Wilderness Survival Wilderness Survival Wilderness Survival This means knowing how to stay alive until the emergency is over. It means working with nature rather than against it. It means always having with you an item that can’t be carried in your pack or pocket – a positive attitude. If you are with others, your courage, confidence, and determination to make it through the situation will give them hope. You are a Troop 2 Scout and you will make it out! In most cases, a survival situation will last only 24 hrs. For a while, you will need to depend on three things: The clothing and equipment you have with you, your ability to use whatever survival knowledge you’ve learned, and your positive attitude. SURVIVAL PRIORITIES 1. Positive attitude, the most essential element. 2. Stay put if you are lost. 3. First Aid for life threatening injuries. 4. Shelter. Extreme conditions make this critical. Do before minor first aid, urgent if night is approaching. 5. Fire. Fuel should be gathered before night falls. You need for moral, warmth, signaling. 6. Signaling. Whistle, reflection mirror, smoke - use whatever you can find to make where you are stand out. Leave notes on trail with direction headed & time if you need to move. 7. Water. Under all circumstances, water is essential. 8. Food. A person can live for several weeks without food. No need to start eating ants…yet. Wilderness Survival This means knowing how to stay alive until the emergency is over. It means working with nature rather than against it. It means always having with you an item that can’t be carried in your pack or pocket – a positive attitude. If you are with others, your courage, confidence, and determination to make it through the situation will give them hope. You are a Troop 2 Scout and you will make it out! In most cases, a survival situation will last only 24 hrs. For a while, you will need to depend on three things: The clothing and equipment you have with you, your ability to use whatever survival knowledge you’ve learned, and your positive attitude. SURVIVAL PRIORITIES 1. Positive attitude, the most essential element. 2. Stay put if you are lost. 3. First Aid for life threatening injuries. 4. Shelter. Extreme conditions make this critical. Do before minor first aid, urgent if night is approaching. 5. Fire. Fuel should be gathered before night falls. You need for moral, warmth, signaling. 6. Signaling. Whistle, reflection mirror, smoke - use whatever you can find to make where you are stand out. Leave notes on trail with direction headed & time if you need to move. 7. Water. Under all circumstances, water is essential. 8. Food. A person can live for several weeks without food. No need to start eating ants…yet. Wilderness Survival This means knowing how to stay alive until the emergency is over. It means working with nature rather than against it. It means always having with you an item that can’t be carried in your pack or pocket – a positive attitude. If you are with others, your courage, confidence, and determination to make it through the situation will give them hope. You are a Troop 2 Scout and you will make it out! In most cases, a survival situation will last only 24 hrs. For a while, you will need to depend on three things: The clothing and equipment you have with you, your ability to use whatever survival knowledge you’ve learned, and your positive attitude. SURVIVAL PRIORITIES 1. Positive attitude, the most essential element. 2. Stay put if you are lost. 3. First Aid for life threatening injuries. 4. Shelter. Extreme conditions make this critical. Do before minor first aid, urgent if night is approaching. 5. Fire. Fuel should be gathered before night falls. You need for moral, warmth, signaling. 6. Signaling. Whistle, reflection mirror, smoke - use whatever you can find to make where you are stand out. Leave notes on trail with direction headed & time if you need to move. 7. Water. Under all circumstances, water is essential. 8. Food. A person can live for several weeks without food. No need to start eating ants…yet. Wilderness Survival This means knowing how to stay alive until the emergency is over. It means working with nature rather than against it. It means always having with you an item that can’t be carried in your pack or pocket – a positive attitude. If you are with others, your courage, confidence, and determination to make it through the situation will give them hope. You are a Troop 2 Scout and you will make it out! In most cases, a survival situation will last only 24 hrs. For a while, you will need to depend on three things: The clothing and equipment you have with you, your ability to use whatever survival knowledge you’ve learned, and your positive attitude. SURVIVAL PRIORITIES 1. Positive attitude, the most essential element. 2. Stay put if you are lost. 3. First Aid for life threatening injuries. 4. Shelter. Extreme conditions make this critical. Do before minor first aid, urgent if night is approaching. 5. Fire. Fuel should be gathered before night falls. You need for moral, warmth, signaling. 