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Learn common sense tips with this practical safety guide on how to survive an outdoor wilderness or urban emergency; hiking, biking, hunting, canoeing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, or taking a car trip.

Look for how-to instructions on how to avoid an emergency in the first place, staying found when you are lost, dressing to survive, eating to survive, building an emergency shelter and other common sense approaches to saving your life in an unexpected emergency.

The site covers making a fire in extreme situations and always being prepared for what you don’t expect to happen “today”.  Written by veteran wilderness enthusiast, Leon Pantenburg.

What is Survival Common Sense?

A logical “common sense” approach to every day emergencies or real disasters can give you a fighting chance to survive.

What would you do if you sprained your ankle at dusk, in the middle of a large urban park on a routine evening winter run?  Or when your car slides off a rural, icy road and gets stuck during a blizzard? What about being awakened by fire alarms and the smell of smoke in your totally-dark, fourth-floor hotel room?

Reality-type shows aside, most people never think about the need to survive anything.  But you, the average person, could easily be one slip, fall or crash away from trouble.

This site is about proven and tested common sense survival techniques that anyone should learn when living in urban areas or wandering about in the wilderness. This website information can help you get through that unexpected calamity and possibly even save you or your family’s life.  Read more about it.

About Leon Pantenburg

Leon Pantenburg is a wilderness enthusiast, and doesn’t claim expertise as a

Leon Pantenburg

survivalist or survival expert. As a newpaperman for three decades, covering search and rescue, sheriff’s departments and outdoor emergencies, Leon learned many people died unnecessarily or escaped miraculously from outdoor emergency situations when simple, common sense may have changed the outcome. Leon now teaches common sense survival techniques to the average person in order to avert potential disasters. Read Leon’s bio.



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