Interesting Article on General Outdoor Safety

[TerryD]

I came upon this and it seemed relevant to our hobby. I thought you all might enjoy the read as much as I did.

12 WORST CASE SCENARIOS: WHAT TO DO RIGHT WHEN THINGS GO WRONG

 

[20DYNAMITE07]

That's actually a really great article. Thanks!

 

[Ironhide Fx4]

Thanks for sharing. Its always good to brush up on this stuff.

Now here is my question.

What do us overlanders do about camp kitchen and bears? Most of us cook in and around our rigs. I guess we just need to clean up extra well and hope that being in a RTT is enough to not interest the bears.

 

[Winterpeg]

I keep at least 30 ft distance between my screen tent + kitchen and my sleeping tent. I lock up any food stuff and the garbage in a large bin I have built and bolted to my trailer.

We do not keep any perfumed products or any food in our sleeping tent. This includes toothpaste and literally anything else besides clothing and a few water bottles.

If I was in grizzly territory (we only have black bears here) I would be tempted to change our clothes and keep our daytime clothing out of the sleeping tent as well because there is bound to be some food or food smell transfer to your clothing during the day... especially on kids.

 

[TerryD]

I fixed the title I think, hopefully made it sound a little less spammy.

 

[SC4runner]

Great Article! I have prepared myself for emergency (MFR/CPR/AED/Wilderness FA/etc) but reading this made me realize that I am still vastly unprepared. It's not a lack of knowledge or experience on my part, it's a lack of preparation. My wife is my traveling partner for all of my adventures and I have completely neglected to teach her the things that I know. I always assumed that someone else would be the one in trouble and that I would provide the assistance, but it could easily be the other way around. It's time to put her through a "boot camp" and get her better prepared for an outdoor emergency. Thanks for sharing!