You may have watched every survival video on YouTube (twice), but there’s a big difference between watching someone perform a complex skill and performing it yourself. The best way to learn is under ...

The average $2 Bic lighter is great for lighting up a cigarette but not as great for lighting campfires or grills. Minnesota ...

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Spend enough time in the outdoors, and you’re bound to wonder how you would handle a true survival scenario. Could you gather and forage enough food? Could you build a strong survival shelter to keep ...

I love outdoor survival shows, and over the past decade have watched far too many episodes of Alone, Naked and Afraid, and of course Survivor, to count. In 2023, I was excited to see Netflix launch ...

There are a number of "survival items" that people should bring on camping trips, which can be a hassle to round up and pack every time. The Outdoor Survival Stick offers a solution, by keeping ...

Fifty people, organized into teams of two, will compete in a series of weekend-long challenges designed to test their outdoor survival skills, from building a fire and shelter to purifying water to ...

Harrowing survival stories can feel like the lifeblood of outdoor culture, with the image of the gnarled outdoors person spinning tales over a campfire about “that time I almost died” serving as a ...

Building a fire in wet conditions might be the most basic and important skill for an outdoorsman. Survival instructors emphasize a step-by-step approach, starting with selecting a site out of the wind ...

The listing for a New Orleans Recreation Development Commission class on outdoor survival skills caught my eye as something unusual, something I should sign up for, but in the same kind of way that I ...