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How to Survive the Final Season of Game of Thrones If You're Not a FanApril 12, 2019 at 3:36 PM  Tags: Google, Game Of Thrones, Lifehacks, Survival, Got, Fanatics 66 people like this. Like If ever there was a video that summed up the need to keep fighting, this is probably it.March 28, 2019 at 5:58 PM Talk about being in the wrong part of town at the wrong time. I love this video, even though it’s exhausting – I needed a panadol and a laydown after Read More …Tags: Small Business, Sales, Survival, Smallville, Brainfood, Andrew Griffiths, Animal Wisdom 43 people like this. Like How to Make a Marine Corps Fighting HoleMarch 28, 2019 at 12:27 PM To the uninitiated, a Marine Corps fighting hole appears to be nothing more than a basic burrow in the ground. But it is in fact one of the most effective defensive positions you can make. It requires only a shovel (even just the military-issue, folding kind) to create, and it helps protect you from a variety of environmental and enemy threats. This fighting hole or foxhole features several elements that help keep you dry, warm, and out of the wind. It also keeps you out of sight and protected ...Tags: Outdoors, Life, Marine Corps, Survival, Manly Skills, Visual Guides, Tactical Skills, Ted Slampyak, Amazon Illustrated 47 people like this. Like Can You Survive with Paracord?March 27, 2019 at 5:12 AM  Tags: Military, Survival, Rothco, Paracord Bracelet, Rothco NY, Paracord, Survival Bracelets, Paracord Survival 79 people like this. Like "My mum was chasing me and I started running. At first I could hear her but then I got lost... I leaned on a stone, started calling her, but she didn't hear me... I [started] walking towards a light that was very far away."March 20, 2019 at 7:30 AM Said Benjamín Sánchez, a 5-year-old boy who was lost in the desert (in Argentina) for 24 hours, quoted in BBC.The decision to start "walking towards a light that was very far away" is interesting. A couple weeks ago, there was a story about 2 little girls who got lost in the forest in California who remembered and followed a survival rule they had been taught: Once you know you are lost, stay put. 1,000 people were looking for Sánchez, and the point at which he became lost was known, yet the sea...Tags: Law, California, Bbc, Argentina, Survival, Sánchez, Ann Althouse, Charming Bad Logic, Benjamín Sánchez 43 people like this. Like Always Cheat, Always Win: Wilderness Survival 101March 19, 2019 at 1:04 PM  Tags: Camping, Environment, Sport, Cycling, Wildlife, Survival, Wilderness Survival, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Go Outside, Will Harlan, Herrington, BUSAR, Andrew Herrington, March 2019, Ellen Kanzinger, Herrington founder of Team BUSAR 94 people like this. Like How to Tie a One-Handed Bowline KnotMarch 15, 2019 at 10:59 AM The bowline is one of the most useful knots you can know. Simple to tie, and easy to undo, the beauty of the bowline is that it creates a quick loop secured by a knot that tightens when under load. Sailors use the bowline to fasten halyards and other rigging which require a super-secure connection.
The one-handed bowline is a technique that allows you to tie the knot using only one hand. Why is that useful? Imagine you’ve slipped and fallen into a rushing river. At the last second, you grab t...Tags: Life, Survival, Knots, Manly Skills, Visual Guides, Ted Slampyak, Amazon Illustrated 7 people like this. Like How to Survive QuicksandMarch 12, 2019 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Lifehacks, Survival, Danger, Wilderness, Quicksand 148 people like this. Like "Caroline said that as her big sister kept watch at night for wild animals, 'I thought of going to the park with mommy and daddy. I thought of going to the ocean. I thought of everything but it didn't work.'"March 7, 2019 at 7:54 AM From "Rescued California sisters, ages 8 and 5, say they survived by drinking rainwater from leaves and keeping 'happy thoughts' about their family" (ABC News). [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Children, Law, California, Survival, Abc News, Caroline, Ann Althouse 35 people like this. Like Missing California sisters, aged 5 and 8, survived 44 hours in forestMarch 5, 2019 at 11:37 AM Wilderness training credited for saving their lives
Missing California sisters Caroline Carrico, 5, and Leia Carrico, 8, survived 44 hours in the forest after they went for a walk on a deer trail on their family’s 80-acre property, wandered past a fallen tree that their father had warned them not to go beyond, and became lost.
