills and having an outdoor survival kit at your disposal.
9 Wilderness Survival Skills All Adventurers Must Know
1. How to tell direction.GPS is great, but navigation skills will never fail you.Orienteering is an important skill.
2. Advanced navigation skills are necessary for anyone serious about outdoor survival. These are skills taught by experienced outdoorsmen who can teach you how to tell direction even when the sun isn’t shining, or observing prevailing winds or by looking at ‘indicators’ on rocks, melting snow, trees and shrubs. If you are able to do these things, then you will never have to worry even if you dropped the compass.
3. How to use your environment as shelter.Take note of your surroundings as there are many natural objects you can use for shelter.A shelter can protect you from sun, wind, rain, snow, and animals. Be able to build a shelter from the only available materials in your environment.
4. Knowing how to build a fire is an essential outdoor surviival skill.You should be aware that knowing how to start a fire is the most important skill of all.Fire will keep you warm, give you light and can keep foraging animals at bay.
5. Know how to find food and water.Learn how to tell what plants can be eaten. Also, know how to handle plants that you have to crack, such as coconuts.Learn how to fish, trap animals, and how to prepare them for eating.
6. You how to distinguish safe drinking water sources.Have a way to sterilize water.
7. You must learn first aid so you can treat anyone who is injured or becomes sick. First aid supplies should be first on your survival gear checklist.
8. Learn how to make tools and weapons out of the objects that exist in your environment - branches, leaves, vines and rocks.You can use these objects as hammers, clubs, and knives.
9. Learn how to deal with wild animal encounters.Be aware that running or trying to climb a tree is not always the correct answer.
Remain calm, keep a level head, don’t make mistakes. Remember that the wilderness is not your enemy.You must know how to work with the wilderness to survive. Smarts and a good wilderness survival kit will keep you alive.
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