A proper survival kit includes essentials like a compass, matches, knife, and food. Ask 100 outdoor enthusiasts to write up a shopping list for a wilderness survival kit and you’ll get 100 different ...

Whether you're just going off-grid to unwind or you're looking to escape civilization during Armageddon (it was a pretty mediocre movie, after all), there are things you should include in your ...

It's all housed in a waterproof dry bag.

Whether they were native people or the pioneers of a new frontier, our ancestors didn’t have access to the high-tech items we carry today for camping, hunting and wilderness emergencies. But whenever ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

I read recently of a hunter in my home state of Kentucky who slipped and fell from a short rock face. As he was falling, his boot got hung in the root of a tree, and he was then hanging upside down.