Outdoor Survival Skills

Wilderness survival skills, if taught correctly, will ensure your ability to survive in Central OK or anywhere else. I would put more effort into looking at what the program offers, talking to people who attended that program and being clear on what you want to get out of the program.

Maybe you just want to learn about local plants and animals. That's not the same as wilderness survival skills.

The first link below is a directory of programs. I don't know anything about those programs.

I do know that this program is reputable, well-run, with top notch instructors: http://www.hawkcircle.com/

I also have an article about survival on my website, which is the second link below.

I've taken wilderness survival classes from several different instructors, including Tom Brown, the original wilderness survival instructor - not all programs are created equal.

2006-02-18 21:26:07 by Okidog

To make a charcoal water purification system for wilderness survival, layer fresh grass, sand, charcoal, dirt and dried grass. Make a charcoal ...

I need to find a good original idea for a presentation and your ideas would be alot of help. I just need a good survival skill or trick when in the woods like camping or otherwise
I mean a skill like how to make a makeshift fishing net or knot tieing

You can purify water with the following tools. One shallow bowl or other crude water gathering device. One cup. A shovel/or any crude device to use for digging. A piece of plastic wrap/piece of tarp. A few rocks and a patch of ground with steady direct sunlight.

Here is how it works. Get all the supplies together. Dig a hole wide enough so you can sit the bowl or other water holding device in the bottom of it flat. Dig the hole deep enough to place the cup on top of the bowl and have a good 2 or 3 inches between ground level and the top of the cup. Fill the bowl with water. Sit the cup in the bowl. Now, cover the hole with the plastic wrap and secure it in place by placing some rocks on the four corners. Now, take a small rock and place it directly over the top of the cup. Leave it for a few hours and let nature do its thing.

The water in the bowl will start to evaporate and stick to the plastic wrap. When enough gathers, it will bead up and flow to the lowest point (Where you placed the small stone over the cup.) at which time it will drop into the cup. You have just sucessfully purified water.

Knowing how to gather and purify water for drinking is one of the most important skills while in the wild. The human body cannot last very long without water and drinking dirty or contaminated water will only make things worse.

2008-03-28 06:28:59 by Andrew B

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I have noticed that some people (often ex-Military and martial arts experts) are both involved in selling outdoor courses like map-reading, survival skills, endurance events and at the same time own websites offering hypnotherapy and neuro-linguistic programming training? I wondered what the link was, if any?

I think the link is simply due to the fact that NLP is about modeling excellence. So whether it has to do with sports, or other applications, NLP is a tool to help you get better.

2009-09-10 09:49:41 by Penny

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My last Q about this was horribly written.
What I am asking is why do some folks think that they are born to survive in a wilderness?
Even Native Americans aren’t born with the skills of their ancestors. Yet I have met quite a few people of all races who think they just know it all, about how nature works and how to survive in it.
This has scared me for them many times, like a young man who wants to “live off the land” in a remote area, who will not listen to experienced advice, nor seek such advice.

How do you get it across to them that having a gun and knife doesn’t make you an instant wilderness survivalist?
Here is an example of what I am asking about;
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id =3680748&page=1
People are getting killed in remote places, from the deserts of the south west, the woods and swamps in the Deep South, through the Rockies and the rest of North America, from inexperience, lack of outdoor skills and lack of proper equipment.
How can we get across to such people to save their lives?
Our Government spends millions warning us about everything from cigarettes to cosmetics, but not that the outdoors can kill you. Don’t you think this should be taught in every classroom in America?
Do you have any idea how to save some of these lives?
Another example; http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&am p;cpsidt=1600388
METRO.. you have an excellent point. However I live where these kinds of people visit; remote Alaska, and every year we have people die here. I used to help search and rescue some years ago look for such people. And I have helped recover what was left of them IF we found them. I found a family of 5 and a big dog, in a small inflatable raft 8 miles from shore, with no life jackets. It took me a ½ hour to convince the moron dad that their lives were in peril. He had no clue, but the Coast Guard gave him a few after I called them! Stupid people or not that was lives saved.
shimmitail1 to answer your Q’s in your answer; yes I can. The wife and I have homesteaded while we raised many kids. Today we grow our own food, catch our own fish, hunt for our meat and are 80% self sufficient. I have about a half century of farming, hunting, fishing and food preservation experience. At the moment I am training a 26 year old man and his wife wilderness survival skills, here in Alaska.
Folks I appreciate your answers. But despite the morons out there, I believe many are just uninformed. In the city there are signs that warn you; “watch your step”, “wait for light”, “sharp turn ahead” etc, there are none in nature. So unless people are taught; they just don’t know. Therefore I think we as hunters should make an effort to teach. Donate some time to speak at schools and teach kids the basics. Lets share our knowledge, maybe it will save a life.

Some people are just idiots, straight up. I am Native American and I lived in Alaska for about 7 years, but there's no way in hell I would go and try to survive out in the wilderness unless I knew EXACTLY what I was doing. Many people just do stuff like this to prove something to themselves or others. That Alexander Supertramp (Chris) guy was just a dumb rich kid who should have thought things through. My sister lives in Fairbanks and she thinks he's a huge dumbass for what he did. To the locals out there, he is a joke. You can't stop people from being stupid, but you CAN inform them and try to help them see the light.

2008-05-18 03:05:35 by Bear Crap

"In an age characterized by leisure, most people depend too much on push buttons, time clocks, and other indoor conveniences for their daily survival. Consequently, they do not develop the abilities or skills which could enable them to survive stresses encountered in the wilds. History is full of war-ruined civilizations that have fallen from indoor luxury to outdoor desperation in only a few hours.

"For the Stone Age man, necessity was the mother of invention, and he adapted to her toughest demands. Today, however, the mother of invention is probably leisure -- or it can be if man deliberately uses that leisure to seek challenge. If he desires to combine the toughness of his ancestors with his own intellectual prowess in order to become a fully developed man prepared for the worst or the best, he is wise; he learns from yesterday."

- Editorial comment from "Outdoor Survival Skills" by Larry Dean Olsen

I think it is 100% true. 99% of us wouldnt last a week living off the land because we are too spoiled with our GPS and bluetooth and chinese takeout. Im not complaining though, because I depend on them too. But yea, its an interesting concept...and very true.

2008-04-10 15:59:49 by smells like pot