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.
For some of us, living deep in the woods for years on end is a dream. For some, it is the ideal lifestyle of peace and quiet; for others, it’s the only sane response to a world that has gone mad and increasingly dangerous. But, uprooting your life and detaching from society to go live …
Part of being ready to survive is understanding the environment you’ll be surviving in. Every environment has advantages and disadvantages that savvy preppers must be aware of. But, if there’s one environment that’s harsher and deadlier than all the others, it has to be the desert. Desert survival is always a grueling test or endurance, …
When you are out in the wilderness, whether you’re hunting, camping, or flat out surviving, learning how to locate animals can be instrumental to your success. You might be out looking for them in the first place if you’re hunting, or you might desperately need a source of food in a survival situation. Similarly, if …
Pretty much every prepper knows by now that water is one of the most essential resources in any survival situation. You can only go a couple of days without water before you die, and chances are you’ll be totally incapacitated well before that. One of the most harrowing survival scenarios imaginable is being lost at …
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There is a tremendous variety of snake species to be found all around the world, and though most of them are harmless or at least non-venomous, some serpents do indeed have a deadly bite. Worse, some harmless snakes are lookalikes with their much deadlier cousins. Learning to identify and tell one species of snake from …
When it comes to snakes and all of their many colors of the rainbow, black snakes make up a significant fraction of the total color morphs across all species all around the world. This is certainly an interesting bit of trivia, but in strictly practical terms this should give you pause as it can be …
Red belly snakes are small, distinctive snakes that are found throughout North America, including much of the United States and southern Canada. Regularly found inhabiting abandoned and hills and other small burrows, these snakes are known for their vividly colored crimson bellies which contrast with the rest of their scales. But the million dollar question …
If you are afraid of snakes, I have bad news for you. There is no shortage of snake species on every, single continent on Earth except Antarctica. The good news is that most snakes are completely harmless to people. The bad news is that some are downright deadly. There is no immediately telling characteristic that …
If you live in a wet climate that features plenty of water features, you have probably bumped into a small, thin snake with distinctive yellow stripes running alongside and on top of its body. Nimble, quick and remarkably good swimmers, and it is far from uncommon to see them taking prey right out of the …
One of the most alarming things your average person will encounter is an unexpected snake in the garden. Moving through the furrows or coiled up at the base of one of your plants, it is enough to give you quite a shock! But, common gardener’s wisdom often tells us to leave such residents alone. Whether …
