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.
There are not too many experienced preppers or outdoorsmen who would ever advise you to go into deep country without a thorough knowledge and understanding of what venomous snakes might lurk there. North America is host to over a dozen different species packing potent poison, all of them can seriously injure you, and a few …
The woods may be lovely, dark and deep, but they are also full of dangers, dangers that might spell certain death for an unwary prepper. Considering how many preppers espouse running off to the woods to live off the land and rough it for a few days when bugging out, one should best make sure …
Dave Canterbury is a well-known survival instructor and owner of the Pathfinder School in Ohio. Perhaps best-known for his time on the Discovery Channel show Dual Survivor where he famously co-hosted alongside Cody Lundin, Dave is admired for his hard-charging and no-nonsense approach towards survival in austere environments. He has also authored several books on …
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Wild carrots, or Queen Anne’s Lace (latin name: Daucus carota), as they are often called, are both medicinal and edible weeds. Unlike its look-alike, poison hemlock, this plant can be used fresh and in dried form to make healing tea, herbal infusion, and sweet jelly. Queen Anne’s Lace was brought to the United States by …
Foraging is a vital part of any food security survival plan. If you know what to look for, food can be found in all four seasons – even in an urban environment. But, if you look, touch, or taste the wrong plants, what you pluck from the woods and pop into your mouth may just …
Being able to forage during a survival situation can mean the difference between life and painful starvation. Foraging or wildcrafting skills are just as vital to your food security survival plan as the stockpiling of food, hunting, fishing, and trapping. While you cannot garner as much protein from foraged plants, herbs, berries, “weeds” or roots, …
You often hear trapping discussed in the context of long-term sustainment for preppers. Traps have been used for millennia in order to catch all kinds of game, typically of the smaller varieties be they fowl or furred. Traps are undeniably effective, especially when set in large numbers and methodically inspected. But you will typically only …
Tinder and kindling are not the same thing, but you do need both to start a roaring fire – and sustain it. Being able to understand exactly what each element of fire-making is and does, you will be better equipped to get a campfire going no matter what weather elements you are battling. Tinder is …
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If you are venturing into the deep woods of the western U.S. and much of Canada, or even into the Smokies of the eastern U.S. there is a decent chance you’ll encounter bears. Bear attacks on people are rare, but bears are not, and anytime you find yourself in their territory there is an opportunity …
Milk thistle is one of the easiest to identify foraging offerings in the fall. The plant is used in natural medicinal remedies, to brew as a tea, and as a recipe ingredient. Like stinging nettles, you MUST wear gloves when harvesting any part of this plant – or suffer the consequences of having tiny and …
