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How to survive in the woods

How to survive in the woods

Never been a hike admiring the wild flowers, watching the tips of trees, and suddenly found yourself completely alone and lost? What would happen to you if you do not find your way back to safety? While being lost in the woods can be a frightening experience, surviving alone in the wild is usually a matter of common sense, patience and use with wisdom gifts that nature offers. Everything you need to survive for a few days is shelter, heat, water and food.

Steps
Preparation

1. Plan ahead. Do not trek in the desert, do some research first. There are many resources on and libraries, but beware: most of the techniques used in these manuals are sometimes inaccurate or incomplete. One of the most detailed books on this is "Bushcraft – Outdoor Skills and Wilderness survival" by Mors Kochanski. Learn about the flora and fauna of the area you're exploring. Knowledge of local plants and animals can save your life! Also, if you need medication or injections.
2. Make sure someone knows where you are go wherever you go in the desert, and how long you intend to go. In this way, someone will realize that you are away, to help rescuers quickly your friends alert and be able to tell them where to start looking for you. Note: It is like a flight plan "that drives the file before exiting. Also, remember to call the person (s) you have notified them know when you are back. As a boy who cried wolf "a false alarm wasted resources relief and can be costly (some communities have begun to charge responsible parties).
3. Be prepared. basic survival tools like a knife, a stone magnesium, matches, rope, whistle, blanket "space" signal mirror, etc. can make the difference between life and death. Even if you're only on a day hike, remember to bring essential. After all this equipment is useless if you can not use it properly. Be sure to practice many times in a safe before venturing into the desert. Also, know how to catch and cook fish and game if the need arises.
4. Phone laptop with the spare battery or portable CB radio can be your best, quickest way to rescue if you are truly lost or injured. A cell signal can be obtained from a hill or a tree – but be sure that you contemplating a climb. serious hikers can even consider investing in a personal locator beacon extended treks precarious or very remote.

In the situation

1. Do not panic. The panic is more dangerous than anything else, because it interferes with the functioning of your best single tool for survival the most useful and versatile: mind. When you realize you're lost, before doing anything else, stop. Take a deep breath and stay calm. Even if you are hanging from a rope halfway down a mountain with a broken leg, remember that people have survived exactly this situation.
2. Stand still and look around you! Wherever you become your "zero point". Find a way to score with a spare clothing, a pile of stones, a sheet of paper, or anything else easily visible from a distance.
3. Stay in one place, not only will you increase your likely to be found, you can also increase your ability to survive by reducing the energy your body spends and the amount of water and the food you need. Hunker down and stay put. Chances are that someone you look, especially if you let someone know your plan (See above).
4. Post your location to maximize the chance that someone finds you. Make noise by whistling, shouting, singing, clapping rocks together. If you can, mark your location so it is visible from the air. If you're in a mountain meadow, make three piles of dark leaves or branches in a triangle. In areas of sand, make a big triangle in the sand. In a forest, you can prepare three small fires ready to ignite at any time, with lots of wet leaves nearby to make smoke. Three of anything in the desert is a standard distress signal.
5. Beginning of Scouting in your area, carefully keeping track of your position. Make sure you can always find your way back to your "point zero" as you get water, shelter, or home.
6. Find or create housing. Without adequate housing, you will be fully exposed to the elements and risk of hypothermia or heat stroke, according to the weather. If you're not properly dressed for the conditions, finding shelter is all more important. Fortunately, the woods are filled with tools and resources to make the two shelters and fires (for extra warmth, safety, and for signaling). Here are some things that you can use:

* Look for a tree cut down or bending. You can build a shed by piling branches along a fallen tree, then the branches with a brush, palm leaves or other plants.
* Use a brush or green branches (branch) trees to repel water, block wind, keep out snow, or create shade. Close in your home as parts as possible.
* Caves can be great, but being that the cave is not already occupied by bears, large cats, snakes or other animals hostile, they know caves are good too, and they were looking for a good shelter for more than you. Also make sure it does not collapse on you which reduces your chances of survival considerably.
7. Find a good source of water. In a survival situation, you can take up to three days without water, but at the end of the second day, you will not be in very good shape, find the water before that date.

* The best source Water is a source, but the chances of finding it are slim. A stream is your best bet next, the movement of water reduces sediment. Be advised that the drinking water of rivers may lead to certain diseases, but when you are in a life or death situation, the risk of disease is a consideration secondary.
* You can also use the jacket sleeves to tie around your ankles when it's morning, and walk in the grass to get Dew on the sleeves, then suck the moisture in the fabric.
8. Purify your water. A method of purifying raw water is to take your pot at your fingertips and warm water. To do this effectively kill bacteria, it is necessary to boil for at least three minutes [1].
9. Build fire. Build a fire of good size, one with enough coal to keep warm for several hours, and make sure you have plenty of extra dry wood.

