Top 5 Tips for Wilderness Survival

[Music] hi we're in the field today recently people have contacted me asking me to do a presentation on wilderness survival so today will be my top five tips for wilderness survival and it comes with a long list of disclaimers and no i won't talk this fast throughout the entirety of the presentation first on the list is it's going to be a top five list because i really only know five things about the subject secondly fair warning just about all i'm going to do today is talk and you're going to have to put up with my shatner pauses and my very annoying habit of transposing words and syllables three when i talk i'm going to be talking about my conclusions and my opinions my opinions are based on my education my training my experiences different people have different experiences so they have different opinions and i make no claim that mine has its origin in the mind of greatness four even though i might say things like you should do this and always remember that i am not trying to give you any advice with one exception when i say keep your ego in check that is advice other than that i'm really only explaining what i do and why nothing i say today should be inferred as any kind of tutorial or recommendation and five i'm going to start out today by telling a long boring tedious anecdote in fact i'm going to talk for a long time before we ever get to the top 5 list this anecdote is not worth telling except that it does help illustrate some of the points i want to make on the top five list so you're going to have to sit through the long version of it unless you'd like to skip the tedious anecdote then i invite you to fast forward to the part where you see me standing next to a sign that reads top five okay for those who are still here let me explain the format of today's presentation first i'm going to tell the anecdote then i will have a comparatively very short discussion on my definition of wilderness survival and then we'll get to the top five list in telling this story it comes with four things that you must keep in mind and yes i'm aware that i talk about tedium and it becomes very tedious when the list of disclaimers is longer than the story but i've been called upon to tell this story a few times and i've discovered that this list of four things you must keep in mind is absolutely necessary to explain the first one being that when i say it's a tedious anticlimactic anecdote i'm not trying to be modest it really is it's a story about events that are about as close to nothing as they could be while still being something and i only tell it because it really does help illustrate some points i want to make later on the second thing is that i'm going to tell this in an aar format now different aars will have different formats but today's format will be the explanation of the events as they occurred and just what happened without a lot of editorializing about the whys and hows then once i explain the events then there will be a discussion on what went right what went wrong what to sustain what to change what to improve and what we can learn from all of that so i'm going to ask you to resist the temptation of making a lot of kudos statements until i get to the explanation and evaluation portion of it the third thing is even though this anecdote is long and tedious i really am giving you a condensed version of it in the interest of brevity and relevance there's a lot of things i leave out and when i'm called upon to tell this in front of a live audience it is very common that someone will interrupt me and say some version of coulda woulda shoulda and tell me what i should have done and when people are doing that they are almost always speaking from a position of ignorance because this is a condensed version a really good example is there's a faction of our society that has a fascination with shooting their guns in the air and not just in this case but in many things i discussed there's always somebody that wants to tell me some could have should have version of i should have shot my gun up in the air shot some kind of warning shot or signal shots okay you think i'm long-winded now it would take me 15 minutes to explain in any kind of adequate way why in this particular case shooting any kind of shots was not an option but because it would take so long to explain i'm going to ask you to just take it on a little bit of faith and let it suffice to say shooting my gun up in the air was not an option and that leads to four which is please remember that what i'm about to talk about took place a long time ago it was not in the galaxy's far far away it was right here on earth but these events took place a long time ago and when i discussed this there's always people that want to give me chronocentric advice and they'll make some version of coulda woulda shoulda that wasn't an option at the time the best example being that someone tells me that i should have used the gps feature on my phone okay this took place at a time when cellular phones did not have internet access and they didn't typically have a flashlight as part of your phone or a gps feature in fact this would have been at a time when all those cellular phones existed really very few people were carrying them so using the gps feature on my phone wasn't an option okay all of that in place let's get started first let me set the stage for where and when this happened it happened in the area we're in right now and you can see a lot of very steep hills and canyons we have logging roads that run along the sides of the hill and it occurred in late december so the temperature was in the mid to upper 30s and although on that particular day there'd only been a light misting of rain off and on all day in the weeks prior to this there had been a great deal of rain almost every day and everything in this environment was wet also at that time this area had been clear-cut about 25 years before this happened so the replanted trees had become fairly tall but there was still a lot of underbrush in the area so with that in place i want to try to give you a visual to the best i can of what i was wearing and what equipment i had with me that day let's take a look on that day i was