Essential Wilderness Survival Tips
These are essential tips that you need to know if you want to survive in the wilderness. This guide could very well save your life.
Prepare for the Worst
Include Extra Food
When you pack, also add some emergency food that you’ll only eat if you really need too – preferably small snacks with lots of proteins and calories. Sports energy bars are a good choice.
Extra Clothing
Bring plenty of extra clothing along with you. A few sweaters or jackets are good for keeping warm at night. Waterproof clothing is a must, too.
Basic Wilderness Kit
Include a compass and, if you can find one, a map of where you will be camping/hiking/etc. These two tools are invaluable for finding your way out of a dangerous situation – being lost in a forest, for example.
Matches are an essential, as fire can protect you from predators and the cold, as well as offering a possible way for you to be spotted. Flashlights can also help a great deal – make sure to bring spare batteries as well.
A pocket knife or a utility tool can be very handy for cutting, building, repairing, and more. If you do ever get lost in the wild, it’s amazingly useful.
A first aid kit is essential. It should include disinfectants, bandages, some aspirin, scissors, and tweezers.
General Survival Skills
Building a Fire
Being able to create a fire is an essential ability that can save your life. Make sure you have lots of tinder and larger logs readily at hand to feed your fire.
The most common way of lighting a fire is to use matches that you have brought with you to light a pile of tinder. Matches can be made fireproof by dipping them in nail polish. Matches should always be kept away from water and so they do not strike each other. The friction from a lighter, with or without fluid, can also be used to create sparks.
Tinder: The best tinder is made from small twigs broken to at least half the size of your pinky finger, or birch bark shavings. Leaves, although they may seem to be good, actually are very bad for kindling. You should avoid using them as they simple create a lot of smoke.)
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i dont see why youre making fun of them. i firearm could be a very valuable tool if lost/stranded in the wild
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Pretty good information. I’ve never heard of the chart for testing food though. It was pretty interesting.
Extremely helpful, though painstakingly long.
But it is good to know that there are smart people still out there. 
-God
Unless you are hunting, leave the fire arms at home. They are not worth their weight. You can carry much food instead. The energy expended by hunting, preparing, and cooking will not be replaced by the, mostly, protein. Carry nuts, pepperoni, cream cheese, or other fat sources. My favorite is raisin bread with cream cheese and walnuts. Clean water is even more important, however, dirty water is better than none.
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