2019FEB101302.00
Survival Mindset Exercise #1
These are primarily exercises to improve your survival mindset through a series of exercises that ask, "WHAT IF" questions that potentially must be solved to move forward.
This exercise is based on WATER and what might happen to your water carrying capacity. How do you solve this problem with your existing kit? This exercise forces you to think about what kit you might not realise you need to improvise a fix and what skills you might need to use or master to complete the task.
Of course you could ask for another persons spare container but for the purposes of realism, you may be in a situation where you are alone or nobody has any spares.
Opportunity
It starts raining. You, ever the opportunist decide to jury-rig a passive capture system.
Q
* How much water do you think you will get?
* How do you clean the water enough for drinking?
* What in your kit will allow you to remove chance of bugs?
* How do you store the water?
1/ It starts raining. You, ever the opportunist decide to jury-rig a passive capture system.
2/ You have what in your kit to capture and store water for a passive capture system? How do you ensure the water stays put? You scavenge a few items to hold a piece of kit in place
3/ You start to capture fallen rain and notice particle matter also being collected.
4/ As you capture the water, you realise you have to carry it. How do you jury rig a new water container?
5/ After all your hard work collecting the water, you realise it has contaminants. How do you get rid of them? Even though the water is rainwater, what out of your kit might you use to insure against potential bugs?
6/ This is all you have. You might go through one litre in two hours of movement. Up hill more. Clearly this is not enough. To be continued.
Q. What are some other methods to capture water? How are you going to cary your full 6 litres you need for tomorrow?
2019FEB101302.00
Survival Mindset Exercise #1
These are primarily exercises to improve your survival mindset through a series of exercises that ask, "WHAT IF" questions that potentially must be solved to move forward.
This exercise is based on WATER and what might happen to your water carrying capacity. How do you solve this problem with your existing kit? This exercise forces you to think about what kit you might not realise you need to improvise a fix and what skills you might need to use or master to complete the task.
Of course you could ask for another persons spare container but for the purposes of realism, you may be in a situation where you are alone or nobody has any spares.
Opportunity
It starts raining. You, ever the opportunist decide to jury-rig a passive capture system.
Q
* How much water do you think you will get?
* How do you clean the water enough for drinking?
* What in your kit will allow you to remove chance of bugs?
* How do you store the water?
1/ It starts raining. You, ever the opportunist decide to jury-rig a passive capture system.
2/ You have what in your kit to capture and store water for a passive capture system? How do you ensure the water stays put? You scavenge a few items to hold a piece of kit in place
3/ You start to capture fallen rain and notice particle matter also being collected.
4/ As you capture the water, you realise you have to carry it. How do you jury rig a new water container?
5/ After all your hard work collecting the water, you realise it has contaminants. How do you get rid of them? Even though the water is rainwater, what out of your kit might you use to insure against potential bugs?
6/ This is all you have. You might go through one litre in two hours of movement. Up hill more. Clearly this is not enough. To be continued.
Q. What are some other methods to capture water? How are you going to cary your full 6 litres you need for tomorrow?