wearing a set of bdus not this pattern but basically the same garment and i was wearing a jones cap very similar to this one no the pattern doesn't match but i'm far more concerned about the practicality of the headwear than the fashion of it and i was wearing a set of jungle boots identical to these yes i know but we're still in the mode of explaining what happened i was also wearing a coat and i don't have one analogous to it to show you today but it was not a military field jacket it was just your typical cotton poly blend shell dacron holofield 2 insulation and its insulating power was very good its water resistant properties virtually non-existent i was also wearing thin cotton gloves similar to these and when the temperatures in the mid 30s thin cotton gloves like this are perfectly sufficient until they get wet now for equipment i was wearing an lbv not this one but a more basic version but i still had a knife holstered pistol ammo pouch canteen and so on and i was carrying a ruger 10 22 rifle very similar to this one so although what i'm showing you is not perfectly analogous it is a pretty good visualization that'll give you a good idea of what i was wearing and the equipment i had with me that day and now we're to the part where i finally tell the boring story and we're filming it right here even though this is not exactly where it happened this terrain approximates it very well and the story goes like this i'm driving on a paved road i leave the paved road and drive on a one-lane dirt and gravel logging road i come to a part where several logging roads intersect and from this intersection they go out in various directions to various distances where they all dead end and there's one that goes less than half a mile this way and one that goes over a mile that way i leave the vehicle and i start walking on one of these roads and i come to a point where the road forks in a way that looks a lot like what you're seeing here and this is the part where i have to say at the time i was very familiar with the area i knew that the upper road went up about 300 meters and dead ended into a log landing kind of like a cul-de-sac the other one continued on fairly straight for at least a mile and a half i never had actually walked to the end of that road but i knew it was at least a mile and a half so i go to the upper road go to the end of it and i'm up there for a while and just about sunset i decide that it's time to head home but instead of coming back down the road what i'm going to do is go downhill cross country through the bushes hit the lower road take a left and head back to the vehicle even though i'm going to be doing this in the dark it will be easy to navigate because it's a short distance it's only about 300 meters and because the longer road goes so much farther than a shorter road that even if i veer off course quite a bit i can't get off course enough to miss the longer road the only way i could do that would be if i headed 180 degrees in the wrong direction and started going back uphill i think i'd notice if i was going uphill instead of downhill so just after sunset i leave the log landing head into the bushes important to point out that at that moment i did not look at my watch but i walked for what i would estimate was 10 minutes in that 10 minute time i became drenched imagine that in this environment there was so much water on the bushes so much water on the low hanging fur bows that i was drenched there was a point during this 10 minute foot movement that i had stopped for just a moment to look around a little bit and i could feel water running i was standing in a stream that was about six inches deep in a foot and a half wide and i was so wet i hadn't even noticed the wetness of the stream i'd only noticed the movement of the water so i got out of the stream and kept walking but at the end of about 10 minutes i look around and i say i should be there any minute and here's where i did look at my watch then i kept going for 15 more minutes okay i should have been there long before now but i reasoned that maybe these two roads are farther apart than i thought maybe i'm going through the bushes traveling farther to get a short distance than i thought i had been maybe i'm going a lot slower than i thought i'll keep going i went for another 15 minutes okay obviously if i were going to hit the lower road i'd hit it by now obviously i've made some mistake in navigation and the way i worded it to myself was obviously i've done something wrong but what and i stood over that for a while and i couldn't come up with any answer obviously i'm going the wrong direction but what direction am i going i didn't have a compass with me yes i know but we're still in mode of discussing what happened we'll discuss that in depth in the analysis portion i also can't navigate by any celestial bodies because of the thick cloud cover and that thing about moss growing on the north side of a tree there is some validity to that but it doesn't really apply in this area so what i'm stuck with is i've made some mistake in navigation i have no idea what that mistake is and in any practical sense i don't know where i am i do know that the paved road on which i started runs almost perfectly north and south and goes for many miles and i know i'm on the east side of it if i head directly west i might have to go over quite a few hills to get there but i'll get to that paved road get back to where i need to be but i'm at a point where i have no means of navigation the only option i have left that i can think of is that i know that in some of the very highest peaks in this area if i get up on top of those i can see the lights of cities in the distance i can see lights of a small city about 15 miles over here a bigger city about 20 miles over there and so maybe i can get some bearing from that but now it's well after ent where is a hill well i can see what i think is kind of a hill so i walked to the top of this hill and of course what i saw from the top of the hill was nothing okay this is where i'm going to spend the night right there at the top of the hill there's a lot of trees but there was three fairly good sized fir trees and an almost perfect equilateral