Category:Backwoods and Survival

The term Backwoods denotes skills and experience in matters relating to living and thriving in the wild, such as hunting, fishing, and camping (whether on a short- or long-term basis).

Food and water

Water

• Water filters and purification

Solar Still: for collecting water in dry regions, or obtaining drinking water from dirty or salty water

• Solar stills

Traps And Snares

Nooses and deadfall traps for capturing animals in a survival situation, and rules for using traps in a survival situation

• Traps and snares

Cooking and Recipes

Recipes for cooking on a fire without implements, including spud egg, potatoes, bundu mielie, fiji oven, kebabs, fish, twisters, dampers and more.

• Backwoods recipes
• Backwoods cooking

Shelters

Survival shelters constructed from natural materials

• Backwoods shelters
• Making a bed from a blanket

Surviving

Poisonous Snakes

Puff adder, berg adder, horned adder, cape cobra, rinkhals, black mamba, green mamba, boomslang

• Poisonous snakes

Diseases Of The Outdoors

Bilharzia, Typhoid, Malaria, Mountain Sickness, Leeches

• Diseases of the outdoors

Finding North And South

Finding direction using the stars (Southern Cross) or using the sun and a watch

• Direction: finding North and South
• Studying the stars

Signalling

See Distress signals for more details.

• Signalling
• Ground to Air signals

Tracking

See Stalking and Tracking for more details.

• Leaf impressions
• Making a plaster cast
• Secrets of Stalking

Also useful

• Axemanship
• Handicrafts