The best of both worlds is a FireSteel rod coupled with a soft magnesium bar to make a fire in the toughest conditions. The MagSlab.

The 10-80-10 rule in a survival context. It’s very relevant as to how people handle a crisis, emergency, or SHTF situation.

Practice your kitchen survival skills. Make meals for a day using only your long term food storage prep supplies, but without electricity…

In my opinion, the shortest simplest answer to the question “What does self reliant mean?” is the following…

Firstly, use whatever format you have! SAR coordinators will figure it out. However I did find the apparent preferred georeferencing format..

It may be sensible to expand into practical skill sets to improve one’s self-reliance and value for a potentially semi-collapsed world.

Be prepared! Here’s a list of ways how to signal for help if lost or stranded in the woods /outdoors /wilderness.

Most people won’t bother to make a homeowners insurance inventory. However a very simple method is to video everything that’s in your home…

Today more than ever, few people seem to have a natural sense of direction. An instinctive sense of direction without GPS.

When it rains, there’s a stunning amount of water that falls from the sky! Rainwater collection adds up very quickly…