Tag: tools

Cheap and useful camping hacks

Are you a camping and hiking enthusiast that’s careful with your money? If you’re one of the growing number that does not want to spend…

Survival items you can carry in your pocket everyday

Something that’s important to know about survival situations is that they can and will happen when we least expect them to. This means that even…

Essentials needed to survive a meltdown of civilization

Imagine that there’s a huge disaster looming over you. You and your family are faced with living in a world where the comforts of modern…

Essential advice for surviving the meltdown of civilization

Imagine that there’s a huge disaster looming over you. You and your family are faced with living in a world where the comforts of modern…

Primitive tools that we still use today

Primitive is a word that describes something of age or out of date. When someone says, “it’s very primitive,” they usually mean that it is…

10 Great reasons to escape the city for the woods to build a cabin

If you are tired of city life, bored of the everyday grind, or you’re planning on going away but want to exchange the experience of…

Keep your fishing hooks sharp

Until quite recently, new fishing hooks were not very sharp. With new technologies, the new points are so sharp as to be almost like needles. These…

The Mountain Men skills that we still use today

If you’ve done any research at all into the lives of mountain men, then you know full well that they lived a very dangerous, difficult,…

carabiners climbers guide

Carabiners: A climber’s guide to biner basics

The carabiner is one of the greatest technological marvels of our time. They are also one of the simplest. Essentially, carabiners are just loops of…

Clothing tags turned into survival tools

Founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1938, The Columbia Sportswear Company has been making clothes and outdoor gear for more than 70 years. Throughout the years…