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Survival Skillset

Lesson 12 of 12

Reading warnings: official signs and natural signals

45 min

Most of this module has been about sending signals. This last lesson is about receiving them. Every day you are outdoors, the authorities, the land and the animals on it are telling you things: a yellow warning for wind on the tops, a red flag on a distant knoll, a tide table on a car park board, a sign on a gate about cows with calves, a blackbird scolding at…

In this lesson

  • Weather warnings and mountain forecasts
  • National warnings
  • Mountain forecasts
  • Using them
  • Avalanche bulletins and the danger scale
  • Tide tables and tidal ground
  • Reading the tables
  • Tidal ground
  • Lifeguard beach flags
  • Military firing ranges: red flags and lamps
  • Mine shafts, quarries and old workings
  • Other warning signs on land and water

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

Every module, practical and exam, self-paced and private, with a certificate at the end.

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