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Winter Survival: How to Navigate in the Snow

February 21, 2018

Winter Survival: How to Navigate in the Snow

[Editor’s Note: As winter rages on, it brings to highlight the importance of knowing how to navigate in snow and extreme winter weather. The worst-case scenario in this winter emergency is not knowing the terrain and getting so lost you succumb succumbing to exposure and possibly starvation because you don’t have the equipment necessary for survival. Author, Jeremiah Johnson has outlined the essentials on how to navigate in the snow and what equipment you will need to protect yourself from exposure.]

ReadyNutrition Readers, I have written several articles in the past on land navigation fundamentals and the importance of those basics.  Most of those basics still hold true in the “Winter Wonderland” of the snow and ice: those basics merely need to be modified for the changes of the season.  Once again, as with all things I recommend to you to practice these techniques and familiarize yourself with them prior to something coming up…a significant event where you must do it.  Practice does make perfect, and repetition promotes a good follow-through.

That being said, how hard is it to navigate during the winter?  Well, it is tougher in several perspectives.  First, with snow blanketing the landscape, the appearance of the terrain is changed.  Secondly, the landscape is also physically altered: it is a different thing to walk across six inches to several feet of snow.  Right now, where I live, I have almost three feet of snow on the ground.  The winter weather conditions are another item: it’s a far cry from a summer stroll when you walk into a cold wind that is throwing sleet right into your face in the middle of February.

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Surviving a blizzard or winter storm without power

November 1, 2014

Surviving a blizzard or winter storm without power.

With winter coming to most of the country, I thought I’d write something about how to survive if you’re stuck at home during a blizzard or winter ice storm and the power goes out. We don’t really have that problem down here in Phoenix but I’ve lived in places like Alaska, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and others where it can be an issue.

Normally, winter storms aren’t really an issue. Unfortunately they can occasionally be a REALLY BIG issue if you aren’t prepared for them.

Just to give you an idea of just how bad things can get, check out the list of blizzards that have hit the US that are listed on Wikipedia. Brrr!

During these storms, the safest thing you can do generally is get home and stay home. Unfortunately, not everyone is prepared to do that. Some of this is similar advice to what I wrote in what you need to know about Ebola and what you can do, but big storms like this have a tendency to knock out power, leaving some without heat, light, or a way to cook while you’re stuck at home.

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