By Peter Kummerfeldt
While reviewing the most recent edition of a popular outdoor magazine I was reminded once again that the magazines and TV shows have got it all wrong. Surviving a wilderness emergency should be proactive, not reactive! The emphasis should be on what you should do to stay out of a crisis, and then on what you need to do in the event that, despite your best efforts, you find yourself in one. The focus should be on preparing for the event, having the right clothing and emergency gear, not on how to improvise what you need from the environment you find yourself in. As I have said so often in many of my programs “It’s a h…… of a lot easier to prevent bad things from happening than it is to deal with them after the fact!” Unfortunately we only read or hear about the people who had a terrible experience. We don’t read about those who were prepared to spend the night out, did so, and then came out the next day with little or no fanfare.
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