4 Principles for Extreme Weather Survival

When you first clicked on this post, you were probably expecting to read an in-depth account of the best way to make a fire in a thunderstorm or how to build a snow shelter in a blizzard. However, extreme weather survival is less about what you do when you’re already in the scenario, but what … Read more

Preventing Snow Blindness

  If you are in a snow covered landscape survival will be difficult enough while you are operating at your best, it will be nearly impossible if you lose your sight.  Snow blindness is a preventable injury that happens in snow covered terrain or during a daytime blizzard, the sun’s light is reflected off of … Read more

3 Tips for Surviving in the Heat

Unfortunately, we can’t choose when and how a disaster occurs. If we had our choice, we’d only ever have to use our survival skills in perfectly mild, sunny (but not too sunny) weather. That’s not the case, though, and with huge demands on the power grid, droughts, and other factors, there’s a good chance that … Read more