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* 1. You're on a wilderness expedition and got separated from your friends around noon and have been shouting out for them. Now its 3 pm, and realize that you are lost in the wilderness and your friends haven't found you yet. What would you do next?

Not sure, probably panic and freeze

Will make a guess and follow the likely path my friends may have taken

I will send rescue signals

I will start collecting food to eat

I will continue to scream or shout for help

I will make or find a temporary shelter

Will stay in the place I got lost and hope my friends find me

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* 2. I know how to send S.O.S or rescue signal or ask for help

I'll scream and shout for help and hope it works

I have some knowledge of rescue signals and how to make them

S.O.S and rescue signals ! What's that

I have seen in the movies or read in the books

I'm confident of making or sending rescue signals

I know how to make a smoke signal

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* 3. During an outdoor trek or expedition, my friend is seriously injured...

I'm a trained first aider

I have some idea of basic first aid

I'll try something to help

I'll probably black out

Not sure what I would do

Shout for help

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* 4. I have a local area map and can find my way to a safe place

No idea which way to hold the map or look at it

I get overwhelmed with maps, not sure if I will find my way

I can make out some bits of the map

Very comfortable with map skills

Are you talking about google maps

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* 5. Compass skills to find my way home

I can easily find my direction during day and night

If I have a magnetic compass, I can tell directions

Years back, I learnt about compass directions, its vague now

Never saw a compass and no idea how to use one

Directions?...you mean left, right, straight and back

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* 6. Starting a fire in the outdoors

I'm a caveman or woman and can start a fire with just sticks or stones

I know how to start and sustain fire in any weather

I can start a fire if the weather is good

Probably with great difficulty will start and sustain fire

Not sure, I have never started or sustained a fire in the outdoors

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* 7. Survival techniques with regard to water, food, warmth and protection...

No clue about survival techniques

I have little idea, not sure how or what I should do

I have watched movies and read books, I have some idea

I know how to conserve and use food and water

I have expert knowledge and experience

Food and water is more important than warmth and protection

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* 8. Survival tools in the outdoors

Not sure of any outdoor rope work, I should learn some

Yes, I know how to tie a shoelace, what else does one need?

I know few outdoor survival rope knots

I know the right knot to secure a car to pull it out of a ditch or rescue a person

I know different knots for each survival and outdoor situations

I can survive in the outdoors with knife, lighter and a rope

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* 9. If you're lost in the woods today, what's your own measure of outdoor survival confidence?

High Confidence of Survival >80%

Good Confidence of Survival 60-80%

Moderate Confidence of Survival 40-60%

Low Confidence of Survival 20-40%

Very Low Confidence of Survival 0-20%

Not sure or No confidence at all 0%

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* 10. Choose your 5 most essential items to take in your outdoor survival kit

Camera

Knife

Maps

Compass

Para-cord

Tooth Brush

Lighter

Extra T-Shirt

First Aid Kit

Steel Cup

Mosquito repellant

Compact Disc CD