This one may seem contrary to what you have been told but I would rather take the advice of an expert on survival. This next step works really well if you have let people know ahead of time where you are going, which direction you will be traveling.

2) Stay Where You Are- Scott Kelley (Graywolf Survival)

Unless you absolutely cannot survive in your current position. The search and rescue teams looking for you will use the last information known to try to get a fix on your location and get clues from there to track you. The more you move, the more likely they may lose your trail.

If you have to move, make it very clear where you are going. If you can’t leave outright notes, stack rocks in an arrow configuration in the direction you’re going to go and try to step in track traps, which are places that will hold your footprints and direction of travel easily. Once you find a position that you can survive in and be easily seen from above, stop moving.

So what do you do while you wait? Obviously sitting around isn't an option just yet. There are still two more things in the wild.

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