Living Outside
Potential Learning Outcomes
Discussion Topics (these tips were sourced from ANKORS peers)
Location
Gear
Food
Security
Shitting in the woods
Other tips
When it’s time to come in
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/
- Shelter
- Fire Safety
- Bear & wildlife safety
- Maintaining a low profile
- Personal Hygiene
- Security
- Shelter
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
- 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)
- 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/