To make your journey through the taiga enjoyable and pass without incident, you must follow a number of special rules and prepare in advance for the upcoming hike. Nature will help you if you ask to treat it skillfully and carefully.
It is necessary
- - mobile phone;
- - backpack, with durable, comfortable and wide shoulder straps;
- - food;
- - 2 sets of matches;
- - bandage;
- - iodine;
- - hunting knife;
- - nails;
- - compass.
Instructions
Step 1
Dress carefully and wisely. Protect your head from branches, forest debris and insects with a thick cap, preferably with a visor. Choose clothes according to the season, they should be breathable, not heavy, but durable and not rustling. Don't dress too warmly, or you will sweat quickly and be clumsy.
Step 2
Choose your footwear carefully for hiking in the taiga. It should be strong, waterproof, with a high bootleg, tightly fitting on the leg. Choose the shoes that are most comfortable for you, in the forest you can rub calluses very quickly. Do not tuck the legs inside the boots so that moisture can drain out.
Step 3
When you walk through the forest, make marks in the trees with a knife. Choose the easiest way so as not to waste energy in vain. Every one to two hours of movement, take small breaks for 10-20 minutes. At big halts, you should make a fire and cook hot food. Try to make camp before dark.
Step 4
Never walk in a swamp, bog or wander in the fog. In winter, go skiing or snowshoeing. If one ski breaks, try to fix it with wire and improvised tools. Walk as quietly as possible, step over the branches, and do not step on them. Avoid any sound source, as there may be dangerous animals. Always follow the set course and follow the compass.
Step 5
To protect against blood-sucking insects, zip the collar and sleeves very tightly, smear clay on the exposed areas of the body. Examine yourself at least twice a day for ticks. Lubricate the sucked parasite with iodine, cauterize it with a match or cigarette, now it should fall off by itself. Remove the proboscis with a hot needle.
Step 6
If you run out of food supplies, go hunting, fishing and gathering fruits. The signs of edibility of berries are bird droppings on the branches, pecked fruits, scattered bones. Try just one of the unfamiliar berry at first. Wait a few hours, if there are no signs of poisoning, eat some more. Other parts of plants and mushrooms must be thoroughly boiled, usually enough to destroy the poison.
Step 7
It is better not to sleep in the forest in winter, but it is necessary to kindle a fire, it will scare away wild animals. Make a litter from fir and spruce branches. In most cases, you should not be afraid of animals. They can hunt people only in a hungry year; at other times, animals avoid humans. Hearing a howl or growl, calmly leave this part of the forest - you have entered the territory of a wild animal.
