 | | My friend Phil Brummett made this tree well shelter, which I was happy to try out! |
Emergency shelters
become incredibly important when the sun starts to go down, and you realize you're lost!
Training and the equipment you have along will determine if your life is in danger, or if you spend an inconvenient night out. Survival expert Peter Kummerfeldt gives some tips on what shelter gear to take along. Click on emergency shelters to read more. Here some of the stories that were published this week: - Eight reasons to include a notebook in your survival gear
- Determine directions by tree moss?
- Book Review: Brushfire Plague
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Gear: Eight reasons to include a pocket notebook in your survival equipment
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For decades, I have carried a pencil or pen and small pocket notebook as part of my everyday carry gear.
In a survival kit, your notebook can be more important than you could imagine.
There are a variety of reasons to include this simple piece of equipment. Here are eight uses: |
Determine directions by tree moss?
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Navigation expert Blake Miller
teaches any type of class associated with staying found or finding something in the wilderness.
The old myth of finding directions by checking out the moss on trees keep cropping up in his classes. Here are Blake's findings. |
Book review: Brushfire Plague
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Brushfire Plague, a novel by R.P. Ruggiero, plays out the worst-case scenario of a pandemic. Suddenly, with no warning, people start getting sick and dying as the result of a mysterious virus. The apparently uncurable pandemic spreads rapidly, and public hospitals, clinics, emergency responders and police are overwhelmed. Read the review!
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