Archive for ' Outdoor Survival'

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Improvised Water Filter Posted:March 30, 2012 By:John A. Heatherly

INSTANT SURVIVAL TIP: Improvised Water Filter

By John A. Heatherly, Author of The Survival Template photo from AFR 64-4, Figure 19-15, page 189 A variety of events can contaminate ordinary, working sources of water.  For example, rainstorms, or even worse, hurricanes, can pollute [...]

Winter Brings The Chance Of Frostnip And Frostbite Posted:December 12, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Winter Brings The Chance Of Frostnip And Frostbite

Article provided by Canada’s new First Aid and USA’s New First Aid Kits and Preparedness websites. Although there are people who flee when colder weather arrives, most of us who live in northerly areas do enjoy [...]

Cooking Dinner on the EcoZoom Stove Posted:October 15, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Cooking Dinner on the EcoZoom Stove

Guest post by RightWingMom. Disclaimer: Our EcoZoom demonstrations were conducted while on a camping trip in Colorado.  The elevation at our camp site was 7703 feet.  The morning temperature was in the mid 40’s.  As with [...]

EcoZoom: The Versa vs. The Dura Posted:September 21, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

EcoZoom: The Versa vs. The Dura

Guest post by RightWingMom.  This is a review of the two models of EzoZoom stoves, the Versa and the Dura. Disclaimer: Our EcoZoom demonstrations were conducted while on a camping trip in Colorado.  The elevation at [...]

Camping Eggs on the Ecozoom Versa Posted:September 02, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Camping Eggs on the Ecozoom Versa

Guest post by RightWingMom Disclaimer: Our EcoZoom demonstrations were conducted while on a camping trip in Colorado.  The elevation at our camp site was 7703 feet.  The morning temperature was in the mid 40’s.  As with [...]

Self Rescue: When Staying Put to Survive Isn’t an Option Posted:August 23, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Self Rescue: When Staying Put to Survive Isn’t an Option

by Peter Kummerfeldt as posted at Survival Common Sense (Stay or go? A fundamental precept of urban and wilderness survival is that during or after an emergency and/or survival situation, you should stay put so rescuers [...]

Posted:August 21, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

The FlashLantern: a review

The FlashLantern first came to my attention when its developer, Mike Bogden, emailed me a few months back.  I was intrigued by this “lantern” made up of an LED flashlight and a simple attachment that defuses [...]

Posted:August 19, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Packing the Five Super Essential Elements of Survival

Last week our family was tooling around some truly beautiful country in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming.  We had planned to do a bit of camping so our tent, sleeping bags, and other supplies were in the [...]

Posted:August 03, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Survival Mom Camping-Survival Secrets

Staying organized while on a camping trip is a challenge, even in optimal conditions.  Whether your idea of camping is roughing it in a tent or enjoying the opulence of an RV, it’s tricky knowing where [...]

Cooking with the EcoZoom stove: Posted:July 30, 2011 By:thesurvivalmom

Cooking with the EcoZoom stove:

Guest post by Right Wing Mom, who will be contributing additional articles about cooking with a fuel-efficient stove. We received our EcoZoom’s Dura Stove in July.  It came well packed and was very easy to set [...]