Thread: Lost in the bush

@NZAlpine good story, yeah those SAR guys did well ay.
So did you both staying out of hypothermia throughout the night. Did you sleep or stay awake?
@Russian 22. Good thing you got a fire going!

Originally Posted by Sako851

@NZAlpine good story, yeah those SAR guys did well ay.
So did you both staying out of hypothermia throughout the night. Did you sleep or stay awake?
@Russian 22. Good thing you got a fire going!

@Sako851 I’d actually cut my pack liner up and we used it as a ground sheet but when it started snowing I put it on top of us and I think it was just enough to stop us getting worse.
Tried to get as much sleep as soon as we could because we knew it was going to be a long night, got maybe 1-2hours before spending the rest of the night uncontrollably shivering. By morning my toes were in serious pain from the cold and I got the gas cooker out (which I’d carried for heating up lunch) and managed to warm them up. During the night I’d been in denial that the cooker would have helped which is a part of hypothermia, you can start avoiding doing things that would be huge help without realising it which is a good sign hypothermia is really setting in.
We were in scrub country so there was no loose branches to burn but if I’d had a saw we could’ve burnt Matagouri, always carry a silky saw in my survival kit now


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Originally Posted by NZAlpine

@Sako851 I’d actually cut my pack liner up and we used it as a ground sheet but when it started snowing I put it on top of us and I think it was just enough to stop us getting worse.
Tried to get as much sleep as soon as we could because we knew it was going to be a long night, got maybe 1-2hours before spending the rest of the night uncontrollably shivering. By morning my toes were in serious pain from the cold and I got the gas cooker out (which I’d carried for heating up lunch) and managed to warm them up. During the night I’d been in denial that the cooker would have helped which is a part of hypothermia, you can start avoiding doing things that would be huge help without realising it which is a good sign hypothermia is really setting in.
We were in scrub country so there was no loose branches to burn but if I’d had a saw we could’ve burnt Matagouri, always carry a silky saw in my survival kit now


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Yeah good move. Those saws can be invaluable, I don’t actually have one in my kit at the moment.
Strange how the mind works when it is being affected negatively

Originally Posted by Sako851

@NZAlpine good story, yeah those SAR guys did well ay.
So did you both staying out of hypothermia throughout the night. Did you sleep or stay awake?
@Russian 22. Good thing you got a fire going!

He was an old hunter who had not done heaps of hunting but had spent a lot of time in the bush.

So he had eaten more food than me. So it was more that I ran out of fuel per se. He stayed up all night. the small fire was a god send


@Frogfeatures I have taken a few short cuts and had egg on my face as a result, I now have a rule that I only take a track or at the very least go back the way I came.

If i find a new way to get somewhere but it is at the start of the trip I'll do it though.