How Not to Be a Ding-Dong in the Woods

One of the best parts of living in Seattle is getting out into the wilderness. Here's how to do that and not die.by Katie Kurtz"I now walk into the wild," Christopher McCandless wrote in his journal before heading into the Alaskan wilderness with a sack of rice and not much else (an adventure immortalized by Jon Krakauer in his book Into the Wild). His is just one of countless stories of people going into the woods and never returning. Here's how to not be that ding-dong.Let's assume you've just