Watch a few episodes of Naked and Afraid, and you’ll see people covered in bug bites, and tons of mosquitoes and ants and other bugs that attack them. There are ways to minimize this, but not all locations will have the necessary items to keep you from getting devoured by bugs. So, what can you do?
Now that you have a small survival community in place with the essentials of fire, water, shelter and food, what are some tasks that need to be done daily in order to continue to survive? Here is a short list.
Biolite camp stoves are some of my favorite stoves for adventuring and survival. It costs a bit of money, but I save that money in fuel. It’s also a tad large but I can grill, boil water, and charge my devices. I use it often, except for maybe when I have to carry a lot of climbing gear for alpine adventure, then I carry a very tiny camping stove with a fuel canister full of white gas.
This can be trickier than people think. They see people do it on TV shows like Naked and Afraid and think that they can do it. The key to starting a fire with a ferro rod is dry tinder and small dry twigs, and dry larger branches. Also, air as the flint ignites the tinder is critical. If your fire starting kit has magnesium on it, it makes it a bit easier, but not necessarily easy.
This is a great question, and I’ll go over the list below. But this question really deserves to ask the question of the type of camping you are going to do. If you are camping out of a car, bring all the creature comforts. If you are doing a hike through, you may want to minimize what you bring to make the hike a bit easier.
People think I am crazy, but if I have a soda can, some chocolate, and a rag or even a T-shirt, I can start a fire. The can should be made of aluminum and the bottom should be aluminum and not coated with paint or a plastic overlay. In a nutshell, this is a way to build a parabolic fire starter.
I have done this in a pinch, where I happened to have a device with a 9V battery, and I had some steel wool handy in a bag for cleaning off my knife. You will need a working 9V battery and some steel wool.
Just because you have a lighter, it doesn’t mean you can build a proper fire quickly. Notice I didn’t say matches as I am not a fan of them. Here are steps and techniques I have used to start a camp fire fast.
In a survival situation, you either may run out of your man made tinder or it seems like you can’t find what you need to start the fire. Here are some natural tinder material that will remedy the situation.
The easiest method is a lighter of some sort. I like them, but they do eventually fail due to flint or fuel. I also have a plasma lighter which can be charged via USB-micro.
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