The girls huddled under Caroline’s rain jacket for shelter and cuddled under a huckleberry bush to stay dry and warm as it began to rain and nighttime temperatures...Tags: News, California, Sport, Cycling, Survival, Wilderness Survival, Caroline, Newswire, Leia Carrico, Caroline Carrico 41 people like this. Like How to Escape a Car Hanging Off a CliffFebruary 28, 2019 at 10:05 AM The image of a car dangling over a cliff is one of Hollywood’s favorite go-to moments of suspense. In real life, finding yourself in that situation is quite a bit rarer, but it’s certainly not unheard of. When you consider the number of human-made “cliffs” like highway overpasses and bridges, there are ample opportunities for a basic fender bender to turn into a serious cliffhanger. If you find yourself behind the wheel of a precariously positioned car, the key is to avoid any sudden movements...Tags: Hollywood, Life, Cars, Survival, Manly Skills, Visual Guides, Ted Slampyak, Amazon Illustrated 30 people like this. Like A hiker in Zion National Park gets trapped in quicksand — and stays trapped for hours in freezing cold water.February 20, 2019 at 6:05 AM  Tags: Hollywood, Law, Survival, Zion, Zion National Park, Park Service, WaPo, University of Amsterdam, Ann Althouse, Osmun, Alyssa Baltrus, Ryan -RSB- Osmun, ABC News Osmun, Jessika McNeill, Subway Trail 104 people like this. Like The man who lived to tell the tale of his 10 minute fight with a mountain lion.February 15, 2019 at 10:24 AM It's Travis Kauffman. The lion had his right wrist locked in its jaw the whole time: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Survival, Lions, Ann Althouse, Travis Kauffman 4 people like this. Like Can You Survive The Cold?February 8, 2019 at 11:11 AM  Tags: Winter, Military, Survival, Cold Weather, Winter Gear, Rothco, Rothco NY, Rothco Survival, Cold Weather Survival 149 people like this. Like "It’s an amazing story. Everyone is baffled and impressed. He had no weapons, no knives or trekking poles with him."February 5, 2019 at 6:03 PM  Tags: Law, Colorado, Fort Collins, Survival, Lions, Ferrell, Larimer County, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Ann Althouse, West Ridge Trail 93 people like this. Like Man who clung to the hood of a car as it drove for miles up to 70 mph says, "He kept going fast, slow, fast, slow, to get me to slide off."January 26, 2019 at 1:40 PM Video at NBC News, where you can see the man looking straight into the window at the driver and yelling, "Stop the car, stop the car."Police told NBC Boston that Richard Kamrowski, 65, jumped onto the hood of a white Infiniti SUV that belonged to Mark Fitzgerald, 37, after a verbal altercation over a minor traffic accident on Interstate 90 about 20 miles west of Boston.Fitzgerald apparently had enough of the two men’s confrontation at some point after their collision and attempted to drive away,...Tags: Crime, Guns, Law, Boston, Nbc News, Driving, Survival, Fitzgerald, Mark Fitzgerald, Ann Althouse, Kamrowski, NBC Boston, Richard Kamrowski 6 people like this. Like "We are not going to stop even one minute. Nobody in the rescue team is putting in doubt that we will bring him out, and we all remain confident that he will be alive."January 17, 2019 at 3:09 PM Said a government official quoted in "Crews Race To Save 2-Year-Old Spanish Boy Who Fell Down 300-Foot Hole."Members of a Swedish company that helped locate the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground in 2010 arrived on Tuesday, Spanish police told Reuters.Julen was playing with his 1 1/2-year-old cousin when he fell down the hole.... The hole may have been drilled by someone in an attempt to find water, El País reports. "There are hundreds more like that one, covered with rocks, and nobody thinks...Tags: Law, Survival, Oliver, El Pais, Ann Althouse, Julen, Civil Guard, Reuters Julen 39 people like this. Like "When she was forced to hide under the bed, Jayme told detectives, Mr. Patterson would box her in with totes and laundry bins that he secured with barbell weights."January 15, 2019 at 8:28 AM "He would turn on music to prevent guests from hearing any noise she made. And one time, when