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Survival skills are not
come by naturally for most of us. In my classes, I teach
my students that the first thing to consider before a
survival situation is to be prepared for an outdoor
survival situation. It's tops in my line of survival
tips.
In our modern era, as you well know, and may
sympathize with, smoking is vociferously chastened. In a
wilderness situation, it is true that unwise cigarette
thumpings have caused untold forest fires. However, with
the demise of cigarettes in the great outdoors, also
come the demise of lighters and matches.
How many of us have wandered into the woods
without so much as a box of matches in our pockets. Yes,
we have money, credit cards, and possibly even an
emergency candy bar, but more often than not, nary a
single match. To survive in the wilderness means being
ready for the unexpected. No thought of outdoor survival
skills.
In the hot summertime, a can off bug repellant is
probably more useful than a way to light a fire unless
you plan to barbecue, but when the temperature drops
below 70F, you best have a way to light off a cheery
blaze if necessary. Most possibly the last thing in your
back pocket is a guide to wilderness survival. And what
exactly is wilderness survival & living? I'll tell you.
It's when you are in the woods one foot past ready help.
It can be as close as a woodsy back yard if you break
your leg.
Do more deaths occur below freezing or above
freezing? The answer is contrary to what you might
think. More people die well above freezing than below
for the simple reason that when a body gets cold, it's
more likely to get moving to stir up warmth. Outdoor
survival skills take into account the unforeseen
dangers.
When the air is chill rather than cold, a strange
little phenomena sets in. You stay longer than you
should have. Sometimes fatally so. Wilderness survival
skills are sometimes about staying alive in dumb
situations.
We're talking about hypothermia, of course, and
how to survive it. Actually, the best way is to know
enough survival skills to never let it happen in the
first place.
Let me give you a scenario of dumb outdoor
survival that happened to me. I walked to my stand
during the hottest part of the day in the early
afternoon and got up in a tree with my climbing tree
stand. In the process I got thoroughly damp with sweat.
Further, the walk and climb was fairly tiring. Even
though I was in the bloom of youth, perhaps I had not
enough sleep, or who knows what. By the time I got
settled in my stand, I was tired and sleepy, and my
clothes were pretty soggy.
Over the next two or three hours, I dozed the
afternoon away, opening an eye every so often to check
out the meanderings of gray squirrels, who should have
been deer...but were not. By and by the sun went behind
the hill and it cooled off quickly indeed. More, the
wind got up a bit.
I had planned to stay until shortly before dark,
but before long I started shivering so badly that I had
no choice but to get out of the tree. Frankly, it was a
little scary, because I was really vibrating.
Fatigue, plus sweaty clothing, along with a
rising wind and no sun all combined to send me into the
first stages of hypothermia with the temps fully in the
low 60's.
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skills for cold weather from the year 1882... Think how
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Professor Newcomb,
who
was the naturalist of the Jeannette expedition, has
formulated some hints on the best methods to endure
cold.
Regarding survival skills he advises no fire in a
room where a half dozen or more men sleep. He advises
ample exercise, and to remove the cold feeling in the
stomach after exercising, hot tea he recommends is the
best remedy.
Regarding survival skills he advises not to bathe
frequently. He bathed his feet often, took a dry rub and
kept clean underclothes, and did not suffer so much cold
as others who bathed more often than he. He gained flesh
while in the frozen regions, and slept excellently well.
He found woolen underclothes to answer well, but he
would advise undergarments of cotton and wool mixed.
They shrink less and are more durable, he says. Cotton
and wool stockings are best, he declares.
Regarding survival skills exterior fur clothing
he found indispensable, Kemdeer being the warmest, but
sealskin the strongest and will stand more wetting. He
used deerskin or young hair-seal stockings or foot-nips
inside his boots,
and over his stockings. His mittens were made
gauntlet-fashion, with woolen linings, fur seal backs
and black skin palms.
Regarding survival skills he lined the palms with
mink skin. He advises an opening in front below the
palm. By this means one can readily uncover the thumb
and fingers without exposing the whole hand. A properly
filled
stomach he advises by all means. Soups should not be
substituted for meat.
(Ed note: Don't try the cold
water cure part...)
For frostbite he declares cold water to be the best
remedy. He found a mixture of glycerine and burnt coak
on exposed parts of the face and nose to prevent frost
bite.
It looked dirty, but it was most beneficial. He
also rubbed some of this on the eyelids to relieve the
glare of the snow and light.
I also had a run in with old man hypothermia
while trying to swim a river when I was a teenager too.
The air was plenty warm, and the first couple of feet of
river was too, but below that was icy cold. Every time I
paused to rest, the lower half of my body fell below the
thermal layer. By the time I finally waded ashore I was
a beautiful shade of blue.
About the time I was having my fun in the woods
in that tree a teenager decided to wade a belly button
high spit of water, in a nearby reservoir during hunting
season instead of walking around it. He died. He
exhibited a fatal lack of outdoor survival skills.
A couple of years ago in the same area a kid
decided to swim across a recreational lake. He got in
trouble half way across. Two men jumped in to rescue
him. They all drowned within a stone's throw of the
shore.
Back in my earlier hunting days a good friend of
mine who couldn't get lost on a bet got lost during
hunting season on a fairly temperate day. No matches.
The weather turned cold and misty while he was wandering
around in the bottoms of a small valley, short sleeves
and all. His brother had the idea to shoot off some
bottle rockets, which could have set the woods afire
around his brother. Luckily Charley saw the fireworks
and found the truck. He could have died that evening.
Anyone who has a tendency to inhabit the woods
like me, if they live long enough will have one or more
tales of narrow escape to tell. Some won't live to tell
it.
Anyone who has the woods tendency and lives long
enough eventually learns to be prepared. We're talking a
survival kit here. Sometimes something as simple as a
cigarette lighter can be the difference between life and
death...and, of course, knowing how to build a fire
quickly. Survival skills means that you actually
survive.
Be the one to SURVIVE. Be READY. Take Action NOW!
 It
is a fact that something as simple as a
bottle of water may one day save your life.
Don't let
the inconvenience of becoming
prepared deprive you of all that you ever
were or ever hope to be.
At the end,
don't think, "I should have paid more
attention to breathing." Don't let it be
you. Don't feed Darwin. Old whisker face is
fat enough. Be the survivor. Outdoor Survival
Skills!
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