Call them what you will – space blanket, mylar blanket, survival blanket, or emergency blanket.

You should own at least one.

Winters where I come from, are harsh.

The Rocky Mountains are not gentile – especially if sheltering in snow and ice.

Becoming trapped in freezing temperatures is a recipe for disaster.

In Colorado, it’s a fairly standard practice to keep an emergency blanket inside of your glove box.

It’s a smart survival insurance policy if you happen to get stuck overnight in frigid conditions. [Read more…]

Finding The Best Credit Card Knife For You

They are sleek, slender, sneaky, and serviceable.

They are affordable, easy to come by, and even easier to conceal.

Credit card knives – aptly named for their small shape – are very cool survival gadgets.

That’s why they’re becoming popular in the survival community.

Why?

Well, there are a lot of reasons. But namely: utility.

Credit card knives are extremely useful to have on hand. [Read more…]

Finding The Best Survival Matches Because Not All Matches Are Created Equal 

If a dog is man’s best friend, fire is surely his best survival tool.

According to archaeologists, we’ve been using fire for over a million years.

We cook with it, hunt with it, and stay warm on countless nights because of it.

There’s no telling where humanity would be today without the discovery of fire.

But it’s safe to say; our survival would have been a lot harder.

Today, fire remains and will always remain an essential survival resource. [Read more…]

Taking A Look At The Best Survival Lighters On The Market

I can’t imagine what it was like for the first human beings to harness fire.

Their’s no way they fully understood the revolutionary implications.

Because they didn’t know it at the time, but harnessing the power of fire changed us forever…

Without fire, there’s no telling where humans might be today.

But it’s undeniable that fire has set us ahead of the pack.

It’s put us in a different survival league. [Read more…]