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Ten Wilderness Survival Backpacking Tips
By Steve Gillman, Sat Dec 10th
Why should you learn wilderness survival skills just forbackpacking? They may save your life someday, and for ultralightenthusiasts like myself, skills replace gear, and thereforeweight. The best reason, however, may be that it's just a goodfeeling to know you can deal with whatever comes up. It makesyou feel more at home. To survive means to stay warm and dry, hydrated, uninjured, andto find your way out of the survival situation. Eating is nicetoo, but not crucial if the situation is for a few days. Beloware some more or less random survival tips, just to get youinterested. Wilderness Survival Tips
1. Warmth: Sleep with your head slightly downhill to staywarmer. This may take some getting used to, but it works. 2. Food: In North America, there is no berry that looks like ablueberry, strawberry, or rasberry, that can hurt you from onetaste. Just spit it out if it doesn't taste right. If it looksand tastes like a blueberry - it is. 3. Fire starter: If you put dried moss or milkweed fuzz in yourpocket as you walk, you'll have dry tinder to start a fire, justin case it's raining later. Experiment with different materials. 4. Direction-finding: Mark the tip of the shadow of a stick,and mark it again fifteen
minutes later. The line between thethe first and second marks points east. A few techniques likethis can save you when your compass is lost. 5. Weather: In the Rocky Mountains you can see the cloudsforming just before the afternoon storms. Being able to read thesky can keep you out of trouble. Lightning kills hikers inColorado regularly. 6. Staying dry: Hypothermia is the biggest wilderness killer,and getting wet is the biggest cause. Watch for ledges or largefir trees to stand under if you see the rain coming. 7. Shelter: A pile of dry leaves and dead grass can keep youvery warm in an emergency. 8. Hydration: Fill water bottles every chance you get, and youwon't have such a hard time with any long dry stretches of trail. 9. Injury: Pop a "blister" on the trunk of a small spruce orfir tree, and you can use the sap that oozes out as an goodantiseptic dressing for small cuts. 10. Fire starter: White birch bark will usually light even whenwet. These are just a few of the wilderness survival tips andtechniques you can easily learn. Why not practice one or two onyour next backpacking trip? About the author:Steve Gillman is a long-time backpacker, and advocate oflightweight backpacking. His advice and stories can be found athttp://www.TheUltralightBackpackingSite.com
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