Creating an Emergency Kit for Your Car: A Contents Checklist
The following items should all prove to be useful in case of a general emergency situation. If you read on you will also find the winter edition of the emergency checklist. General Items for Your...
The Mindset and What You Need to Protect Historically families and even entire communities have worked hard to protect their resources from all manner of thieves and bandits who would try to steal...
Edible Wild Berries Edible wild fruit a regular part of my backpacking meals. Why? Wild berries are delicious for starters - at least some of them. They provide vitamins and enzymes that are often...
What do you do when you are lost in the woods or face some other type of wilderness emergency? There are two essentially different survival strategies. One is to stay where you are and wait for...
All About Bivy Sacks A good bivy sack can be used as your primary shelter, or as a back-up plan when it might rain and you are planning to sleep under the stars without a shelter. They don't...
Though wilderness survival shelters may prevent an animal attack, this is rare. They have one primary purpose, which is to keep your body temperature in its normal range. They do this by keeping you...
