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Survival Tips For Backpackers

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Why survival tips for backpackers? Certainly backpacking may never become a matter of wilderness survival for you, especially if you are careful in your planning. Still, getting lost or twisting an ankle far from any road is always a possibility. In any case, learning a few new things from time to time is a great way to make your trips safer and more interesting. With that in mind, here are a few random survival tricks and skills based on my own experience.

A Few Survival Tips To Remember

You can make snow-block shelters without tools when the conditions are right. I have made trench-shelters of 2 x 3 foot snow-blocks with no tools. I stomped rectangles in the heavily-crusted snow and lifted up the resulting blocks. Stacking them on either side of a trench in the snow, and then across the top for a roof, I was able to make a shelter in twenty minutes.

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Survival Food To Save You And Your Family

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What is the benefit of having survival food? Storing food brings a lot of benefits to you and your family. Produce and vegetables are something each and every one of us needs in order to live. Having food reserves should be something we all need too. Emergency food is really helpful when times are hard and food is needed. You don’t need much to have emergency food, so there should be no excuse why anybody has no emergency food.

Survival food is food especially designed to be stored, last long and be used when it is most needed. Survival food is delicious and high quality. The benefits brought by storing survival food is that it gives you an extra Continue reading Survival Food To Save You And Your Family →

Stay Alive Earthquake Emergency Preparation Tips

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Earthquakes are among the most devastating natural disasters. What makes it more annihilating is the fact that there is no precise way of predicting when an earthquake may occur. The most effective tactic to minimize the effects of earthquakes in human lives is to make adequate earthquake emergency preparations.

During an earthquake, you will feel the ground shaking or rolling. If the movement of the Earth’s crust is really violent, you might even hear the ground rumbling or roaring. These earthquake characteristics may cause you to panic and eventually jeopardize your chance of survival. While strong and devastating earthquakes seldom happen, even in places located in the Earth’s ring of fire, it is imperative that you have an emergency plan so that you and your family can stay safe. Here are a few pointers to remember to keep you prepared for an earthquake. Continue reading Stay Alive Earthquake Emergency Preparation Tips →

Survival Food For Emergencies

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There will come a time when the worst thing you expect to happen, will happen. It is best to be prepared for natural calamities or sudden emergencies. The best way to prepare for such events is to purchase survival food. Survival food will help you prepare for sudden emergencies and natural disasters when you can’t purchase food anywhere. Survival food has come a long way from its days of just sour bread, crackers, and hard rice. You can get full, ready-to-eat meals when you purchase food for emergencies.

You can choose from a variety of meals when you purchase survival food in specialty stores or local supermarkets. The survival food that you purchases is sealed to avoid spoilage and it uses advanced methods to Continue reading Survival Food For Emergencies →