Basic Survival Skills
Basic Survival SkillsThe time to learn basic survival skills is before you need them.
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Even the most experienced outdoor enthusiast can encounter circumstances where basic survival skills become very necessary. Survival skills can keep you alive for days, or even weeks, in the wilderness until you can get back to the comforts of your normal life. (Unless, of course, you decide you like it in the wild.)
We will be explaining how to use some ancient alternative methods and equipment as well as modern day technology to sustain personal comfort levels in the wild while stressing safety, knowledge, and personal education as the keys to survival.
A gift for anyone who spends time outdoors.
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Don't Die Out There
is a compact deck of playing cards that tucks easily into any backpack or pocket. Your poker hand contains basic survival tips that could prove life saving! From construction of emergency shelters and evacuation techniques to how to care for someone with a fracture or construct a solar still, topics are organized by card suit. Christopher Van Tilburg, M.D., is also the author of Emergency Survival and First Aid pocket guides
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The book, "Naked into the Wilderness
" contains information on everything from processing hides, field dressing and preparing the meat, to primitive tools, shelters and containers and will entertain you as well as teach you how to accomplish the tasks with the skills needed for wilderness survival. This 400 page "how-to" contains over 700 photographs and line drawings.
The most important survival skills everyone should know
1. First aid basics
2. Obtaining safe drinking water (learn how to build a water still)
3. Acquiring food
4. Firecraft
5. Shelters
6. How to find your way in the woods
7. Signaling for help
Equipment
Mother Nature can, and will, give you everything you need to stay alive. Learning basic survival skills and obtaining the appropriate equipment will make your task much easier. The more you know about wilderness survival, the less you need to carry in your survival kit. The most important piece of gear a person can have in a survival situation is a good knife.
Survival in the wilderness is very serious business, but learning basic survival skills can, and should, be fun. Of the many aspects of wilderness survival, you should pick your area of interest and educate yourself there first, then continue on to all other aspects of basic survival skills.
Survival begins with your attitude. Being self-reliant in a wilderness setting will give you self-confidence and help you keep a positive attitude where fear, your greatest enemy, is minimized or kept at bay should you ever find yourself in a survival situation.
Ways to learn basic survival skills:
1. First of all, read the information contained in this website.
2. Take a Red Cross class in basic first aid.
3. Build a fire without matches or a lighter in an outdoor grill.
4. Using a tarp, make a serviceable survival shelter in your backyard.
5. Make a weekend camping trip to one of the many state or federal parks or visit Uncle____’s farm and practice some of your newly learned basic survival skills until you are comfortable with them.
The key is to learn and practice your skills in small increments, in safe comfortable surroundings. Be prepared for those unforeseen events that may leave you stranded or cut off from civilization. Be a wilderness survivor, not a wilderness victim. Learn basic survival skills before you need them.
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