6. Signaling. Whistle, reflection mirror, smoke - use whatever you can find to make where you are stand out. Leave notes on trail with direction headed & time if you need to move. 7. Water. Under all circumstances, water is essential. 8. Food. A person can live for several weeks without food. No need to start eating ants…yet. Wilderness Survival This means knowing how to stay alive until the emergency is over. It means working with nature rather than against it. It means always having with you an item that can’t be carried in your pack or pocket – a positive attitude. If you are with others, your courage, confidence, and determination to make it through the situation will give them hope. You are a Troop 2 Scout and you will make it out! In most cases, a survival situation will last only 24 hrs. For a while, you will need to depend on three things: The clothing and equipment you have with you, your ability to use whatever survival knowledge you’ve learned, and your positive attitude. SURVIVAL PRIORITIES 1. Positive attitude, the most essential element. 2. Stay put if you are lost. 3. First Aid for life threatening injuries. 4. Shelter. Extreme conditions make this critical. Do before minor first aid, urgent if night is approaching. 5. Fire. Fuel should be gathered before night falls. You need for moral, warmth, signaling. 6. Signaling. Whistle, reflection mirror, smoke - use whatever you can find to make where you are stand out. Leave notes on trail with direction headed & time if you need to move. 7. Water. Under all circumstances, water is essential. 8. Food. A person can live for several weeks without food. No need to start eating ants…yet. Wilderness Survival This means knowing how to stay alive until the emergency is over. It means working with nature rather than against it. It means always having with you an item that can’t be carried in your pack or pocket – a positive attitude. If you are with others, your courage, confidence, and determination to make it through the situation will give them hope. You are a Troop 2 Scout and you will make it out! In most cases, a survival situation will last only 24 hrs. For a while, you will need to depend on three things: The clothing and equipment you have with you, your ability to use whatever survival knowledge you’ve learned, and your positive attitude. SURVIVAL PRIORITIES 1. Positive attitude, the most essential element. 2. Stay put if you are lost. 3. First Aid for life threatening injuries. 4. Shelter. Extreme conditions make this critical. Do before minor first aid, urgent if night is approaching. 5. Fire. Fuel should be gathered before night falls. You need for moral, warmth, signaling. 6. Signaling. Whistle, reflection mirror, smoke - use whatever you can find to make where you are stand out. Leave notes on trail with direction headed & time if you need to move. 7. Water. Under all circumstances, water is essential. 8. Food. A person can live for several weeks without food. No need to start eating ants…yet. Wilderness Survival This means knowing how to stay alive until the emergency is over. It means working with nature rather than against it. It means always having with you an item that can’t be carried in your pack or pocket – a positive attitude. If you are with others, your courage, confidence, and determination to make it through the situation will give them hope. You are a Troop 2 Scout and you will make it out! In most cases, a survival situation will last only 24 hrs. For a while, you will need to depend on three things: The clothing and equipment you have with you, your ability to use whatever survival knowledge you’ve learned, and your positive attitude. SURVIVAL PRIORITIES 1. Positive attitude, the most essential element. 2. Stay put if you are lost. 3. First Aid for life threatening injuries. 4. Shelter. Extreme conditions make this critical. Do before minor first aid, urgent if night is approaching. 5. Fire. Fuel should be gathered before night falls. You need for moral, warmth, signaling. 6. Signaling. Whistle, reflection mirror, smoke - use whatever you can find to make where you are stand out. Leave notes on trail with direction headed & time if you need to move. 7. Water. Under all circumstances, water is essential. 8. Food. A person can live for several weeks without food. No need to start eating ants…yet. Wilderness Survival This means knowing how to stay alive until the emergency is over. It means working with nature rather than against it. It means always having with you an item that can’t be carried in your pack or pocket – a positive attitude. If you are with others, your courage, confidence, and determination to make it through the situation will give them hope. You are a Troop 2 Scout and you will make it out! In most cases, a survival situation will last only 24 hrs. For a while, you will need to depend on three things: The clothing and equipment you have with you, your ability to use whatever survival knowledge you’ve learned, and your positive attitude. SURVIVAL PRIORITIES 1. Positive attitude, the most essential element. 2. Stay put if you are lost. 3. First Aid for life threatening injuries. 4. Shelter. Extreme conditions make this critical. Do before minor first aid, urgent if night is approaching. 5. Fire. Fuel should be gathered before night falls. You need for moral, warmth, signaling. 6. Signaling. Whistle, reflection mirror, smoke - use whatever you can find to make where you are stand out. Leave notes on trail with direction headed & time if you need to move. 7. Water. Under all circumstances, water is essential. 8. Food. A person can live for several weeks without food. No need to start eating ants…yet.

