Archive of Category: Outdoor Safety
Building an Improvised Raft or Flotation Aid: Safe Construction and Ferry Techniques for River Crossings
Deciding Whether a Raft Crossing Is the Right Call Reading the River Before You Touch the Water Before you start gathering materials, decide if you should be crossing at all. Moving water is deceptive: a river that looks “knee deep” can still knock you down if the bottom is slick
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Wildlife Encounter Protocols: De-escalation and Defense for Bears, Mountain Lions, and Moose
Core Principles of Wildlife Encounter Protocols Safety starts before “fight or flight” kicks in When people talk about wildlife defense, they often jump straight to tools-spray, firearms, noise makers. A better approach is a protocol: a repeatable sequence you can run under stress. In most encounters, your goal is to
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Field Sanitation in the Wilderness: Latrine Placement, Hand Hygiene, and Keeping Camp Disease-Free
How Camp Illness Actually Spreads (and Why “Just Be Careful” Doesn’t Work) The fecal-oral route: the main villain in wilderness camps Most camp sickness comes down to one simple pathway: microscopic bits of human (or animal) waste getting into someone’s mouth. That sounds dramatic, but it happens in everyday ways-unwashed
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