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• Basic Cold Weather Survival | Practical Survivor

  Basic Cold Weather Survival Lets discuss some safety tips while traveling/backpacking in a cold weather environment. Backpacking in winter can be very rewarding as long as we travel properly prepared...

• Basic Desert Survival | Practical Survivor

  Basic Desert Survival At first glance the subject of Desert Survival seems deceptively simple. Find water and stay out of the sun; right? Not so fast, its a bit more complicated. To discuss de...

• Survival Kit Fishing | Practical Survivor

  * Leaders * Fishing spoons For the scope of this article, we will cover items usually found within a survival kit and techniques for using them. During our last backpacking trip, we found an aluminum...

• Survival Kit Basics | Practical Survivor

  SURVIVAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS KITS We put this article together with much hesitation. There are hundreds of articles from sites about emergency preparedness, survival and bug out bag kits. So let...

• Lean-to shelter | Practical Survivor

  For this article we decided to build a lean-to using debris shelter techniques. The location of this shelter was less than perfect. We chose this location making sure there were no branches above th...

• Bow Drill Fire Starting | Practical Survivor

  Fire Starting with the Bow Drill On this article we will show the primitive fire starting technique 'bow drill'. Starting a fire with the use of friction is arguably the most common fire starting te...