With survival and attitude in mind, remember STOP: Stop - Think - Observe - Plan As soon as you notice something wrong, stop. If you’ve lost your way and become disoriented or come into bad weather or any other situation, you and your party should stop moving immediately. You don’t want to worsen the situation. Think about your predicament. Where were you last sure you were on the trail? Do you have alternate exits available? That sort of thing. Observe your surroundings, assets, yourself, and the rest of your party. Are there obvious landmarks (maybe to help re-orient yourself)? Do you have more clothing or cover available if caught in a snowstorm? Perhaps most importantly, how are you and the rest of your group doing—physically and mentally? Come up with a plan. Between the think and observe steps you can collect a lot of information to help make informed decisions about how to best proceed. Certainly, this could be the toughest step—survival priorities like water might have to take a back seat to fire, just for a moral booster. (And hopefully hypothermia hasn’t set in—impaired judgment!) Your orange blanket has more helpful information printed on it. Use this paper to help start a fire if necessary. With survival and attitude in mind, remember STOP: Stop - Think - Observe - Plan As soon as you notice something wrong, stop. If you’ve lost your way and become disoriented or come into bad weather or any other situation, you and your party should stop moving immediately. You don’t want to worsen the situation. Think about your predicament. Where were you last sure you were on the trail? Do you have alternate exits available? That sort of thing. Observe your surroundings, assets, yourself, and the rest of your party. Are there obvious landmarks (maybe to help re-orient yourself)? Do you have more clothing or cover available if caught in a snowstorm? Perhaps most importantly, how are you and the rest of your group doing—physically and mentally? Come up with a plan. Between the think and observe steps you can collect a lot of information to help make informed decisions about how to best proceed. Certainly, this could be the toughest step—survival priorities like water might have to take a back seat to fire, just for a moral booster. (And hopefully hypothermia hasn’t set in—impaired judgment!) With survival and attitude in mind, remember STOP: Stop - Think - Observe - Plan As soon as you notice something wrong, stop. If you’ve lost your way and become disoriented or come into bad weather or any other situation, you and your party should stop moving immediately. You don’t want to worsen the situation. Think about your predicament. Where were you last sure you were on the trail? Do you have alternate exits available? That sort of thing. Observe your surroundings, assets, yourself, and the rest of your party. Are there obvious landmarks (maybe to help re-orient yourself)? Do you have more clothing or cover available if caught in a snowstorm? Perhaps most importantly, how are you and the rest of your group doing—physically and mentally? Come up with a plan. Between the think and observe steps you can collect a lot of information to help make informed decisions about how to best proceed. Certainly, this could be the toughest step—survival priorities like water might have to take a back seat to fire, just for a moral booster. (And hopefully hypothermia hasn’t set in—impaired judgment!) With survival and attitude in mind, remember STOP: Stop - Think - Observe - Plan As soon as you notice something wrong, stop. If you’ve lost your way and become disoriented or come into bad weather or any other situation, you and your party should stop moving immediately. You don’t want to worsen the situation. Think about your predicament. Where were you last sure you were on the trail? Do you have alternate exits available? That sort of thing. Observe your surroundings, assets, yourself, and the rest of your party. Are there obvious landmarks (maybe to help re-orient yourself)? Do you have more clothing or cover available if caught in a snowstorm? Perhaps most importantly, how are you and the rest of your group doing—physically and mentally? Come up with a plan. Between the think and observe steps you can collect a lot of information to help make informed decisions about how to best proceed. Certainly, this could be the toughest step—survival priorities like water might have to take a back seat to fire, just for a moral booster. (And hopefully hypothermia hasn’t set in—impaired judgment!) Your orange blanket has more helpful information printed on it. Use this paper to help