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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...