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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

How to Survive in the Backcountry In an Emergency

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Wilderness, Sports

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, I talk about key survival techniques mountain bikers can use in case of a backcountry emergency. No one goes out for a day trip planning to get lost or to spend the night on the trail, but it can (and does) happen. Listen in to brush up on the basics of survival so you’ll be prepared.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal.

0:03.2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the Ultimate Collab.

0:08.3

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0:11.0

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0:16.3

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0:20.1

Hello everyone and welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. From 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst dots last. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.7

My name is Aaron, and today we're going to be talking about wilderness survival.

0:29.1

And I certainly am no expert on the subject.

0:31.9

That's why we have our very own Jeff Barber here, who is.

0:36.3

Jeff is not only one of the founders of single tracks. He's also an

0:41.2

Eagle Scout and an Air Force veteran. So he's going to drop some knowledge on our heads. We are going to

0:47.8

use the Boy Scouts Wilderness Survival Checklist as an outline for our discussion today. So we'll

0:53.9

just go over the survival priorities as they list them.

0:57.7

So first up, positive mental attitude, which, you know, that's vital to your daily survival.

1:04.5

Next up, first aid.

1:05.9

After that, we have shelter, then fire, signaling, water, food. And that's it. All right. So let's start this

1:17.4

discussion with the first of those, a positive mental attitude. Jeff, why is a positive

1:24.4

mental attitude important? Well, so I'll start this by saying that, you know,

1:30.2

none of us go into a mountain bike ride thinking about survival. And so that's kind of why I wanted to

1:36.6

talk about this because, you know, backcountry survival is something that obviously you don't

1:41.7

really plan for it. You know, it's a situation where you go out for a ride and all of a sudden, like, you're looking like you're going to have to spend

1:47.9

the night out on the trail or you're lost or whatever. So these tips are really important for that

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