Good Morning 379Peterbilt: It looks like it's going to be a nice day today, although it went down to -10 C. But anyways I got a little more to add to Survival. When a person is lost and they have accepted that fact, keeping busy is very important. The first night you constructed a shelter out of a downed wind blown tree by cutting the branches on the front and underside facing your fire and placed these branches on the back side , starting at the bottom and work upwards like shingles. This will give you a temporary shelter from the weather. The next day you can construct a more elaborate one using poles and cross pieces lashed together using roots from Spruce trees. Spruce roots you will find just under the duff layer. These roots can be very long and sizes vary from string size to rope size. Once you have pulled several lengths out of the ground, soak them in water for a little while to make them plyable and loosen the bark. After an hour or so, take the root and run it between your thumb and finger to scrape off the bark. Keep them in the water untill your ready to use them. Spruce roots can be used for lashing poles together or making snares, fish spears and other uses while you are out there. There are some factors you must consider before you can be comfortable. First of all if you have any pain orf injury, this must be taken care of, you should know how if you have taken a First Aid course. Next, are you cold, you have taken care of this by building your fire, drying out your clothes, if they were wet. Thirst, well if you chose a good spot to make your survival camp, there should be water available, did you bring water purification tablets. You should always carry water purification tablets in your survival kit or in a pocket of your hunting jacket. You forgot them, you can use your own judgement on drinking water, you can boil it or take a chance on drinking water from a flowing stream over sand or gravel bottom. The next thing you think about is hunger, well a person can survive up to 30 days with no food, living off their body fat, but there is all kinds of food out there if you know what to look for. First of all you are beside a stream aznd being Fall, White fish, Trout, Cisco and Herring could be running, check the stream out. When you build a campfire out in the bush, you have visitors generally within a very short period of time, Whiskey Jacks (Canada Jays), these can be caught and the edge taken off your hunger if you are in dire need of food. To catch these birds, get a crotch branch from a tree, the ends of the crotch being about 16 or 18 inches long. One side of the crotch approximately 12 inches from the crotch, bend the branch across to the other branch and tie it in placed with Spruce roots, make a snare approximately 1 1/2 to 2 inches in diameter and attach this to one side of your triangle so that the snare is approximately 2 to 3 inches above the cross piece. Attach some berries or coloured cloth to the cross piece to attract the birds to the triangle. Now hang this triangle on a branch, make several. There are other survival means of making a fish spear, or spring pole snares and dead fall traps which I'll tell you later if you want. Well have agood day.
