Wilderness Survival Tips

Hereunder you can find just a few of the wilderness survival tips and techniques you can easily learn. Try to practice one or two on your next backpacking trip.

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Wilderness survival skills may save your life someday, skills restore gear, and consequently weight. However, the main reason may be that it is just a nice feeling to know you can deal with whatever you may face. It makes you feel more at home.

To survive means to stay warm and dry, hydrated, uninjured, and to locate your way out of the survival situation. Eating is good too, but not vital if the circumstances are for a small number of days. Hereunder are some more or less accidental survival tips, just to get you interested.

Wilderness Survival Tips
- Warmth: While sleeping you should put your head slightly downhill in order to stay warmer. This may take some getting used to, but it really works.

- Food: In North America, there is no berry that looks like a blueberry, strawberry, or raspberry, that can harm you from one taste. Simply spit it out if it doesn't taste correct. If it looks and tastes like a blueberry - it is.

- Fire starter: If you put dried moss or milkweed fuzz in your pouch as you walk, you'll have dry tinder to start a fire, just in case it's raining later. Conduct experiments with different materials.

- Direction-finding: Mark the tip of the shadow of a stick, and mark it again fifteen minutes later. The line between the first and second marks points east. A small number of techniques like this can save you when your compass is gone.

- Weather: In the Rocky Mountains you can observe the clouds creating just before the afternoon storms. Being able to get to know the sky can keep you out of trouble. Be careful: lightning kills hikers in Colorado frequently.

- Staying dry: Hypothermia is the biggest wilderness killer, and getting wet is the biggest cause. Watch for ledges or large fir trees to stand under if you see the rain coming.

- Shelter: A mound of dry leaves and grass can keep you very warm in an urgent situation.

- Hydration: fill up water bottles every time you can, and you won't have such a hard time with any long dry stretches of trail.

- Fire starter: White birch bark will light even when wet.