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To: hobbes1

Personally, even when day hiking, I always have 3 methods for making fire in my pack. I would say most casual hikers and folks who get in trouble, don’t carry anything to make fire and don’t have anything to boil water in. A shelter doesn’t have to be much - I always carry a couple of 39 gallon trash bags & a silver survival blanket and with those items, I can make a quick shelter to stay dry/out of any rain & hopefully, avoid hypothermia. Most folks can hunker in a makeshift shelter and make it a night or two & hopefully, they’ll be found. Again, it all depends on where you are, the weather, and how provisioned you are.


62 posted on 12/11/2013 2:27:02 PM PST by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: MissMagnolia

I was thinking survival, like fell out of a plane, or Naked and Afraid,..

One tool...(always take the machete), and stranded.

Hiking,crap, you can always flick your bic,


63 posted on 12/11/2013 4:15:00 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: MissMagnolia

Do you watch Naked and Afraid? You’d like it.


64 posted on 12/11/2013 4:16:51 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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