You can use the parabolic reflector part in a flashlight to heat up anything like food, cigarettes, and light sticks on fire in direct sunlight. Just put your item through the hole in the bottom and point it towards the sun.
Pines produce two edible products. The tender underbark (between the rough outer bark and the wood of the trunk) is edible, and pine cones can be broken open to reveal the seeds (known as pine nuts) which are also edible. Acorns are edible, but some are very bitter. In warmer climates you'll typically find short round acorns which are less bitter and can be eaten as is. Further north the long and narrow acorns are more bitter. You can deal with the bitterness by grinding up the flesh of the acorns and soaking it in water. Drain off the water and you'll have removed much of the bitter tannin, making the result much more edible. Dandilions are edible. The leaves are a crunchy green that can be eaten like a salad or cooked. The roots can be brewed into a coffee like beverage. General rule for berries. "Blue is good for you. Red may make you dead." If you're following power lines to civilization, small wooden power poles are more likely to bring you immediate results. Large high voltage lines can run for miles through the wilderness without ever coming across civilization. When building a shelter it helps to put something between you and the ground. Contact with the ground causes you to lose body heat quickly.
Before hiking and camping.make sure someone back home knows your planned route/arrival times ect.always carry a knife with you.There are pocket survival tins full of useful things,they go pretty cheap on eBay.Make a solar still and you can safely drink your piss.
Lol, try hunting in the winter. You have to go deep in the woods at times. That is why I learned to use the sun as direction.
Don't squeeze a sting, scrap it off, squeezing it produces more toxins. Never EVER eat a liver, ever. The liver filters toxins from the blood and stores them to be disposed of. The toxins can remain in the liver for quite a while. You can eat the small white flowers of clover, they are apperently tasty.
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy? Haha, love it! Very interesting. Using your method, you can light your fire before the sun goes down. Use fire to cook your food. Then you can have your cig after you eat Every tidbit that we see or read only increases our chances of survival. So long as you can remember them if you are ever in the situation. Hahahahaha <---- That's the cougar laughing when they see a human puffing up and yelling. **Tip: Keep your feet dry** Seriously, it is very important to take care of your feet and keep them.
So... next time you go hiking bring a fat friend? You can trap water with a porous cloth (like a bed sheet), a container and a stone. Basically loosely tie the cloth spread out, and weigh the centre of it with the stone. Put the container directly underneath where the stone dips the cloth and leave it overnight. The morning dew will settle on the cloth and drain down into the container giving you some water. If I were trapped in a flat roofed building during a zombie apocalypse, I'd have as many of these as I could set up all over the roof.
When making a survivor's kit include some dryer lint in a ziplock bag, it makes for a great fire starter. You can also use steel wool and a 9V battery to start a fire, touch the battery to the steel wool and it will become very hot very quickly. Other fire starting media tricks include wrapping a cotton t-shirt in aluminum foil and cook in a stove until it is charred and then cut it into little patches. When looking for firewood try to find a dead tree that is still standing. Standing dead trees are dryer and there is less of a chance of decay/rot compared to fallen dead.
Do not make rabbit your main food, it is possible to suffer from Rabbit Starvation. While it will physically fill you, and I'd surely eat them from time to time, their meat is fat free and you can actually waste away and starve eating it regularly.
Wrap duct tape around an old credit card then you have a few yards of duct tape that easily fits inside your pocket.
Will to live is number 1,knowledge is number 2 and whatever kit you have on you is number 3 according to the SAS survival handbook.
Hmmm sounds like a new diet waiting to happen lol. ....Try the new RS diet! Lose weight while never feeling hungry. It will even put a spring in your step
