Spend enough time in the outdoors, and you’re bound to wonder how you would handle a true survival scenario.
Could you gather and forage enough food? Could you build a strong survival shelter to keep you warm and dry? Could you start a fire…in the pouring rain?
These are the skills of a total outdoorsperson. But there are nearly as many survival myths out there as there are skills—and some of those myths could lead to disaster if and when the you-know-what hits the fan.
Here are four of those myths, and what you can learn from them to help prepare you for whatever the wild throws your way.
Myth No. 1: You Can Survive Solely off Natural Survival Foods
Flip to the wild-edibles section of a survival book, and it’ll show you how to harvest inner tree bark for food or how to boil (and re-boil) lily-pad tubers and skunk cabbage so they are palatable. You’ll also learn that hemlock needles are edible, plus how to cook and eat snails and so on.
