25 Camping Hacks That Are Truly Genius
For many people, especially those from big cities, camping is one of the greatest ways of enjoying the great outdoors. Just you, your friends and nature, far from all the crowds, daily stress and working duties. But as relaxing as it sounds, camping can easily turns into a natural nightmare. DON”T LET IT TURN INTO A NIGHTMARE! Instead, check out these 25 camping hacks that are truly genius.
Tips for Backpack Camping in the Rain
Don't cancel your next camping trip just because rain is in the forecast. Some of my best camping trips have been during flash floods and heavy rainfall. This video offers 10 tips for an enjoyable experience. These tips are only a summary, based on personal experience. I am continually learning and don't claim to be an expert.
10. Don't go if you are afraid of adventure. Look on the experience as a way to train for an emergency or natural disaster.
9. Practice survival skills in good weather. Bushcraft survival skills are perishable.
8. Get a good pack. It should fit your needs and be well made.
7. Make a tarp shelter that will keep your equipment dry while setting-up a tent or hammock. Practice, practice, practice ... many different configurations.
6. Select your tent carefully. Make sure that it is easy to set-up, has a bathtub floor and is waterproof.
5. Camp on high ground. Otherwise a brief shower may turn your campsite into a river.
4. Organize your things. Use clothing as pillow. Put everything in plastic bags to stay dry. In warm weather,select clothing made from synthetic materials that wick water away from your body. Use wool in cool weather, since wool stays warm even if wet. Do not use cotton clothing; if cotton gets wet, it stays wet.
3. Bring a stove or make a campfire. Practice different fire starting methods. Be careful, sparks can melt / burn tarps and tents. Consider your campfire as your TV.
2. Hike the trails. Trails look different in the rain. You will see many amazing sights ....
1 . BE SAFE. Beware of lighting and widow makers, that is, trees/branches that may fall.
10. Don't go if you are afraid of adventure. Look on the experience as a way to train for an emergency or natural disaster.
9. Practice survival skills in good weather. Bushcraft survival skills are perishable.
8. Get a good pack. It should fit your needs and be well made.
7. Make a tarp shelter that will keep your equipment dry while setting-up a tent or hammock. Practice, practice, practice ... many different configurations.
6. Select your tent carefully. Make sure that it is easy to set-up, has a bathtub floor and is waterproof.
5. Camp on high ground. Otherwise a brief shower may turn your campsite into a river.
4. Organize your things. Use clothing as pillow. Put everything in plastic bags to stay dry. In warm weather,select clothing made from synthetic materials that wick water away from your body. Use wool in cool weather, since wool stays warm even if wet. Do not use cotton clothing; if cotton gets wet, it stays wet.
3. Bring a stove or make a campfire. Practice different fire starting methods. Be careful, sparks can melt / burn tarps and tents. Consider your campfire as your TV.
2. Hike the trails. Trails look different in the rain. You will see many amazing sights ....
1 . BE SAFE. Beware of lighting and widow makers, that is, trees/branches that may fall.
10 Best And Cheapest Survival Rations Available In Any Store
10 Best Survival Foods at the Local Supermarket
By: ringsking
Many people expect that supermarket shelves will always be full of food. As a result, they don't stock up on items that will provide nutrition if a major snowstorm, hurricane, earthquake, tornado, flood, riot or any emergency occurs.
These events can limit food supplies for days, weeks, or even months. Storing survival food can help you get through emergency conditions when it's not possible to go to the supermarket - or the supermarket is unable to operate.
By: ringsking
Many people expect that supermarket shelves will always be full of food. As a result, they don't stock up on items that will provide nutrition if a major snowstorm, hurricane, earthquake, tornado, flood, riot or any emergency occurs.
These events can limit food supplies for days, weeks, or even months. Storing survival food can help you get through emergency conditions when it's not possible to go to the supermarket - or the supermarket is unable to operate.
