Single trips. What you need to know
Travels / / December 19, 2019
If you finally established themselves in their desire to go to an independent campaign, it would be nice to know what kind of knowledge and skills that you may find useful.
Thus, in last article we tried to find out what is single and what trips they will all be needed. If you after reading the material definitively established themselves in their desire to go to an independent campaign, it would be nice to know what kind of knowledge and skills that you may find useful. Here it is today and discuss.
So, first of all, we should clearly understand myself that camp life is very different from your normal everyday life and many of the skills that you possess in perfection, there you will not be useful, but need quite others. The situation is complicated by the many times that a solo trip you have no one to ask for help or to ask for advice. We'll have to rely on their own strength, and any unlearned lesson can be quite painful to get out sideways.
The ability to equip itself overnight, to cook, to navigate on the map are not some kind of intimate, hidden from human knowledge, but they have one important feature that I would like as much as possible emphasize.
All you need knowledge and skills to be obtained and tested under practical conditions before you exit the route!
This means that you can read a lot of thick books on survival, you can at the local tourist pass for forum most savvy expert, but as long as your knowledge is not tested in the field, go to the solo campaign it is impossible! Otherwise, you may get the same situation as with the hero of the movie "Into the Wild", who died due to the fact that the mixed picture in the reference plants.
It turns amusing situation that go camping without experience you can not, and the experience can only be obtained in the campaign. Of this there is only a single correct conclusion: begin to gain experience can and should be only part of a group. The only way you can acquire all the necessary skills without risk to their health and life. It is clear that you have already set up at the solitary wanderings through the mountains and thickets, it may not be so easy to bring himself to join in the groups often complete strangers, which are also much more experienced and will teach you, and perhaps (oh Gods!) even order! But not do without it, unless, of course, you have a head on their shoulders.
Find groups that go on an interesting route, and join them. Join the local tourist crowd. Look for an experienced friend or family member who will take you along.
And now, after we found out where and how you need to obtain the necessary survival skills, get down to their list. So, you need to know and do the following for the first single campaign.
- The choice of equipment, clothing and tools for the campaign. Subject extensive and includes a variety of things, ranging from choice of tentBurners, cups, spoons, and ending with the selection of the optimal sets of clothes. Remember that even such a trifle as were peeled off on the trail outsole, may be in a campaign very big trouble!
- Collecting and stacking things. Correctly assemble a backpack is not too difficult, especially if you've seen how it's done.
- Route development. Here you need the skills to work with a map, search for other tourists reporting, the ability to correctly proportioned natural features and their strength.
- Parking and overnight equipment. Selection of the optimal parking space, the search for water, installation of tents, rain and cold protection.
- Breeding of fire. Do you think that the gas or gasoline solves all the problems? And what about the case where the cylinders are empty or already damp matches and lighter forgot to take?
- Cooking. You can, of course, be satisfied with the duty of porridge and sandwiches, but it is desirable to still learn how to cook soup, soup, rice, stew and so on.
- Safety. there is no one in a single campaign, who predosterezhot you from ill-considered step or a hasty decision, so I have to take care of it himself. This should be done very meticulously as any foolhardiness in a single campaign can have extremely dangerous consequences.
- Navigation. One of the most important skills. If you went not just to wander, and want to go to a particular point on a particular route, you have to learn to work With GPS (not smartphones), paper maps, a compass.
- Medicine. As a rule, this skill remains unclaimed, but if necessary, it is better to be armed. Assemble a first aid kit for the most common diseases and clearly know what the tablet from the head, and which from the abdomen.
I think that this list is not something missing? Make their own additions in the comments. In the next article we will talk about what specific items and equipment you need to prepare for a single campaign.