17 min read
If you have already packed a bug-out bag using my list, you probably stopped at some point at the item “a mini gas stove that takes replaceable canisters”. You walk into an outdoor shop and there are gas burners, petrol stoves, spirit stoves, tablet stoves, stoves that burn sticks and whole sets with a pot… Read More »
17 min read
January, evening, a dozen or so degrees below zero outside. Suddenly the lights go out and the fridge goes quiet. For the first hour nothing happens, the flat is still warm. But put your hand on the radiator after two or three hours. What will you do if the power isn’t back by morning? And… Read More »
5 min read
You hear two things about birch bark. That it’s the best tinder you’ll find in the forest, and that it burns even when wet. I wrote about it myself in my post on 8 kinds of fire everyone should know, but there I was writing from research and a few quick tries “in the field”.… Read More »
27 min read
You have a basement. Concrete, dry, under the whole house. Reading the news, you have probably thought more than once that if it came to it, the whole family would go down there. That’s a good instinct, because concrete and earth overhead really do their job. But what will you all breathe down there for… Read More »
18 min read
Picture this. You are walking through a forest that was supposed to be a short cut to the trail. The path gets narrower and narrower, then disappears, and mist starts creeping up from the valley. Your phone shows 4% battery and is about to die. You know from the map that the trail is roughly… Read More »
