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u/eye_of_the_sloth · 16 pointsr/Survival

Don't go straight for a five day. Anyone saying go straight to a five day backpacking trip has no regard for your safety and is unsportsmanlike. However, you must kick yourself in the ass and just get out there or you'll never go. You can't wait until you have everything perfect because you wont know what's perfect until you've completed a few trips. Each trip you do you will learn about yourself, your gear, and the wilderness you find yourself in.

Book I recommend Cody Lundin's - 98.6

Check out MCQ Bushcraft youtube channel for awesome tips on maintaining gear, camp setups, hunting/fishing, and obviously Bushcraft.

Don't go backpacking without a quality backpack made to hike long distances holding all your gear through all weather conditions! Here, go by user reviews, your budget, your size, and your skill set - you're not climbing K2, so a mountaineering winter rated 95 liter with a Jetpack-sled and bat cave is just overkill.

Your gear needs to be as light as you can afford. Your pack may seem light at the trail head, but days later, miles from the car, you don't want any problems.

I leave you with the most important thing. Know where you're going and when you will be back. Tell at least two trustworthy people your plan and that if they don't hear back from you by (time and date) to call for help. Give yourself some cushion with the deadline, most SAR teams are volunteers and we don't need them being called because your a little late.

Trail life is addictive, good luck and travel well! Cheers

u/tuffbot324 · 5 pointsr/Survival

Maybe cover water collection and signalling too.

Careful with plants.

Cody Lundin has a good book that covers non skill related survival aspects, such as being prepared, regulating body temperature, and how to build your own survival kit. http://www.amazon.com/98-6-Degrees-Keeping-Your-Alive/dp/1586852345

Let somebody know where you are going!

u/cswanda · 4 pointsr/Bushcraft

You actually don't have to have access to land or parks to get started.

Get started right in your backyard. Do you have a grill or a fire pit? Or can you make very small fires in your yard now? Practice fire making in your yard/grill. Practice right after it rains with the wet material you have. Sleep in your backyard, making a bed of debris, debris cute, etc....

Survival is creativity, knowledge and skills, and you can practice virtually anywhere. Plus, survival in its purest definition is that is could happen anywhere/anytime, so your backyard is perfect, versus heading out to the woods.

As for a knife, go grab a Victorinox Farmer or Hiker. For almost 15 years a Victorinox knife was my only "survival" knife. There is no need to spend big money on "tacticool" or expensive gear.

As for books, I personally like Cody Lundin's 98.6 degrees (https://amzn.com/1586852345)... mainly because it teaches you why and how to survive, versus just showing pictures of traps and shelters only. (And it was written before it was "cool" to be a "survivalist")

Remember, you are learning skills to keep you alive in the event of some unforeseen circumstance. You are not learning how to buy expensive gear, expensive knives, pimp out gear on YouTube channels...

DM me if you need any further help.

u/Stubb · 3 pointsr/Outdoors

There's wilderness survival (get me out of here) and bushcraft (living off the land). Have a look at 98.6: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive for the former topic.

u/OriginalSyn · 3 pointsr/videos

https://www.amazon.ca/Bushcraft-Mors-Kochanski/dp/155105122

https://www.amazon.ca/98-6-Degrees-Keeping-Your-Alive/dp/1586852345

Anything beyond the basics though you're going to have to find something published for your specific area, especially for edibles, best of anythings, etc.

u/mindfulmu · 2 pointsr/bugout

Might I suggest a different approach to this situation?
Don't buy anything, yet.
Start out with a better pack, for your setup go on down to a local sporting good store, rei if you have them. Go to the backpack section and find something 3000 square inches or more but no bigger then 5000. Find something ina neutral color. Then make sure it's comfortable and had a nice hip placement belt. Ask the clerk when the best sales are.(dont buy anything)

Then read two books, ill recommend one you pick the second. 98.6 degrees to keeping your ass alive, then pick a good book on ultralight backpacking. From there I want you to take another look at your list. Now, I want you to go to your local grocery store and buy enough food to make 3 days of meals thats shelf stable for 2 years (check the label) to make using only direct heat, hot water, or fresh from the container. Then buy 1 case of mre's, check online to make sure they are as fresh as can be. Set aside 9 mre's, then buy some mountain house meals, enough for 3 days of food. Ok, now with just food, water and your newly purchased hiking backpack I want you to go on a nice day hike. Except, each time you go you eat one mre or one home made mre, or one mountain house before and after each hike. Keep a little journal on what the effects are.
This is your starting point, I'm inspired I'll make a full post on this. But that, and only that will be your starting point. You'll have a decent backpack, a good understanding of food amd it's effects and you'll understand the logistics of walking extreme distances with the essentials you'll need.

u/fireflygirlie · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

These aren't under $5, but definitely worth getting and HAVING. I've been increasingly interested in surivalism (as a result of hanging out with my paranoid dad), so definitely get these books:

u/DeusExNoctis · 2 pointsr/Survival

I enjoyed 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive by Cody Lundin. It has a lot of the "standard" survival information, but he does a nice job getting into the "why is this important" angle, which a lot of material does not do. Specifically, he brings almost everything back to how the human body is affected by different circumstances -- down to the cellular level -- and why certain behavior or decisions may be more or less efficient in different scenarios.

Also keeps a light-hearted tone and reminds you to relax, take it easy, and "party on"... helping keep a positive mindset throughout.

u/JasonLooseArrow · 1 pointr/CampingandHiking

Don't bring a handgun. Statistically, there aren't any boogeymen out there. Perhaps the best thing you can do for you and your parents is to bring with you the best survival gear in the world, a well-stocked brain. For this, you already likely have everything you need. But here are a couple of good books:

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Survival-Who-Lives-Dies/dp/0393326152
http://www.amazon.com/98-6-Degrees-Keeping-Your-Alive/dp/1586852345

Source: 30-day-a-year backpacker and SAR team member.

u/7823F6 · 1 pointr/CampingandHiking

Where in the US? Contact your local college and see if anyone in the botany dept has any recommendations.

For survival, this book is ok.