Outdoor Survival Skills
Starting a fire is the first one. If you have that you likely won't freeze no matter where you are stuck.
Water. You need water and knowing how to purify it is essential.
Shelter. Protect yourself from the elements.
Food. You can go for a while without it but it helps to know how to forage, hunt, fish, and if you're smart, have a simple plan for having food with you always.
Showing posts with label Survival Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Survival Science. Show all posts
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Monday, January 2, 2017
Millennials and Survival Skills and How about GenX
Millennials lack basic survival skills
If survival meant using the latest phone app then millennials as a group would be above the rest of us. It may yet prove to be so if somehow Skynet becomes a reality. I suggest the age cutoff is not just 20 somethings but maybe even 40 - 50 somethings. Most haven't learned survival basics. If you always lived in urban areas it often doesn't matter how old you age since city living usually means getting your needs at the local store. You never had to do it yourself. If you grew up on a farm then likely you know much more than most about basics for survival. Areas you don't know you can fill in with practice and study.
Many of the simple things like jump starting a car, siphoning fuel, tying a knot, or growing your own food people born in the last 40 years don't have a clue. They just get out the cell phone and call for help, but what happens if that help is no longer available.
Sadly, most people wouldn't make it a few days in the woods if it were in cold temperatures and water was scarce. Many couldn't grow their own food if the food supply started becoming sketchy and hunting is outside of their psychological realm.
Here are 4 suggestions to learn what you need to know for basic survival skills.
1. Making Temporary Shelters
2. Finding Water
3. How to find food in the wild
4. Starting a fire with no tools
Book to Read
How To Stay Alive in The Woods by By Bradford Angier
Bushcraft 101 by Dave Canterbury
Items to Purchase and keep in your vehicle
Lifestraw
Magnesium fire starter
Butane Lighter
Emergency Survival Blanket - multiples
Water - in bottles and replace regularly - add a canteen
After you've handled these others then you can find the food you need.
Food
Foil packed Salmon and Tuna
Sardines
Vienna Sausage
MRE - entrees
Protein and Energy Bars
Extras you can save from visits to fast food outlets
Normal things you'd toss once you used what you needed can be used later. Fast food items that come in the order are often good to have around.
Salt, pepper, and Ketchup packets
Plastic forks, knives, and spoons
If survival meant using the latest phone app then millennials as a group would be above the rest of us. It may yet prove to be so if somehow Skynet becomes a reality. I suggest the age cutoff is not just 20 somethings but maybe even 40 - 50 somethings. Most haven't learned survival basics. If you always lived in urban areas it often doesn't matter how old you age since city living usually means getting your needs at the local store. You never had to do it yourself. If you grew up on a farm then likely you know much more than most about basics for survival. Areas you don't know you can fill in with practice and study.
Many of the simple things like jump starting a car, siphoning fuel, tying a knot, or growing your own food people born in the last 40 years don't have a clue. They just get out the cell phone and call for help, but what happens if that help is no longer available.
Sadly, most people wouldn't make it a few days in the woods if it were in cold temperatures and water was scarce. Many couldn't grow their own food if the food supply started becoming sketchy and hunting is outside of their psychological realm.
Here are 4 suggestions to learn what you need to know for basic survival skills.
1. Making Temporary Shelters
2. Finding Water
3. How to find food in the wild
4. Starting a fire with no tools
Book to Read
How To Stay Alive in The Woods by By Bradford Angier
Bushcraft 101 by Dave Canterbury
Items to Purchase and keep in your vehicle
Lifestraw
Magnesium fire starter
Butane Lighter
Emergency Survival Blanket - multiples
Water - in bottles and replace regularly - add a canteen
After you've handled these others then you can find the food you need.
Food
Foil packed Salmon and Tuna
Sardines
Vienna Sausage
MRE - entrees
Protein and Energy Bars
Extras you can save from visits to fast food outlets
Normal things you'd toss once you used what you needed can be used later. Fast food items that come in the order are often good to have around.
Salt, pepper, and Ketchup packets
Plastic forks, knives, and spoons
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Book Reviews - Screwed, The Survivors Club
Here are a few books worth getting from the library.
Screwed by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann is a great rundown of the raping of the USA by China, Saudi Arabia and numerous others.
The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood is an excellent treatment of research on survival. It reads well too since he includes stories of survival rather than just clinical info.
Screwed by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann is a great rundown of the raping of the USA by China, Saudi Arabia and numerous others.
The Survivors Club by Ben Sherwood is an excellent treatment of research on survival. It reads well too since he includes stories of survival rather than just clinical info.
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