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Surviving In The Wilderness - The 8 Essentials

The most important technique for surviving in the wilderness is the will to survive. You need the correct attitude or you will have a very tough time surviving.

A lot of your survival skills can be learned from being in the wilderness. From going to seminars, shows, to learning the skills passed down from your parents or grandparents. Here I will detail some of the bare essentials that are needed in a survival situation. Having a survival kit is a necessity, but the contents of that kit will depend on your situation.

1. Your first priority is shelter. In wet or changeable weather conditions most people cannot survive for more than a few hours. Your shelter must protect you from the elements and be comfortable enough for resting and sleeping.

2. Another skill to learn is how to make a fire. Practice this skill under different conditions: wet and dry. A fire will not only keep you dry but you can use it to cook food, purify water or even sterilize bandages.

3. Water is an essential. A human can last many weeks without food, but only a few days without water. Dehydration can occur if water is not found. Rest, keep cool, stay in the shade, seek shelter are some things we can do to prevent water loss. Keep water on hand, don't wait until you are out.Remember a lot of foods contain water.

4. Finding food in the wilderness is very important, but not an essential. We can live several weeks without it, but its important to keep up our energy and our mental and emotional state.

5. Signaling for help should be learned before you have to use it. If you don't have a two way radio, cell phone or a whistle, you will need to use visual signs. Depending on what you have for material, you can either use fire and smoke, a mirror, flares, flashlight or strobe light.

6. Finding your direction without a compass. Nature gives us different ways to determine what direction to go including the moon, sun, stars, wind, trees, and even plants. With your knowledge of the terrain and these methods you can get a true direction to travel in.

7. Wilderness first aid is one of the basic principles to learn. You need to know how to apply them even under a stressful situation. Although there are along of injuries I could list, learning the basic principles with help you apply them to almost any situation.

8. Basic knowledge of how to predict weather. This will help you to take appropriate action before the worst comes. This will also keep you out of trouble and your safety is at risk.

Your survival skills will help you survive in a disaster or wilderness survival situation. Many people don't have the skill or knowledge to survive in the wilderness. That's why many people will survive in groups, even if its a small group. My advice is to learn all the survival skills you can. Learn from people who have been there, or can tutor you.

Source: Tom is passionate about the outdoors and all it has to offer. If you want to know more about the type of Survival Knives out there, please visit: http://www.mysurvivalknife.com

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Could You Really Survive In The Wild?

In the last couple of years it's become a popular concept. Going out alone to survive in the wilderness using only your wits and the tools you have with you. It seems that as we get more labour saving devices and our lives become easier, the idea of going back to nature and fending for ourselves becomes more appealing. Possibly we just romanticise the idea because of shows we watch or maybe there is a natural born hunter in all of us trying to get out.

There are a variety of TV programmes that glorify the idea of bush craft featuring bushcraft specialists like Bear Grylls and Ray Mears. These shows are intended to entertain and to a small degree educate. However these men are specialists and have had extensive training, whether it is military or other. Is surviving in the wilderness actually possible for any extended period of time?

In the channel 4 program alone in the wild, Ed Wardle a Scottish outdoor adventurer was dropped into the Canadian wilderness with the intention of showing he could survive there for 3 months. Ed was left in the Yukon armed with only a camera, a rifle and a fishing rod to aid his survival. Prior to the show Ed has made a variety of documentaries in some of the world's most hostile environments including the North Pole and the peak of Mount Everest. He also received training from medical and survival experts. However it was important to note that he was not a survival expert himself.

Ed lasted 50 days in the wilderness before issuing a distress call and being flown out. His condition had deteriorated greatly and he was suffering from severe weight loss and his mental state had also become questionable.

Despite this 50 days is a great achievement but it highlights the point that man just simply isn't made to survive alone. If you're armed with an archery bow and have a great knowledge of survival bushcraft then you will be more capable than most at getting by in the wilderness.

However, living in the wild is certainly not going to be a permanent thing, but if you ever find yourself alone in the wild having good bushcraft skills will definitely help you survive for a while.

Sam Qam has studied survival bushcraft and is a crack shot with an archery bow.

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Managing A Fire

Fire can be our most valuable resource, but given its capacity for destruction it can also be our greatest enemy, scarring landscapes and decimating forests.

The first question we ask ourselves is whether or not it is appropiate to light a fire. The campfire in particular is a matter of fierce debate. One view is that hike stoves should be carried into the wilderness and used instead, because they leave behind fewer traces of our presence. On the other side back-to-nature campers maintain that sitting by a campfire brings them closer to nature in a spiritual way that is impossible with hike stoves.

It all depends on where you are. It is certainly true that there are areas where use of a campfire is innappropiate: places where it may trigger a forest fire where fuel is not sufficiently plentiful, or where fires have never been lit before. In these regions a hike stove is the sensible option as it safeguards the environment we have set out to enjoy. But at the same time there are many other places where the falmes do not threaten the forest, where fuel is abundant and where, with proper management, a campfire need not leave any unwelcome after-effects.

I recommend aiming to travel throughthe landscape like a shadow, leaving as little trace of yourself and your activities as possible, and to use either a campfire or a stove as your location and circumstances dictate.

An excert from Essential Bushcraft by Ray Mears.

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