gringorio
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wilderness survival?
I'm posting this here because so many Nomad's are hikers, campers, fishers, aviators, and explorers.
This is a really cool website:
http://www.equipped.org/toc.htm
Knives, signal mirrors, shelter, food, water ... this site discusses it all!
Pretty cool 
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bajalou
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Pretty interesting, thanks
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
Nomad Baja Interactive map
And in the San Felipe area - check out Valle Chico area |
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bajaloco
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A really great book on survival is Camping & Wilderness Survival by Paul Tawrell. I think it is available from SurvivalBook.com
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wilderone
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No offense intended, but that survival site looks like it was prepared by those consummate "Survivalists." He goes hiking in his local area with a
Glock? Commons sense and the 10 essentials will take care of most survival occasions (if you ever find yourself in such a position in your lifetime).
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MrBillM
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Camping with a Glock ?
Ridiculous.
I always carried an M1911 Colt.
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vgabndo
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Wilderone
I'm with you. In all my years of solo backpacking the most dangerous things I ever encountered were my own limitations, and armed human beings.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Barry A.
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It's the "armed human beings" that worry me, not to mention the Griz in Glacier Natl. Park, etc.. The Rangers in Glacier always carry at least a .41
Magnum when in the back-country (at least they did when I worked there) but God forbid that anybody else arm themselves within the Park.
Go figure.
I NEVER go into the USA boonies without being armed------if anything ever happened and I wasn't armed, how would I explain that to my family? They
expect me to be armed.
I am always a tad nervous in Mexico without any protection means.
Vagabundo, you have been lucky IMHO, but that is your choice.
Barry
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MrBillM
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While we all tend to rely on empirical evidence in these matters, the newspapers contain on a regular basis instances where campers or hikers were
killed by bad guys in the wilderness for one reason or another, including the protection of drug crops or labs. Add to that the handful of travellers
who are attacked and maimed or killed by bears or wild cats. Those of us in Southern California can attest to the above. In the last few years there
have been a number of animal attacks on hikers/bikers and only a few years ago there was a German Tourist family in the Idyllwild area who were
murdered by robbers while hiking.
Those are FACTS, but personally I am in favor of Liberals not being armed while in the wilderness because it improves the odds that their crop will
be culled.
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MrBillM
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Now THAT is Scary !
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