Survival Skills On Offer At Children's Weekend In Woodland Wilderness

Most people wouldn't have a clue how to light a fire without matches and could not build a rainproof shelter from broken branches and leaves even if their life depended on it.

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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.

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Trust Your Instincts: The Art Of Bushcraft

A craft in the bushes, Bushcraft is all about the ability and the skills to thrive and survive in the raw environment. It necessitates the achievement of such capabilities and knowledge to manipulate resources manually. It is having the taste of how our ancestors lived some thousand of years ago.

Bushcraft as a term is widely known in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. The term was introduced in Australia by Les Hiddins, also know as the "Bush Tucker Man," who also spread its popularity in the Southern Hemisphere.

Mors Kochanski made it known to the northern part of the world. Ray Mears, with this survival television shows popularized it in the United Kingdom.

Skills in Bushcraft include:

Environmental Education

It is the knowledge of wildlife behaviors, like for example foraging, a branch in science that actually studies the behavior of animals.

It can also be the knowledge on the identification of wild plants, how to use them, and ability to perceive weather conditions.

Tracking

Tracking in the wild denotes following animal's track with the actual marks to be able to get hold of them. The skill will allow you to get to them close enough to kill them for food.

Hunting

Bushcraft hunting denotes the pursuit of animals for food. Fishing also falls under this category. One must also know how to obtain and purify water that is safe enough to drink.

Fire Craft

The ability to start a fire is a life-saving skill. Fire serves a lot of purposes, most especially in the wild. It gives comfort and warmth. It is very important not only to be able to cook food, but also to be able to preserve things. It can be used to sterilize bandages, to boil water for purification, provides protection from wild animals, and for rescue signals.

Shelter Building

It is the ability to use all possible resources to create a shelter from environmental forces, animals, and any danger in the wild.

Use of Bushcraft tools such as:

• Cutting tools, knives and axes
• Carving tools
• Bonfire cooking pot
• Bonfire tripod
  
• Bungees
• Paracord spools, etc.

Rope Twine-Making It is the ability to twine ropes to be used as pulleys, to redirect pulling force to the opposite direction. It is also used as a means to have a mechanical advantage. Different kinds of knots are invented with different purposes, namely:

• Pulling
• Fastening
• Hunting
• Attaching
• Fastening
• Lifting
• Carrying, etc.

One must also know how to join sticks or poles by lashing. To be able to do all of these things one must know how to look for raw materials that can be used to make a rope. Materials for rope making can be found just about anywhere, from palms, grasses, vines, barks, and even animal hair. Any material can be used as long as it is fibrous; it has enough length and have moderate strength and flexible.

Bushcraft will enable you to find inner harmony with the environment. It is not only a skill essential for survival, but also has become a skill to support other recreational activities, such as wild-life watching, hunting, nature photography, and the like.

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