* A good rule of thumb is to collect wood until you have enough for the night, and three others to collect batteries from the same size, and you might have enough to get through the night.
* In the desert, you should have access to dry wood in the understory of the forest. You can also use the bark or dried manure. If you build a fire that is hot enough, you can also burn green wood, brush or branches of trees to make a traffic light (the one that makes a lot of smoke).
* The best wood to maintain a fire of dead wood that you pull on a tree standing. Whatever type of wood you are, there will certainly be a bit of dry wood available. Remember a small fire is easier to maintain combustion of a large fire, but because it requires less fuel. Once you have enough coals to keep the fire to a manageable size so as not to spend too much time looking for fuel.
* Find the tinder (small equipment, such as dry grass, feathers or bark chips, which burns easily). When burned, Amadou creates a lot of smoke, which alerts people to your site.
* Lighting the fire. You can usually use the sun's energy to light a fire with a magnifying glass, a lens of your glasses, a piece of broken glass, a cover for a watch or a compass, or other objects clear, the light intensifies. It is very difficult to start a fire by friction, your best bet is to achieve a variety fire starting implements.
10. Find healthy foods. Know that most healthy adults can survive up to three weeks without food, except it is cold. [2] It is better to be hungry and healthy than sick. Make sure you know the food is safe before eating it. If there is anything that will reduce your ability to survive is to be both lost and seriously ill. Famine is not a big problem.

* Do not be afraid to eat insects and other pests. Although it may be disgusting to eat a few grasshoppers, they do provide information useful nutrition. All insects must be cooked because they may harbor parasites that can kill you. Do not eat caterpillars or brightly colored insects, such as poisons that you can. Do not eat insects that can bite you or sting like bees and scorpions. Remember, if it has six legs or less, it is likely allowed to eat. Remove the legs, head and wings of an insect before eating.
* If you are near water, fish are a good choice. The only problem is they are difficult to catch. Minnows can be eaten whole. Big fish should be cooked.
* Berries are good to eat. There is a color test bays that can help you find what is edible. White and yellow berries are toxic 90% of the time. Blue and fruit blacks are willing to eat 90% of the time. The red berries are a blow 50-50. Total berries (blackberries and Bumpy like raspberries) are okay to eat 100% of the time with the only exception being a berry that grows in the blanks of Alaska.

Advice

* Tie bright clothing (jackets, bandannas, and even underwear) to the top of a tree to attract attention.
* If you're stuck without a compass, you can orient yourself in taking your watch, aligning the hour in the sun, and then placing a blade of grass between the hour hand and 12 on your watch. Management blade of grass is southern tip. This works in the Northern Hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere, reverse the role of the labor time and 12, and blade of grass will be pointing North. Near the equator, take note where the sun rises and sets, the sun rises in the east and lies on the west.
* You can survive several weeks without food but only days without water for hours and perhaps homeless. Keep your priorities.
* If you're not absolutely sure where you are and how to return to familiar territory, not to proclaim: "I think it this way. "The more you move once you realize you're lost, the worst are your chances of finding your way back.
* Remember to take a stick or cane with you. If you do not, all staff will stick to business. The brand recently made it into the ground will help to retrace your steps better than Hansel and Gretel.
* It is safer not to go into solitude.
* One of the most important survival tools is a something that most people never consider: a tin cup. Without a tin cup, it is difficult to cook many foods.
* A firearm has always been an essential tool of the forest. A .22 rifle or pistol may be used as a means of obtaining food, self-protection against humans or animals and a signaling device. The cartridges can be used for fire starting.
* Another under-appreciated, but important element in a survival kit is a big trash bag light. They pack small, but can be used to transport water from a stream, can be wrapped around a leafy branch end to trap the water vapor emitted from leaves, and can be used as a poncho Emergency wet and cold after having cut a hole for the head and arms. Stuffing your poncho fortune with sheets or grass may also provide additional insulation from cold.
* Do not rely on modern technology like cell phones, GPS devices, radios or to save if you're lost. Take with you if it is available. But remember that these items are not infallible, that have a backup plan.
* An acronym is important remember "STOP" means stop, think, observe, and plan.
* Each time you go out into the desert (for example, go hike), wear a whistle. 1 bell means "I'm lost," the two blows means "I come" (if you hear someone else whistle), and 3 strokes means "It's an emergency" (if you are injured).
* At night, there is a greater risk of die of cold. Stay dry. Dress warmly. Get on the floor. Make a "bed" layers branches, leaves, twigs, what is there, and cover your same thing. To stay warm during the night, the rocks in the fire, then bury them. Watch the top of the buried rock. Make sure you bury them deep enough or you you'll burn.
* If you happen to have an object of reflection on you (a mirror, a belt buckle, whatever), use as a signal opposite to the sun.
* If you are planning a long journey over rough terrain or unknown, there is always a good idea to have a backup plan. Detailed maps guides / track, food and water, and signaling devices as a mirror, flare, or even (depending on the duration and location of the trip) a satellite beacon (PLB) can save your life.
* Rain, snow or dew can be a good source of clean water. You use anything in a cup with a piece of waterproof fabric with a large sheet to collect rainfall.
* If you do can not stay where you are until someone finds you, do not just choose a direction and start walking, even if you have a means to ensure that you continue to follow this direction. Instead, try to go either uphill or downhill. Objective climb offers a good chance you will find a perspective that can help you get your bearings. If you go downhill, you will probably find the water that you can follow downstream; in many cases, this will lead you to civilization. But do not follow the water downstream in the night or in fog as it can go off a cliff.
* Never, never go into the woods without a compass. Note direction you enter the woods, say, a road or trail right and if you are simply confused head back in the opposite direction from which you entered. If you do not use or find your cardinal stars and the positions of the sun and the moon.
* Shoes / boot laces make rope well in an emergency, but remember once they are removed, walking becomes more difficult.
* Shirt sleeves can be cut and used as bandages if necessary. Remember that attach around the wound so that they are still vague enough to stick one or two fingers between the tape and the appendix / body.
* A belt may also be used to keep a dressing in place (not too loud!), Like a bracelet of equipment, or as a trap.
* The sleeves of a waterproof jacket may be used to retain water by attaching one end of them.
* If you want to fish, you can make a fishing rod on a stick about 2 meters (6 feet) long and 1-3 cm thick (just bring your own fishing hooks). Peel the bark of and stick with a knife or an ax, a cut in 2-3 cm from the top of the stem. Attach one end of any string or cord placed in the slot, then attach the hook on the other end of the chain or cable. In addition, you can try to bait the hook with a small piece of meat, an insect, or anything else you want to try to use as bait.
* Your primary survival knife should be a fixed blade with a solid handle robust a folding knife should be used as a back-up, but it is better than nothing.

