Children and adults are lost in the forest every year. Someone quickly finds their way, but someone has to spend several days in more often until rescuers find him. In order to make it easier to endure a forced stay in the forest, you need to know the rules of behavior in such situations.
Instructions
Step 1
Before heading out into the woods, tell your family about your goals and route. Always take a knife, matches, a supply of drinking water and a watch with you, even if you go out for mushrooms for a couple of hours. Try to follow a familiar route, if you enter an unknown place - note landmarks.
Step 2
Beware of crossing swampy areas. If such a need nevertheless arises, take a strong and long stick with you.
Step 3
If you are lost, then first of all you need to calm down. Panic is your worst enemy. Take a close look and listen - perhaps you will see your own landmarks or hear the screams of people who have already begun your search.
Step 4
If you have a cell phone with you and have a connection, then call your loved ones and call the rescuers by phone 112.
Step 5
If you are not alone in the forest and you know that they will be looking for you, then you need to stay put. You can make a fire and sing songs to make it easier to see and hear you.
Step 6
If you understand that the search may take a long time, then prepare a sleeping place from spruce branches, find a stream of water, look around in search of berries and edible mushrooms. If it is going to rain, then you can build a hut, cover it with spruce branches and bark.
Step 7
Make a fire in accordance with fire safety techniques. In the rain, dry fuel can be found under fallen trees. If it becomes necessary to move away from the fireplace for a long time, it is better to extinguish the fire in order to avoid a forest fire.
Step 8
If you could not find a trickle, then you can use rainwater collected in a hole for drinking, which must first be covered with leaves. You can also collect dew in the early morning.
Step 9
Be careful when picking mushrooms - if you are not sure that they are not poisonous, it is better not to risk it.
Step 10
The hardest part of wandering through the woods is not to lose control of yourself and not panic. Of course, you will be scared and uncomfortable, but remember that they are looking for you and will definitely find you!