start a fire if necessary. Your orange blanket has more helpful information printed on it. Use this paper to help start a fire if necessary. Your orange blanket has more helpful information printed on it. Use this paper to help start a fire if necessary. With survival and attitude in mind, remember STOP: Stop - Think - Observe - Plan As soon as you notice something wrong, stop. If you’ve lost your way and become disoriented or come into bad weather or any other situation, you and your party should stop moving immediately. You don’t want to worsen the situation. Think about your predicament. Where were you last sure you were on the trail? Do you have alternate exits available? That sort of thing. Observe your surroundings, assets, yourself, and the rest of your party. Are there obvious landmarks (maybe to help re-orient yourself)? Do you have more clothing or cover available if caught in a snowstorm? Perhaps most importantly, how are you and the rest of your group doing—physically and mentally? Come up with a plan. Between the think and observe steps you can collect a lot of information to help make informed decisions about how to best proceed. Certainly, this could be the toughest step—survival priorities like water might have to take a back seat to fire, just for a moral booster. (And hopefully hypothermia hasn’t set in—impaired judgment!) With survival and attitude in mind, remember STOP: Stop - Think - Observe - Plan As soon as you notice something wrong, stop. If you’ve lost your way and become disoriented or come into bad weather or any other situation, you and your party should stop moving immediately. You don’t want to worsen the situation. Think about your predicament. Where were you last sure you were on the trail? Do you have alternate exits available? That sort of thing. Observe your surroundings, assets, yourself, and the rest of your party. Are there obvious landmarks (maybe to help re-orient yourself)? Do you have more clothing or cover available if caught in a snowstorm? Perhaps most importantly, how are you and the rest of your group doing—physically and mentally? Come up with a plan. Between the think and observe steps you can collect a lot of information to help make informed decisions about how to best proceed. Certainly, this could be the toughest step—survival priorities like water might have to take a back seat to fire, just for a moral booster. (And hopefully hypothermia hasn’t set in—impaired judgment!) With survival and attitude in mind, remember STOP: Stop - Think - Observe - Plan As soon as you notice something wrong, stop. If you’ve lost your way and become disoriented or come into bad weather or any other situation, you and your party should stop moving immediately. You don’t want to worsen the situation. Think about your predicament. Where were you last sure you were on the trail? Do you have alternate exits available? That sort of thing. Observe your surroundings, assets, yourself, and the rest of your party. Are there obvious landmarks (maybe to help re-orient yourself)? Do you have more clothing or cover available if caught in a snowstorm? Perhaps most importantly, how are you and the rest of your group doing—physically and mentally? Come up with a plan. Between the think and observe steps you can collect a lot of information to help make informed decisions about how to best proceed. Certainly, this could be the toughest step—survival priorities like water might have to take a back seat to fire, just for a moral booster. (And hopefully hypothermia hasn’t set in—impaired judgment!) With survival and attitude in mind, remember STOP: Stop - Think - Observe - Plan As soon as you notice something wrong, stop. If you’ve lost your way and become disoriented or come into bad weather or any other situation, you and your party should stop moving immediately. You don’t want to worsen the situation. Think about your predicament. Where were you last sure you were on the trail? Do you have alternate exits available? That sort of thing. Observe your surroundings, assets, yourself, and the rest of your party. Are there obvious landmarks (maybe to help re-orient yourself)? Do you have more clothing or cover available if caught in a snowstorm? Perhaps most importantly, how are you and the rest of your group doing—physically and mentally? Come up with a plan. Between the think and observe steps you can collect a lot of information to help make informed decisions about how to best proceed. Certainly, this could be the toughest step—survival priorities like water might have to take a back seat to fire, just for a moral booster. (And hopefully hypothermia hasn’t set in—impaired judgment!) Your orange blanket has more helpful information printed on it. Use this paper to help start a fire if necessary. Your orange blanket has more helpful information printed on it. Use this paper to help start a fire if necessary. Your orange blanket has more helpful information printed on it. Use this paper to help start a fire if necessary. Your orange blanket has more helpful information printed on it. Use this paper to help start a fire if necessary.