Surviving Cold Weather: Greg Davenports Books for the Wilderness
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According to the Alaska Department of Parks and Recreation, these berries grow in shady woods and may be red or white. Their attractive white flowers look like lace, and you could mistake the berries for oversized blackberries. Even the barren arctic landscape provides plant food. The buds, needles and stems from spruce trees can be eaten raw or cooked in a tea. Birch trees have edible inner bark as well, and with a little digging, you may uncover frozen berries in snow. Take care when dining on plant food when hungry since it can cause a stomachache.
In addition, while all people can safely digest all of the plants mentioned above, that doesn't mean they all taste good. Making plants palatable may require cooking, but in survival situations, sometimes you take what you can get. For more survival tips to keep your belly full and your body safe in the wilderness, peruse the links below.
If you're unsure of a plant's edibility and have the time, you can use the Universal Edibility Test. Be sure to test each plant part leaves, roots, flower, etc. In dire situations stick to what you know -- the test takes about 24 hours to complete. I myself have fasted on juices as in fruit and vegetable juices for 10 days and I was certainly nowhere close to death by the end of it. Many people believe that fasting makes you more healthy, and I read somewhere once that animals who are periodically deprived of food have been proven scientifically to have longer lifespans than animals who have food available whenever they are hungry.
In the modern Western world we are not at all used to the idea of having no food available for any period of time, though in the animal world and in many other parts of the world, it is common to not always have food available immediately. So if you don't have food, don't even worry about food, unless you have everything else completely under control and you want something to occupy your time with.
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According to the rule of threes, warmth is your first priority. This will definitely be the case if you are anywhere that is likely to get cold at night, and even more so if you are dangerously cold during the day. Wet skin loses heat 20 times faster than dry skin, so knowing how to stay dry can definitely save your life under certain circumstances. Assuming that you are lost, and that you have stabilised your immediate condition that is, you are not about to die from exposure, thirst, etc. I will cover this in more detail later on when I get the time to write more.
Once you have determined what is the most important thing to be focusing on, you can start to attend to that thing first. At some point, either once you have made sufficient progress with that thing, or if you are not making much progress at all, you may decide that another thing is more important.
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This may be the case, for example, if you were both dehydrated and cold — if you could not find water but you could easily make a shelter or warm yourself by some method. In that case you would be be better off to get warm first since you can do it and then start looking for water. I will be adding more pages about the specific things you need to know for each of the main priorities in the near future In many areas that get cold at night, the greatest danger to lost bushwalkers is the cold i.
If you are wet, your body loses heat many times faster than when you're dry, so when its raining it doesn't need to be as cold before cold becomes dangerous. The easiest thing that you can do in most places to stay warm is to stuff your clothes with as many dry leaves or other material as you can.
Grass will also work, or anything that will puff up your clothes, keeping the cloth away from your skin, and creating spaces of trapped air. If its wet, look under logs or rocks and dig down a little and there will often be dry material. If you can't find dry leaves, and you're already wet, then wet leaves will do since the air they trap will still be dry. The leaves work by creating a still air space which is what stops the heat from flowing out from your body.
Still non-moving air is an extremely good insulator that's why people make double glazed windows. Ordinarily, people don't think of air as being a good insulator, but that's only because most air in everyday life is free to move, to flow around like wind — and flowing air can carry a lot of heat away with it. The technical term for this is "convection". Provided that air is trapped into small spaces and unable to flow, it will block the flow of heat away from your body.
Cotton clothing is particularly bad when wet, as not only does it lose its insulating properties, but it holds in water and keeps it against your skin where it will suck out your body heat. Cotton is so bad in this situation i. If you're wearing cotton, and you're cold and wet, stuffing leaves or anything else between any cotton garments and your skin will keep you much, much warmer.
In this case, you definitely want the leaves to be right up against your skin not sandwiched between multiple layers of wet cotton clothing which you might think will feel more comfortable against your skin.
Surviving Cold Weather: Greg Davenport's Books for the Wilderness
If its really cold, ideally you want a fire and some shelter. If you can only have one of these e. If you can have both, start with whichever you think will be the easiest and quickest, and most useful, and then get working on the other.
The next thing is to make some kind of shelter. The simplest "shelter" is to make a big pile of leaves or any other type of debris, and crawl into the middle of it.
Not the bottom of it, since you want to be off the ground, surrounded on all sides by loose material like leaves. The next simplest shelter is the debris hut. A well constructed debris hut can keep you alive in almost any temperature, provided you pile on enough material. To make a debris hut, create a framework from one long stick and many smaller sticks.
The long stick needs to be reasonably strong enough to carry the weight of the rest of the shelter.
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You can lean it against anything — a stump like in the picture below, or a rock, or a fork in a tree, etc. If there is really nothing to lean it against, you can make a support with another two strong sticks in a triangle shape.
Then pile on "debris" you can find — leaves, ferns, grass, etc. Branches with leaves still on are good to create a tighter structure that you can then place looser leaves on top. You want to use lots of debris, at least feet cm. Keep some of it loose at the open end of the shelter to use as a door after you've gone inside.
This part isn't shown well in the picture below. The debris hut is meant to be small, think of it as a naturally built sleeping bag, that you crawl into backwards. The Beach Book Fiona Danks. The Hebridean Way Richard Barrett. Extreme Wilderness Survival Craig Caudill.
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