Even experienced hunters can get lost in the taiga; no one is safe from equipment breakdowns far from human habitation, from accidental injuries. Taiga will remain indifferent to an unprepared person, will not give him any chance.
Instructions
Step 1
Even if you are just going to walk in the taiga, for example, in search of beautiful places to take pictures, even if you go on a snowmobile, not expecting to stay for a long time, you should carefully equip yourself. Food, first aid kit, warm clothing and means for starting and maintaining a fire are necessary things that must be carefully collected before hiking in the winter taiga.
Step 2
Take a few bars of chocolate, a pound of boiled meat, a small pot. Black tea and sugar can give you about a week to work. You won't be able to stock up on medicines for all diseases, but take a bandage, iodine, tourniquet, antiseptic with you. To start a fire, grab a lighter (you can have more than one), put one box of matches in your pocket, the other in your backpack. Fill the matches themselves one by one with the wax of a burning candle, so you protect them from getting wet. Wrap the boxes in a plastic bag. Tablets or briquettes of dry fuel can help out in an emergency.
Step 3
Put on warm underwear, simple cotton and knitted socks, slightly loose boots or felt boots, warm pants, a sweater, a quilted canvas pea coat with a hood, a double knitted hat. Mittens and mittens will keep your fingers and hands warm better than gloves. Put a few meters of rope in your pants pocket.
Step 4
If the snowmobile breaks down and you are unable to repair it, and the return journey is 15 kilometers or more, you should not immediately return on foot in your tracks. On fresh tracks, you will be covering this distance for a very long time, and most likely. you will be exhausted in deep snow, risking not reaching the house at all. During the night, the track from the caterpillars will freeze and you will walk along it like on asphalt.
Step 5
Better, without wasting time, get ready for an overnight stay, because the daylight hours in the winter taiga are very short. Find trees that have fallen on top of each other, scoop up the snow on the leeward side of them to get a small area, break and throw under the trunks of spruce or pine branches as a bedding for the night. A few meters at a distance, make another flooring from the same branches so that the flaring fire does not fall into the remnants of the snow and does not go out.
Step 6
Prepare as much wood as possible so that there is enough firewood until dawn. To light a fire, use birch bark, dry thin branches, gradually adding thicker branches. When it finally flares up, stuff snow tightly into the pot, boil water, and brew tea. To keep warm, drink hot sweet tea and eat a little. If you are not cold, you can try to fall asleep, but do not get too close to the fire so that the spark does not set fire to your clothes. Eat breakfast in the morning, warm yourself up by throwing more firewood on the fire, and head back in your footsteps.
