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30 Survival Tips From Les Stroud
01* In cold or freezing conditions, the worst thing you can do is let yourself get sweaty. He constantly mentions that if you get sweaty, you should let the sweat dry (he mentions this tip in almost every episode).
02* Use a lens from a camcorder to start a fire (as if it is a Magnifying Glass)
03* Always carry a good multitool (eg. Leatherman Wave or Swiss Army Explorer Plus).
04* Break wood between two trees to keep from hurting yourself.
05* Cut water-vine in swamps and jungles and place a cup at the opening to collect water.
06* Wipe mud over your skin to protect against mosquitoes.
07* If you catch lean food eat as much of the animal as possible, except the entrails. Certain wild animals have extremely low levels of body fat, which may lead to death by rabbit starvation.
08* To start a fire with a lighter that has no fluid, use a piece of tissue formed into a cone at one end with a ball of sock lint stuffed into the cone to catch the spark that comes off the lighter. This only works if the socks are manufactured from 100% cotton. He refers to this as a prison match (and tells viewers not to ask him why he knows how to make it).
09* Use a snowmobile seat cover to melt snow in the sunlight.
10* Don’t play the harmonica when polar bears are possibly around because they are attracted to strange noises.
11* Use corn chips to hold a flame in a manner similar to a candle wick.
12* Boil water by placing heated rocks in it. This is done when a water container cannot be held directly over a fire.
13* Heat rocks over fire and place them around the body as heating packs while sleeping or resting.
14* Use an emptied coconut shell filled with coconut fibers to carry a smoldering coal. This prevents the need to light another fire from scratch.
15* Use cow dung to keep a fire smoldering while away. This prevents the need to light another fire from scratch.
16* Use the elastic strap from a pair of boxers as a slingshot to fire a fishing spear.
17* Soak the foam cushion of a broken snowmobile in gasoline to use as fire fuel in the Canadian Arctic.
18* Determine the time until sunset by measuring the distance between the sun and horizon, wherein each width of your hand equals one hour.
19* Use moss from the north side of a tree to gain bearings without a compass (though he added that this method, though accurate in his case, is often unreliable).
20* When opening a conch shell, crack the point on the back and scrape out the meat inside.
21* To get fresh water on an island build a solar still by finding a box (or something similar) and put seawater and plants inside, along with a smaller container in the direct center, and cover it tightly with a plastic sheet. Then put a rock in the center of the plastic. The plants will sweat fresh water which will evaporate, condense onto the plastic and drip into the container.
22* Too much coconut milk causes diarrhea.
23* The Five “W’s” of Survival: o Weather: Temperature of the area, know what kind of shelter you need. o Wood: How much wood is around for both fire and shelter. o Wigglies: spiders, scorpions, snakes, anything that can bite you or poison you. o Widowmakers: rocks, trees, large animals, anything that can fall on you or attack you. o Water: Where will you get water, how will you obtain it.
24* Use a potato peeler on thin branches to create very curly wood shavings. These are great for getting very small flames turned into big ones.
25* Always check your boots for “Wigglies.”
26* Use large rock pieces and twigs to setup trap for small animals by placing an edible bait to the supporting twig (Les caught a squirrel in the Utah canyonlands once, he cooked it over fire for a long time to burn off parasites before eating)
27* Set up a trap in the swamp or river bank by sticking wood sticks in a pattern that looks like a square with the top side slightly open in a v-shape , place a bait inside to wait for a turtle or other animals.
28* To create smoke signal, burn damp wood chips over fire. 29* Before sleep pee so your body isn’t trying to keep the water inside you warm.
30* Eat Something before you sleep helps insides get warmer.
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Wyzyrd said:
Another (important) one from one of Les’ ‘Canadian Winter’ episodes – hang something preferably waterproof and preferably insulating from back of your belt as a “butt apron” so you can sit down without digging thru your gear before you sit down and getting wet and cold.
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pearler said:
I agree with you pretty much Les, but you did not mention deer fishing, turkey trot lines and on the conch(mussel) .
I have found them fighting,pretty wild slow motion, they begin by getting one side of their shell inside the other and of course the longer shell wins.
You have no risk, as cracking them you risk sharp particles .
I just take a shell from the ground and push it to cut their tendon, no risk loosing a money pearl ;).
Armadillo’s don’t chase them . Get ahead of them on their trail and when they walk by, grab their tale and hold them straight out from you .If they are in a hole and plant their feet with you holding their tail, take a small stick poke them in the butt and they pop right out ;).
Snakes leave a trail and use existing trails, around rock ledges you can follow their trail to the den.
Prong horns are super curious .
You can hide and stick a leg out/arm and a little curious sound. They will come right up on you .
Cattails and thick leather will carry a coal all day . Cattails are edible also .
Bull frogs can be caught with a top water lure as can ducks,but you need to already have your lure in the area, for ducks .
Feral hogs can uproot a small tree to get to you,but in the water(waste deep) you can survive. They are good swimmers but they do not hold their breath well .
I have always believed when iTIs a survival situation .
I should have brought more ;).
Of course when I plan an adventure I am never far from caches I put to go farther in one run ;).
Last time I went hiking.
I went early in the morning full pack with a fanny back . I sat on a rock at about 5:00a.m. and I heard a sound I knew but could not place .
Then this cat screamed 6-8′ behind me . I jumped up and screamed back at it . Then I called my wife and said baby I am gonna set this phone down and if you hear all hell break loose . Call 911 . It was circling me growling low and I am shaking from the gallons of adrenaline pumping thru me ;). I get my little but bright light out and a long screw driver and start watching for red-eyes :(. Throwing rocks !
I have heard it three times and saw a quick side of it. Looks to be a full grown bob cat .
I now carry a ten inch pig sticker with me ;).
Now We river rats have to contend with emus and ostrich ,both can hurt you one can kill you .
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