Reality Check for Survival Fantasies

CarpScot said:
If you are interested, a bit longer article from my local paper can be found here.

It is sad that some people so romantisize living in remote areas and then fail to take even the most basic of actions to ensure their survival. I do not see this unfortunate couple as people who planned poorly, but rather as a couple that had no idea what they were in for and failed to plan at all. What a truly haunting seen it must have been.
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Yes..I imagine it was pretty creepy!
 
When it comes down to it, you prepare as best you can, then you eat EVERYTHING and burn EVERYTHING.

I will never starve with a pet around and I will never freeze to death with a chair in the room.

And if you and I are in a cabin and I am starving to death, you better sleep with one eye open, because you can bet your sweet a$$ one of mine is gonna be open when yours close.
 
PrimitiveMan said:
And if you and I are in a cabin and I am starving to death, you better sleep with one eye open, because you can bet your sweet a$$ one of mine is gonna be open when yours close.
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That makes knifing you in any potentially life-threatening situation free. :D
 
stitchawl said:
When I was in my teens I loved sleeping in a blanket roll on the bare ground, using my saddle for a pillow. In my 20's I switched to a sleeping bag and kept the saddle, and by late 20's added an ensolite pad and would roll up a sweather for my pillow. Sometime in my 30's I moved onto a Thermorest air mattress. In my 50's I began putting an ensolite pad under my Thermorest air mattress. Now, in my 60's, I want a bed. A good bed. With a thick goose down comforter. And a Swedish Tempur pillow. I 'know' I can still sleep on the ground in a blanket roll if I 'need' to. I donwanna!

Be prepared. :)

Stitchawl
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.......:thumbup: ...........after one puts a fair number of "miles" on one's body and the gray hair begins to take over, comfort become much more appreciated. Don't get me wrong.....I love my forays into the wilderness.....but I enjoy coming back to civilization just as much ! :)

- regards
 
WILLIAM.M said:
He brought weapons--but did not plan for the "winter" cold???
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Probably more common than what you think. I recall a person here on the forums who kept loaded guns all around his house in case of home invasion but died of pneumonia because he didn't go to the doctor in time:rolleyes:
 
hollowdweller said:
Probably more common than what you think. I recall a person here on the forums who kept loaded guns all around his house in case of home invasion but died of pneumonia because he didn't go to the doctor in time:rolleyes:
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smart guy, too. :(
 
I think that's definitely more common than people realize...

I've said it a dozen times (not that me saying something repeatedly makes it true or important but in this case it happens to be both...)

People tend to overestimate their degree of cool exciting risk and underestimate their degree of mundane, boring risk.

That is why we all have cool knives, guns, water filters, and sleeping bags rated twenty degrees colder than we need, instead of an extra bar of hand soap, a cell phone that is fully charged, and a flu shot.

Thinking about the calamities and disasters is COOL.

Thinking about getting sick from not washing your hands is LAME.

Thinking about home invasions is COOL.

Thinking about stepping on a nail is LAME.

Thinking about terrorist attacks is COOL.

Thinking about RRSPs is LAME.

I am not being facetious...the cool things really are cool! The lame things really are lame! I like exciting stuff, and I don't like boring stuff. But the reality is that life is boring and most of what is going to happen to you - even the adversities you will experience - are boring.
 
"That makes knifing you in any potentially life-threatening situation free."

Yup, that one goes both ways guys!

Of course your knife is gonna be severely "outgunned" if you are talking about me, but your welcome to try.
 
misanthropist said:
I think that's definitely more common than people realize...

I've said it a dozen times (not that me saying something repeatedly makes it true or important but in this case it happens to be both...)

People tend to overestimate their degree of cool exciting risk and underestimate their degree of mundane, boring risk.

That is why we all have cool knives, guns, water filters, and sleeping bags rated twenty degrees colder than we need, instead of an extra bar of hand soap, a cell phone that is fully charged, and a flu shot.

Thinking about the calamities and disasters is COOL.

