All About Avalanches: A Winter Hiker’s Guide
Before you set out on what will undeniably be an amazing hike for the winter, research will be your best friend in making sure that you come out of the …
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All About Hailstorms and How to Protect Yourself from Them
During a hike or a camping trip, you might find yourself being visited by some very… solid guests from the sky. They’re cold, and quite painful! What are they? Hail. You’ve just found …
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Why is Having a Shelter Important for Survival?
When you find yourself stranded out in the middle of nowhere with no contact with civilization, you may find yourself wondering what you should be prioritizing for survival first. …
7 Ways to Find Water in the Wild
A human can only live for 3 days without water. Even less so when energy is expended by a human to do things, like hunt, build shelters, or make tools. …
How to Prevent Hypothermia While Hiking
While many common hiking injuries can be treated quickly with little aid and no lasting or dangerous effects, there is one injury that many hikers underestimate while they are out on …
Why Fire is Important in a Survival Situation
The discovery of fire by our prehistoric ancestors was the biggest game changer in human history. Fire was utilized in many ways; the most common cases being cooking and …
What are the best Survival Tools to have?
2021 is not exactly in a friendly mood, what with the current pandemic still raging around while other natural disasters all around ravage the world. However, while a pandemic …
The Dangers of Hiking in the Desert
While hiking at the Joshua Tree National Park, a 20-year-old man collapsed and died under the immense 120-degree heat. His companion was quick to alert the nearby rangers of their predicament, but …
Animals in the Desert You Should be Cautious of
Whether you are hiking through lush, green forests or arid and sweltering deserts, I think we can all agree that the wildlife plays an important role in keeping the environment ecosystem …
Why the Rules of 3 are important in a Survival Situation
What are the Wilderness Rules of 3? You’ve probably seen this repeated in many articles, either to focus on a single point, or as a brief overview, but what makes …
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Important Basic Survival Skills that any Person Should Know
You may have all the world’s best survival tools with you, but do you know how to use them? A tool that you don’t understand how to use may …
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First Aid in the Wilderness vs. First Aid in the City or Town
Whether or not you have received training for first aid, it’s likely been hammered down your throat just how important having the proper skills for first aid is. After all, it can literally be …
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Why the Rules of 3 are important in a Survival Situation
What are the Wilderness Rules of 3? You’ve probably seen this repeated in many articles, either to focus on a single point, or as a brief overview, but what …
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5 Important Desert Survival Tips
Desert hiking is actually quite a fun recreational activity for many. Despite the harsh and arid environment that a desert brings, many hikers and adventurers press on in these places anyways, …
Can You Eat a Scorpion in a Desert Survival Situation?
In a harsh and hostile environment such as that of a desert, you don’t exactly have the luxury of choosing on what you can and can’t eat in the …
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How to Find Food in the Desert
You may have some water, whether on hand, or after finding a source of it somewhere on the desert, but what about food? You should have no issues for sometimes …
How to Purify Water in a Survival Situation
Oh wow, you just found a running stream with water! And right on time too, after scrounging for some bugs and building your lean-to, you’re quite thirsty. Your canteen of water has emptied …
How to Find Water in the Desert
Running out of water in any place, whether it’s the lush forests or the rocky mountains, is always not a good sign of things to come, especially if you still have a-ways …
How to Stay Sane When Alone on a Deserted Island
This is probably one of the worst-case scenarios for a survival situation: Not only are you isolated from the rest of civilization, your survival depends on everything you do, which means no …
How to Stay Sane When Alone on a Deserted Island
This is probably one of the worst-case scenarios for a survival situation: Not only are you isolated from the rest of civilization, your survival depends on everything you do, which means no …
How to Escape a Deserted Island Using a Boat
You have had it. Living off this deserted island without knowledge if anyone was even coming your way to help is something you just can’t stand anymore. You are probably thinking something along …
Tips on How to Survive When Stranded on a Deserted Island
It feels like some B-rated survival flick trying to imitate the success of 2000’s Cast Away; you wake up on the sand on an uninhabited island with no plane …
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Why Hikers Should Learn Wilderness Survival Skills
Why Hikers Should Learn Wilderness Survival Skills Hiking is an activity that entails relaxation as you go along the trail, seeing the sights, the plant life, and possibly even the …
What to do when you a get lost inside a Cave
Caves aren’t necessarily the friendliest of places for an adventure, at least for those looking for a casual trip like that of hiking in the forest. Part of it comes …
Why Fire Safety is Important While Camping
No matter whether you’re camping or in a survival situation, fire is always there to provide you safety, security, and cooked food for your rumbling belly. As a result, this …
Camping Hazards That You Should be Aware of
Camping out in the great outdoors is where you get to experience the full extent of nature’s beauty and to simply bask and relax in its greatness without having to deal with …
3 Animals That are Easy to Find and Eat in a Survival Situation
When you’re out in the wild on your own with only your own equipment and wit to keep you afloat and alive, you’re not going to be exactly picky in …
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How to Survive a Wasp Encounter
Wasps are misunderstood and hated on far more than they should be. While they are more aggressive in defending themselves and their colonies than their smaller, fuzzy cousins, they don’t …
How to Escape a Bee Encounter Without Getting Stung
Bees have a mixed reputation all over the world. For one, they are widely praised and considered essential all across the world and for a good reason. They are pollinators, meaning that …
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How Dangerous is a Rhino?
When people think dangerous animals in the wild, their minds automatically go for the big boys: Elephants, Lions, Tigers, Crocodiles, Alligators, and even Hippos. While these are the biggest and …