By Bubba Hunt on Unrecorded Date: Edit

Hey again from the north woods.
Thought I would throw in my 2-bits on an issue that we have to deal with up here.
I teach Arctic Survival and have been involved as an EMT-3 for a number of years.I have given up my EMS work but still stay active in cold weather stuff.
Having said all that..Up in this country we go nowhere without a certain amount of survival equipment on board.That goes for our personal vehiclies as well.
Here is a few suggestions for atv riders to consider.First the first aid kit.Always file a trail plan, let some one know where you are going to be playing.(ever heard of getting pinned under an atv in a ditch?) I have!! Next a short handle shovel, a short handle axe,cell phone, a
little trail mix, water jug,rain gear,water proof matches, maybe small chainsaw, and good GPS.
Now here is the BIG one..you can find the small portable battery-compressor-light-110 volt converter that will start your motor, air your tires,charge your cell phone,provide light,charge your GPS, and get you going when everything has gone wrong and it is dark and snowing like heck!!
No one likes to get in trouble but we all do if we spend much time in the bush.A GPS and cell phone can give your location to a chopper pilot and he can come straight to you when you are in deep Doo Do.
Give me a hollar if you are interested in any more survival stuff.
Bubba
oldbearhunter@gci.net

By david berger (Davidrrrd) on Unrecorded Date: Edit

and don't forget too pack the bathroom tisue

By mark harding (Promoza) on Unrecorded Date: Edit

true dave you mite need it you are so full of it LOL just jokeing

By max factor on Unrecorded Date: Edit

I also pack a small air horn. I have been stuck on an island twice and had to flag down boaters. It sucked all the yelling and such.

By shane forsythe on Unrecorded Date: Edit

bubba
i'm into this bush (outback ) survival stuff to
thanks for the good advice also,

if you have a book on what plants you can eat and how it's allways handy ,i've been collecting this info on australian plants for years
(and american but still learning as i'm in au.)
on the subject of travel plans a map, are you kidding ? these things go any where (put a big circle on the map with words: i'm somewhere in here).
shanefor1@yahoo.com.au

By Bubba Hunt on Unrecorded Date: Edit

Shane,
Nope, not kidding! I usually know what direction or area I will be slogging around in.I let some one know "about" where I will be.
A friend of mine didn't up near Fairbanks a few years ago.He and his girl friend where pinned under an old Ranger track rig for 4 days. She lived to tell about it, he didn't. Had anyone known what direction they had taken, they would have been found the first day.
It's usually not hard to find your truck and trailer, then the tracks will tell the rest.
This big wild country is bitter cold and very unforgiving. You are not given one mistake. Any one can and usually do get in trouble EVERY time we go out.That's why we seldom go alone. Otherwise we take the minute to call some one and tell them
"about" where we may go.If we change directions, the old cell phone usually works to change our "trail plan".We don't have the luxury of just "taking off" and wandering around like a lost dog. If we do, we die and die hard.
Right now I am a mile from the arctic ocean. It's dark,-30 with a 40 mph wind. I carry "arctic DOWN gear" and can survive some aweful nasty cold if my engine stops. Up here it the "LAW" that I carry that survival gear. I live up here 2 weeks out of every month, 12 months a year and have for several years. I spend a lot of time driving in the dark in blizzards that most folks would never even consider. It's my job and I have to do it.
Having said all that, if I say something about how to survive in the "outback",it may be a good idea to at least "consider" it. I do joke about most things, but this isn't one of them.
By the way, I teach classes on how to DIE in the arctic. Once people learn how easy it is to do that,then we learn how to prevent it.
If anyone is interested on any information, I would be happy to try and put something together.
Bubba
oldbearhunter@gci.net