Back in January, 2010, I posted a review of one of my favorite water purification methods: Polar Pure Water Disinfectant .   You can read t...

I happen to live in a part of the Deep South where winter is rarely a serious consideration when it comes to outdoor activities and even sur...

I've been working on the chapter covering human-powered watercraft this morning for my book project: Bug Out Vehicles and Shelters and ...

Long before I started this particular blog I joined the Amazon associates program, just as most bloggers and website owners have, since Amaz...

A reader emailed the other day asking about some of the more widely available machetes that might substitute for the better quality Latin Am...

Have you ever given any though to what it would be like to be alone in a remote place, trapped by a fallen tree or shifting boulder, unable ...

I've posted here before about one of my favorite methods of cooking or boiling water using an open fire - the simple green sapling tripo...

In the course of working on my new book, I keep uncovering more and more incredible stories of survival against seemingly impossible odds.  ...

I generally tend to stay away from electronic gadgets and other high-tech devices when it comes to gear for wilderness travel or the bug out...

I've written both here and in my book about the utility of a good machete in the bug out bag, as well as for all types of wilderness tra...

If you've read my Bug Out book, you know that a lot of the prime roadless bug-out locations that I describe are along rivers or in swamp...

Leon Pantenburg, the man behind the excellent site, Survival Common Sense , recently sent me a test sample of some wallet-sized firestarter ...

One of the great fringe benefits of writing books is that I get to read a lot of good books in the course of my research.  I've bee...

I'd love to hear from readers about your thoughts on bug-out transportation options.  How you will travel in a bug-out scenario is an...

Much of my new bug out book deals with specific bug out locations, which is information that I found missing in other survival and prepardne...

I just received an interesting email from a former Mississippi resident, Leon Pantenburg, who now lives in Oregon and publishes a great onli...

Polar Pure Water Disinfectant  is a simple, inexpensive and effective way to purify drinking water: Obtaining drinking water and making ...

You can keep the axes and hatchets, I'll stick with my machete. The author putting an edge on with a mill file. Anyone who has spen...