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🗓️ 16 February 2024
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What emergency and survival gear should you have at base camp? Whether your base is a truck at the trailhead, or a big horse camp deep in wilderness country, you should have crucial backup gear and food there.
This episode was inspired by a listener, and contains a list of what we consider important, from extra ammo or arrows to medical supplies—along with discussion of why and plenty of real-world stories of challenging experiences. ENJOY!
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0:00.0 | Imagine you're hunting solo, several hours hike from the trailhead. It's night, and you're tired, but wakeful because a massive storm had blown in. |
0:10.0 | The tent that has served you well for years is shuddering and popping like a drum in the wind. |
0:16.2 | Rain slashes sideways at the tent. |
0:19.2 | And you're starkly aware that your sleeping bag and your clothing are not adequate to survive |
0:25.2 | through the cold if your tent blows up and everything gets soaked. |
0:29.7 | And most time those nervous nights pass and you stay safe and warm in your tent. |
0:36.4 | Not this night. |
0:37.7 | A shrieking gust of wind grabs your tent and blows it up. |
0:41.9 | Polls crackling like fireworks and fabric shredding like ribbons. |
0:46.5 | In seconds you and all your gear are drenched with the onslaught of pounding rain. |
0:53.0 | It's cold, barely above freezing. |
0:56.0 | Suddenly, a rejuvenating solo hunt turned into a fight for survival. |
1:02.0 | What do you do? turn into a fight for survival. |
1:03.2 | What do you do? |
1:04.6 | You try to hunker down and stay warm enough to live and weather the storm in place? |
1:09.7 | Do you gather whatever you absolutely need and begin hiking for the truck? |
1:14.1 | Now this scenario actually happened to a good friend of mine, Tyler Freel, |
1:18.8 | in Alaska on a solo sheep hunt. I hope to have him on the show to tell us his story soon. |
1:24.9 | He hiked something like seven hours through the night, fighting blinding rain and crazy winds, |
1:31.5 | back to his truck. He almost didn't make it. |
1:34.8 | Thankfully, when he did, he had the gear necessary to get warmed up, |
1:39.1 | get some calories on board, and get energized enough to safely make the drive home. |
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