If you’re headed out into the wilderness, then you need to know that you can survive if disaster strikes. For any wilderness trip, always remember to bring a good knife. For communications, rent satellite phones so that you can call rescuers. In addition, consider some of these items for...
Editor’s Pick: Adventure Medical Mountain Series Fundamentals Kit. Includes CPR face shield, travel and wilderness medicine guide and supplies for one to eight people for up to 14 days. Supplies & Medication Supplies include toiletries, cleaning products and personal medications. Disease spreads quick...
We are calling our project“The Ultimate Urban Survival Kit”(also known as TUUSK). The TUUSK is an urban survival solution that will use the knowledge gained by myself and the team at RTGS from a lifetime of living in urban environments. Our goal is to take all the trial and error ...
This past winter (one of the coldest winters in US history, I might add) I filmed 8 episodes of a new survival show calledFat Guys in the Woods.In the show, I take 3 different guys each week deep into the wilderness to prove that if they can survive a week in the woods with me,...
If you live far outside a city this should likely be reversed. If you’re more likely to get lost in the wilderness than you are to get into a car crash, your Altoids tin survival kit should be adjusted accordingly. Everyone has their own environmental factors to consider, and what may...
available (some mentioned later) that are excellent reads and are very inexpensive. I own pretty much all of them. Some of my favorites are:Basic Wilderness Survival in Cold Lacking Snow, Fire Skills of the Northern Forest, The Lean-To and Its Variants, A Survival Kit Shelter,a...
A compass is a useful survival tool to always have on hand.Fish Hooks and LineFishing is one of the easiest and most reliable forms of calorie acquisition in wilderness survival.Fish make for excellent survival protein, and you can find them in most bodies of water....
A survival pack is a bag built for outdoor adventures. It includes survival supplies if you get lost or injured in the wilderness. It’s a pack for hiking, fishing, climbing, or hunting adventure. A medical first aid kit (or trauma kit) is a bag of medical supplies for quickly respondi...
“It’s good to practice one-match fires,” says Steve Dessinger, assistant field director for BOSS, an outdoor wilderness and survival program in Boulder, Utah. “That’s an important skill in both survival and camping situations.” It may sound simple, but without the right set-up you'...
I’ve had a Dime in my backpacking gear setup for three years now and though I’m not repairing backcountry ski bindings in the wilderness or guiding multiday trips in remote Alaska, I’ve been happy with how it performed on long thru-hikes like California’s John Muir Trail and w...