Wilderness survival is an essential skill for all outdoor adventurers.  Situations can always take a turn for the worst and knowing how to survive often depends on learning some very necessary skills and having an outdoor survival kit at your disposal.

9 Skills You Must Master For Wilderness Survival

1. Be able to tell direction.  Navigation skills can lead you in the right direction and get you out of the wilderness, literally.Orienteering is an important skill.

2. Wilderness survival is dependent on learning advanced navigation skills.  These are skills taught by experienced outdoorsmen who can teach you how to tell direction even when the sun isn’t shining, or observing prevailing winds or by looking at ‘indicators’ on rocks, melting snow, trees and shrubs.If you were to lose your compass, these skills would increase your chance of survival.

3. Learn how to find shelter.Take note of your surroundings as there are many natural objects you can use for shelter.A shelter can protect you from sun, wind, rain, snow, and animals.Learning how to build a suitable shelter out of nothing but the natural environment.

4. How to build a fire.  The importance of a fire cannot be emphasized enough.Fire will keep you warm, give you light and can keep foraging animals at bay.

5. Look for food and a source of water.  Be able to tell which plants are edible and which are not.  Also, know how to handle plants that you have to crack, such as coconuts.  You might also need to learn how to fish or track and trap animals and prepare them for cooking. 

6. You how to distinguish safe drinking water sources.You can heat water to sterilize it in an emergency.

7. First aid is an essential wilderness survival skill.  First aid supplies should be first on your survival gear checklist.

8. Learn how to make tools out of the objects in your environment - branches, leaves, vines and rocks.  They will come in handy as substitutes for a knife, club, hammer or yes, even a pillow.

9. Learn how to deal with wild animal encounters.  Sometimes, running away or climbing a tree is not the best solution.

If you are able to remain calm you will make fewer mistakes.Being lost in the wilderness can rattle even the most experiened outdoorsman.  You just need to work with it in order to survive.  Smarts and a good wilderness survival kit will keep you alive.

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