Thinking about getting sick from not washing your hands is LAME.

Thinking about home invasions is COOL.

Thinking about stepping on a nail is LAME.

Thinking about terrorist attacks is COOL.

Thinking about RRSPs is LAME.

I am not being facetious...the cool things really are cool! The lame things really are lame! I like exciting stuff, and I don't like boring stuff. But the reality is that life is boring and most of what is going to happen to you - even the adversities you will experience - are boring.
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.......it's very true. At the risk of sounding "preachy", it's not getting that yearly check-up with the doc, not bothering to keep blood pressure with-in limits, or smoking those two packs a day....those kind of things often pose the real threat in most lives. Much is preventable by paying attention to the "mundane".

- regards
 
PrimitiveMan said:
"That makes knifing you in any potentially life-threatening situation free."

Yup, that one goes both ways guys!

Of course your knife is gonna be severely "outgunned" if you are talking about me, but your welcome to try.
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Did you see the smiley?

Besides, I don't know nuttin' about no guns. Christ, what's next? Tu Madre! Tu Madre! :jerkit:
 
you know I'm not surprized this involved 2 people because I think it must take 2 people do do something so stupid!!! Tell me how can someone even concieve of spending a cold winter, much less Montana winter and not even secure the means to make a fire?
I am in total agreement with what some others here have already said, "how do you starve to death in a cabin with five animals in it?" and he was sitting with a pile of weapons in front of him...Verdict, suicide by stupidity
survival of the fittest's a bitch
 
Nah Don, It's all good.

I saw the smiley.

Besides, I don't know nuttin bout no guns either and I don't speak Spanish other than "Uno cerveza por favor" and "donde es el bano" Which I guess is all you really need to know as far as I am concerned. LOL
 
I know more than enough to actually get knifed in Mexico, Central America and parts of South America. I'm basically fluent in three languages when it comes to telling people to do nasty shit to themselves and their mom and I am working on Korean as well. 8-)
 
If I even have to envision a scenario where I'm stuck in a cabin with one of you guys, slowly freezing to death, and we're seriously considering eating each other, and who's sleeping with eyes open and shit, then I'm on the wrong survival forum.

If anyone here is stupid enough to put themselves in such a situation without preparation, then I wouldn't want to walk around the block with such a person, let alone go camping with them. :-P
 
Umm, Not going to speak for Don (In any language) But as for me.....I was JOKING.

(except for the eating the pets part)
 
misanthropist said:
I think that's definitely more common than people realize...

I've said it a dozen times (not that me saying something repeatedly makes it true or important but in this case it happens to be both...)

People tend to overestimate their degree of cool exciting risk and underestimate their degree of mundane, boring risk.

That is why we all have cool knives, guns, water filters, and sleeping bags rated twenty degrees colder than we need, instead of an extra bar of hand soap, a cell phone that is fully charged, and a flu shot.

Thinking about the calamities and disasters is COOL.

Thinking about getting sick from not washing your hands is LAME.

Thinking about home invasions is COOL.

Thinking about stepping on a nail is LAME.

Thinking about terrorist attacks is COOL.

Thinking about RRSPs is LAME.

I am not being facetious...the cool things really are cool! The lame things really are lame! I like exciting stuff, and I don't like boring stuff. But the reality is that life is boring and most of what is going to happen to you - even the adversities you will experience - are boring.
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Bang the gong, brother. I've seen this on a lot of "survival" forums. Guys wishing for the end of the world because they're ready and it will "clean the gene pool" for them to carve out a world in their image. Then someone comes along and tries to tell them that "survival" sucks. It's long days of hard, tedious work to eek out a living. It's not a big camping trip. it's not sitting in your bunker watching for the enemy 2/47 (which is also damn boring. If you've ever been in the Army, you understand.). But that guy always gets shouted down.


P.S. for you guys who are packing cookbooks for serving up cabinmates, let me say for the record: I'm tough, gamey and wormy, entirely not worth the effort. :cool:
 
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