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Water Purification in the Backcountry

Backcountry streams may look crystal-pure, but they often harbor microorganisms that can make you sick. Whether you’re surviving a plane crash or out in the wilderness deliberately, you need water purification. There are a lot of water purification methods available. Today we’ll talk briefly about them, and see some examples.

Survival Kit: Fire starters

Private pilots flying to Alaska must to care a survival kit, including means to start a fire. This could turn into a huge rabbit hole, but we’ll try to avoid that. Today we’ll focus on practical survival kit fire starters.

Survival: Signalling For Help

You can’t get rescued until somebody knows you need help. So, carrying a means to signal for help is critical to your survival. Most of us live and work in places where help is just a phone call away. But out in the wilderness beyond cell coverage you need something else. Your survival kit needs ways for signalling for help. Today we’ll look at various means, from traditional to high-tech.

Pocket Items for Survival

Today we’re going to keep exploring survival kits for private pilots heading to Alaska. As I mentioned last week, it’s possible you might not be able to grab your big survival kit in the midst of whatever disaster left you stranded. You might have nothing but the clothes on your back and whatever is in your pockets or otherwise on your person. So what might you carry?

Dress for Survival!

Last week we looked at Alaska’s and Canada’s rules for survival kits in private aircraft. Both places legally require pilots to carry certain gear. But the rules are pretty general. So let’s go down the rabbit hole a bit and look at the details. This will take several posts to cover completely, but we’re going to start today with clothing. You can really help your odds if you dress for survival before you get on the plane.

What’s In Your Survival Kit – Alaska Version!

Did you know that private pilots flying in Alaska must carry a survival kit? It’s actually a state law. Canada requires one as well. Let’s take a look at what they require, compared to what you see in a typical survival kit.

Let’s Take Apart A Survival Kit!

Commercial survival kits seem like a great idea. You can buy a little kit that has everything you need to survive! Or does it? Since I happen to own an inexpensive survival kit, I figured we should take a close look at its contents. Is this the right stuff to survive an emergency?

What’s in my bug out bag?

In a previous post, we talked about why you might need a bug out bag. Today, we are going to talk about what is in my bag and why I decided to carry it.

Do You Need a Bug Out Bag?

Disaster come in all shapes and sizes, from a tree falling on your house to the zombie apocalypse. You might need to leave home in a big hurry, with what you can quickly grab, and the clothes on your back. A bug out bag gathers the things you need to grab and go. How important is that?

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