Mr. Patterson believed she had tried to escape, Jayme said he struck her and threatened worse consequences if she tried again. But last Thursday, after Mr. Patterson told Jayme he was leaving for a few hours, she managed to force her way out from under the bed, she said. She grabbed a pair of men’s shoes — apparently Mr. Patterson’s — and ran to a nearby road, shoes ill fitting and on the wrong feet, cr...Tags: Murder, Crime, Law, Survival, Patterson, Confessions, Ann Althouse, Jayme, Jayme Closs 48 people like this. Like "All in all... I prefer a campfire-roasted porcupine that I killed and butchered... slathered with highbush cranberry ketchup..."January 14, 2019 at 3:33 PM "... foraged chickweed salad with mushrooms on the side, a hot cup of stinging nettle tea to wash it down and a handful of wild blueberries for dessert. Bugs, sticks, sand and assorted forest floor debris sometimes makes it into my vittles but... 'It’s clean dirt.'.... My toilet is a hollow cottonwood stump and I bathe with a kettle of hot creek water. Some places along the highway offer showers but they cost money and contribute to ecocide, so I clean my crotch in the creek occasionally. But pe...Tags: Cleaning, Law, America, Poverty, Alaska, Commerce, Survival, Ann Althouse 8 people like this. Like "When she got near me I could see who she was. She told me, 'I'm Jayme.' "January 11, 2019 at 4:11 PM "I just held onto her, and I said we're going to find somebody who's home, we're going to call the police. You're going to be OK. You're going to be safe." [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Survival, Ann Althouse, Jayme 43 people like this. Like Why You Should Consider Volunteering With a Search and Rescue TeamJanuary 3, 2019 at 12:23 PM  Tags: Outdoors, California, Life, Time, Action, Sherlock Holmes, Survival, Scuba, Sar, Rescue Team, Myers Briggs, Manly Skills, A Man's Life, Georges Hébert, Search and Rescue Team, state Office of Emergency Services 99 people like this. Like "I threw the ball 100 metres towards the Swiss border and told the children to run and get the ball. They ran after the ball and this is how they crossed."December 31, 2018 at 7:17 AM "After that, the Italians left France and the German came in. It became too dangerous to play ball with the children like this. With the Germans we didn’t play these games.”From "French Resistance hero who saved hundreds of Jewish children dies aged 108/Georges Loinger escaped from German camp and spent rest of the war helping children cross Swiss border" (The Guardian). [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, France, Holocaust, Survival, Ann Althouse, Georges Loinger 3 people like this. Like Living off the grid in northern Wyoming.December 22, 2018 at 11:09 AM A charmingly practical view of what it takes: [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Snow, Wyoming, Survival, Tiny House, Ann Althouse 10 people like this. Like "Ms. Klaben and Mr. Flores crashed in terrain that was waist-deep in snow, with temperatures as numbing as 48 degrees below zero."December 12, 2018 at 12:46 PM "Without wilderness survival training, Mr. Flores adapted nonetheless. He wrapped Ms. Klaben’s injured foot in her sweaters, covered the openings of the cabin with tarpaulins and tried, without success, to fix their radio to send out a distress signal and build rabbit traps. What little food Ms. Klaben and Mr. Flores had brought on board — a few cans of sardines, tuna fish, fruit salad and a box of Saltine crackers — was rationed and gone within 10 days. They drank water, some of it filtered thr...Tags: Law, Survival, Flores, Ed Asner, Ann Althouse, Sally Struthers, Robert Service, Helen Klaben Kahn, Klaben 41 people like this. Like How to Treat a Gunshot WoundNovember 30, 2018 at 11:26 AM Gunshot wounds can be one of the most devastating injuries a person can endure. Depending on the type of bullet, its trajectory when it hits you, and the location it enters, a bullet can rip apart internal organs, break bones, puncture lungs, and cause severe blood loss from critical arteries. Because gunshot wounds can cause such an array of damage, it would take years of training to