Wilderness survival, also known as bushcraft, is a way of surviving that entails leaving your home and bugging out to the great outdoors.
Whether you’ll be in the woods, the desert or on a mountain, surviving in the wilderness is not an easy task, not even for those who are trained for it. Nevertheless, if bugging out is your only option, and if you don’t have a place to go to, set up an INCH (I’m never Coming Home) bag and read the articles below.
Rooftops tents, or RTTs as they are known, have been around for a long time – mainly because they are very necessary in certain parts of the world, where if you slept in a normal tent on the ground you were likely to have predators sniffing your toes. Up in the air in the RTT …
Should You Buy a Rooftop Tent? 10 Good Reasons, and 5 Bad Ones Read More »
Foraging is looking for looking for and harvesting food from the wild, this can include herbs, fruit, nuts, mushrooms and even some forms of insects or shellfish. Think back to early mankind, we were nomadic tribes of hunters and gatherers, foraging is basically the same thing. Early humans lived off of food that they found …
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Camping is an activity that most folks will prepare for at some point. Be it a fun recreational activity, a practice run for various skills that must be kept sharp or an actual, live event, sometimes you just need to get away from it, all and chill out in the wilderness for a little while. …
The more you camp, the more you learn tips and tricks from other people, and modify your camp set up to be as comfortable as possible without adding too much weight either to your backpack or to your vehicle. It’s often trial and error… You come home and say, “Well, that didn’t work!” and out …
101 Clever Camping Tips and Tricks That’ll Make You a Pro Read More »
There is a piece of prepper lore that tells us water from a natural source that is fast-moving, bubbling, or rapid is safe to drink from. Conversely it informs us that we should never drink from slow moving, nearly still or standing water. If you consider this advice it would seem that sourcing water from …
Anyone that has ever spent time outdoors understands all too well what a menace mosquitoes can be. Aside from inflicting maddening aggravation, mosquitoes may also carry various life-threatening diseases and parasites. Protecting yourself from mosquitoes will go a long way to preserving your mental health as well as your physical health, but in the middle …
The very idea of eating bugs is going to make most people feel queasy from the get-go. And then you go in compound matters by trying to chow down on some of the biggest, beefiest bugs there are, grasshoppers? Good grief! This is a fairly common stunt on certain shocking TV shows, with segments that …
When the time comes to camp in the great outdoors, you’ll be exposed to all the splendor, and the might, that nature can muster. When the weather turns bad, this can prove quite a severe test of your ability to endure and improvise. It is important when camping that you know when to pack it …
Any seasoned prepper is not going to rely on luck when it comes to keeping themselves and their loved ones fed during a survival situation. Unfortunately, no matter how well you prepare there is always a risk that you will run out of stored food, and even if you don’t making use of found edibles …
The American cattail (Typha latifolia) is a plant often found growing densely in wetlands, and other marshy areas. It grows up to 10 feet tall, and consists of a root (or rhizome), stalk, grass-like leaves, and cylindrical flower head called a spike or catkin. All parts of the cattail – tuber, stalk, leaves, and catkin …
