As we pursue the sport we love, we often place ourselves in hazardous situations. The Santa Cruz Fly Fishermen Board supports an informative corner to sharpen our be smart and safe behaviors.


Survival Tips
from Outdoor Life Magazine

The following valuable survival tip was featured in a brochure that accompanied a subscription renewal form from Outdoor World Magazine. For more tips, visit www.outdoorlife.com

Build a Bivouac:

Bivouacs reflect a fire's warmth, serve as a windbreak and provide overhead shelter in emergency situations. They can be erected without tools in an hour, if you are in an area with downed timber-less if you have a makeshift ridgepole such as a leaning or partly fallen tree to support the boughs.

Step One: Wedge a ridgepole into the lower forks of two closely growing trees (one end can rest on the ground, if necessary), or support each end of the ridgepole with a tripod of upright poles lashed together near the top.
Step Two: Tilt branches or poles against the ridgepole to make a frame. To strengthen it, interlace boughts through the poles at right angles.
Step Three: Thatch the lean-to with slabs of bark and/or leafy or pine-needle branches. Chink with sod, moss or snow to further insulate.