Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures

You’ve seen it on all the TV survival shows, people using their watch to find the points on a compass. Usually, its only a brief explanation and it’s always left me wondering (I can be a little slow sometimes). In case you’re like me, I found a good explanation on how this works on the Survival Topics site. From the article, it details the differences between the Northern and Southern hemisphere, as well as techniques to do the same even if you only know the time of say (ie; you only have a digital watch). This is excellent knowledge to have when your GPS batteries go dead and you realized that you left your compass elsewhere.

You can read the article at Using Time as a Compass.

Many people make the mistake of traveling through winter conditions without proper preparations. How will you survive if your car is caught in a blizzard and there is nowhere else to go? Sitting there and freezing to death is not an option because here is what you do…

Read more at How to Make a Survival Heater for Your Car

Here is another article on what you should do (and not do) to survive when you get lost in the wilderness. The article was written by Dan A. Nelson of Puyallup and appeared in the Seattle Times. Even though the article’s focus is for the hiker, the principles apply to remote vehicular travel also. Winter is upon us and it’s even more critical to be prepared.

Read the article at How to Be Found When You’re Lost.

On a related topic, Dan wrote another article of interest titled High-tech Solutions to Getting Found where he discusses high-tech gadgets that may help you in a rescue situation.

You’ve seen them on the survival shows on TV, but do you really know how to make a solar still in a survival situation?

Well the folks at survivaltopics.com kindly posted up a step-by-step procedure to set up and utilize a solar still in case of an emergency. You won’t get a lot of water, but some is better than none in survival situations.

Read more at How to Make a Solar Water Survival Still

Here is an article of interest from survivaltopics.com on assembling a wilderness survival kit.

How to Make a Survival Kit to Save Your Life

For those of us who travel in the wilderness on a regular basis, the idea of equipping oneself with a survival kit seems trivial. Survivalists are sure to have a survival kit on hand at all times and are prepared to use it. This is because the experienced survivor knows the unexpected can happen without a moments notice.

Help or rescue may not always be immediately available so you need to be able to take care of yourself come what may. Making your own survival kit from a judicious selection of gear is the first step towards getting out alive.

Below is a discussion on how to make your own survival kit. Of necessity it is a bit wordy, as I believe it is important to know something about why certain items should be included in a survival kit, rather than just blindly following instructions for creating a kit without understanding why pieces of gear are included.

Read the entire article at http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/how-to-make-a-survival-kit-to-save-your-life/

“Revolutionary Emergency Messenger and Personal Tracker Allows Users to Summon Help from Virtually Anywhere on the Planet”

“The SPOT messenger gives consumers a vital line of communication, independently of cellular coverage, with emergency services, friends, and family. SPOT is a revolutionary product that is designed to raise the safety factor for hundreds of millions of people around the world.”

If this device works as well as it sounds, it could potentially save a lot of lives as well as making trips into the backcountry safer and less worrisome for family members.

Read the entire press release at http://home.businesswire.com/

A survival guide for what to do if you are lost in the wilderness. The focus of this guide is the four basic needs which can be the difference between life and death: Warmth, Water, Shelter, and Food. This guide provides a basic introduction to what you need to know to survive in a situation where you are lost and waiting to be rescued.

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