How to Survive a Grizzly Bear Attack" A grizzly bear is probably the scariest thing you can imagine encountering when you're hiking or camping in the woods.
Respect your fear -- a grizzly attack would likely kill you or leave you severely maimed or scarred. The most famous recent grizzly attack was probably the attack on Timothy Treadwell, a grizzly bear activist who spent time living among the bears in Alaska. In October 2006, Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were fatally attacked by one of the bears they'd come to love, documented in the Warner Herzog film "Grizzly Man. " Grizzly attack stories date back through the ages. As the story goes, in 1823, fur trapper Hugh Glass was on an expedition up the Missouri River, headed toward Yellowstone Park. The stories of Timothy Treadwell and Hugh Glass seem almost unbelievable.
An encounter with a grizzly doesn't always have to end in bloodshed -- that's your blood or the bear's. Teton Sports Wilderness 55 Review. Essential hiking gear list. 10 Skills Needed To Thrive In A Post-Collapse World By Jeffrey Green. 10 Skills Needed To Thrive In A Post-Collapse World By Jeffrey Green 01 December, 2010Activist Post Knowledge is something that no one can take from you.
It’s the eternal wealth that will help you thrive in a Post-Collapse world. Some experts see the perfect storm emerging for a dramatic collapse of Western civilization claiming we’ve reached environmental, economic, and geopolitical tipping points. Before we quantify the skill sets that will be viable, it is important to define the severity of a “post-collapse” scenario. It would take a serious cataclysmic earth event like a super volcano, a meteor impact, major electromagnetic pulse event, or dramatic pole shift to affect the entirety of humanity.
For sake of this article, let’s assume that some level of devastation is caused by each type of tipping point in the United States. The only question will become, how do the citizens react? Here are 10 invaluable skills that will likely help you sustain yourself in a hand-made local world: 1. The Fantastic Four – 4 Essential Wild Edible Plants that May Just Save Your Life.
Did you realize that knowing just 4 wild edible plants could one day save your life?
If there were any four categories of plants that I would recommend all people to know how to use and identify it would be these: Grass, Oak, Pine, and Cattail. For the knowledgeable survivor, knowing just these four plants can make the difference between life and death if stranded in the wilds – for each one is an excellent food source which can sustain you until help arrives.
Throughout this week and part of the next, I’ll be going into details on how you can prepare and eat these plants. For now though, here’s a quick overview into what they have to offer: Grass Surprising to many is the fact that you can eat grass. The young shoots up to 6 inches tall can be eaten raw and the starchy base (usually white and at the bottom when you pluck it) can be eaten as a trail nibble. Oak Oak – specifically the acorn – is a great source of food in the fall and early winter time. Pine “You can eat pine?!” Cattail.