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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OK Kart, I didnt want to post a vanity so I’m going to take this opportunity. I got notified yesterday that the county property next to me is for sale. Until recently it was a womens prison.
Might make a great walking dead style survival camp. :)
I’ve settled on a commercial backpack for my BOB instead of the camouflage pack.
Mostly out of concern that any law enforcement, govt people, or other potential threats would see a camo pack and think prepper.
If they see a backpacker they may a) under estimate me, or b) not target me as a anti-govt constitutionalist.
LOL
I had the advantage of learning some things from my son who is the documentary film maker and filmed one of the major survivor guys on TV, there with him in the wild for those films, and another one for several episodes in Africa and the Amazon, plus son being in those places has to be able to save himself.
One has to realistic and not see it as a fun game or think it is a breeze for it isn't.
There is no standard answer to survival, because everything is relative to needs.
Raised in a desert area, water was always #1 on the list of things you need. But even that is mitigated if it is very cold out. You can freeze to death faster than you can die of dehydration.
While building a shelter is one thing, finding water where there is no surface water or snow is extremely hard. And even if you do, you need a container for it, or you are stuck at the water source.
It always made me laugh that porcupines were protected with the rationale that they are easy to catch and kill for food. Just peel it like an orange, I guess. Seriously, how do you butcher a porcupine? (Yes, it can be done, but they never teach that part.)
I still have my 1965 "Boy Scout Handbook". I haven't looked at it in years, I need to get it out and read it again.
I will now be of no use for the rest of the day as I have gone off into dream land!!
Headed to Market: Former Broward Women’s Prison That Once Was Home to Aileen Wuornos
Warner Springs or Maine. From all I’ve heard, I’m glad I went to Maine.
Maine. In October. Right before deployment. Wife was pregnant. I had the flu.
I carry a sleeping bag but refered to it in the post as just a “bag”. I carry a light fleece blanket to supplement the sleeping bag based upon my sissy backpacking experience (at least I leave teddy-bear back home).
For a dropoff and pickup 24 hours is easy. Problem is in a real world stranded situation you need to think differently, you gotta either figure out where to go and keep yourself able to go there, or hunker down and make that survivable. Can’t do that. Luckily I’ll never need to, just don’t lead a life that involves the middle of nowhere.
Ahh, that makes sense. In my very early camping days, closing on 50 years ago now, I used blankets.
Never looked back after getting my first army surplus sleeping bag. It was a heavy piece of crap, but beat blankets all hollow.
Interesting thing on the swamp ep last year was that the clearly didn’t pick the camp spot producers intended. Their first was this horrible mucky lowland that had just enough dirt to be technically not in the swamp. They put up with that for a long time before they finally decided wandering the swamp without a camp would be better than their camp. Then in a few hours they found actual dryish land that’s clearly where producers thought they were going to go, and things got much easier. There’s a lesson there in picking your spots, the ep would have been almost drama free if they’d hit that second camp site the first day.
24 hours in the woods and nobody gunning for you? Or 24 hours in the woods and you know you get to go back to ‘normal’ after?
135+ acres. lotsa wild hogs, otters, fox, birds, shooting range, plentiful water, shooting range. facilities for 220 people.
Was previously an all womens faith based prison.
hey you won’t be going there anymore after agenda 21 is in full swing. no need for you civvies to have charts.
The beer flows down the fall, and then all winter long.
But these days the German peasants are too lazy to tote wooden buckets, so they just hook up plastic tubing and let the beer flow downhill to where they fill the barrels.
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