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Mar 19, 2009 in General

Survival Tips

Pine sap, which is easily obtained from wounds of trees, made a desert and tail sealer that is hard to beat. To give a body, the heat and mix with a little powdered carbon black of his campfire. (After the ball to a stick, let them cool, and easy to transportable and ready to melt away as you need.

Before pulling the bait fish in the water, sprinkle with cod liver oil. The smell of your bait attractive and attract fish from afar. It is very effective.

Balsam pine resin makes an excellent antiseptic for treating cuts and abrasions. For quickly, simply cross the resin bubbles that appear on the surface of the cortex.

Drink before you are thirsty, especially before going for a walk. A Once you feel thirsty, you are already dehydrated. This is important in the winter, too, as not to overheat and sweat as easily as in the summer. It is not obvious that We dehydration.

The winters can be long and short days. To help prevent depression, enjoy the sun all that is possible to achieve outside. Regularly expose their skin to the sun so much vitamin D the body needs.

A trail in deep snow has a lot of energy. When you are traveling in a group, regularly carry the person off. Wolf packs northern country forward in this regard so that none of the wolves will get more tired. This works fine for humans, too.

Hot rocks by fire, and wrapped in a towel to take to bed with you to keep your feet Hot and help soothe tight, sore muscles.

For a good firestarter can use a Duraflame log fireplace. I broke into small pieces and continued throughout the summer to fall starting many fires. Just touch a flame to it and you have to call a lot.

ALTERNATE Fire Starter Cut a paper egg carton, immersion in small cups in paraffin and allow to dry. Then the pack with sawdust and wood shavings on to pour the liquid paraffin shooting. They burn for a long time without a large consumption of paraffin.

FIRE CRAFT: While in the forest, collecting moss (Lican) hanging from the branches of firs and pines. This moss is found throughout the Pacific Northwest. Place it in your pocket to dry. Once dry, you may turn with a simple spark of a stone bar.

Another is to use cotton balls with vaseline worked on them. It also ignited with a spark and burns hot. All but This second method does not actually represent real wilderness skills, excellent for a survival situation.

MAKING FIRE IN ICE: Form a piece ice as a magnifying glass, and then polish it by melting the outside with body heat. It works as well as a magnifying glass, but can be done.

FOOD IN THE FOREST: Cattails are one of the most abundant and most flavorful plants there. At some point you should plan on getting “lost” near a patch of them, and take along a good guide. They have six edible parts and many other utilitarian uses (ie, from the bottom insulation, mats and baskets sheets, toothbrush, medicines, etc.

Do not throw away that dryer lint! This is a great fire starter. Save in zip-lock bags and flatten, or the bags in a small plastic bottle of vitamins for your survival kit. Dampen the lint with lighter fluid, and you have a “sure fire tinder.

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