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.
I think most of us would admit to remembering our first taste of that sweet, delectable nectar squeezed out of a honeysuckle bloom when growing up. It seems like it is a childhood ritual all around the world, but is it possible that honeysuckle can do more for us than just serving as a beautiful …
Everyone talks about it, but few people really stop to consider what it means to do what you have to in order to survive. Whether you are in a fight for your life in the middle of the wilderness or enduring a long-term, paradigm-shifting survival scenario in the remains of society, life is definitely going …
Consuming insects has been a part of different cultures for as far back as history can be recalled. Entomophagy is the practice of eating insects and it has exploded in popularity as people are looking for a sustainable alternative food source. Crickets are a common source of food for those that consume insects. It has …
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Water is critical in a survival situation, even in the winter. Humidity is generally lower in the wintertime, and that means our bodies expel moisture at a greater rate than in other seasons. This means in a survival situation you need to find a source of water, and fast as dehydration symptoms can start quickly. …
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When you are in the middle of a survival situation, you’ll have to do what you have to if you want to survive. Not what you want to, not what you like, but what you have to. Sometimes a necessity means you’ll eat unpleasant things that you wouldn’t normally consider. But, if you have the …
An old joke marks the difference between camping and surviving in the wilderness as how often you are doing things you really don’t want to do. When you are camping, it’s a recreational activity. If you’re surviving, necessity will be the only driver of your every action. This certainly includes what is on the menu …
Love them or hate them, there is no denying that raccoons are intelligent and curious problem solvers. Always looking for food, investigating, and climbing with their highly dexterous paws, these charming, masked mammals play villain and hero alike in folklore stories around the world. More practically, raccoons are known for breaking into attics, trash cans, …
If you find yourself in a long-term survival situation after the collapse of society or just a typical wilderness survival scenario where you must provide for all of your necessities until rescued, you might well end up eating things that you don’t normally eat. This might include animals that we ordinarily consider anything but food, …
When you are trying to survive a desperate situation in the wilderness or the long uncertainty of a post-societal collapse event, you must have enough food to sustain yourself. Not just to avoid starvation, but also to keep your mind and body working at peak levels. Slipping mentally or physically in an extreme situation could …
When you’re talking about survival, real survival, the only thing you can count on is that you’ll have to do a lot of things that you don’t want to do, including some things that you would ordinarily think you can’t do. This includes eating things that you don’t want to eat, and potentially animals that …