Here's How You Can Feed Yourself In A Survival Crisis
By Modern Combat and Survival
Packing emergency food in your survival kit bugout bag requires a lot of thought. In a recent survey, over 75% of respondents said that military MRE's were the best survival food for bugging out in your survival kit. Were they right?
If you pack a BOB (bugout bag), you have a lot of survival-oriented gear in it. What some people consider almost an afterthought, however, should be one of your primary concerns, and that is survival emergency food preps. Your survival kit bugout bag is useless if it has a lot of gear but doesn't have so much as a single calorie you can use to keep your energy up.
If you pack your bugout bag for three days worth of an emergency, food you need to include must address the major factors to survive a disaster:
Keep Your Bugout Bag Emergency Food Convenient
When bugging out for survival, you want emergency food that you can eat on the run. Bugging out isn't camping - the point is to get from Point A to Point B quickly in order to survive.
Survival Kit Emergency Food Must Be Nutrient Dense
The three macronutrients your survival food should include are: protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Carbohydrates and calories are most important as an energy source.
Survival Kit Bug Out Food Secret
The real trick to packing emergency food in your survival kit bugout bag is to keep it very light. Water is heavy, so prepared food is heavier than dehydrated survival food.
You don't necessarily have to buy dehydrated camp foods, either, although those are good. Anything that is dehydrated, that gives you an option to choose when to rehydrate it, is a better choice than a hydrated food for survival.
The best emergency food for your survival kit bugout bag in our video is Top Ramen noodles because it fits all the criterea and is the lightest of all emergency food for your survival kit bugout bag.
Packing emergency food in your survival kit bugout bag requires a lot of thought. In a recent survey, over 75% of respondents said that military MRE's were the best survival food for bugging out in your survival kit. Were they right?
If you pack a BOB (bugout bag), you have a lot of survival-oriented gear in it. What some people consider almost an afterthought, however, should be one of your primary concerns, and that is survival emergency food preps. Your survival kit bugout bag is useless if it has a lot of gear but doesn't have so much as a single calorie you can use to keep your energy up.
If you pack your bugout bag for three days worth of an emergency, food you need to include must address the major factors to survive a disaster:
Keep Your Bugout Bag Emergency Food Convenient
When bugging out for survival, you want emergency food that you can eat on the run. Bugging out isn't camping - the point is to get from Point A to Point B quickly in order to survive.
Survival Kit Emergency Food Must Be Nutrient Dense
The three macronutrients your survival food should include are: protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Carbohydrates and calories are most important as an energy source.
Survival Kit Bug Out Food Secret
The real trick to packing emergency food in your survival kit bugout bag is to keep it very light. Water is heavy, so prepared food is heavier than dehydrated survival food.
You don't necessarily have to buy dehydrated camp foods, either, although those are good. Anything that is dehydrated, that gives you an option to choose when to rehydrate it, is a better choice than a hydrated food for survival.
The best emergency food for your survival kit bugout bag in our video is Top Ramen noodles because it fits all the criterea and is the lightest of all emergency food for your survival kit bugout bag.
The Base Essentials - What You REALLY Need To Stay Alive In A Survival Situation!
By survivalmike
We'll talked about a Real Survival Kit, that helps in any survival situation all over the world.
Watch video and pack the real and true things for your adventure.
We'll talked about a Real Survival Kit, that helps in any survival situation all over the world.
Watch video and pack the real and true things for your adventure.
The 5 Most Forgotten Items in Disasters and Emergencies
By: BudgetBugout
These are five items that you should not forget in your survival kit:
Make sure you have your important documents with you.
Heavy Mil Trash bags will surely make your life easier.
If you're taking your pets with you, remember to bring some of their items too!
Some things medicine related.
And your phone charger...
Watch video to see details
These are five items that you should not forget in your survival kit:
Make sure you have your important documents with you.
Heavy Mil Trash bags will surely make your life easier.
If you're taking your pets with you, remember to bring some of their items too!
Some things medicine related.
And your phone charger...
