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Why survival tips for backpackers? Certainly backpacking may never become a matter of wilderness survival for you, especially if you are careful in your planning. Still, getting lost or twisting an ankle far from any road is always a possibility. In any case, learning a few new things from time to time is a great way to make your trips safer and more interesting. With that in mind, here are a few random survival tricks and skills based on my own experience. A Few Survival Tips To Remember You can make snow-block shelters without tools when the conditions are right. I have made trench-shelters of 2 x 3...

Winter backpacking can mean your footprints are the only ones out there. That adds to the beauty of the experience, but also to the danger. Alone and in a cold enviroment, it’s important to know what to do in an emergency. Learning a few basic cold weather survival skills can save your life. Fire Making Imagine slipping into a stream and soaking everything with you, when you are more than a day from the nearest road and it’s below freezing out. What would you do? Start a fire, of course, but can you? Always carry waterproof matches, and practice starting a fire in the cold BEFORE you go...

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There are many types of survival shelters, but they mostly serve one basic purpose, and it isn’t to have an attractive home for the night. There might be some psychological value to certain styles, and there may ocassionally be a need for protection from animals, but the primary purpose of a survival shelter is to keep you from losing body heat. Hypothermia (loss of body heat) is the single biggest cause of death in a survival situation. A shelter prevents this in the following ways: 1. It blocks the wind. 2. It keeps you dry. 3. It creates a space that can be heated by your body heat itself, or...

by Ethan O. Tanner As our society turns progressively more technical and urbanized, many folks are getting to feel the want to break away from it all. Outdoor sports give an great escape from city life, but one should keep common sense survival skills in mind in order to have fun in the outdoors with no critical worries. More people are beginning to feel the impulse to break loose from it all, take a break from contemporary life and return to the way of life of our ancestors. Maybe this explains the rising popularity of camping vacations, the supreme experience of going back to nature and existing in...

There are 5 basic survival skills that every person should know. Without these basic skills chances of survival are diminished greatly, leaving survival to a matter of luck rather than knowledge. What are those five basic survival skills? Well, first of all you must understand the top three threats to your survival. Once you understand those then you will better understand just how important a few basic survival skills will be to your survival. The three threats to survival are: exposure, dehydration and starvation. Extreme cold can kill you in three minutes, lack of water will kill you in three days...

You could probably just buy a commercial survival hiking pack but if you want to bring a pack that caters to your own specific needs, consider putting together one yourself.  Here’s how… Have enough water to keep you hydrated Human beings can survive for some time without food but going without water for extended periods of time can be lethal.  Probably the most important component of your survival hiking pack is your supply of water.  Ideally, you should keep a gallon for every day you are out.  Carry as much as you can.  Before you run out, be sure to find an alternative source in...

by Stephen Hobbs It goes without saying there are more than 5 important survival skills to know and apply. Given the many outdoor-related television shows and YOU Tube videos available, everybody is offering up what they think is important for surviving the wilderness. While all of these presentations help, it is in answering these specific 5 questions that will make or break your preparation and prevention for your next adventure. Therefore, can you answer these questions with a resounding YES? More important, can you prove the answer before you leave on your next adventure? Remember it is one thing...