Survival 101

[bjeorn]

Okay, I said that I was going to try and do an update on my Survival Weekend excursion, so lets see if I can capture some of the essence of what I did. I’ll cut it for people who aren’t really interested.

Comments

[bloodkitty]

that sounds like an awesome experience, for sure!

i know that you're not supposed to camp too close to a water source, but i'm fuzzy on *why*.... so what was the reason given? and if you're on a mountain already {where the water runs down anyway}, does that change the reason, to allow you to camp closer?

learning to build fires in less than ideal circumstances is a really good skill to have! i really need to get out in the woods & re-teach myself - i'm sure i'm rusty on that!!!

thanks for the recap! i hope you get to go camp out & use your skills sometime soon!
'-D

[bjeorn]

It was an amazing experience

[bloodkitty]

yeah, i got very into making fires when i was little & my family went camping every year.... and i ALWAYS volunteered for the firepit at girl scout camp!
'-D

i'd forgotten the bugs aspect of camping near water, but i think we never camped closer than about 100 yards from a river, either... tho' i *definitely* remember swatting mosquitoes!!!

one of our trips, we had the tents situated close enough to hear the river we were near, and a small creek that ran off it was about 30 yards or so? away from us.... the adults kept the perishables {eggs, milk, cheese & beer} in the creek in some kind of net that kept it from being washed downstream, because even in the middle of july, it was COOOOOOLD in the water!
i don't believe we'd have been threatened by very much predatory wildlife, even with food smells from our camp - the adults were entirely too loud partying the whole time!
'-D