Taking your dog with you on excursions into the great outdoors can be a memorable experience. However, it can also quickly turn into a nightmare without adequate plans and preparation. There’s nothing quite like having enthusiastic companionship that is tailor-made ...
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5 Steps To Treating Broken Bones In The Wilderness
The worst place you could possibly break a bone is out in the wilderness, but of course it does happen, and it happens quite often, in fact. The main reason for this is simple: The wilderness is a place that ...
Read More »Why That Bug-Out Bag Alone Won’t Save You In A Crisis
You may already know a lot about bug-out bags, and don’t even have to be a prepper. Even FEMA is suggesting that people prepare a 72-hour-bag in case they have to leave their home in the case of an emergency. ...
Read More »Bug-Out Ready Wilderness Shelters
Every prepper (and even some who aren’t) eventually creates a bug-out bag, sometimes known as a 72 hour bag. In the event that they need to abandon their home, that bag has the bare necessities to keep them alive and ...
Read More »Don’t Be The Next Tragedy
A recent tragedy on the Ozark trail has really touched me and gotten me thinking. A thirty-six-year-old father who was an Air Force veteran and his two sons, ages ten and eight, died of exposure after getting turned around on ...
Read More »How To Cultivate Skills To Get Around Without A GPS
I stumbled through the woods wearing blaze orange, carrying my rifle. I was fourteen and on my first elk hunt in the Colorado Rockies. It was getting dark, not because it was late in the day, but because a storm ...
Read More »Everthing You Need To Know About Hydration In The Wilderness
We have all seen the story played out in the news. The headline reads “Couple found alive after four days lost in the wilderness,” and the story will go on to tell the tale of how they stayed warm and ...
Read More »The Blessing of Wilderness
When the children of Israel came out of Egypt, God led them through the wilderness. There they faced hunger and thirst, weariness, and battle (Ex. 15—17). The wilderness was to be a short-term boot camp for that generation. But when Israel refused to enter the Promised Land, God sent His people back into the wilderness to wander for forty long years until the whole Exodus generation dropped dead—all except Joshua and Caleb (Num. 14). But what proved a graveyard for the older generation...
Read More »For Nutrition on the Run – Eat Like Davey Crockett
Preparations for the flight to safety after a cataclysmic event always include, at their core, emergency food contingencies. Most preppers take the measure of stockpiling foods that can survive a long shelf life and that are suitable for light-weight travel. ...
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