title: The Winter Survival Handbook: 157 Winter Tips and Tricks (Outdoor Life)
author: Tim MacWelch
description: Tim MacWelch is the New York Times bestselling author of <i>Prepare for Anything</i>, <i>Hunting and Gathering</i>, and <i>How to Survive Anything</i>. He is <i>Outdoor Life</i> magazine's survival blogger and is also the founder and head instructor of Advanced Survival Training school. He has had a love of the outdoors from a young age, growing up on a farm in the rolling hills of Virginia  where it gets pretty darn cold. Tim has been an active practitioner of survival and outdoor skills for over twenty-four years; and he has been actively teaching survival skills for the past 16 years.<br /> <br />
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  For Nancy Lee
  
  
  —D. C.
  
  
  For Talulabel.
  
  
  Listen to the bees and stay
  
  
  out of bear country
  
  
  —S. G.
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## Introductions
  
  
  Ah, the change of the seasons . . .
  
  
  My name is J. J. Tully, retired search-and-rescue dog, and every season has
  its rescues. But no matter the weather, search-and-rescue dogs will brave the
  elements and get you to safety. We’ll search high and low in the rain, wind,
  sleet, and snow. I once spent so much time digging an amateur skier out of a
  snowbank that my left eyeball froze solid. Couldn’t see straight until it
  thawed out in the spring. Personally, I prefer fall rescues. My eyes stay nice
  and soft, and the happy rescue pictures are always so pretty because of the
  leaves.
  
  
  
  
  
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  You know who else is out in all kinds of weather? These four:
  
  
  
  
  
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  Dirt: Short, yellow, fuzzy
  
  
  Real Name: Peep
  
  
  Specialty: 