Living Outside
    • Shelter
    • Fire Safety
    • Bear & wildlife safety
    • Maintaining a low profile
    • Personal Hygiene
    • Security

Potential Learning Outcomes
  • Skills and practice for outdoor living and wilderness survival.

Discussion Topics (these tips were sourced from ANKORS peers)
Location
  • Out of the way
  • Not frequently travelled
  • Not a trail
  • Near water source
  • Not in low land or flood zone
  • Depending on comfort level how close to town
  • Level ground
  • NO poison Ivy
IN WINTER
  • Pick spots not on avalanche paths
  • Not in snow removal areas or below them
  • Use cut tree branches to brush snow up to cover path into camp

Gear
  • Tarps-dark green
  • Rope
  • Spray paint to paint gear camo colours
  • Water cooler with handle or 4-litre jug
  • Lg coffee can make a rocket stove with it and cook on it
  • Flashlight
  • Sleeping bag and blankets, sleeping matt
  • Pallets to get off the ground
  • Lifestraw water purifier (about $25)
  • Tent (not brightly coloured)
IN WINTER
  • A smaller tent inside a larger tent filling the air pocket with newspaper 
  • Plastic bags to wear over socks inside shoes
  • Extra mitts and shoes in case of wet
  • Food storage, make snow cooler (make sure you mark your spot so you don’t lose it)

Food
  • Eat away from your camp
  • No food in tent
  • Take away all garbage
  • Don’t use camp stove in tent

Security
  • Don’t bring people to camp unless you know and trust them.
  • Don’t tell people where your camp is
  • Don’t camp alone if you can
  • Carry bear spray and don’t use unless you actually have to in an emergency for protection and don’t spray down wind.
  • Knife, stick for protection 

Shitting in the woods
  • Dig a hole away from camp and bury it well. 
  • Don’t shit near a water source
  • Don’t pee right outside your tent it will stink after awhile

Other tips
  • Don’t let your stuff get wet
  • No fires but if you do make sure it is contained and small
  • Only fires in metal containers → makeshift rocket stove
  • Don’t drink stagnant water, only flowing water
  • Wait 2 days to drink stream water after big rain
  • Brush snow off the top of tent so it does not collapse
  • Spray paint your bright coloured gear green and black to keep incognito

When it’s time to come in
  • Evaluating options
  • Navigating support structures
  • Affording rent
  • Housing First (supports to help folks stay housed)
  • Living with others 


Suggested Resources
https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/survivalist/prepping-budget-10-survival-items-everyone-can-afford

Wilderness Survival By Gregory J. Davenport.

http://www.hobostripper.com/hobo-articles/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/926920.Tom_Brown_s_Survival_Guides

https://hennessyhammock.com/collections/hammocks

Mors Kochanski Survival
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Mors+Kochanski&fbclid=IwAR194RKRuuMsdw_pv48X2FXigwzPBIZXBvy6MIaqsAyaiK_6T35jUqNdM50

http://sharonastyk.com/2012/09/28/preserving-food-around-the-year/

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