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By Dr. Michael Jacobs Plan on sailing this summer and fall? Before you do, check out this post from Adventure Medical Kits’ marine medicine consultant Dr. Michael Jacobs for tips on dealing with t...

Spring boating season may be here, but water temperatures are still cold enough to cause problems for boating enthusiasts. Adventure Medical Kits’ marine medicine consultant Dr. Michael Jacobs prov...

By Buck Tilton When bullets and arrows start filling the autumn air, we know a few of them will strike a hunter and fewer still non-hunters. Everyone knows the danger of a loaded gun, but gunshot w...

The survival instinct was alive and well in 2011. With Mother Earth clearly in an apocalyptic mood, people found ways, often against seemingly impossible odds, to survive earthquakes, volcano erupt...

Ever wonder what you’d do if you found yourself in the wild without sufficient food and water? To survive, finding water has to be a top priority, but once you’ve found drinkable water, you’ll need...

To combine the three essential elements – oxygen, heat, and fuel – successfully into a fire requires more thought than usual when white stuff cloaks the ground.Assuming you’re carrying a source of ...

It is important to carry a backpack when snowmobiling to be prepared especially in the case of an unfortunate event. In the She Shreds Mountain Adventures backcountry survival lessons, I always mak...

You’re lost. Alone in the woods. The backpacking trip was going so well until you decided to explore beyond the trails, and now you’re down to your last Clif Bar. Some would lose hope, but not you!...

With the season of the orange-clad huntsman comes an opportunity for hunting injuries, most notably for gunshot wounds. More than 35,000 of these incidents occur in the U.S. each year – usually rel...