Disclaimers

* Keep your fire contained! Ensure that no combustible materials beneath your home and surround it completely with rocks or a sand berm. Put your fire with large quantities of water to saturate, so there is no possibility of even the slightest spark remaining. You should be able touching off the coals with your bare hands. It's one thing to be lost in the woods, but another to be lost and surrounded by fire forest caused by your own negligence.
* If you encounter any snakes, leave them alone. Snakes bite because they are hungry or because they are threatened. We're too big to be seen as prey to most snakes, they do not consider humans as food. Stand still and the snake will disappear. attack and retaliation. If it curls up in your kit, use a long stick to gently prod away. If he comes towards you, stay still. He does not know that you are at the root of his discomfort and if you do not jump around, it will probably not even you noticed. There are several ways to identify venomous snakes, but it is best to treat every snake care if you can make a positive identification. In a survival situation, it is possible to eat snake. If you do not know if a snake was venomous or not, but I want to eat, a good rule of thumb is to cut the head, then cut the same distance behind this point in the body. This will remove the venom glands, if appropriate. Remember, however, that it is against federal law to kill some endangered species of snakes, and it is against the law some states to kill all snakes (snakes help control vermin and insect levels).
* Make sure that if you heat the rocks heat, they are not wet. When heated in the fire, they will blow the water inside the tower of cracks in the steam. Keep in mind that this could also be a concern when in a cave – too much heat on the rocks overhanging or nearby can cause explosions or moving your shelter.
* Never travel directly in a river because the water absorbs the heat from your much more than air, which can lead hypothermia.
* Drinking your own urine as a source of water is not recommended [3].

Things You need

These are things that are very difficult to do or you will not find in the woods.

* Whistle with a compass in it (they are sold on a necklace cord sometimes, and you can use the cord, so if you need it)
* Water Tank
Fire Starter * – matches, lighters, Flint / Magnesiumn & Steel, or magnifying lenses (sometimes on the cord of a compass)
* The lint or fluff (it weightless and good tinder)
* Pot Boil water to cook the food /
* Universal tool / Swiss Army Knife
* Map of the region
* Hooks and a good amount of fishing line. Coil It Up and store in the pocket. The hooks are good if you want fish, but may be useful for other purposes, too, and they weigh almost nothing. Glue and wire into your wallet and put it in your back pocket.
* Three or four protein bars or small portions of mixture mountain
* Space Blanket or sleeping-bag (both high visibility of reflection)
* First Aid Kit Basic
* Small bottle water (not open until you're lost)
* At least one knife 5 inch pockets

Optional Items

* Water purification tablets
* Change of clothes
* Magnifier (for firefighters)
* Compass
* cotton balls in a bag with Vaseline on them (not only for chapped lips, but as an ointment for cuts and relief from sunburn. Especially when you tear cotton balls and mix them with petroleum jelly, the result is very flammable, which burns smoothly and for a long time. It's great to torches and fires start. Do not use on burns!)
* Rope / Chain
* Sewing kit / silk (useful for repairing fishing line and)

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