Check out the Bark River Bravo EDC for every day carry
The best Every Day Carry knife is as elusive as that best survival or hunting knife. Check out this Bark River Bravo EDC.
How long should a survival/bushcraft knife blade be?
Suppose you want to invest in a knife for bushcraft and/or overall outdoor use. Which blade length is best?
Survival gear review: Solo Stove Titan biomass-fueled
My biomass Solo Stove has been a constant companion in the backcountry since I got it last year. But the latest offering from the company, the Titan may prove to be even more useful to the prepper/survivalist.
Video Survival Knife Review: Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival Knife
The Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival Knife is an international best seller. But is the popularity base on Bear’s celebrity or the fact that the knife is a quality product? I decided to find out.
Video review: The Solo Stove biomass backpacking stove
Some things you can’t lighten up and one of those is stove fuel. So the idea of a lightweight backpacking stove, such as the Solo Stove, with no moving parts, that burns twigs, pine cones, sticks etc is very attractive.
Downriver Chapter 11: Vision Quest?
Sometimes an experience will bring up memories that have lain dormant for years. Maybe it was of something that didn’t seem particularly important at the time it was happening. Possibly the new experience is like a key word on a computer that opens up an apparently unrelated, or unsuspected file.…
Downriver Chapter 10: Amos Owen, Dakota Holy Man
Redwing, MN has a large marina, beautifully restored old homes and a great local museum. From the marina, I wandered up to the Goodhue County Museum on the hill. In the early 1850s, settlers came to Redwing to farm in Goodhue County. Land was selling for $15 per acre, and…
Downriver: Prescott, Wisconsin Chapter 9
The beauty of the morning seemed to be an apology for the storm the night before. As I leafed through my journal, looking for dampness, I had to smile at the previous day’s entry. It would have to be extensively re-written!
Downriver: Little Falls to the Twin Cities Chapter 8
Once you get through the lock at St.Paul, the Mississippi changes character and becomes a commercial river.
Downriver: Chapter 7 Bill Byers the Logger
From Cass Lake to Grand Rapids, Mike and I paddled through the land of Paul Bunyon, the legendary logger, on the river that was the highway of the Minnesota timber industry until the 1940s. Local legends are part of the fun of traveling the Mississippi, and Paul Bunyon…
