Old Project Avalon Forum (ARCHIVE) - View Single Post - Don't make a mistake with your survival gear

Anchor · 09-19-2008, 11:17 AM

I agree - great posts.

Here is a checklist of other things you can do to train yourself or find out how to avoid mistakes through some forced experience.

1) Have recent some camping experience - enjoy this one

2) Find out what its like to go without food for a few days - can you survive caffeine/thanine/nicotine withdrawal for 3 days?

3) Experience no electricity for 48hrs and see how it goes

4) Learn what its like to not have hot water [1]

5) Have first aid training, and then after that learn wilderness first aid ("Where there is no Doctor" - David Werner, "Wilderness Medicine" - Forgey are two great references)

6) Maintain a reasonably good degree of physical fitness

Bonus points

7) Get some water from out in the wild somewhere, purify it, and then .... drink it ... !!!

8) Learn bushcraft skills (especially how to sharpen a knife properly!)

I'm sure there is more, add to the list please. Maybe we can build a training curriculum

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[1] I actually take freezing cold showers every day now instead of hot ones. I have been doing it a year. It cured my allergies and saves water, and electricity!

09-19-2008, 11:17 AM	#3
Anchor Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Posts: 2,280	Re: Don't make a mistake with your survival gear I agree - great posts. Here is a checklist of other things you can do to train yourself or find out how to avoid mistakes through some forced experience. 1) Have recent some camping experience - enjoy this one 2) Find out what its like to go without food for a few days - can you survive caffeine/thanine/nicotine withdrawal for 3 days? 3) Experience no electricity for 48hrs and see how it goes 4) Learn what its like to not have hot water [1] 5) Have first aid training, and then after that learn wilderness first aid ("Where there is no Doctor" - David Werner, "Wilderness Medicine" - Forgey are two great references) 6) Maintain a reasonably good degree of physical fitness Bonus points 7) Get some water from out in the wild somewhere, purify it, and then .... drink it ... !!! 8) Learn bushcraft skills (especially how to sharpen a knife properly!) I'm sure there is more, add to the list please. Maybe we can build a training curriculum A.. [1] I actually take freezing cold showers every day now instead of hot ones. I have been doing it a year. It cured my allergies and saves water, and electricity!