triangle about seven feet apart and their interlocking branches made a really good canopy to keep the rain off under the trees the ground was only damp not absolutely drenched like it was everywhere else so now it's after ent the temperature has gone from the mid 30s to the low 30s i am drenched this is going to turn into a hypothermia situation really quick i got to get my act together well in this environment about the best place to find any kind of dry firewood are the dead dry branches on the lower parts of fir trees and i was able to pick off some little twigs get my fire starters out get this together and build a little fire but it provided enough light that i could see around and find bigger wood i didn't have a flashlight with me yes i know but the little fire gave me just enough light that i could find some stuff and as i found more stuff i got the fire going bigger i couldn't really chop any big branches but i did have a knife that allowed me to chop some of the smaller ones so i got a fairly good fire going under the conditions this allowed me to dry off quite a bit i also had some extra socks with me now my socks were in my cargo pockets so they were wet too but they were only damp not ring out wet like the socks on my feet and my extra socks were thick heavy wool socks so when i traded socks that was a big step in the right direction i also had a full canteen and a six pack of pop tarts so i had some food and water i'm not doing too bad not only that i had a big plastic lawn and leaf garbage bag which i was able to put on the ground sit down on that so i'm not sitting on the wet ground so once i got my fire going pretty well i was able to dry out fairly well and i end up building up the fire laying down on the ground next to it going to sleep then of course over the course of about 30 or 40 minutes the fire burns down i wake up shivering get some more stuff put on there get it get it going get the fire built back up warm up and i did this same cycle several times through the night build up the fire sleep for a while fire burns down i wake up rebuild the fire finally at bnt there's enough light that i can look around and go a little farther and get more and bigger wood and i got the fire built up fairly well that allowed me to get dried off really well and warmed up and so right about sunrise i'm in good shape and with the sun rising in the southeast now i have some ability to tell what direction i'm going and so i can head west and get back to the road now here's the part where i have to discuss the concept of people looking for me before i'd left home i had told people exactly where i was going and when i would be back so people noticed when i didn't come back on time but does that mean they came looking for me i had no idea if anybody was going to look for me so i was not operating in the mode of people are looking for me i was operating in the mode of now i know what direction i need to go i'm going to get going so i did well it turned out that yes people were looking for me people had come into the area the night before and just done a curse research decided that they couldn't find me and so decided that they would come back the next morning and do a real search so in the morning when i started moving they were out in the area looking for me i hadn't walked two minutes before i saw a squirrel i shot it stuck it in my pocket i might need to eat that later that shot alerted those people to at least some semblance of my location got them headed in the right direction i didn't walk two or three more minutes before i came across a logging road not the road i was looking for but i knew this road would lead somewhere so i start walking on this road and i hadn't been on the road three minutes before somebody drove up and they found me now i want to make this part very clear i greatly appreciate people coming out and looking for me it took a lot of effort thank you also even though by the time they found me i'd solved my own problem they did save me an eight mile foot movement back to where my vehicle was again thank you but by the time they had found me it really solved my own problem nobody rescued me you gotta keep your ego in check and that's gonna come up later as we go another part of that same thing is later that day as i'm talking to a couple of people that were looking for me one of the people that had been out the night before was discussing how they'd found some footprints in the mud on the road and they presumed those footprints were mined if they were or not i really don't know but they followed these footprints for a short distance and then lost the trail but with those footprints one of the people told me quote we tracked you easy close quote okay at the time i was too polite to say anything about it but let me put the question to you what's wrong with the statement we tracked you easy exactly if you had so easily tracked me you would have found me you didn't track anything nobody tracked me easy guys you've got to keep your egos in check and that's a very important part of what i'm talking about so all of that having been said that's the story of what happened now let's get to the part where we discuss what went right what went wrong and what we can learn from it now where did that part of the arry discuss what went right what went wrong what to sustain what to improve what to eliminate what can we learn from all of this and i'm going to start with what went wrong many things did but in the interest of brevity i'm going to talk about what i consider to be the top four one the question how did i miss the lower road what went wrong there well i have an answer although it's not a particularly satisfactory one day or two after this happened i came back into the area and attempted to answer the question how did i miss the lower road well it was easy to figure out how this road that went on pretty well straight for a mile and a half no it didn't it went on pretty well straight for about 300 meters then curled around and went about another 100 or 200 meters and dead ended all i did was from the upper road walked past the end of the lower road which brings up the question if it only went down there for about 300 meters what