Op de site instructables.com staat een gedetailleerde beschrijving hoe je zelf survival straps kunt maken van paracord. Mijn suggestie is wel om het bij 1 kleur paracord te houden, zodat je geen zwakke plekken introduceert door het aan elkaar verbinden van verschillende kleuren paracord.

Lukt het niet? Dan kun je altijd nog een kant-en-klaar exemplaar kopen, bijvoorbeeld via Amazon.

In short, water is essential to human life.

And while you are outside, it is easy to get dehydrated. Interestingly, dehydration symptoms become noticeable after 2% of your normal water volume has been lost http://www.skillsforwildlives.com/2012/01/dehydration-its-importance-for-the-wilderness-traveller/

The white of the young shoots is edible, even raw. The rhizomes are a good source of food. After digging a root out, with a stick, it can be peeled. Subsequently, the fibers can be cooked, baked, dried, ground into flour or made into a syrup by slowly cooking them. After peeling, you can crack and break them under water to take the starch out. The roots can easily be baked in an open fire, where the bark serves as protection against fire. After ten to twenty minutes, you can tear the roots and take out the starchy fibers; these fibers are directly edible. Per person, you need fifteen to twenty roots.

A good way to do so is to make syrup. For this, add 500 gram coarsely ground hips to 750 ml boiling water and allow to cool for 15 minutes. Let the mixture drain through a linen cloth into a pan. Put the pulp back into a pan with 375 ml boiling water and let stand 10 minutes. Pour back through the cloth. Pour all the liquid again through the cloth and boil it until it is about 375 ml. Add to that 450 grams of sugar and cook for 5 minutes. Put in small bottles and seal vacuum.