Jan
16
Finding yourself lost outdoors can be nightmarish, but if you know just a bit about survival you’ll be able to stay calm and find your way. Here are a few tips, from making your own winter-weather eyewear to finding a safe place to wait out a cold winter night, here are a few life saving ideas should you find yourself lost outdoors.
Making your own sunglasses isn’t as difficult as you’d think. It does not involve refining and heating sand, as glass does. Instead, we’re concerned about the potential damage to your eyes from extreme cold but more importantly from winter’s excessive barrage of light. First, find a malleable bark or reed, in cold weather this is most likely frozen or hidden, so look carefully and warm up the material before you begin to mold it. Secondly, cut your material into strips (or rip it) and however possible tie these strips into a matting no different than the weave of a sweater, but looser. Finally, fit this over your eyes and tie it to your head with anything from a shoelace to locks of your hair.
Believe it or not, most people lost in the wild suffer from three things: damage to the eyes and skin, hypothermia or frost bite, and hunger. You can easily protect yourself from the first two by making sunglasses, covering exposed skin and digging into a warm place to wait out your rescuers. Here is how to do the latter.
First, even if there are no structures around, you can make a reasonable place to wait. Use your energy to dig a hole in the snow going into the earth at an angle. Your body heat will heat the hole you dig and keep you warm enough to survive and out of the wind. Second, use rocks, or dig in the snow a giant SOS near your hole. Finally, if possible find evergreen tree branches to fill in your SOS pattern, making it more lasting and weather-resistant.
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