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Bears. For many of us, just saying the word is enough to send shivers down our spines and invoke nightmarish mental images of 500-pound pulverizers and a particularly unpleasant ordeal suffered by Leo DiCaprio in The Revenant. Even without the Discovery Channel horror-shows and Hollywood scaremongering, however, few of us are in any doubt that …
Emergency kit preparedness is an important thing, regardless of where you live. Outdoor survival is particularly important if you are someone that spends time camping or exploring in settings removed from civilization. Here is a variety of the best survival food ideas for the outdoors so you can put together the survival kit you need …
Fire is high on the list of survival priorities, second only to shelter. If you’re caught outdoors in bad weather you need to get a fire going to help you keep your core temperature up. In any long-term survival, scenario fire is going to be essential for cooking, sterilizing water, and giving you enough light …
Most serious hikers probably have a handheld GPS for navigation. GPS may be easy to use but everyone should be able to navigate with the basics- a compass and an easy-to-read map. It’s highly recommended that hikers bring a map and compass within their luggage as a safety measure in the event their GPS or compass …
“Redundancy” is a term you will hear a lot in any survival preparedness discussion, but it’s a good consideration for backpacking and camping as well. Most of us own more bic lighters and matches than we’ll ever use, and that serves our needs in the outdoors 90 percent of the time, but for those rare …
For many, the outdoors offer escape from the daily grind: our jobs, our email accounts, our many social media accounts. In this day and age, for better or worse, leaving at home all our gadgets that come along with our interconnected lives isn’t always an option. Sometimes in backcountry or out on the trail, most …
Few people look forward to the monotony of household chores, especially when it comes to laundry day. While laundry is a necessary evil, campers, backpackers, and other travelers are often left in a predicament. The use of a washing machine is hardly possible yet simply washing dirty clothes in water, perhaps with the help of …
Not that long ago you could go hiking without having to worry about electricity, beyond a couple of spare batteries for your flashlight. That’s all changed very quickly, and now few of us venture off the beaten track without phones, GPS handsets, digital cameras, and maybe even a tablet computer in our adventure backpack. All …
For any outdoor activity, a good flashlight is an essential piece of gear. Even if you don’t plan on being out overnight you need to be prepared for the unexpected, and you certainly don’t want to be caught in the dark without a lamp of some kind. Maybe you’re in the woods and need to …