Tight Spot Real-Time Guide for Wilderness Survival

“This guide is meticulously designed, logically organized, and entirely focused on the most important thing — saving your life, in real time.”

Unless you have a photographic memory, a survival guide is only useful if you have it with you; to always have it with you, it must be compact, lightweight, and durable. The Tight Spot Real-Time Guide for Wilderness Survival meets those challenges as the most practical and comprehensive portable wilderness survival guide.

• Over 18,500 carefully selected words with 29 illustrations, tables, and flowcharts. It’s organized around real-world survival priorities, drawing from hundreds of case studies of lost or injured people. No fluff like theatrical survival myths—it’s all about evidence-based, step-by-step actions.

• Folds to 6” x 4” (like a small wallet) and weighs just 36 grams (1.27 ounces). Unfolds to 24” x 16” for easy reading. This makes it ideal for slipping into a backpack, glove box, purse, or emergency kit—perfect for hikers, campers, hunters, or anyone in “tight spots” like getting lost or stranded.

• Core Topics Covered:

  •  Reorientation and Navigation: Natural navigation, scouting, self-rescue routes.

  •  First Aid: Treating injuries, hypothermia, dehydration, bites/stings.

  •  Signaling and Shelter: Building quick shelters, fire-starting, signaling for help.

  •  Water and Food: Purification methods, basic foraging/inventory of resources.

  •  Mental and Physical Prep: Motivation techniques, improvisation, and avoiding panic.

  •  Innovative “real-time” design sequences priorities logically: From the moment you’re in trouble (e.g., assess threats, signal immediately) to resolution (e.g., self-rescue or waiting for help).

  •  Based on Expertise: Created from over 40 years of wilderness experience and 12 years of teaching survival to adults and youth. It emphasizes mental resilience (e.g., combating fear) alongside physical skills, which is crucial since panic often leads to fatal mistakes.

  •  Multi-View Folding: Allows focusing on one section or scanning the whole guide at once—great for high-stress scenarios.

This isn’t just a generic survival book; it’s tailored for portability, immediacy, and reliability; some customers have called it “life insurance” for outdoor enthusiasts.