made me think that it went a mile and a half and the answer is at the time i had no idea why i thought that and now many years later when i look back at this i still have no idea what made me think that road went on in a direction to a distance that it didn't go the problem was i didn't know the area nearly as well as i thought and that's point two of my four is i didn't know the area nearly as well as i thought now it is not being boastful to say that i know the area very well i do but just not nearly as well as i thought i did which brings me back to the point you gotta keep your ego in check now the third thing is that there was a lot of gear that i should have had that i just didn't have like a compass and we'll discuss a little bit about the why of that later but i didn't have a compass with me if i had i could have solved my own problem that night other things i didn't have with me like a flashlight that wouldn't have helped me keep from getting lost but once i did it would have made everything else that happened a lot easier other things i didn't have appropriate gear for the environment yes i had a coat but i should have had a raincoat i'm wearing jungle boots which are made for hot wet environments i should have been wearing some kind of waterproof boot or even just leather boots with a good coat of polish or wax would have been highly water resistant i was wearing those thin cotton gloves how about some thick wool gloves i just didn't have a lot of the right gear and four even though i did have some pretty good equipment i didn't utilize that equipment to its full potential and in some cases didn't carry the things the way i should have carried them or packaged them the way i should have for example my extra socks i had them in my pockets i should have just had them in ziploc bags so they'd be dry when i put them on a good example is my big lawn and leaf garbage bag very good piece of equipment lots of uses in the field but instead of keeping it in my pocket until i'm getting ready to set up camp and putting it on the ground so i don't have to sit on the wet ground before i ever left the road i should have done that boy scout thing where you turn it upside down cut a head hole in it cut a couple of armholes in it and put it over me as an impromptu field expedient raincoat at least then when i got to where i was going to spend the night i would have only been drenched from the knees down so i had some gear i needed but didn't have what i needed didn't carry it correctly and in some cases didn't use it correctly now what went right that's probably a shorter list but there are a few things on the what went right list first even though by the time people found me i'd solved my own problem i'm going to say that telling people exactly where i was going and when i would be back was a right thing to do the second thing that i did write was that i carried some pretty good equipment not as good as it should have been but still some pretty good stuff i had a full canteen i had some pop-tarts i had matches and fire starters i had matches in a waterproof match container and in addition to that a box of waterproof matches i had a lot of good equipment with me and in addition to that i had trained with that equipment in fact about six weeks before this happened i'd been out in the field and done a training exercise that was simulating a lost in the woods scenario and on that training exercise i discovered that a lot of the stuff that i thought was going to work out well for me wasn't and i really upgraded a lot of my stuff not as much as i needed to but still upgraded a lot of my stuff if not for that training exercise when i got into this situation i might have been in real trouble and four a thing that i really did write was i followed that hunter education class doctrine of the first thing you do when you're lost is admit to yourself that you're lost and then prepare to spend the night now part of that is also prepare a signal for people that are looking for you i didn't do that because i had no clue that anybody was going to look for me but i admitted to myself that i was lost instead of wandering around aimlessly all night and i prepared to spend the night and i kept my wits about me and that is something that i did right so with all of that when we look at that situation and the things i learned from it and many things that have happened in the years since then that becomes the basis of my top five tips for wilderness survival and now like an infomercial that takes forever to get to the point before we get to my top five tips for wilderness survival we have to have the discussion on my definition of wilderness survival i'm sure there are many people who would have many different definitions but today we're going to talk about my definition my definition has five points please watch this segment in its entirety because there are some exceptions to these points and some things i need to explain and the five points are in the field under adverse conditions when you have to spend the night or multiple nights when you did not intend to and you were not prepared to now let me break that down first when i say in the field i don't mean a rest area on the side of the freeway i don't mean a campground that has bathrooms and showers and a pay phone if you can still find a pay phone i mean in the field although some campgrounds are remote enough they would count as in the field secondly under adverse conditions that could be extremes of cold or wet or dry or hot in the story i told it was december the temperature was in the low 30s everything was very wet that's adverse conditions if that exact same thing had happened to me in july everything would have been for the most part dry and the coldest it ever would have gotten at night would have been 50 degrees now if you're trying to sleep on the ground in 50 degree weather when you don't have a sleeping bag or some kind of space blanket or even a coat to wear that can be uncomfortably cold but not what i would call adverse conditions if i'd been there in july and i wanted to start a fire with everything pretty much dry starting a fire would have been very easy a bigger concern would have been keeping