As a former Air Force Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE) specialist for 23 years, it’s safe to say I know my survival gear. SERE trains people to survive in every austere climate and ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - dozens of local clubs, businesses and non-profits will meet with the public at the Bristol Brewing Company Saturday to help residents find their next summer outdoor ...

Canadian outdoor gear company VSSL has added to its line of sleek, cylindrical survival kits with a new collection dubbed the "Essentials." The compact new kits are designed to cover shelter repairs, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... With more people than ever venturing into the outdoors, the incidence of search-and-rescue operations has also soared. The mindset is that “I’m only going ...

Your trusty pocket knife can do a lot more than open Amazon packages. Knives are an indispensable part of any outdoor survival kit. When used to their full potential, knives can perform some amazing ...

The skills you’ve acquired and gear in your pack are often the difference in making it through a life and death situation. But you first need the mental fortitude to survive. Without the drive to ...

Being prepared is just the sensible thing to do, Scott Hunt tells me. Power outage? Superstorm? Nuclear attack? He’ll be ready. That’s why he has a pickup truck that runs on wood. We’re standing by a ...

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 ...