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This is the 1st post I posted in the thread of the same name. Just thought it should be where everybody could access it.

"I've made it no secret how I feel about the role Boy Scouts have played in learning so much about the outdoors. That's the key to Outdoors Survival; not to "Survive" in the outdoors, but to "THRIVE" in the outdoors. Yes, crap can still happen, but a good outdoors-person is ready for just about anything that comes their way. I want to share ...

Okay, I just realized that something may not be included in the Forum posts so I'll post something I've been saving for the WIKI:

SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT

I. The Survival Knife.

The 1St thing that every “Survival Enthusiast” needs to understand that there is no “One” knife that fits everybody. We’re all different; our hands fit most comfortably around a certain thickness of handle, for example and we all ...

Post your answers on the thread I'm going to start for this right after I post the blog. This is just a quiz to see how much many of you who want to know more already know:

1.) List the "Rule of Threes".

2.) What are the 4 Essentials to Survival?

3.) when is it okay to drink urine?

4.) The human body requires a minnimum of ___________water per day.
a.) 1 to 2 pints.
b.) 1 to 2 quarts.
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As this seems to come up every now and then, here's my opinion. There's other ways of doing it, but this is what worked for us.
This is for people who want to go and live somewhere in the bush (= no road access) longterm, in northern Canada. Not for someone on a quest to survive with a knife, loincloth and tarp.

For anyone who didn't grow up in a rural setting that enabled them to learn such country skills as living without electricity and running water, who is unfamiliar ...