Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “Backcountry Hiking Survival Guide” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/backcountry-hiking-survival-guide/.
Backcountry Hiking Survival Guide
- Thread starter Mike H.
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Oldmountaiman
Master Class
Some time's the sound of silence is a beautiful thing. Been in the high back country and the desert canyons was a big part of that time was my job and when I would stop and rest a bit that's when you hear some wonderful sounds. I do wish I could go back to those places but I imagine many of them have people making calls on there phone instead of listening.
The Night Rider
Professional
Good book, well worth the $5 plus shipping and handling.
True story, everything that you see in this photograph is part of a city park on the west side of Colorado Springs. It butts up against Pike National Forest and you can literally walk from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek Colorado on the trail system that the trail system in the park connects to.
I can't add a whole lot to this article. I don't go hiking in the mountains anymore because I'm afraid to be out in the back country and have a heart attack.
That said I used to put in 18 miles every Sunday. And I would frequently run into people way out past the edge of the city park who were following all trails and miles off course.
Oldmountaiman
Master Class
I have had a total of 5 heart attacks and I don't want to die on a street corner or a cross walk because I might get run over by a angry driver.
The Night Rider
Professional
I have had a total of 5 heart attacks and I don't want to die on a street corner or a cross walk because I might get run over by a angry driver.
This is the view from my front porch. I'd rather die here.
You do you Boo
I’m always amazed at the # of folks who take off into the wilderness with zero preparation. I’ve always carried a pistol, a decent knife, a canteen of water, a pack of water purification tablets and a small sling pack with matches, fire starter, a few energy bars and a couple of the tiny “space blankets” and at least one reload for my pistol. Doesn’t weigh much, but if you get stuck in the sticks for any reason you’re good for a while.
The Night Rider
Professional
I don't like the taste of water Purification Tablets. Sawyer water tastes pretty good
OldGrunt
Custom
My days of hiking have been over for decades. My knees were just too far gone. I stopped hunting because of my physical limitations. One of the saddest things about my knees was that I couldn't go with my son on his Scout Troop's Philmont Scout Ranch High Adventure trip to New Mexico years ago. I was always very active in my son's Troop, but I just flat out had to tell them I would probably be a liability and be the one ruining the trip because I would probably get hurt and have to be medevacked off the mountain. Now, with two total knee replacement surgeries having been done, I'm afraid to go out in my own yard and fall down. Because I'm not getting up without help. My wife insists I always carry my phone on me whenever I go out in the yard to do work or play with the dogs.
The Night Rider
Professional
FWIW this author has several other good articles that are well worth reading
Sld1959
Ronin
I have always been comfortable by myself in the woods, as I got older I added a revolver , just in case. After losing dad and Don my best friend its basically go myself or stay away, and that's not an option.
As far as books go i have found a ton of survival/trekking/ woods loafing information in these books, not billed as survival per se but all about primitive type woods skills.
As far as books go i have found a ton of survival/trekking/ woods loafing information in these books, not billed as survival per se but all about primitive type woods skills.
The Night Rider
Professional
Just to clarify I'm talking about the author of the article Kit Perez not the guy that wrote the book I mentioned.
Oldmountaiman
Master Class
Well stated,many things change when the hands of time weigh heavyle on your shoulders and many seniors adjust every day to carry the load they have been handed. Good reading all around
Hawgleg44
Operator
How to turn the hands of time back. It's a lifelong study.Well stated,many things change when the hands of time weigh heavyle on your shoulders and many seniors adjust every day to carry the load they have been handed. Good reading all around
Oldmountaiman
Master Class
There's never enough time and that's the circle of life
Not so sure it is a circle. The first half around the strange shape goes slowly and sedately. The other side has an accelerated trajectory which ends up waaaaay too fast.
The books that teach the skills used daily back in the days of the frontier will prepare you for any wilderness situation you’ll encounter today. They worked 200 years ago., they’ll still work today. In our country today you could take 90% of the people, give ‘em a .22 rifle, 100 rounds of ammo, matches, a knife and a canteen and then drop them into a dense woods 5 miles from civilization and they’d be dead in a week
KillerFord1977
SAINT
Water. Lots of water. Bring ways to filter water if you cant bring lots of waters.
Its a sure way to die out in back country.
Its a sure way to die out in back country.
