Outdoor Safety Survival by Nash, Mike -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Cautionary Note Preface Forty Days and Forty Nights Alone in the Wilderness

Complacency Trap

1: Safety Awareness

It Can't Happen To Me

In Everyday Life In the Outdoors

Definitions of Safety and Survival Perspective

2: Inherent Risks and Good Judgment

Knowledge The Five P's

Preparedness, Preparation, Planning, Practice and Prevention

Experience Clothing, Equipment, Food and Shelter Health, Fitness, Training When You're Out There How Old is Too Old? Tread Carefully Positive Attitude

3: Preparedness

When Disaster Strikes Everyday Preparedness: Evacuation Outdoor Preparedness

Technological Innovation Practice First Aid Training

Benefit from Historical Accounts

4: Preparation, Planning and Practice

Down to Specifics

5: What Kind of Problems Can Occur?

People Equipment Environment

6: Psychology of Survival

Possible Stressors General Responses

7: Safety Procedures

Leave an Itinerary Checking Out and Checking Back In

8: Equipment For an Unexpected Overnighter

Essential Equipment Optional Equipment Food and Water

9: First Aid Kit 10: Additional Equipment for Planned Extended Trips 11: Navigation

Using a Compass With a Map Using a Compass Without a Map

Shoot a Bearing Use Simple Compass Tricks Always Carry a Compass

Compass Follies

Always Trust Your Compass

More on Using a Map

Map Types Why Carry an Altimeter?

Global Positioning System, or GPS Pitfalls of Using GPS Other Ways of Navigating

12: Cold Problems: Hypothermia, the Silent Killer

Background Progression of Hypothermia Understand How You Lose Body Heat

Conduction Convection Evaporation Respiration Radiation

Preventing Hypothermia Cold Water Immersion Hypothermia in Summer

13: Giving and Heeding Advice When Assessing Risk 14: More Cold Problems: Frostbite 15: Heat Problems: Hyperthermia

There Are Three Stages of Hyperthermia Hyponatremia

16: Desert and Arid Environments

Water Heat Other Desert Concerns

17: Electrical Storm, Lightning 18: Borderline Mountaineering

Rockfall Glaciers and Snowfields

19: Swift Water and Ocean Shoreline

Boats Wading and Fording Vehicles in Water Ocean Shore Hazards

Tsunami Other Shoreline Hazards to Watch Out For

20: Communications

Satellite Phone Emergency Locator Transmitter Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon Personal Locator Beacon SARSAT and DASS Other Personal Satellite Communication Devices Two-Way Radio Ham Radio GMRS and FRS Radios Mobile (Cell) Phone Low-Tech Communication

Signalling Mirror Whistle Signal Fire Flares Ground-to-Air Signals Lights

21: Safety Around Bears

Introduction Understanding Bear Behaviour Assessing and Responding to a Bear Encounter Use of Bear Repellents

Pepper Spray Bear Bangers Flare Air Horn Firearm

Prevention Summary

22: Other Wildlife Encounters

Cougars Moose and Elk Wildlife on the Highway Water-Borne Disease Mosquitoes and West Nile Snakes Ticks, Lyme Disease and RMS Bees and Wasps Scorpions and Spiders Rodents and HPS Bats and Rabies Wolves Echinococcosis Wolverines Coyotes Porcupines

23: Native Plants

Edible and Poisonous Plants Plant Metabolites Fungal Lung Infections

24: After Something Has Happened

Assess the Situation - Priority Action Approach Other Possible Actions

25: Emergency Shelters

Bush Shelter

How Much Daylight is Left? Find a Good Spot

Ventilation and Carbon Monoxide Other Considerations Snow Shelter

Snow Block Shelter Snow Cave Snow Hole Snow Trench

Fire and Snow Powder Snow Shelter, or Quinzhee

26: Winter Survival

Winter Clothing and Equipment Winter Driving Equipment to Keep in Your Car in Winter Before You Head Out Wildlife in Winter Travel on Winter Ice

27: Avalanche

Recreational Avalanche Course Equipment Avalanche Forecasts and Reports In the Field Avalanche Search and Rescue

28: What If You Are Lost? 29: What If Somebody Else Is Lost? 30: Industrial-Road Safety

Hazards What Should You Do?

31: Downed Aircraft

The Challenge of Spotting a Crash Site Help Yourself and the Searchers

32: Preparing for an Extended Outdoor Trip

General Planning and Equipment Food Planning and Preparation for the Outdoors

Breakfast Snacks Lunch Supper

Food Dehydrating

33: Outdoor Leadership

The Leader Standards and Procedures

When Procedures Fail

Leading a Trip Leadership Attributes Leading Volunteer Outdoor Activities Preparation

Before the Trip

Ensure Outdoor Skills, Knowledge and Fitness Essential Equipment At the Meeting Place

Sign-In Sheet Liability Waiver Ensure Participants are Adequately Equipped and Fit Medical or Other Special Circumstances Appoint Assistant(s) Organize Car Pooling

Pets At the Trailhead

New Participants Brief Your Assistants Final Briefing of the Group

On the Trail

Pace and Rest Stops

Hydration Positioning of the Leader and Assistants Change in Leadership Splitting the Group Learn About Participants Use Informal Teaching and Interpretive Opportunities Problem Situations Sending a Person Back Conflict Injury or Medical Emergency Lost Person After the Trip

34: Epilogue

Scenario Response

Acknowledgements Appendix A: Lessons of History, an Annotated List of Classic Reading

A Note on Accessibility

Appendix B: Commonly Used Knots Appendix C: Sources and Resources

Books, Articles, Websites Courses, Seminars, Videos Community Resources

Index Notes About the Author Copyright

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