Real Survival Skills at Survival Topics
More Articles Related to BlogThis morning (March 24, 2008) started out -2° F (-19° C) and sunny, a perfect day for snowshoeing on four feet of snow remaining in the northern forest.
Some of you who live south of Survival Topics may be wondering why the home page is still dominated by winter survival content. After all rumor has it that it’s officially spring; in some areas of the northern hemisphere the grass is green and flowers are blooming.
Here in the mountains of northern New Hampshire USA spring comes in its own time and winter conditions will continue to dominate for another month or so.
But the long winter is winding down here. Some days the temperature rises above freezing (32° F or 0° C) and the sun is intense enough to melt snow on south facing slopes. Beneath the snow are plants and animals just waiting to burst forth in abundance, as if by magic, as soon as the snow melts away.
I am patiently waiting for local spring conditions so that I can post articles for you like last years popular Survival Topics on Harvesting Cattail Shoots and Survival Foraging on the Move. This year promises more excellent topics on survival; I think you will enjoy what is in store.
No Fake Survival Skills Here
Running a successful survival website I am thankful for the four seasons we get to enjoy in the mountainous northern area I live. These seasons and land features allow me to experience first hand survival training in nearly all conditions the earth offers. But winter is the most difficult season to survive in.
Having lived and worked outdoors all my life I have learned a thing or two about what it takes for winter survival in the wilderness. I then pass on these real survival skills to you who read this.
Here the winters are long and very cold; perfect for honing winter survival skills. I have worked for the US Forest Service on snowshoes running timber stand improvements in the great north woods where ferocious winter storms cause even the great moose to hunker down. I have surveyed many thousands of acres of land so remote they are accessible only by canoe, snowmobile or on foot and endured the most brutal of weather the tundra of the White Mountains has to offer.
Real Survival Skills
The wilderness survival skills I teach you on Survival Topics are not, like most other sources, merely copied from other survival books and websites - who in turn probably also copied the information they present. Some of the information you find in these books and other websites is dead wrong or impractical in real life. It is regurgitated from source to source by armchair enthusiasts who obviously never themselves tried using the information they expose as fact.
Survival Topics survival skills are as true and real as the situations you may find yourself in should you need to use them to save your life.
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I have survived a major hurricane with numerous tornadoes, a major flood of the once in 500 years variety, and a devastating fire at work. When things get ugly, they get real ugly. It's not a time to practice survival skills. Thankfully, remaining calm and being able to think on ny feet along with the ability to improvise resources efficiently has helped me survive.