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What whistle.... knew I forgot to pack something.... How about demonstrating how to make a whistle from an acorn or beer bottle cap? It's as loud as a store bought whistle and the materials are generally available.
Posted: Sep 02, 2008 Dan

This article has good advice, especially the first word, "Stop." I once got separated from the group when I was working on a census of hill tribe villages for a development project in northern Thailand. The crew were experienced Thai and hill tribe community development workers.

We were walking from one village to the next when I stopped to defecate. When I looked for the group again, I could not see them. I stopped and looked for slowly for clues for directions. There was no one definite trail, but many little criss-crossing paths made by local people and animals. Dense low clouds covered the sky, so I could not see any shadows to tell directions. There were many shoe prints going in many directions, so I could not tell which belonged to our crew. I found some of my own shoe prints, and figured out which way I had been going. I had a simple map, but no compass. I knew that we had been going east toward a village several kilometers away, and that a north-south road went through the village. So I aimed at about east-northeast, so I might arrive at the road north of the village, and turn south toward the village. But after about an hour, I saw our group several hundred meters ahead, so I hurried and caught up with them.
Posted: Sep 02, 2008 Bob Vryheid

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