Survival Information, if a group of friends aged 13 got lost in the middle of nowhere?

Question

Say you and a few friends, only around the age of 13, was stranded in the middle of a vast land, like a forest, waterfall, caves etc, but there was no civilization for miles, and you walked and walked all day, but no civilization or people and you had nothing on you except the clothes your wearing and a laptop with no signal and a low battery.

1) How would you wash ?

2) How would you get clean drinking water?

3) How would you ever find your way out into civilization.

4) What would you eat?

5) How would you entertain yourself

Thank you.

Answer 1

You might want to read 'Lord of the Flies' - a very interesting study on the human condition concerning a group of boys stranded on an island.

Answer 2

You head downhill. Eventually, you come to water. With no civilization around, the water would be relatively safe, especially if you could find a spring. That takes care of washing and drinking water; eventually,  it leads you to civilization. You can always start a fire with eyeglasses used as a lens.

The forest is loaded with good food, if you know what it is. So are the streams. Besides, you can last a month without solid food, three days without water.

Entertainment would consist of the endless hunt for food. And watching your friends test it to determine whether it is poisonous or edible.

Answer 3

For food, much of the vegitation is edible.  Some we recognize as things we like to eat.  For more, watch the animal, if they are eating it, it should be good for you, too.  Trapping small animals, eating insects and grubs, or the occassional  big game animal if you can get them, and fishing with a makeshift net (perhaps made from unneeded clothing or weaved saplings)

Clean water.  Rain water is safest.  Water from fast moving rivers is usually ok,  the farther you get up river the better.  Water from inside various plant is better.

Wash in the rivers and lakes.  Mud can often work in place of soap for scrubbing.

Finding civilization.  Get to a highpoint at night and look for lights.  City lights may be reflected off of nightime clouds providing you with the direction to civilization.  Listen closely in the dead of night for traffic, you never know, the highway may be over the next hill.  

Watch the direction of travel for airplanes as well, they have to be coming from somewhere and going to somewhere.  Low flying aircraft are a better indication than high flying jetliners.  When you choose a direction, stick with it or you will have a tendency to circle.  If you stick to one direction you will eventually hit a road.

Entertainment option are limited only by you imagination.  Firemaking contests, building a lean to, skipping rocks, telling stories, swimming, hiking, thinking about how to build traps and how to make life better in the camp.

Just remember, there was once a time when a 13 year old was on there own living this way.

Answer 4

Honey if you were lost in the wilderness with no food, water or shelter you would have no need desire for entertainment which is just as well because you would also have no possiblity of finding it.

The MTV Generation! Spare me.

Answer 5

1  Washing would be low priority compared to #2

2  *Some* caves have pools or streams, with drinkable water.  Outdoors, l*****g lots of dew in the morning might help, and  a waterfall would have a stream in two directions.

3  The general rule I learned in the mountains was to go downhill.  In flatter terrain, one might need to use knowledge of local geography, or hike towards places which might have water (look for clouds).  

4  If hungry enough, maybe anything (preferably green, or meat).  

5 I would have dreams after collapsing in a weary heap at the end of a day (night) of walking.

Answer 6

eat the weak, and who needs to wash or civilization?