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Stay Together
- If your with friends or even your pet, keep everyone together. If your
lost and cold snuggle up to each other to share body heat. Even if its your
pet dog or sister (Yuk!!)
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Stay in One Spot
- Once you realize you are lost don't continue to wander around. When you
keep moving you travel faster than searchers and could possibly move into an
area that was all ready searched. Secondly, its very possible you could fall
down and hurt yourself making a bad situation so much worse.
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Find a Comfy Place to
Wait - Make sure your waiting place is not a hiding place. Try to
get out of the wind and rain if its raining. Try hugging a tree!! Under a
big tree is great place to wait. You want to make sure searchers will be
able to see you.
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Keep Warm -
Because you lose 70% of your heat through your head put on a hat or put up
your hood if you have one. Do not take any clothes off.
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Attach Something
Bright to Your Waiting Place - This will attract searchers to
your location. Do not use any of your clothing you need this
to stay warm. Consider hanging keys, paper money, Kleenex anything that
might draw attention to your area.
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Make Yourself Easy to
Spot - Find a clearing near your waiting spot and if you here
someone walk to your open spot. Do not run to your spot and Do not run
toward the searchers, you may run right past them. Stay put and yell for
them to come to you.
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Do Not Lay on the
Ground - The bare ground is often very cold, laying on the ground
can rob your body of valuable heat. To avoid losing heat, build a survival
bed mad from sticks and browse. The bed should be more 10 inches think when
compressed so pile up lots of material. Now gather the same amount of green
browse and broken branches to use as a banket and cover yourself up to stay
warm and dry.
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Do Not Eat Anything
- Hopefully you won't have to spend any more than one night in the woods
without food. But eating something that could make you sick would be a
terrible thing if your lost in the woods. Imagine being cold and scared plus
be throwing up or having diarrhea. You may be hungry but you can survive
without food for several days.
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Drink Water From Small
Streams - Stay away from lakes and large rivers. Find water from
the small the streams that feed the bigger body of water. If you were to
fall in to a lake you could drown, so use bodies of water smaller than you
are.
