Doug Huffman, a survival specialist who's trained Navy Seals, Special Forces and FBI Special Agents just how to survive in such a situation, shared his knowledge with civilians during a 90-minute survival seminar.
Huffman, owner and operator of the Sierra School of Survival in Placerville, started the seminar by describing his triangle of survival, telling the audience that 80 percent of surviving is mental. The other 20 percent involves the gear you have with you and, more importantly, the ability you have to use it. Those who don't know how to use it could die, while those who have the knowledge and have common sense usually live, Huffman said.
The biggest portion of Huffman's triangle was the will to live. Quite simply, Huffman said those who are happy and have a reason to stay alive normally do. The following steps up the triangle included knowledge, training, use it and if you have and did those things, you make it to the top of the triangle, which is alive.