Survival: Lost with...Only a Bottle of Whiskey

[jeremy]

Survival: Lost with...Only a Bottle of Whiskey

Put that hooch to good use with these tips for starting a fire, treating water, and even signaling for help.



Backpacker Magazine - Survival: Lost with...Only a Bottle of Whiskey


Still seems like a waste to me though...

 

[Zoub]

I am trying to imagine that scenario ever happening.

Being Lost AND Drunk at the same time. That is why I keep the booze in a metal flask, very useful when emptied.

 

[jeremy]

I am trying to imagine that scenario ever happening.

Being Lost AND Drunk at the same time.

Usually it happens the other way around first...
Drunk, then lost...

On a more serious note I almost always have a flask of whiskey in my pack. I tend to have a sip or 2 as I settle down around the fire before I head to the ol' fart sack.

Maybe that is just me...

 

[sadclownwp]

Looks that that bottle of bourbon is gonna have to find its way into my survival pack

 

[geronimojoe85]

If you run across an Indian you can get just about anything for a bottle of whiskey.




Come on, somebody was going to say it.

 

[Vince49]

BIG bottle!

With a sufficiently large bottle you will neither know nor care that you are lost,or whether you survive or not for that matter.

 

[kevinj110]

If you run across an Indian you can get just about anything for a bottle of whiskey.




Come on, somebody was going to say it.

Don't forget shiny beads and nice warm blankets.
But seriously I always have some whiskey or whisky with me when I go backpacking.

 

[Zoub]

Usually it happens the other way around first...
Drunk, then lost...

On a more serious note I almost always have a flask of whiskey in my pack. I tend to have a sip or 2 as I settle down around the fire before I head to the ol' fart sack.

Maybe that is just me...

Nope, me too and wash down a Benadryl if need be to pass right out. But I also have a metal twin cigar holder so they don't get crushed. Metal is a good thing.

 

[turnandshoot4]

That was a great article!

 

[bwframe]

Wouldn't something like Everclear or some of the 151's be more bang for the buck in a flask?

 

[Kutnupe14]

Don't forget shiny beads and nice warm blankets.
But seriously I always have some whiskey or whisky with me when I go backpacking.

loaded with small pox

 

[Leadeye]

Wouldn't something like Everclear or some of the 151's be more bang for the buck in a flask?

Hard for me to drink that stuff without mixing it these days.

 

[jeremy]

Wouldn't something like Everclear or some of the 151's be more bang for the buck in a flask?

LOL...

20 years ago that would have been a given to find in my flask...
Today, not so much...

 

[Sailor]

Shackleton, the original bad *ss survivor had scotch, buried and now it has been found and returned to Scotland.

BBC News - Shackleton's South Pole whisky returns to Scotland

 

[indykid]

Better - Place your bottle of "whiskey" out where it can be seen. When someone stops to take it, you take them out, then take their supplies. Repeat as needed.