Day 27: How to live like a off grid tribe…
Lessons learned from the ancients: Nowadays gadgets and junk that you just don't need are bombarded at you through Facebook emails and advertising. While some of these things can be extremely handy, the majority of them tend to be a solution looking for a problem. Whenever we talk about survival situations we tend to play the what if game. What if I take your lighter away? What if I take your shoes away? What if I dump you naked in Antarctica right now? If you play this game far enough there is no answer where you are going to survive. However, if you play this game just enough it can teach you a thorough thought process of what you need to do in order to be prepared and survive in any environment. There is however a point where you find yourself with little to no gear in an environment where death is Imminent. The irony however is that your ancestors would have been just fine in this environment. Why is that? well because they knew how to utilize the rocks, trees, animals, bushes and things around them in order to survive. Everything that you need to survive in an environment where anyone has lived previously is already out there. The thing you lack is knowledge. A few years ago I was on a TV show where I was required to build a shelter. The first thing I asked myself is what did the Natives do when they lived there? A little bit of research taught me about the Navajo Hogan and gave me all sorts of ideas. This led to the successful creation of a multi-season shelter capable of withstanding wind, water, snow, crazy elements and with a self-contained fire. As an example when we needed to make a fire we did not have a lighter on the show. So we used a hand drill with locally sourced materials and the knowledge of how our ancestors used to do this. So take some time today to do a little bit of research into what your ancestors did where you live, and how they survived without all the new modern tools. It will not only teach you how to be a better survivalist but it will cause you to look at the world in a different way. It will also make you more grateful for those cool modern knives, pots bics, tents, sleeping bags and tools that we take for granted.
If your going to live off grid you don’t just need a flimsy umbrella
you need a reliable poncho this is my personal poncho grab now (click above)
