Outdoor Survival Guide and Survival Essentials

An outdoor survival guide is not only a read on survival gears but also highlights the imperative outdoor survival aspects for instance navigation and signaling skills, first aid treatment, setting up of shelter with natural resources available into wilderness. In simple words, apart from providing information about essential survival gears the guide describes the essential skills necessary for wilderness survival.

Food and water is one of the important essentials on all outdoor survival guides. Survival guides not only mention the type of food appropriate for outdoor activities but also make you acknowledge various ways and means to obtain edible food in case you run short of food supplies. Canned food such as energy rich bars that are high in nutrients and easy to carry and cook, are the most recommended for outdoor wilderness. Water bottles with built-in filtration system, water purification tablets and some reasonable supply of water will keep you hydrated to explore the wild environment.

Another important wilderness survival section outlined by an outdoor survival guide is shelter and bedding material for you and your family. A good quality tent, bed mattresses, pillows, space blankets, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, a ground cover such as a large tarp are a few of the shelter terms explained in survival guides.

While exploring wilderness environment it is very common to get lost and isolated from your fellow survivalists, therefore outdoor survival guides make you realize to include navigation tools such as area map, a compass or GPS device to include in your kit. A map compass is a universal navigation tool that pretty works well in any kind of climatic conditions. A GPS device, on the other hand, relies on external batteries to support its operations. Moreover, GPS devices operations are sensitive to weather conditions as well. It is important to understand area map before you actually arrive at the wild destination, outdoor guides help you understand the map with the help of symbols and S.O.S signs.

One of the very important tasks in adventurer trips is to start a fire. Outdoor survival guides have detailed information on fire making tools and methods such as waterproof matches, cotton balls when soaked in petroleum jelly, tinder, and flint steel among other fire starting tools and methods.

You do not know how long you would stay into wilderness and life is more exposed to unexpected events and emergency situations, outdoor survival guides recommend bringing along a first aid box and necessary medical supplies for instance antiseptic solutions, bandages and pain killers. Moreover, it highlights survival techniques to provide first aid treatment if someone suffers an injury or illness in wild environment.

Additional survival tools and miscellaneous items outdoor survival guides mention are important for outdoor venture trips are cooking utensils and a portable stove, flashlights, insect repellents, signaling tools, sun screens, a multi-purpose knife, a few interesting books and entertainment games to make your trip a successful outdoor expedition.

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