Learning + Tutorials
First Aid Kit, Exposure, Hygiene
It's probably pretty apparent that you should carry a medical kit in your Get Home Bag, and Bug Out Bag to care for the most common sorts of injuries: cuts, insect bites, sunburn, nausea, allergies, headaches, and especially blister treatment and prevention supplies.
Survival Skills
Knowledge Weighs Nothing
There are some fundamental survival skills everyone should know how to do but which many of us have never tried or even cared about. Do you know how to:
Use a Compass
Almost all of us carry instantly updated maps and GPS systems in our pockets these days in our phones, reducing the threat of being lost to almost nil.
But what would happen if you didn't have your phone, or the battery died, or your Tom-Tom took a swim? What if you just don't get any signal where you are?
Lets look at the old fashioned, never-fail navigation tool: the humble compass.
