Surviving the Wilderness
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The document discusses various strategies and considerations for survival in the wilderness. It outlines symptoms of dehydration and emphasizes the importance of shelter, food sources like cattails and maggots, and making traps to catch small animals. While food isn't an immediate need, it is important if one plans to be active in gathering resources or building shelters. Additionally, the document recommends establishing shelter, as it can prevent hypothermia and illness, and eventually obtaining fire, which allows for cooking, boiling water, and hardening weapons to hunt more successfully.
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- 2. Symptoms of Dehydration: dry or sticky mouth, drowsiness, thirst, decreased urine output, fatigue and dizziness, lethargy, muscle weakness, headache.
- 3. Although it may be less convenient, creating a solar still could make the difference between life and death.
- 4. The human body can go without food for 3 weeks, however if you plan to be active, creating shelters or gathering resources, food is a must. Making traps such as snares requires little energy and can be very beneficial.
- 5. Alternatively to meat, there are other food sources such as maggots which provide protein and nutrients, and other edible plants available in a forest. One edible plant is the cattail, along with other meals, cattails can be made into a form of pancakes.
- 6. Establishing and building a shelter when stuck in a wilderness survival situation can make the difference between life and death. Shelters not only give you protection, but they also prove as cover from weather, reducing the chances of hypothermia and other weather related illnesses.
- 7. Although it is not an immediate requirement, having fire will assure you the longevity you may need if you are in a more serious situation. Not only will fire allow you to keep your body warm, but it will allow you to cook meals to avoid sicknesses, boil water to purify it, and even harden wooden weapons in order to make your hunting more efficient and successful. These two methods provide visuals of how one can create fire through creating friction between two pieces of wood.