Monday, January 24, 2011

Handbook travelling - Part 1: Prepare journey into the wilderness


You are the peoples who are preparing for an expedition, exploring the unfamiliar frontier.
You are preparing for a trip to an ecological zone that you know so indefinite.
You are about to plunge into the deep forest mountains because the mission was entrusted.
Have you fed up with life's hustle and bustle of the city, tired of mechanical civilization's amenities ... you want to find the peace between the natural?
Do you want to become a modern Robinson Crusoe?
Or for a reason, you are going to live a long time in areas with wildlife, without people.



To complete works perfectly and your own is safe, you have to experience a learning process, and carefully trained. Since this is not a trip with pockets full of money, do not have any guides, no comfortable rooms... But instead, there are full of danger, fatigue, struggle, disease, hunger, exhaustion ... waiting for you. There, you can only rely on your own. So you must equip yourself with some of the skills and necessary knowledges.

These skills, not only read in books or in academic study, but must practice many times, especially during camping, pioneering, survey, picnic ... in short days. You also need to improve health, prepare spirit and energy, ready to face all challenges.

Of course when you've been prepared well, your abilities to survive in the wilderness are far more safety and ensuring than those who suddenly thrown into unfamiliar places that may not have the concept What concept of "escape living" ...

However, the most important thing is your spirit, if you do not calm, confidence, no courage and determination, no adventure blood and nature enthusiasts ... all of your skills are in vain.

The skills and knowledge important that you need to learn and practice are:
Knowledge of nature, climate, weather, environment, animals and plants ...
The methods of finding direction
Reading and using maps and geographical
The ability to move to exceed obstacles
Techniques about tents and how to make shelter huts by using natural materials.
Crafts, foresters.
Hunting, fishing techniques, escape living
Know the health protection and prevention of common diseases
Ambulance and Emergency
...

HAVE GOOD HEALTH

Not an explorer, mining or a warrior that can complete works with a bad health. Because the wilderness is a very harsh environment, filled with dangers, poisonous plants, danger animals, food deprivation, medication rare, poor facilities, desolate ...

You also consume a lots of energy by wearing heavy baggage, crossing the long way by foot which is not easy to come up at all, hiking, exceed wetlands, exceed forest ... A person with average fitness is also difficult to undertake well.

In addition to health, you also need to have a consistently strong spirit, passion discovery, love of nature, not afraid of hard ... many peoples have quit because of lack of patience, passion and not overcome hardships, whether they have very good health. You remember that, the fact is not as beautiful as a landscape or as a lyrical poem.

KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE



It is a very important issue for people preparing to conduct adventure. Without knowledge of nature, you will encounter numerous difficulties to survival in wilderness.

In theory: You should read and study lots of books, movies ... to accumulate knowledge of the ecological environment, the flora and fauna, weather, climate, moon stars, tides ...
Practice: The more you should participate more in the survey, participants, conquest, camping ... to accustomed exposure to nature as much as possible.

Without knowledge of nature, you may panic before the shaggy and disgusting animals but harmless, but beware of losing the tiny insects or animals that are colorful and cute but very dangerous.

You also need to know the difference between the trees, flowers, leaves, roots, tubers ... can make food or medicine or carry more deadly toxin. Know the weather forecast before any action to avoid the phenomenon of nature.
Summary: There is extensive knowledge of nature help you can survive the wild.

PLANNING & ORGANIZATION


Unlike other camp or picnic in normal travel. During the adventure, you only know that land through a map or image and data ... so very hard to predict what will await us there.

The program is also different with regular camp program. We can not arrange the specific plan that can only design in general and then customize by situations.

Choose companions: If you are chief, you should only choose a companion who is mature, with experience and knowledge, have technical skills, more trips, used to join many travels, campings... Those "white face" that lack of experience will be a burden on company. (Only let them to attend short-term trips)

The team members, in addition to empathy, love, solidarity, have shared an opinion, purpose, share a common passion to discover, explore nature ...
Program and your itinerary must be notified to the relatives and those who have responsibility, so they can find you, if you're not up to date.

EQUIPMENT



Well and fully equipped is important to organize a wild life comfortable, safe and successful.

Equipped for the adventure is different from the camp, because we will bring more dry food, medicines, emergency tools, maps, signal emergency equipment, radio ... depending on the purpose or geography, we can retrofit: pontoon crossing, climbing equipment ... and one indispensable thing that is "a living bag" (Survival Kit), a small bag, which contained the most essential things to survive in the wilderness.

But please note: For fitness and your legs, plus the way that you need to pass, you can not piggyback on your back the whole "property" (whether you are want) but can only select the items most needed to fit the journey. So the person who are well equipped is: who can take advantage the most of every function of a number of materials, little tools and knowledge by his resourcefulness.(example: with road stick , you can turn it into: a measure, self-defense weapons and attacked, the tent tied, rod to probe the depth of the river, identity , shovels, ambulance stretcher ...) Therefore, the luggage of adventurer is compact, but adequate.

If you are a Scout, had been camping several times, then the selection of items to bring along is not really hard, even though camping and adventure is different.



In addition to the adventure, the warriors, who explored ... few of us think, in someday, you have to face your own existence only by the hands and minds, while surrounded by nature's mysterious, illness , hunger, death .... But, there are still people yesterday in the comfortable villas, vehicles, have servants, then today: wild jungles, mysterious swamps, arid deserts, lonely island ...

There are people for the mission, someones have the accident, but also eccentric to live wild lives, refusing the comforts of modern civilization ... They all face a severe nature, which most of them usually give up (though sometimes they are quite sufficient equipped) just because they have not yet been learning and training carefully. There are some people so lucky, but many people by ability, strength, willpower, understanding of the living escape ... which survived the accident. Newspapers and the media has talked a lot about the cases.

In this Handbook, we will help you learn and practice things to know, what to do, so in need we survive in the wilderness, sometimes only with a knife or an ax in hand. You do not think that it is too far away, out of reach for you. No! Just after reading this Handbook, you just try to practice and combined with a determination, everything will become easy, and who knows, you will be proud of your ability and understanding sometimes.

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