Watch video to see details
Disaster Preparedness
By Mary Peck
Disasters strike anytime, anywhere and do not discriminate as to who is touched by devastation, not even our most vulnerable citizens—residents of long-term care facilities. Oklahoma people with disabilities may need to take additional precautions in order to be ready for expected and unexpected winter weather events.
Preparing for and responding to emergencies that affect individuals living in long-term care facilities requires coordinating the work of many. While long-term care ombudsman supervisors/volunteers are not first responders, they can play an important role in emergency planning and response. Ombudsman programs can resolve complaints, protect rights and promote access to services for residents before, during and after emergencies and disasters.
Significant weather events such as tornadoes, at times, have devastated long-term care facilities and their residents across the country. Individual incidents—fires, explosions, floods, power outages and other disruptions—have forced residents to relocate. Both state and local ombudsman programs have been called on to assist with preparation and response, often without the benefit of clear guidance or policies.
The fact that ombudsman programs have risen to the challenges of emergency preparedness and response without clear guidance is evidence that the office staff are concerned, committed and willing to assist.
Can you imagine? The television meteorologists are calling for people to take shelter. Tornado sirens across counties are blaring warnings. While most people are hunkering down in closets, bathtubs and storm shelters praying that the violence will pass without incident, long-term care staff are rushing to gather their charges in a windowless hall or room.
Many must be pushed in wheelchairs, some directed on walkers and others carefully guided to the safest place in the building. Remember, cold weather can stress respiratory and circulatory systems making it more difficult to travel or complete tasks that require physical exertion.
Oklahoma is listed as one of the top 10 disaster-prone states as ranked by historical statistics on major disaster declaration. Disaster preparedness is a question for family members to ask of facilities when dangers exist. Almost all facilities have a generator or access to one maintaining the operations needed for residents. Each ombudsman supervisor/volunteer is available for assistance during severe weather outbreaks and disasters.
During Hurricane Katrina, the vulnerability of nursing home residents came to the forefront when 35 residents at one nursing home located outside of New Orleans died during the hurricane. Some drowned in their beds. A Houston Chronicle investigative journalist revealed that at least 139 nursing home residents died during the hurricane or because of it.
A well-executed evacuation plan is a top priority. Long-term care facility owners and administrators are federally required to have an emergency plan in place with staff training. All staff members should be aware of their roles in case of a major emergency such as tornadoes or power outages, such as the following:
Disasters strike anytime, anywhere and do not discriminate as to who is touched by devastation, not even our most vulnerable citizens—residents of long-term care facilities. Oklahoma people with disabilities may need to take additional precautions in order to be ready for expected and unexpected winter weather events.
Preparing for and responding to emergencies that affect individuals living in long-term care facilities requires coordinating the work of many. While long-term care ombudsman supervisors/volunteers are not first responders, they can play an important role in emergency planning and response. Ombudsman programs can resolve complaints, protect rights and promote access to services for residents before, during and after emergencies and disasters.
Significant weather events such as tornadoes, at times, have devastated long-term care facilities and their residents across the country. Individual incidents—fires, explosions, floods, power outages and other disruptions—have forced residents to relocate. Both state and local ombudsman programs have been called on to assist with preparation and response, often without the benefit of clear guidance or policies.
The fact that ombudsman programs have risen to the challenges of emergency preparedness and response without clear guidance is evidence that the office staff are concerned, committed and willing to assist.
Can you imagine? The television meteorologists are calling for people to take shelter. Tornado sirens across counties are blaring warnings. While most people are hunkering down in closets, bathtubs and storm shelters praying that the violence will pass without incident, long-term care staff are rushing to gather their charges in a windowless hall or room.
Many must be pushed in wheelchairs, some directed on walkers and others carefully guided to the safest place in the building. Remember, cold weather can stress respiratory and circulatory systems making it more difficult to travel or complete tasks that require physical exertion.
Oklahoma is listed as one of the top 10 disaster-prone states as ranked by historical statistics on major disaster declaration. Disaster preparedness is a question for family members to ask of facilities when dangers exist. Almost all facilities have a generator or access to one maintaining the operations needed for residents. Each ombudsman supervisor/volunteer is available for assistance during severe weather outbreaks and disasters.
