Sure, calories in the belly will help generate heat, but you can’t eat enough to stay warm if you aren’t sheltered from the cold. They assured me they were not joking and that some of these people were really concerned about dying from hypothermia at night if they didn’t eat. Knowing how attached horse people are to their horses, I laughed when I heard this and assumed my friend was joking. The part of the story I found most interesting was that some people were talking about killing and eating a horse the first night.
They didn’t have extra food, most didn’t have clothes for night time temperatures and not a single person had a flashlight.Īs I remember the story, one guy had plenty of beer stuffed in his saddle bags, several guys had hand guns and several more had cigarettes, but more importantly, they had cigarette lighters. They were guilty of making the assumption that they would get back to civilization before dark and only planned accordingly. They were not prepared to spend the night, so they were tired, miserable and hungry. But the Summer weather was forgiving, so as long as they had water, as long as nobody was missing critical medications and nobody got injured, they were never in any real danger.Ī common theme to survival situations is that people find themselves in a place and at a time they didn’t expect, and that is exactly what happened to these ill-prepared trail riders. They were only lost for a short time, but could not get back to the trail head before dark, so they had to spend the night on the trail. Those who venture into the great outdoors should, at a bare minimum, know the survival rules of three.Ī friend told me a story about getting lost with a dozen people and horses on a horseback trip in the Appalachian mountains. Scared, unprepared trail riders actually thought they would need to eat their horse on their 1st survival night!
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