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Your First Night
A simple first evening: check your pack, find shelter and come home with enough left for tomorrow.
- Type
- Beginner
- When
- Start here
- Sections
- 3
- Tips
- 3
Before dark
Read the Road Compass, check your starting pack and look at the local map before committing to a long job.
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The Compass is advice, not another reward track, so use it when you need it and close it when you do not.
Light and shelter
A torch is useful only while you can power it.
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Keep one battery reserve for the return road and use towns, camps or abandoned buildings as shelter decisions when an expedition exposes them.
Return alive
Early survival is mostly knowing when to leave.
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Retreating from a bad fight is better than winning with an empty pack, broken equipment and no money for the trip home.
Useful tips
Keep food, water, one medical item and one light source in reserve.
Use the World Map before paying for travel.
Do not spend the final 200 Cash; it is your recovery buffer.