One of the challenges of outdoor recreation is staying warm. Even if the days are warm, nights can be downright frigid at higher altitudes. For those who plan to stay in a sleeping bag overnight, here are some ways to stay warm. Keep Yourself Off the Ground – Direct contact with the ground can lead …
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EMP Attack Threats From Iran Discovered Military Manual Found In Tehran
The controversial Iran nuclear deal sparked weeks of heated debate. Now, another potentially deadly hidden secret has emerged from the rogue Middle Eastern nation. National security experts who claim to have read translated excerpts from an Iranian military manual have stated that an EMP attack against the United States has been in the planning stages …
Preparing Your Body for Outdoor Physical Activity
Exercising outside provides a wealth of benefits. The outdoors provides plenty of clean air and offers physical challenges for your body that an indoor gym can’t. But do you know if your body is ready for outdoor recreation? Are you trying to do too much too soon in order to be prepared?. As a leader …
Prepping With Pets
Getting yourself ready for an emergency is one thing, but what about the pets you’ve chosen to include in your family? These furry critters depend on you for everything, and unlike other family members, they don’t have any survival skills to help keep them safe in an emergency. Prepping with pets is just like prepping …
Survival Food – How To Container Garden Year Around In An Indoor Greenhouse
Growing your own groceries is the best way to be both food secure and know that your family is ingesting healthy food. Investing time in growing and raising your own food, coupled with stocking up on long-term storage food is worth both the time and funds dedicated to the preparedness task. When disaster strikes, …
Introducing Your Kids to the Outdoors
For parents who love the outdoors there can be nothing more frustrating than kids who want to spend all their time indoors. Parents need to understand, though, that the outdoors might be daunting or even frightening for kids. They may have had unpleasant experiences an early age like getting stung by a bee or bitten …
The Truth About Currency Devaluation And Preparedness
It’s a crisp fall morning as you awaken to the smell of pancakes on the grill wafting through the house. You flip on the radio to hear the morning news as you roll out of bed. It’s then you hear that it’s been a busy morning over on the east coast; the U.S. stock market …
Lemongrass Essential Oil Survival First Aid Uses
Are you prepared to survive during a long-term disaster when you can’t call a doctor? Medical preparedness is often the most difficult part of any preparedness plan. Even if you have some type of emergency medical training or are super lucky and have a doctor in your mutual assistance group, garnering needed medications will still …
3 Survival Skills Learned from NASA
Recently I finished the book “The Martian” by Andy Weir. In it, a man named Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his fellow crew mates escape a disastrous storm in which they believe him to be dead. I don’t want to ruin the story for you, but that’s the basic idea. The rest of the book …
Skills Versus Stuff: What’s Better?
So what’ll help you more in an emergency: skills or stuff? If you need to start a fire, what’s better to have with you, the tools to easily start a fire or the knowledge of 20 different ways to get it lit? Should you know how to hunt, fish, forage, and basically make food, or …