NEW PRODUCTS, OCTOBER 2020
As the temperatures start to dip and leaves begin to turn, we look forward to spending time camping, hiking, hunting and pursuing other outdoor fun. Evenings ar...
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Last Words- Be Wary of Winter
BE WARY OF WINTER
Old Man Winter is about to be on us again, and it’s the time of the year where everyone is scrambling to finish up their warm-weather projec...
PRACTICAL POCKET SURVIVAL KITS
PACKING BIG VALUE INTO SMALL PACKAGES
I vividly recall stumbling upon Doug Ritter’s website, www.Equipped.org, in the late 1990s. It was, and is, a great sourc...
Tiny Survivor: Build Your Own Mini Survival Kit
Bigger isn’t always better. Sure, a large survival kit packs a punch when you need it and has a great place in your emergency supplies collection, but it is jus...
RSE Outfitters’ Three-Day Kit: Realistic Survival Gear Designed for Realistic Survival
Emergency kits can be a mental crutch -- a piece of equipment that provides a feeling of personal safety; that feeling may reside in our minds only, especially ...
Resource and Resourcefulness: Emergency Kit Options
Editor’s Note: There is a lot of theory about what “get-home kits” should look like. I’ve read a lot of articles and had some very colorful discussions with fol...
Stay on Top: How to Survive a Flood
Floods can be caused by major storms that cause water levels to rise quickly in rivers, lakes and other waterways. Excessive rainfall is only one possible reaso...
Security Blankets: How to Help Kids Cope with Crises
When Hurricane Katrina hit, 80 percent of New Orleans —a city that was home to more than 400,000 people at the time - went under water.
Swarms of displaced r...
18 Great Outdoor Survival Schools
1. ALASKA
“Learn to Return” Survival Training Systems
Anchorage, Alaska
2. ARIZONA
Ancient Pathways, LLC
Flagstaff, Ari...
Brown-Bag Survival: Emergency Kit on the Cheap
The philosophy “you get what you pay for” is quite a double-edged sword. On one hand, an item doesn’t need to be expensive to be high-quality, while on the othe...