How to Store Food in the Wilderness
In the absence of refrigeration, failing to use other food preservation methods will cause foods to spoil quickly, which can cause a life threatening illness. It is also very important to hone your skills in these preparation methods so that food remains safe to eat for as long as possible.
• Smoking foods and how to build a smoking hut
• Sun and Rack Drying
• Freezing in Ice Houses
• Dehydrating
• Canning
How to Find Safe Drinking Water in the Wilderness
It is best to treat all water as contaminated because even clear running water can have all kinds of contaminants including microorganisms and heavy metals. Even water from a stinking, stagnant mud puddle can be made fit to drink.
Overall, your system should include viable processes for:
• Filtration to remove both large and small debris and sediment,
• Removal of heavy metals and toxins (activated charcoal will not remove all toxins or heavy metals; so you will need to use bone char or something else),
• Removal of bacteria and other microorganisms (boiling the water usually works for this, as does setting it out in a plastic bottle in the sun for several hours).
If you find yourself in a survival situation, chances are you already made some mistake – that is not always the case, sometimes stuff happens, but it is better odds you made a mistake somewhere along the way.
The key at that point is to avoid making any others and the best way to do that is to make sure you have mastered the list above.
For more information on avoiding survival mistakes, please visit Survivopedia.
Everyone should get to know these mistakes and how to avoid them for sure. Most prepares will already know them but it’s the people just starting out that need to study them.
Cotton kills.
Cotton is great in the desert
Which desert?
Don’t smell like a bear happy meal. Or puma. Or wolf.
Could be trouble in the Hobo 🙂
cotton and wool are essential
If given the choice between the two…go with wool as it still provides warmth when wet.
Sunny Long Weller
This article is good. It could use a bit more detail on ways to purify water or ways to preserve food. Maybe a sister article with a link????
Nodody wants to click 15 times for each tip
Indeed
Click bait crap
Gee, if only I felt like going through 15 pages to get to the information…
This page is such a joke–sorry I liked it when suggested. Clickbait and poorly written.
lol…..sounds like the Island with Bear Grylls…..lazy and stuck in a rut for 30 days . Great choice of characters , he picked , for the show…..generation X at it’s finest and their siblings .
i have to disagree with some of these. 1: if you are lost in the wilderness, energy is all-important. Use only what is necessary of your energy, expend no more than that. outside of creating a shelter and foraging for food and water ( within a short distance) ,and while staying out of a rut IS important, laziness is KEY. SAVE that energy for moments when you MUST move fast to escape predator or enemy, need to move sites, or have to travel farther than roughly 3/4 mile to forage. 2: knowing your area is key, yes, but in true survival situations, you may need to delve into uncharted territory or areas your map does not show in greater detail. This is where careful observation through exploration of surrounding locals is highly important, but remember to take it easy and slow, save that energy. You may not be able to replenish it all later that day. You just cannot always know exactly what will be in your surrounding area, especially if you must leave yours for a new spot. 3: yes, stalking is very good to use to hunt prey…. but unless you are a crack shot, one hit kills are very difficult. Besides, you may not always have a gun, and in fact in many true survival situations you are unlikely to have one on hand at all times. This is where learning to build snares and traps becomes very vital. and if you DO have a projectile weapon (gun, bow, crossbow, spear, etc.) and are unsure of a one shot kill, go for a crippling shot: legs, spine, abdomen ( hard to move quickly when abdominal muscles are damaged).
Never hike in jeans.
I would add hypothermia
A whole lot of fluff. No meat. Written by someone who’s read others’ work , took some high level points and wrote an article; yet has never gotten out from behind his desk and been outdoors.
Dehydration !!
You got to do what you got to do. You know what else will kill you? Fear
thanks for sharing
Can we get more then a little paragraph per page scrolling 15 pages is a turn off.
Yup, this article SUCKS. But most of your posts are to induce people to click on mediocre articles with a ridiculous amount of ads.
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