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The biggest problem about hiking in Central Oregon is making up your mind on where to go!

The best Every Day Carry knife is as elusive as that best survival or hunting knife. Check out this Bark River Bravo EDC.

Suppose you want to invest in a knife for bushcraft and/or overall outdoor use. Which blade length is best?

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.

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.

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.

Leon Pantenburg is a wilderness enthusiast, and doesn’t claim to be a survival expert or expertise as a survivalist. As a newspaperman for four decades, covering search and rescue, sheriffs’ departments and outdoor emergencies, Leon learned many people died unnecessarily or escaped miraculously from outdoor emergency situations when simple, common…