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Ten Wilderness Survival Backpacking Tips

Why should you learn wilderness survivalfifteen minutes later. The line between the
skills just for backpacking? They may savethe first and second marks points east. A few
your life someday, and for ultralighttechniques like this can save you when your
enthusiasts like myself, skills replace gear,compass is lost.5. Weather: In the Rocky
and therefore weight. The best reason,Mountains you can see the clouds forming just
however, may be that it's just a good feelingbefore the afternoon storms. Being able to
to know you can deal with whatever comes up.read the sky can keep you out of trouble.
It makes you feel more at home.To surviveLightning kills hikers in Colorado
means to stay warm and dry, hydrated,regularly.6. Staying dry: Hypothermia is the
uninjured, and to find your way out of thebiggest wilderness killer, and getting wet is
survival situation. Eating is nice too, butthe biggest cause. Watch for ledges or large
not crucial if the situation is for a fewfir trees to stand under if you see the rain
days. Below are some more or less randomcoming.7. Shelter: A pile of dry leaves and
survival tips, just to get youdead grass can keep you very warm in an
interested.Wilderness Survival Tips1. Warmth:emergency.8. Hydration: Fill water bottles
Sleep with your head slightly downhill toevery chance you get, and you won't have such
stay warmer. This may take some getting useda hard time with any long dry stretches of
to, but it works.2. Food: In North America,trail.9. Injury: Pop a "blister" on the trunk
there is no berry that looks like aof a small spruce or fir tree, and you can
blueberry, strawberry, or rasberry, that canuse the sap that oozes out as an good
hurt you from one taste. Just spit it out ifantiseptic dressing for small cuts.10. Fire
it doesn't taste right. If it looks andstarter: White birch bark will usually light
tastes like a blueberry - it is.3. Fireeven when wet.These are just a few of the
starter: If you put dried moss or milkweedwilderness survival tips and techniques you
fuzz in your pocket as you walk, you'll havecan easily learn. Why not practice one or two
dry tinder to start a fire, just in case it'son your next backpacking trip?Steve Gillman
raining later. Experiment with differentis a long-time backpacker, and advocate of
materials.4. Direction-finding: Mark the tiplightweight backpacking.
of the shadow of a stick, and mark it again



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