Signals

What can be used as a signal in the bush or wilderness?

Obviously a mirror, but what else?

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

smoke. but when in the smoky Mountains you have to trough a lot of green leaves and things to make it black so people will know it is a fire and not the smoke of the mountaind.

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Smoke is a good one, fire in general, at niight time building a huge fire is effective.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

A gun shot Very Happy

eric

yea but you want to fire 3 shots (after dark) with a paus between each shot. That way people just don't think you are hunting (during the day) or just some random noise.

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Good point Daffy Very Happy

eric

The nickle idea, pound a nickle down flate and could be used as a reflector

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

The blade of a knife will reflect the sun. A nice 8 inch bowie would work well.
My glasses would work as well, sun glasses.
And you could fill up your cooking pot, if you had one, with water, the same as the reflection off water, we all know how brite that can be to get it in the eyes. Cool

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water is a very good reflective surface. That is why you get burnt so bad at the beach, sun + water refective surface + sand reflective surface = uv rays (and sunlight) from all angles!!!!

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Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe you anyway.

~ Yelling
~ A whistle
~ Anything that is brightly coloured that you can wave around
~ Banging something against a metal can
~ A flashlight
~ Placing logs or whatever to spell out SOS to aircraft

rather than yelling if you can find two rocks to smash together or two sticks to bang together could have the same effect without killing your throat. If you yell a lot you will dry the heck outta your throat, and unless you have a lot of water that will just make your life that much worse for the duration of your situation.

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Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe you anyway.

Thats true, also if you yell and it is unsuccessful it follows you begin to panic. Its strange but it often happens

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

I can picture a person screaming, take'n deep breaths to scream longer/louder, hyperventalating, leading to bad things!

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Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe you anyway.

Well its just screaming is something you do just before all is lost, ocne that fails what else can u do?

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

lol there is always running around screeming untill you wear yourself out and fall and hit your head and die... I'd say that's probably the last bit of sanity you'd lose before die'n of exposure.

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Never explain. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe you anyway.

I think a whistle would be better than yelling. It can be heard much further away and you wont kill your throught in the process. I always have one with me when hiking.

A Cell phone would be my ideal choice Smile

Yeah a wistle is a good one for sure.

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

	Daffy wrote:
	lol there is always running around screeming untill you wear yourself out and fall and hit your head and die... I'd say that's probably the last bit of sanity you'd lose before die'n of exposure.

When I listed yelling, I meant occassional yelling if you had nothing else to make noise with. An advantage of yelling is that someone hearing you would know you are in trouble, whereas they might not associate other noise with distress. (I'm reminded of an episode of "Becker" in which Dr. Becker complains that the neighbour above him disturbed him all evening by making a lot of noise. It turns out that the neighbour died of a heart attack after repeatedly pounding out "SOS" on the the floor of his apartment.)

If the pilot of an aircraft sees you:
~ Stand with your arms stretched upwards (The international signal for 'get me out of here').
~ Lay on the ground with your arms extended above your head (The international signal for 'medical help needed).