During Hurricane Katrina, the vulnerability of nursing home residents came to the forefront when 35 residents at one nursing home located outside of New Orleans died during the hurricane. Some drowned in their beds. A Houston Chronicle investigative journalist revealed that at least 139 nursing home residents died during the hurricane or because of it.
A well-executed evacuation plan is a top priority. Long-term care facility owners and administrators are federally required to have an emergency plan in place with staff training. All staff members should be aware of their roles in case of a major emergency such as tornadoes or power outages, such as the following:
- The need to identify residents with wristbands or nametags.
- Include medication lists
- Having a supply of potable water
- Ensure transportation for the residents to evacuate and a place to evacuate to
- Transportation of wheelchairs and medical equipment
- Working with local emergency coordinators to decide about evacuation in a timely manner
- Staff’s ability to handle illness or death during an evacuation
- Training of all staff members to remain calm and follow the learned procedures are key in saving the lives of nursing home residents during a disaster.
Building a Primitive Wattle and Daub Hut from Scratch
By Primitive Technology
Video Source: Primitive Technology
I built this hut in the bush using naturally occurring materials and primitive tools. The hut is 2m wide and 2m long, the side walls are 1m high and the ridge line (highest point) is 2m high giving a roof angle of 45 degrees. A bed was built inside and it takes up a little less than half the hut.
The tools used were a stone hand axe to chop wood, fire sticks to make fire, a digging stick for digging and clay pots to carry water.
The materials used in the hut were wood for the frame, vine and lawyer cane for lashings and mud for daubing. Broad leaves were initially used as thatch which worked well for about four months before starting to rot. The roof was then covered with sheets of paper bark which proved to be a better roofing material (*peeling the outer layer of bark does not kill this species of tree).
An external fireplace and chimney were also built to reduce smoke inside. The hut is a small yet comfortable shelter and provides room to store tools and materials out of the weather.
The whole hut took 9 months from start to finish. But it only took 30 days of actual work (I abandoned it for a few months before adding bark roof, chimney and extra daub ).
Watch full video:
The tools used were a stone hand axe to chop wood, fire sticks to make fire, a digging stick for digging and clay pots to carry water.
The materials used in the hut were wood for the frame, vine and lawyer cane for lashings and mud for daubing. Broad leaves were initially used as thatch which worked well for about four months before starting to rot. The roof was then covered with sheets of paper bark which proved to be a better roofing material (*peeling the outer layer of bark does not kill this species of tree).
An external fireplace and chimney were also built to reduce smoke inside. The hut is a small yet comfortable shelter and provides room to store tools and materials out of the weather.
The whole hut took 9 months from start to finish. But it only took 30 days of actual work (I abandoned it for a few months before adding bark roof, chimney and extra daub ).
Watch full video:
Video Source: Primitive Technology
Emergency Food Serving Sizes You Must Know In Advance
Not all serving sizes are created equal when it comes to Emergency Food Storage. Understand what you really need to know when it comes to buying food storage and preparing for whatever may come!
Survival Tips That Will Secure You in a Wilderness Situation
Okay, if you find yourself in a wilderness situation where you might have to spend your night out, a couple days out, a week out or a month out, there are five big things that are my top five that you need. The top five are food, water, shelter, fire and attitude. Of those top five, they're in a specific order, at least I believe they're in a specific order, food is the least important.
A lot of people think "Oh my g**, I need to have something to eat." Really, you can go four weeks without food. So, before you start to break down and malfunction from lack of food you have about three weeks. Water, however, you have about three days so that's more important to locate and find. Water is more important than food.
More important than water is going to be shelter. Shelter is something that, especially in a cold environment without warmth or without a fire, without shelter you maybe have a few hours that you can survive and function really, really well.
After that your ability to function deteriorates. So, we have least important is food, next least important is water, then you have shelter and fire. Fire is important because it allows you to cook food, it allows you to stay warm, it allows you to purify water.
