Knots
Right over Left, Left over Right.
What is a Square Knot?
The most commonly used item in a First-Aid Kit.
What is the Adhesive Sterile Bandage?
Or Band-Aid
A dull one is actually more dangerous than a sharp one.
What is a Knife?
This item is used to locate landmarks, elevation changes, roads, trails, and other physical features.
What is a Map?
This Code has 4 basic principles.
What is the Outdoor Code?
This simple knot for securing the end of a line is often mistaken for it's "double" counterpart.
What is Two Half-Hitches?
This First-Aid Kit item is used to wrap sprained joints, or hold pressure.
What is a Compression Bandage?
Or Ace Bandage.
Dairy, raw meat, and eggs are examples of food which require this.
What is Refridgeration?
This item is used to find bearings, or headings.
What is a Compass?
"Leaves of 3 leave it be." is a sale warning about the dangers of Urushiol Oil on this common plant.
What is Poison Ivy?
This Knot is used as a basic tensioning knot for guy lines, clothes lines, and more.
What is the Taut-line Hitch?
This common ailment with many degrees of severity can be caused by heat, cold, sun, or friction.
What is a Burn?
This travel sized version can be useful when cooking in remote places.
What is a lightweight Backpacking or Trail Stove?
This is a way to navigate at nighttime.
What is Celestial Navigation, Astronavigation, or Wayfaring?
This System is used in case of emergency so you always have someone to get help when injured.
What is the Buddy System?
These two parts of a knot are the bends that create structure.
What are the Bight and Loop?
Flushed dry skin, warm to the touch, disorientation, and dehydrated.
What is Heat Stroke?
Heat Exaustion would have profuse sweating.
This panel on food gives information on Calories, Macro and Micro Nutrients, Ingredients, and common Allergens.
What is the Nutrition Facts?
This is a way you can navigate using only a leaf and magnatized needle.
What is a Wilderness Compass?
Plan Ahead and Prepare. Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces. Dispose of Waste Properly. Leave What You Find. Minimize Campfire Impacts. Respect Wildlife. Be Considerate of Other Visitors.
What are the 7 Princliples of Leave No Trace?
These two "ends" refer to the part of a rope held still and the part used to weave the shape of the knot.
What are the Working End and Fixed End?
Or Running and Standing Ends?
Skin cool or clamy, pale appearance, disorientation, rapid or weak pulse, rapid or shallow breathing, nasea, lightheadedness.
What is Shock?
E.Coli, Salmonella, Norovirus, Listeria are examples of these.
What are foodbourne illnesses?
The difference between Geographic North and Magnetic North.
What is Magnetic Declanation?
This color coordinated hierarchy found at DNR stations indicates the conditions for forest fires.
What is the Fire Danger Level?