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Wilderness Survival: If you have a clear plastic water bottle and sunshine, you have safe drinking water
I originally learned this trick a few years ago while going through Red Cross training, but it's a technique that's still not widely known. If you have a clearPET plastic bottle and fill it with germ and virus filled water and leave it out in the sun for at least 8 hours in hot weather (up to 48 hours in cold weat...
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Grabber Outdoor's Space All-Weather Blanket just might be the single greatest piece of survival gear I own. I don't make statements like this very often, but this is one piece of gear that's truly a marvel of versatility, toughness and utility. It's a ground tarp, a shelter, windbreaker, sunshade, rain poncho and even a rainwater collector. But its most important qual...
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Fatwood (also known as pitchwood in the West), is Mother Nature's finest tinder. It is a resin-impregnated, orange to reddish colored wood found predominantly in Yellow Pine trees. When lit, fatwood burns ferociously as if it were soaked in gasoline. It will burn under the worst weather conditions, even while rain or snow is falling.
Fatwood is easily ignited w...