But the number one most important thing that you need to thrive in any wilderness or urban survival environment is your attitude. Your attitude greatly affects how well you're going to do whether you have any resources or whether you have no resources at all.
Your outlook and your attitude is going to determine everything, and that's the most important thing that you have, and that' also something that you always carry with you. It's not something that you buy, but it's something that you're always going to have.
A lot of people think "Oh my g**, I need to have something to eat." Really, you can go four weeks without food. So, before you start to break down and malfunction from lack of food you have about three weeks. Water, however, you have about three days so that's more important to locate and find. Water is more important than food.
More important than water is going to be shelter. Shelter is something that, especially in a cold environment without warmth or without a fire, without shelter you maybe have a few hours that you can survive and function really, really well.
After that your ability to function deteriorates. So, we have least important is food, next least important is water, then you have shelter and fire. Fire is important because it allows you to cook food, it allows you to stay warm, it allows you to purify water.
But the number one most important thing that you need to thrive in any wilderness or urban survival environment is your attitude. Your attitude greatly affects how well you're going to do whether you have any resources or whether you have no resources at all.
Your outlook and your attitude is going to determine everything, and that's the most important thing that you have, and that' also something that you always carry with you. It's not something that you buy, but it's something that you're always going to have.
Urban Survival Concepts
This video will show a number of urban survival concepts that will help in case of a disaster that can leave you trying to survive in an urban environment. Some of these concepts are derived from wilderness survival and should help in case disaster strikes.
How to Start a Fire with a Guitar Pick
This quick tip is a trick that came from Survival Expert Creek Stewart. Creek shared this in his most recent #APOCABOX Feb 2015. In every Apocabox there is a skill set that Creek teaches.
What You Need in an Urban Survival Situation
This video gives you ideas for what you should have on your person for survival in urban environments.
25 Survival Myths That Could Actually Hurt You
by: list25
Ever since TV shows like Survivor Man and Man vs Wild took to the airwaves there has been a surge of interest in wilderness survival. Although most of us will never find ourselves in such situations, it doesn’t stop people from dreaming.
Who wouldn’t want to go on an expedition through the jungle and live to talk about it? And then there’s the conspiracy theorists who think that the nuclear holocaust is going to happen at any moment and they need to stock up on toilet paper.
Whatever your position, survival is built into our genes and we will try to do it at any cost. Surely your body is capable of far more than you think, just take a look at these 25 unbelievable facts about the human body.
In all likelihood you could go for weeks without food or sleep. You could break numerous bones, lose a limb, and still keep on moving.
What you’ll realize after reading through this list is that survival isn’t just about what you know, because much of what you know might be wrong.
It’s more about your will to live and pure old fashioned common sense. So whether you are a survivalist or just a dreamer, these are 25 survival myths that could actually hurt you.
Ever since TV shows like Survivor Man and Man vs Wild took to the airwaves there has been a surge of interest in wilderness survival. Although most of us will never find ourselves in such situations, it doesn’t stop people from dreaming.
Who wouldn’t want to go on an expedition through the jungle and live to talk about it? And then there’s the conspiracy theorists who think that the nuclear holocaust is going to happen at any moment and they need to stock up on toilet paper.
Whatever your position, survival is built into our genes and we will try to do it at any cost. Surely your body is capable of far more than you think, just take a look at these 25 unbelievable facts about the human body.
In all likelihood you could go for weeks without food or sleep. You could break numerous bones, lose a limb, and still keep on moving.
What you’ll realize after reading through this list is that survival isn’t just about what you know, because much of what you know might be wrong.
It’s more about your will to live and pure old fashioned common sense. So whether you are a survivalist or just a dreamer, these are 25 survival myths that could actually hurt you.
7 Ways To Find Water In A Survival Situation
These are the 7 proven methods of obtaining water in the the dry season or in arid enviroments. I demonstrate all of them so that you can walk away from this video with the confidence that you will find water anywhere you go.
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