

When it’s cold and raining, look for dry, warm spots and out of the wind. But to accelerate all of these, you can use fire as a Level-Up, which we’ll explain later. Then you’ll need a form of hydration, and then food. Yet often the first thing you might need in a survival situation is shelter to protect you. Again, each situation is different and this order isn’t definitive. This leads to another wrong yet useful model, the Order of Survival:Īddressing what your body needs first will help make subsequent tasks more effective in preserving energy. So we start with the effects of inclement weather: too hot or too cold. Given that many of us are not exploring the ocean or traveling outside of our atmosphere, worrying about air is often not the issue.

It’s the information you give people about the route you are traveling and for how long you expect before you return.

At Trackers Earth, the first rule we start with is: Your most immediate needs can change with your environment.Īll models are wrong, but some are useful.īut even though they’re wrong, some rules, lists, and models can be helpful. There are rules and lists for how to survive in the wild, but no single perfect method.

Here’s the thing about wilderness survival.
