Survival Myths That Would Get You Killed in the Appalachian Mountains (I Survived 3)

🔗 93 things every Appalachian grandfather knew. How many are left in you? https://burlsizemore.com In October of nineteen seventy two I was eighteen years old and lost on a mountain at dark, and I did exactly what every survival book and every movie cowboy tells a lost man to do. I found a creek and I followed it downhill. It led me straight into a laurel hell. That was the third time a survival myth nearly killed me. I survived three of them. Suck the poison out. The baby snake is worse. Moss grows on the north side. Clear running water is clean water. Eat the snow. Rub it to warm it. Lightning never strikes the same place twice. Play dead. Some of these came out of the movies, some came out of books written by men who never spent a night in a holler, and a few came off our own front porches. In the pocket of my hunting coat that night there was a folded paper my grandfather had put there two winters before, and he told me not to read it until I was truly lost. I will tell you what it said. Nothing that kept the people on our creek alive came out of a book. They had watched it happen. My grandfather wrote down in the margins of his farm ledger how a thing was done, and a few years back I sat down with that ledger and wrote out ninety three of the things he knew how to do with his hands. So tell me down below. What did your daddy or your grandmother tell you never to do in the woods, and did you listen the first time? https://burlsizemore.com