the fire from getting out of control so point two is under adverse conditions now point three spending the night or multiple nights there are some exceptions to this but for the most part if you solve your problem in the same day the problem started that's not really what i'd call a survival situation a good example is i went deer hunting with somebody who got genuinely lost for about five minutes until he decided on a course of action executed it found his way back to the car solve his problem not a survival situation however on the other side of that i saw an educational film on survival and they told the story of these two people who were four wheeling in the desert very hot temperature around 100 very dry and their vehicle broke down in the middle of nowhere these two people had a discussion one wanted to stay with the vehicle until someone came by the other one wanted to walk back to town because town was only a couple of miles away now they did have some good equipment such as a big cooler full of ice and cans of beer and a gallon jug of drinking water well what happened was one stayed with the vehicle the other one walked back to town he became heat casualty and died before he made it to town which turned out to be ten miles away not two now his situation became a crisis long before he spent the night so there are some exceptions to the spend the night rule but what i'm going to say is a good rule of thumb or in this case a rule of ring finger is when you have to spend the night or multiple nights and point four is when you had not intended to now again in the story i told i had no intent of spending the night if my intent were to spend the night i would have brought a backpack sleeping bag a tarp in which to wrap that sleeping bag camp stove fuel food another canteen so forth and it wouldn't have been a survival situation it would have been a camping trip now there's a hair you can split between not intending to spend the night and not prepared to some people will say i was prepared to because i did have food and water and fire starters and so forth no when i say prepared to spend the night i mean prepared with things like tent sleeping bag ground pad the list goes on let me give you an example a while ago a couple of the crew and i decided we would make a six mile foot movement to see this waterfall three miles there and three miles back well worth the walk it was very cool but we also wanted to make it a workout so we took backpacks loaded with a bunch of gear in my backpack i had a sleeping bag a tarpon which to wrap that sleeping bag camp stove fuel a generous two-day supply of food the list goes on if we'd gotten into a situation because the road washed out or there was an injury or something like that where we had to spend the night out we were prepared to do that it would have just been an impromptu camping trip so the five points are in the field under adverse conditions when you have to spend the night or multiple nights when you had no intent to and you weren't prepared to now that having been said at long last let's get to my top five tips for wilderness survival so finally here we are at the top five and if you're one of those people who chose to fast forward this is the part where you want to stop fast forwarding when i'm standing next to the sign that reads top five so let's get to number one the best way to successfully get out of a survival situation is to not get into that situation to start with so number one on the list is stay out of the situation okay that sounds like rather simplistic advice sounds like someone telling you that you don't need health insurance just don't get sick but there are things you can do to minimize your chances of getting into a survival situation the first one being tell somebody where you're going and when you'll be back now that might not help you on day one you might still spend the night in the field when you didn't intend to but it might be one night not several other things you can do are carry a compass and a map and your gps and your cellular phone do the appropriate reconnaissance make sure that if you're going into an area you're not familiar with go with someone who's been there before it also means keep your ego in check don't allow you to think that you know more about the area than you really do keep your ego in check don't allow yourself to think that you're capable of more than you really are if you're planning a day hike to the lake and from the trailhead to the lake is six miles that means six miles in and six miles back that's 12 miles when was the last time you really walk 12 miles you don't want to find out that your daily limit is six miles when you're six miles from the trail head don't bite off more than you can chew and that brings me to point two let's take a look point two on my list is know yourself and seek self-improvement you may have heard that one before if you're that guy who can't walk very far well get to the gym get out and do some walking try to improve that about yourself and if you can't then at least know that about yourself and that same concept can apply to so many things not only in life but in a survival situation if you're one of those people who routinely tells someone that you're going to be there at 1400 and then you don't show up until 1800 or you don't show up at all then when you're going into the field and you tell somebody exactly where you're going and when you'll be back when you don't come back they will just chalk that up that's how you are and no one will come looking for you if you're that kind of person know that about yourself change that about yourself and this applies to so many aspects of survival situations now i'm not going to talk specifically about fire starting and fire building i talk about that at length in a different presentation but i am going to use fire building as an example i've mentioned before that i've been in the field with people who were unable to get a fire going with a butane lighter kiln-dried lumber a tomahawk to chop up that lumber and a quart bottle of kerosene if that's the kind of person you are know that about yourself and try to change that try to learn how to build a fire watch videos on