Survive the Outdoors Kit

Description

Wherever adventure takes you, take the Survive the Outdoors kit! The 48-page guidebook and 4 included survival tools can help you safely explore nature and survive unexpected circumstances.

Whether you’re planning a day hike or an overnight adventure, take this kit with you to the great outdoors. The pages in the guidebook and the tools that come with it are designed with a primary goal in mind: To help keep you safe, should an accident or circumstance prolong your outdoor adventure for longer than you planned.

The fully illustrated guidebook is simple to use—even the youngest in your party should be able to follow the directions. First, it helps properly prepare you for your outdoor escapades, including gear and how to pack it. It walks you through finding or setting up shelter, locating clean water, and building a fire. Then it looks at difficult situations you might encounter, from getting lost to getting hurt to getting hungry. Throughout the book, look for “trail blazes” (or navigational markers) with additional adventure tips and survival suggestions.

The adventure tools include:
 

• Compass with carabiner: Essential for navigation, a compass will help you orient yourself in the wilderness. The carabiner helps keep it on you or your pack.
• Flint-striker: Use this essential tool to start a fire by striking the two pieces together to generate sparks that can ignite kindling.
• 10-in-1 multitool: Small enough to store in your wallet, this mighty multi-tool has many uses: knife, screwdriver, bottle and can opener, ruler, wrench, and saw blade.
• Reflective SOS signal sheet built right into the book to signal for help.

The information in this safety guide is designed to reassure the occasional adventurer, and it’s intended primarily for those folks who venture outdoors in the more temperate months—not those who do extreme cold-weather mountaineering. With that in mind, most day hikers get into trouble for one reason: they aren’t properly prepared. Knowing essential emergency skills and having survival tools on hand could mean the difference between life and death—or at least whether you’ll want to return to the woods. They may not make the situation you’re in any less frightening, but they will help you live to tell the tale.

Perfect for your next camping trip or wilderness hike, Survive the Outdoors: Essential Gear and Safety Guide also makes a great gift for any nature explorer in your life. It’s the one thing you should never leave home without.

Publishing and supplying books to wholesalers, mail order companies, and retail stores for over 60 years, Chartwell Books publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, craft, home reference, puzzles and games, music and art instruction, transportation, and more.Introduction
About This Kit
What to Pack in Your Backpack
                How to Pack Your Pack
Creating Shelters 101
                Choosing a Campsite
                Pitching a Tarp
                Know Your Knots
Lean-Tos and Debris Huts
                Natural Shelters
                Create a Critter-Free Campsite
Making Fire
                Fire Safety
                Gathering Firewood
                Building a Fire
                Lighting a Fire
                Extinguishing a Fire
Finding Water
                Purification
                Alternative Water Sources
                Solar Still
Plant Life: Eat and Avoid
                Edible Plants
                Poisonous Plants
Navigation Tools (and When You Need Help)
                Celestial Signposts
                Follow the Stars
                Sending Signals
Emergency!
                First Aid Kit
                Treating Burns
                When Snakes Strike
                Broken Limbs
                Performing CPR
                Heatstroke
                Hypothermia
 

Additional information

Imprint	Chartwell Books
Format	General Trade
ISBN-13	09780785844167
ISBN-10	0785844163
Audience	General / adult
BISAC	SPO009000, SEL049010
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