Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Handbook by Kochanski, Mors -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Copyright Introduction Table of Contents I. Wilderness Living Skills

A) Site Development

1. Shelter 2. Latrines 3. Garbage Disposal 4. Food Storage: Bearproofing 5. Outdoor Instruction Areas

B) Equipment

1. Clothing and Survival 2. The Sleeping Bag 3. The Functional Bush Knife and Its Use 4. The Five Most Important Try Stick Notches 5. The Multipurpose Bush Axe 6. The Saw

C) Wilderness Fire Lighting Skills in the Spruce-Moose Forest

1. Approaches to the Use of Fire 2. The Question of Impact 3. Some Different Types of Fire Users 4. Abuses of Fire 5. Where Campfires are Out of Place 6. Justifying the Use of a Campfire 7. Points of Basic Fire Ecology

D) Basic Map and Compass Use

1. The Map 2. The Compass

E) The Basic Survival Lean-To and Bed

1. Open Fronted Lean-To Principles 2. Open Fronted Lean-To Made of Flexible Materials 3. Bough Beds

F) Outdoor Cooking

1. Introduction 2. The Australian Cooking Crane 3. Steam Pit

G) Wild Edible Plants

1. Plants 2. Looking at Edible Mushrooms

II Wilderness Survival

A) Defining Survival

1. Basic Existence Skills 2. Wilderness Survival 3. In Survival You Have No Guarantees 4. Living Off the Land 5. The Advantages of Fasting (On Water Only) 6. Problems with Fasting

Introduction to Wilderness Survival

1. Preparedness 2. Panic 3. Survival in a Nutshell 4. Fire 5. Shelter 6. Dehydration 7. Hypothermia 8. Signals 9. Conservation of Mental and Physical Energy 10. Lost? Finding Your Way

C) Water and Human Survival

1. Body Water Needs 2. How Much Water? 3. Thirst 4. Local Thirst 5. Boiled Water Recommended 6. Undetected Water Losses 7. Water Loss Through Lungs in the Cold 8. The Mechanism of Water Absorption 9. Dehydration

D) Handling Stress

1. Responding to Stress 2. Your Only Three Options 3. Limiting Factor

E. Survival Kits

1. Survival Kits: The Basics 2. The Personal Kit 3. The Basic (Two Kilogram) Universal Kit 4. The Personal First Aid Kit

F) Caching of Supplies and Equipment G) Signalling with a Mirror H) Signal Fires

1. The Choice of Site 2. The Simple Signal Fire 3. The Standard Signal Fire 4. The Large Signal Fire 5. Other Tactics

I) Vehicle Survival

1. Vehicle Operation Kit 2. Vehicle Survival Kit

J) Aircraft Survival K) Helicopter Safety

III Wilderness First Aid

A) Cold Injuries

1. Introduction 2. Hypothermia 3. Cold Hazards: Frostnip and Frostbite 4. Dehydration 5. Snow Blindness

B) Diarrhea C) The Heat Illnesses

1. Introduction 2. Water Loss 3. Burns, Scalds and Fluid Loss

D) Knife Cuts: How to Avoid Them

IV. Wilderness Travel Skills

A) Leading Your Group

1. Travel Hints

River Crossing

1. Crossing on Foot 2. Rope Crossing

C) Effects of Travelling at Higher Elevations

1. Conditions Resulting in High Altitude Pulmonary Edema 2. Conditions Above Tree Line

V. Wilderness Environment

A) Annoying Insects B) Bears are Dangerous C) Lightning D) Breaking Through the Ice E) Quicksand or Mud

VI. Ropework Author - Mors Kochanski

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