fire building get out in the field and practice fire building join the boy scouts do something to change that about yourself and this concept of knowing yourself and seeking self-improvement can apply to just about every aspect of what we're talking about in the gear you carry how you use that gear what you're capable of and many many other things now that brings me to point three which is carry gear commensurate with your knowledge and skill level if you're one of those people who can't start a fire unless you've got a quart of gasoline and a road flare change that about yourself if at all possible but until you learn how to build a fire then when you go into the field carry a quart of gasoline and a road flare you've got to pack commensurate with your abilities and today's presentation is not about survival guns but this is where it comes up a lot of times in talking about survival is people carrying guns that aren't really commensurate with their skill their ability and not really practical for the situation a good example is people want to pack light so they'll go into a field with a gun like this smith wesson model 638 airwait 38 special revolver and they'll tell you that this is their survival gun what are you trying to survive if you're trying to survive a mugging this might be a really good gun to have but in a field environment like this it may not be your best choice you've got to carry guns that are commensurate with your skill level and what you might have to do let's see if we can demonstrate that here's a rabbit target and this is my beretta m922 which is one of my favorite handguns to carry in the field i've got it loaded with remington golden bullet 22 long rifle 36 grain hollow point and i'll shoot this target from about 25 yards and let's see how we do [Applause] [Applause] i fired ten shots and i got 9 hits and yes this one is very annoying the point of this exercise is that if i'm in the field shooting at rabbits at a distance that i consider realistic for shooting at rabbits with this firearm i know that i'm going to be able to hit that rabbit most of the time and that's something that you have to do is make sure that when you're in the field with whatever firearm you're carrying shooting at whatever you're shooting at that you can hit it at a realistic distance and you have to ask yourself the question can you do that if the answer is yes great if the answer is no then you have to do some training maybe change your ammunition change your firearm do something until the answer is yes if you ask yourself the question can you hit what you're shooting at at a realistic distance with the firearm you carry and you answer yourself that you don't know you've got to get to the range and answer that question so point three was carry equipment commensurate with your level of knowledge and skill point four is going to sound like it contradicts that point four is don't over pack on many occasions i've had people show me some kind of backpack that they describe as their survival pack and it has all kinds of good equipment in it and it weighs 40 50 even 60 pounds you are not going to carry that consistently in the field packs like that get left at home or they get left in the vehicle and your vehicle is going to survive just fine while you're 10 miles away needing some gear that you don't have you have to pack light enough that you'll actually have your equipment with you now when telling that anecdote i talked about i did not have a flashlight on me there was a reason for that because the technology of that time and my budget of that time the flashlight i owned was a 99 cent 2 d cell battery flashlight and it was about this size so when i went on backpacking trips of course i had that flashlight in my pack but for a day trip where i'm not wearing a pack that's just too burdensome to have in my pockets now today because i have a little bit bigger budget and we have much better technology i almost always have a flashlight with me in the field this one twist it and it comes on twist it again and it's on very bright this flashlight has a rechargeable battery in it you recharge it with a cell phone charger this is the kind of thing i'll keep on me and you've got to create a balance between having something like this on you and having something like this that you left at home and you may have to pack a pack unpack it repack it train several times but you've got to carry your stuff in a convenient sense like a backpack or some kind of fanny pack and you have to have enough gear that you have enough to get the job done but you have to have it small enough and light enough for consistent carry and speaking of backpacks and fanny packs let's get to point five point five on my list is that once you've got all the gear together that you're going to carry put it into something that's easy to carry and make sure you carry it whether that's a small backpack a fanny pack some kind of lbv or just a jacket that has a lot of pockets this knockoff of bdu blouse has a lot of pockets that make it very easy to carry a lot of things toothbrush and toothpaste over here i've got my waterproof match container my magnifying glass my paper towel just add water in the upper pockets i can carry very important things like a compass granola bar of course it might be granola crumble by the time i get around to eating it but just a jacket like this can carry a lot of good equipment and you just put it on when you go into the field and it becomes something that's very practical and easy to carry now there's one more thing i want to add to everything i've said today and i said this at the beginning and i'm going to say it again now even though i've said a lot of things about you should do this and always make sure that you do that remember i am not trying to give you any advice i'm not in any way trying to tell you what to do this entire presentation was only explaining what i do and why so as always don't try this at home on what you call a professional and thanks for watching the top 5 tips for wilderness survival video [Music] you

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[u/DrSandbags]

"Don't try this at home."

Yes, Paul, I know what the video's about.