Posted on 03/28/2014 11:29:16 AM PDT by kingattax
VIDEO AT LINK
What would you do if you found yourself alone in the wilderness -- with nothing but yourself to rely on?
Road Trip host Marc Istook wondered that very thing. So he went out to Liberty, Texas, to learn exactly what one needs in order to survive 24 hours alone in the wilderness. Luckily, he recruited an expert guide: former Green Beret Mykel Hawke, who learned about survival first-hand at a young age.
As a teenager, Hawke lived on the streets, relying on his wits to stay afloat as he watched friends go to jail and even get killed. From there, Hawke decided to pursue his interests in survival skills via the military, where he spent 25 years.
Post-military, he embarked on a career teaching survival training and education, even hosting on TV shows such as "Lost Survivors." Needless to say, Hawke is the guy you'd like to have along if you're ever stranded far from civilization!
The worst wilderness survival error in Hawke's book may surprise you: He claims it's overconfidence, which can lead to disaster. "Most people over-estimate their abilities," he explains. "They over-estimate how easy it is to make a shelter, how easy it is to start a fire, and how long they can go without water. Those can all be fatal mistakes."
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The happy German peasants in their native costumes tapping the trees as the beer rises through the trees in the autumn, bringing it home in buckets, then celebrating with the Oktoberfest.
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And we Italian peasants have our spaghetti trees!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ
They did not tell me there was going to be shooting. I would not just sit down if there was shooting and being chased, or hunted.
Gotta make it sporting.
February for the additional cold weather survival qual. No flu or pregnant wife.
24 HOURS IN A DAY?? 24 BEERS IN A CASE? I CAN MAKE IT.
Someone should make a video of this. It would be great.
“The happy German peasants in their native costumes tapping the trees as the beer rises through the trees in the autumn”
You are not far from the truth: On bus out of Munich, Germany, I saw field after field after field of beautiful yellow flowers. I asked the guide what those were and she said, “It’s hops for beer.” As far as you can see are yellow flowers which are eventually beer. So your peasants would be gathering flowers and beer would soon follow.
I could probably do it but I wouldn’t like it.
After watching the NAA show where the people are almost bitten to death by mozzies in the Amazon, I wondered how do the Indians of the Amazon put up with the bugs. I’ve read similar stories about mozzies driving the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition crazy.
I remember reading a section on dealing with bears. I recall the advice was to climb a tree. Brown/black bears are among the world's greatest tree-climbing animals. I wonder what other bad advice the book had concerning the great outdoors. But to be fair to the bears, brown and black bears are more likely to flee at the sight of humans. Grizzlies and Alaskan brown bears are another matter.
If you can see the mountain. I visited one of my brothers in Washington state a few years ago. He took me and my wife to see Mt.Rainier. It was so foggy we never actually once saw the mountain even as we were driving up the slope. It was only as we were leaving a few days later and the weather cleared that we saw the mountain from a distance.
I think the smart phones are the current equivalent of the little kid’s sucker from past years. Everywhere we go, the wife and I laugh at the young’uns with their eyes glued to their smart phones even at some event like a music concert.
*how do you butcher a porcupine*
this guy gets off to an awkward start only hanging one foot, but then figures it out. Notice how much knife work is required, as opposed to a rabbit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktb4ZXveTQo
his part two video has a really good closeup on the guts, and what’s what:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWpoy6I0wZI
no-frills recipe:
ROASTED PORCUPINE
Leave porcupine whole. (After skinning and evisceration!). Chill meat to remove all fat. Parboil in simmering water to cover for 15 minutes with 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
Drain. Make your favorite stuffing. Stuff the porcupine and place on roasting pan. Cover with lid or foil. Bake at 325 degrees F. until meat is done, one to five hours, depending on the size of the porcupine.
http://prairiemary.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-to-do-with-porcupine.html
I am reading and laughing... surviving is a piece of cake, but having fun doing it might take a little planning!
1965 Boy Scout Handbook? I read that and laughed. My Girl Scout Handbook is about 1940! LOL I did do 18 hours in a snowstorm and built a small snow shelter...didn’t get cold but keeping face dry with drifting snow was the hard part.
Does a Girl Scout Handbook vintage 1940 count? LOL
I could supply oragami pattern for making that fleece blanket into a teddy bear! COZY?
My plan is (1) remain calm, (2) orient myself so that I know which way I'm facing, (3) make sure that my GPS unit has the datapack containing the nearest bars. If you're more than 24 hours away from the nearest bar, you probably shouldn't be there.
I already have mosquitoes in my back yard, how about you?
“I been out here for like nine years now...
Longest. Camping trip. Ever.”
You have internet...which means you have other things that is not the ordinary camping trip. And you have been out there for like nine years now...
Give us a break...
There are these beeber-like devises that tap into the internet via cell signals now, you know. Even hand-crank chargers for them.
Apparently you dumped your ability to grasp humor.
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