Exploration, escape and survival books

[Lucky Jim]

Yeah cobbling would certainly be a valuable skill in a post-doomsday world to save us having to go round barefoot..

PS- another thing that comes across in Escape-type books is how the people on the run often tend to sleep in barns and haystacks and huts at night.
Bad call because they're the first places the enemy look, and they're usually caught!
I mean look at this hut, no true survivor would even think of holing up in it, he'd head into the thick woods instead and burrow under a pile of leaves..

[icrcc]

Not in the winter he wouldn't!

[Lucky Jim]

Not in the winter he wouldn't!

Given the choice of holing up in a hut and getting caught, or burrowing under a pile of leaves in the woods and not getting caught, I'd plump for the woods..
Anyway anybody on the run in winter would probably be wearing extra warm thick clothing and carrying a waterproof sheet.
Personally if I was on the run I'd go in summer if I could..

[icrcc]

Now that would depend on the depth of the snow wouldn't it.

[SooBee]

Winter is a whole different ball game. A small hut can be camouflaged. Tracks to it can be wiped and possibly snowed over.
The big problem would be the smoke from any fire, although this can be dispersed a bit if the weather is not too clear.
The secret is to be on the ball even when tired and in need of rest. Knowing the area is useful.
Walk it when the weather is warm and sunny but try to see it as cold and snowy.


Soobee

[tfish]

I think there's a famous case in the wild west were the people resorted to eating each other. Can't think of the place name atm

[tfish]

I think there's a famous case in the wild west were the people resorted to eating each other. Can't think of the place name atm

[Lucky Jim]

It was the 'Donner party'. a small wagon train that got stranded in the snow of the Rockies-
There's a youtube docu about it here-
http://youtu.be/yZe4SmIH_U4

[tfish]

It was the 'Donner party'. a small wagon train that got stranded in the snow of the Rockies-
There's a youtube docu about it here-
http://youtu.be/yZe4SmIH_U4

Thats it.

Thats where Donner Meat originated from apprently (not really)

[Lucky Jim]

THE LONG WALK is supposedly an autobiog account of a guy's true-life breakout from a Siberian labour camp, and his trek 4000 miles south to India.
I say 'supposed' because there's speculation around the net is that it's pure fiction, or semi-fictional at best.
I've read it and it seems fake to me because it's scattered with plenty of bits that just don't ring true, especially to any prepper/survivalist.
For example he says it was the camp kommandant's wife who helped him escape! Also, he claims to have done the whole 4000 miles without a map of any kind!
(PS don't mix it up with a completely different book of the same title)



WIKI- "Over the years, critics of the book's accuracy have included Peter Fleming (the brother of Ian Fleming), Eric Shipton and Hugh E. Richardson, a British diplomat stationed in Lhasa."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Rawicz