Survival Skills – Page 2

Lightning Safety Outdoors

Lightning safety outdoors Lightning kills around 20 to 30 people in the US in a typical year and injures hundreds […]

Reading weather signs without a forecast Forecasts are good now, genuinely good, and checking one before you leave is basic

How to estimate remaining daylight with your hand Most backcountry problems get worse in the dark. Navigation errors multiply, camp

Morse code basics worth actually learning Full Morse code fluency is a hobby, and a good one, but it is

How to use a signal mirror On a clear day, a signal mirror is the longest-range rescue tool you can

Field hygiene: staying clean when there’s no shower Here is the unglamorous truth about backcountry illness: a lot of the

How to identify common animal tracks Tracking gets framed as a mystic art, all bent grass and whispered wisdom. In

Poison ivy, oak, and sumac: know them cold An estimated 50 million Americans react to poison ivy and its relatives

Foraging for beginners: how to not poison yourself Foraging has a marketing problem: it gets sold as a survival skill,

Lost while hiking? The STOP method Getting lost rarely happens all at once. It happens in stages: the trail gets