Over the recent past, many talks have been given suggesting that hackers, and similar personality types are better suited to survival situations than the general populations. Unfortunately, the reality is that this idea is far from the truth. If you think that you know what you’re doing in the wild back country based upon watching some videos or reading some books, perhaps you’d better attend this talk and find out what it’s really like out there when things go very wrong. You’ll also find out field-tested, simple, proven techniques for surviving long enough to get back to civilization.

Mark Lenigan has been camping and doing dumb, interesting, exciting and adventurous activities in the back country since at least the mid-1980s. He’s been a hunter for a decade now and routinely goes where there are few roads and even fewer people in search of small (and not-so-small) tasty woodland creatures. As he frequently, and humbly likes to put it, “he’s a member of an elite unit (Eagle Scouts) who’s motto is “Be Prepared”". He also thinks that most of what constitutes outdoor and survival programming on TV is utter tripe.