One of the challenges of outdoor recreation in the winter is figuring out how to dress appropriately for weather conditions. Winter weather is often unpredictable. Storms can roll in suddenly without any warning and temperatures can drop quickly. How might you dress to stay warm and be comfortable, yet adjust to the weather conditions? The …
Category: Survival Skills
Let’s get gross for a minute
About the closest parallel to being evacuated for several days or longer would be those intrepid souls who hike the “Long trails” of our country like the Appalachian Trail (Georgia to Maine) or the Pacific Crest Trail (Mexico to Canada) among others. On the trail for months at a time, coming out only to pick …
How Did You Prep This Week?
Some people think of prepping as something that has an end point, an act that can be mapped out with a completion at the end. In actuality however prepping is not an act or even a group of acts; it is a lifestyle. Prepping is a mindset that you get into and use to …
Time to tweak your car emergency kit for colder weather.
Every year about this time, I take an hour or two on a Saturday, before the college football games start, mosey out my cars, and take a few minutes to perform a few adjustments on the emergency kits in the trunk. It’s not a bad time of year to do it, and while your “tweaks” …
The Joys and Challenges of Winter Camping
Although camping is commonly thought of as primarily a warm weather activity, there can be many advantages to heading outdoors for a winter camping trip. First of all, you will certainly avoid all the bugs and the crowds. Winter camping is also an excellent way to beat the winter blues as well as ward off …
Fire Preparedness: Survival Tips For When You Can’t Call The Fire Department
Brush fires, or wildfires, are one of the most dangerous types of blazes for firefighters to battle – and are especially dangerous when you can’t call the fire department. Fire preparedness is perhaps one of the most neglected aspects of preparedness. Fires can double in size approximately once every 30 seconds to a minute. Dry …
5 Home Defense Gun Safety Tips
Having a handgun for home security and defense is a solid idea that many consider a necessity. It takes more than just purchasing a gun and ammunition to keep your home safe however. Even if you’re a great shot and know how to handle a handgun safely and effectively, using one for home defense takes …
7 Tips for First-Time Preppers
Photo Credit: ApocalypsePACK.com It usually takes a massive world event to bring the idea of prepping into the minds of new people, and with the world today, those seem to come on a fairly regular basis. Whether it’s the massive tornadoes that wipe out towns in the Midwest, to the Ebola scare or even threat …
How to Properly Impose a Self-Quarantine to Keep Safe
Worldwide counts now put the deaths from Ebola above the 5,000 mark, and with the first cases diagnosed in the US, the threat of infectious disease is becoming all too real. While the Ebola scare is far from an outbreak in the US, it should serve as a signpost that prepping is not only useful, …