understand how to treat them all effectively. But, there are things everyone can do to help buy time for a gun...Tags: Life, First Aid, Survival, Visual Guides, Tactical Skills, Ted Slampyak, Gun Skills & Safety 5 people like this. Like "The son of a doctor who fled China during the Cultural Revolution, Chau had been fascinated with the outdoors since he pulled a dusty copy of 'Robinson Crusoe' off his father’s bookshelf as a child…"November 28, 2018 at 9:55 AM "He later read the novel 'The Sign of the Beaver,' about a boy who is left alone and guards his family’s log cabin with the help of a Native American friend. That book 'inspired my brother and I to paint our faces with wild blackberry juice and to tramp through our backyard with bows and spears we created from sticks,' Chau recalled…. 'He lost his mind, definitely,' [said an acquaintance]. 'But ask any adventurer. You have to lose your mind a little bit, otherwise you don’t do it.'"From "'He los...Tags: Law, China, Christianity, Survival, Robinson Crusoe, Chau, Ann Althouse, John Allen Chau 26 people like this. Like "I’m a mountain boy, I’ve got everything I need. I understand (the police) are worried, but I’ve been here my whole life.... I’m not a survivalist. I’m a survivor."November 25, 2018 at 12:27 PM Said Brad Weldon, quoted in "Generators, Coors and canned food. How these ‘mountain boys’ are surviving in Paradise" (Sacramento Bee).“I can’t see myself sitting in a shelter, day after day, with sick people and screaming kids all around me,” said Lyndon McAfee, another of those toughing it out behind the lines.... “This is my home, Paradise, man,” he said. “I love this place.”...“I woke up and said to myself, ‘What the hell am I doing here?’” [saidStewart Nugent, who then] snuck back into Parad...Tags: Law, California, Fire, Survival, Nugent, Coors Light, Ann Althouse, Brad Weldon, Lyndon McAfee 4 people like this. Like "A Wisconsin legislator who is also a firefighter ripped the state Department of Natural Resources for persuading his department to rescue a deer stranded on a frozen lake...."November 23, 2018 at 8:53 AM "Republican Rep. Adam Jarchow... said he would fire the [DNR] warden tomorrow if he could for 'being complicit in putting firefighters at risk, over a stupid deer.'... 'This is a complete embarrassment and a joke,' tweeted Jarchow.... The DNR posted a glowing statement about the incident on its website Tuesday. The release praised Warden Jesse Ashton for organizing a team of wardens and local firefighters to rescue the deer, saying, 'Those little hooves are no match for slick surfaces!... Teamwo...Tags: Law, Wisconsin, Survival, Deer, Dnr, Department of Natural Resources, Adam Jarchow, Ann Althouse, Jesse Ashton 22 people like this. Like "As firefighters keep battling the blazes, a new menace is emerging: debris flows. The rains are coming to California..."November 20, 2018 at 8:45 AM "... as soon as Tuesday night, and the fires have primed the soil for another disaster that can claim yet more lives.... The problem is a fundamental change to the soil itself. When a wildfire burns vegetation, it releases organic compounds.... This soil normally absorbs water, but the organic compounds turn it hydrophobic, literally meaning 'fear of water.' It is not an understatement: You can pour a bottle of water on this burned soil and it’ll bead right off, as if the dirt were polished marb...Tags: Law, California, Disaster, Fire, Survival, Ann Althouse 42 people like this. Like 4 Ways to Make Improvised Urban Survival ArrowheadsNovember 13, 2018 at 12:16 PM The original arrowheads were made from organic materials — often through the process of “knapping” rocks like obsidian, chert, and flint. The sharp flakes of stone which resulted were then affixed to arrow shafts, and shot from bows by primitive hunters to take down game and battle their human enemies.
Still today, stone arrowheads are made by bushcrafters, and they can be life-savers in wilderness survival situations.
But what if you need to make an arrowhead in an urban environment, where st...Tags: Archery, Manly Skills, Outdoors, Self-Reliance, Survival, Tactical Skills 3 people like this. Like |
