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The Dakota Fire Hole

Of all the methods for making a survival fire the Dakota Fire Hole may be the best ever devised.

Simple to construct, efficient, and stealthy when you do not want to be found, apply this excellent survival fire skill during your next adventure...

How to Make a Firebed

You're cold, exhausted, and need to sleep. But your clothing is inadequate and you have no sleeping bag. If you lose conciousness you will freeze to death before morning.

You're going to survive. Survival Topics will show you what to do..

Bannock

Bannock has been a staple food of outdoorsmen for centuries.

Portable, nutritious, tasty and easy to make, bannocks legendary reputation continues as one of the best survival foods you can bring into the wilderness.

How to Make Waterproof Matches

The ability to build a fire is an important survival skill. And just as important is the gear you carry that allows you to accomplish this task.

You can waterproof your matches so that they will light even if they have been totally submerged in water ...

Eskimo Windproof Clothing Trick

How to Make Emergency Socks

The temperature is well below zero degrees. The wilderness winter wonderland suddenly turns deadly as you plunge feet first into an icy stream.

It is now a matter of survival as your wet foot begins to freeze solid. You're first thought is that you're screwed. Without warm footware you won't last long at this temperature.

You're going to make it; because Survival Topics has got you covered. Here is what you do...

How to Make Fire Sticks

Fire Sticks are an excellent piece of outdoor survival gear that you can easily make. Using a fire stick you can start a fire even with very wet wood.

Here is one way to make your own firesticks...

New Bear Grylls Knife

Outdoor Defecation Considerations

How to Make a Survival Blanket Sleeping Bag

You have a single blanket or tarp and it is going to be a very cold night.

What is the best way to use it to stay warm while sleeping? Survival Topics will show you...

Clean Your Cooking Gear with Wood Ashes

That Water is Unsafe to Drink

How to Make a Klemheist Knot

Wilderness Survival Priorities

Once you acquire the basic wilderness survival skills one vital piece of information remains: the order in which you should apply these skills in a wilderness survival emergency...

Winter Survival Clothing System

How to Make a Prusik Knot

550 Paracord

Flint and Steel: What Causes the Sparks?

Swedish Firesteels

Rule of Sevens

The rule of sevens is a way to organize wilderness survival problems into manageable parts.

By identifying the general problems and their solutions, we have a basic wilderness survival guide to help us prepare for nearly all wilderness survival scenarios.

Snow Trench Shelter

There are several excellent winter survival shelters you can build using snow. In this Survival Topic we make a snow trench shelter and discuss some important points in building shelters using snow.

Making a Bow and Arrow

Making improvised survival gear can be a learning experience and a great fun.

In this Survival Topic I chance upon natural made bow staves and try my hand at making a bow and arrow in the field...

How to Make Petroleum Jelly Fire Starters

Balsam Fir Pitch

Make Your Own Warm Winter Mitts

In high latitudes and elevations your winter survival gear requires warm winter mittens. For many that means expensive high tech mountaineering mitts that seem to fail much too easily.

Here is how you can put together your own very high quality winter mitts using inexpensive natural materials you can find locally...

Rambo 4 Knife

The Chaga; Nature's Medicinal Mushroom

Swedish Firesteel

Firesteel is the modern day steel on steroids that produces a shower of sparks merely by scraping it with a sharp object.

Swedish Firesteels have become popular pieces of survival gear and for good reason...

6 Winter Survival Health Hazards

When surviving in the the cold winter conditions of higher latitudes or high elevations you will be faced with special health hazards.

In this Survival Topic we discuss six of the main threats to winter health and what you can do to prevent them from happening to you...