98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive!

by Cody Lundin

Overview

From the survival instructor and author of When All Hell Breaks Loose, a guide to surviving fear, panic, and the biggest outdoor killers.
Cody Lundin, director of the Aboriginal Living Skills School in Prescott, Arizona, shares his own brand of wilderness wisdom in this highly anticipated new book on commonsense, modern survival skills for the backcountry, the backyard, or the highway. It is the ultimate book on how to stay alive based on the principal of keeping the body's core temperature at a lively 98.6 degrees. In his entertaining and informative style, Cody stresses that a human can live without food for weeks, and without water for about three days or so. But if the body's core temperature dips much below or above the 98.6-degree mark, a person can literally die within hours. It is a concept that many don't take seriously or even consider, but knowing what to do to maintain a safe core temperature when lost in a blizzard or in the desert could save your life. Lundin delivers the message with wit, rebellious humor, and plenty of backcountry expertise. 
"Excellent advice…the obvious product of a man who has gone and done it…well worth reading."—Field & Stream

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423608837
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	05/29/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	37 MB
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About the Author

Cody Lundin and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have been featured in dozens of national and international media sources, including Dateline NBC, CBS News, USA Today, The Donny and Marie Show, and CBC Radio One in Canada, as well as on the cover of Backpacker magazine. When not teaching for his own school, he is an adjunct faculty member at Yavapai College and a faculty member at the Ecosa Institute. Cody is the only person in Arizona licensed to catch fish with his hands, and lives in a passive solar earth home sixty miles from Prescott, Arizona Russ Miller is an internationally syndicated artist and writer of Russ Miller's Oddly Enough. He also writes and illustrates a weekly editorial newspaper column called "Miller's Musings."

Read an Excerpt

Chapter 1

Survival Situations: How do they start?

How do survival situations happen? How do they start? These are loaded questions. A more accurate one would be, "How don't they start?" Murphy's Law, remember? That which can go wrong will. Flat tires, freak weather, wrong turns, broken limbs, and a million more scenarios exist for screwing up in the woods. More often than not, life-threatening affairs are the end result of several seemingly insignificant events. Taken one at a time, they would have little effect, but when compounded they can kill. Therefore, a main part of any survival strategy is to recognize danger signs early so corrective action can be taken.

One of the more common ways to meet your maker is couched innocently enough in the simple day hike. Can you guess why? Have you ever heard someone say, "Ain't nothin' gonna happen, honey. We'll only be gone for a few hours. It's just a day hike!"

Day hikes are notorious for compromising lives because they lull people into a sense of complacency in regard to properly preparing for a trip. Phrases like "We don't need that extra sweater," or "Leave the water in the truck!" can end up putting people six feet under.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	9
	Check this Out!	11
	Why a Survival Kit?	13
Chapter 1	Survival Situations: How Do They Start?	19
Chapter 2	Survival vs. Primitive Living, or "Living off the Land"	22
Chapter 3	Survival Psychology and the Importance of Proper Prior Training	25
Chapter 4	Why Fear Sucks	33
Chapter 5	Dealing with the Survival Scenario: Attitude, Adaptation, and Awareness	42
Chapter 6	Reducing the Threat of the Survival Situation: The Seven Ps	50
Chapter 7	What it Takes to Stay Alive	52
Chapter 8	The Most Common Way to Push Up Daisies in the Outdoors	60
Chapter 9	How Your Body Loses and Gains Heat	69
Chapter 10	Your First Line of Defense	77
Chapter 11	About Your Rescuers	107
Chapter 12	Helping Rescuers Bring You Back Alive	113
Chapter 13	What is a Survival Kit?	119
Chapter 14	Survival Kit Components (You + the Tool + the Environment = Your Life)	132
Chapter 15	Summary	208
Chapter 16	The Amazing "The drawings and photos are really cool but I'm too lazy to read this book" Cliff Notes	209