How to Choose the Right Sleeping Bag

There are many decisions to make before choosing a sleeping bag

There are endless varieties of sleeping bags, and choosing the right one for yourself depends on a lot of variables. Here are some suggestions to help you decide which bag is best for your circumstances.

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Keep the Family Safe in the Outdoors

Wilderness enthusiast and Search and Rescue member Blake Miller gives some tips on keeping your family safe on outdoor excursions!
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Cooking off the Grid with Grubmasters Ann & Gerald: Can Powdered Milk be yummy?

Cooking off the Grid with Grubmasters Ann & Gerald: Can Powdered Milk be yummy?: "My survival common sense guru friend, Leon, just sent me the recipe link below from his website...this is a new recipe for hardtack that act..."




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Cooking off the Grid with Grubmasters Ann & Gerald: Dutch Oven Swiss Steak

Cooking off the Grid with Grubmasters Ann & Gerald: Dutch Oven Swiss Steak: "I almost forgot my promise to post my Swiss Steak recipe in time for Sunday dinner! It's easy, and you should have most of the ingredi..."




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From The Boundary Waters: Hudson Bay Bread

Sunset in the Boundary Waters. You earn this kind of beauty.

The only item on the lunch menu the first day was a three-inch square of Hudson Bay Bread gobbed with about two tablespoons of peanut butter. I’d worked up quite an appetite paddling and portaging that morning, and privately wondered where I’d get the energy to last the rest of the day.
To my surprise, the Hudson Bay bread was so rich, filling and full of calories
that I could barely finish it. I had ample energy to paddle, portage and hike until that evening. That was lunch for several days, and Hudson Bay Bread fueled many rigorous miles of paddling and portaging!
If you are outside in cold weather, doing vigorous activities, you'll like this recipe!

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Navigating a Topo Map

Do topographical maps seem confusing? Do you view most maps as a mass of squiggles, color splotches and undecipherable gibberish, with terms like: datum, UTM,  WGS84 and NAD27? In this article, land navigation expert Blake Miller explains how to make sense of your topo map!

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Survival Knives: What to Put in Your Hollow-Handle Survival Knife

A hollow handle knife might not be the best choice!

Considering buying or already have a hollow handle survival knife? Maybe the first thought might be about what items to actually put in the handle!
Survival Knives: What to Put in Your Hollow-Handle Survival Knife

Survival Knives: Choose the Best Wilderness Survival/Hunting Knife

At home, you may have all the tools and accessories needed to make a large animal butchering job do-able. But what knives should you carry when hunting the backcountry?
What if you’re on your own, with no outfitter to haul in meatcutting tools and take the meat out on a pack horse? Here are some suggestions:
Survival Knives: Choose the Best Wilderness Survival/Hunting Knife

Survival Knives: Survival Knife Review: The Swiss Army Knife Classic?

How can that dinky keyring knife be considered a survival tool?
Well, tear your fingernail, break your glasses, or have to remove a splinter, and you'll be glad you have one! Use the blade to cut string, open letters, and all the routine cutting tasks, and save the razor edge of your survival knife.
Learn how to make an immediate upgrade on your preparedness tools! 
Survival Knives: Survival Knife Review: The Swiss Army Knife Classic?

Survival Knives: How Does the Master Hunter Perform in the field?

Survival Knives: How Does the Master Hunter Perform in the field?




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Survival Knives: Survival Knife Review: The Mora

Survival Knives: Survival Knife Review: The Mora




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Survival Recipes and Cooking: Venison Meatloaf: A Favorite Comfort Food!

Survival Recipes and Cooking: Venison Meatloaf: A Favorite Comfort Food!: "For me, meatloaf is a comfort food. I love sitting down to a meal of meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, biscuits and some fresh vege..."

Survival Knives: Choose the Best Survival Knife For Your Needs

Survival Knives: Choose the Best Survival Knife For Your Needs

Getting Started With Off-Grid Cooking

Does this seem familiar? Somebody finds out you are a prepper or survivalist, and assumes you’re somehow…a little strange. But once they learn a few facts, they may change their minds. The next question may be: “What do I do to get started?”

Here is how to take that first step!

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Boy Scouts Learn Winter Survival Skills for Oregon Backcountry

Learning how to survive in deep snow is mandatory if you participate in snow sports in Oregon. Here are some tips from the annual Central Oregon Boy Scouts Winter Skills Day.

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Scouts Learn Winter Survival Skills

The Cascades are beautiful on bright, sunny days and that was a great setting for the annual Winter Survival Skills Day south of Bend!

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How to Cook When the Power Goes Off

If you live in and area where the power went out this week, you might find these tips useful! Here is the weekly email update from SurvivalCommonSense.com!

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Survival Food: How to Make Re-Fried Beans

Beans are a staple with preppers concerned about long term food storage. Beans are rich in nutrients, easy to cook and tasty. But you need a variety of recipes to add variety to your stored food. Here is a quick, easy recipe for using pinto beans

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Search and Rescue Vet on SurvivalCommonSense.com Radio

Todd Teicheira, a veteran search and rescue volunteer will be the guest on SurvivalCommonSense.com Radio on Jan. 21, 2010. Todd will be discussing some of the common problems and situations that get people into trouble in the Oregon backcountry

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Cooking When the Power Goes Off

On Jan. 16, 2010, there was snow in every state except Florida. For many areas, this meant the power was off, and for many people there was no way for them to cook or stay warm. Here is the SurvivalCommonSense.com Radio show of Jan. 14 in which Off Grid cooking expert Ann Gawith talks about how to set up for cooking when the power goes out.

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Make Your GPS More Efficient: Clean up the Clutter

Having too many waypoints stored on your GPS is like piling all your office files into a heap and expecting to find something when you need it. In the wilderness, you don't want to be sorting through Waypoints to decide where to go!
GPS expert Blake Miller gives some tips on the efficient way to use and store your Waypoints.

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Cooking off the Grid with Grubmasters Ann & Gerald: Ann Gawith’s Lima Beans and Ham

Cooking off the Grid with Grubmasters Ann & Gerald: Ann Gawith’s Lima Beans and Ham: "We recently retro-fitted a wood stove in our home to provide a reliable heat source during Central Oregon’s cold, snowy winters. We regularl..."




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Start a Prepper/Survivalist Off-The-Grid Cooking Club

Who says survival food has to be bland, tasteless and predictable? Form a club to learn how to cook under emergency conditions! Here's how to get started.

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Off the Grid Cooking Expert on SurvivalCommonSense.com Radio

Building contractor, off the grid retrofitter and expert outdoor and Dutch oven cook Ann Gawith will join SurvivalCommonSense.com Radio host Leon Pantenburg to discuss off the grid cooking

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BlogTalk Interview with SurvivalCommonSense.com

Here is the audio transcript of the Jan. 3 Survival CommonSense.com interview on the Dr. Prepper Show on the Preparedness Radio Network. This Friday, Jan. 7, SurvivalCommonSense.com Radio will debut on that network.

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SurvivalCommonSense.com on BlogTalk Radio

Here is the link to an interview done by Leon Pantenburg of SurvivalCommonSense.com on Monday, Jan. 3, 2010. Leon will be hosting a radio show, starting this Friday at 6 p.m. PST. He invites questions from listeners, and can be contacted at survivalcommonsense.com

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Make a Car Winter Survival Kit

Here's what you need to carry in your car during the winter!

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