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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“...My BOB isn’t huge, but it has everything I’d need...”
I love toying with my Assault Pack or Bug Out Bag (actually a multi-cam ruck). I pack it lighter than I do my oversized Kelty external frame pack that I use for easy-going backpacking because I figure on weapon and ammo weight I’ll be carrying when tough times arrive. My poor geriatric knees will be challenged.
So in this BOB goes my one-man tent (very light, very water proof, but fetal position for my 6’3” self) a camo bag that compresses quite small, a camo large fleece blanket, extra interior clothing, rags, towels, knives, small flashlights, food, water purification filter and taps, canteens, sundries, and it is always stuffed tighter than I intended. In summer I would switch to lighter-smaller fleece but still take one as well as more insect repellent and skin oils (chigger specific cocktails). Most people fear thickets but I intend to weasel right into them if I’m to avoid detection and that means America’s other red menace-chiggers and assorted bugs will be an ongoing problem.
I carry basic survival with me everyday, including a lighter on my key chain which I check monthly, even though I don’t smoke, with a magnifying glass next to it, other items include two knives, and two flashlights.
Something people forget to think of, is that they are not limited to a single fire in a survival situation, if two or three fires are needed to make up for your lack of clothing or shelter, then do it.
It is also OK to dig a little and bury some coals to sit on, or sleep on if you are desperate enough.
24 hours? Assuming reasonably appropriate outer-wear I could survive 24 alone in the woods dozing against a tree. One doesn’t need food or water for 24 hours unless one is compromised by disease or injury.
Curious why you carry a blanket. You can almost certainly find a sleeping bag that is lighter and more compact, and a lot warmer.
I kept my truck BOB small and almost everything has more than one purpose. However it does include water purification tablets, filter straw, and a blast match.
The TEOTWAWKI gear is a lot more comprehensive and also doubles as my load-out for hunting/camping.
I’m not “tier 1”/”uber-survivor”, so I don’t have a dedicated truck gun or a gas operated margarita blender... ;-)
I can just picture ‘em, holding onto to their smartphone for dear life, staring at it not knowing what to do next...
24hours without water is huge. I’ve had reduced fluids over two days maybe only a liter, and by that time dehydration effects are pretty evident.
Add in perspiration and the stress of survival and voila, overconfidence.
I’m sure there’s an app that will tell you what to do, at least till the battery dies...
OK he made it there, now lets put him in the Trinity river bottoms and see if he can survive the river rats cooking meth.
Do I get a book of matches?
Pretty sure that rude would spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with his old .45...
^^^^ THIS
You remember that famous April Fool joke featuring the annual spaghetti harvest in Italy? It showed the Italian spaghetti farmers carefully plucking strands of young spaghetti from the spaghetti bushes. Millions of people in England believed it. Seems to me that a video about the beer trees would be just as good. 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.
Same here, and my body is better insulated now.
Roger that. Like the water filter I keep in the vehicle that would allow me to drink ditch water. No boiling necessary.
Anyone know where Ahoski NC is?
The James gang rocks...
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24 hours? Wouldn’t even get cold, wet, or hungry.
Everybody knows that beer is tapped in the fall, when the sap is flowing back down the tree trunk! It’s about the same time that the bottles are ripe for harvest.
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