It doesn’t happen often but every now and then metal clashes with rock. If you regularly use your axe in the wild somewhere other than your bedroom or a manicured garden you will eventually hit something other than wood. Hopefully, it’s not your shins! When I head into the backwoods for multiple days, I always…
Winter 2019: I’ve decided to do something a little… unconventional. I’m building a log shelter by hand and living in it through an entire winter. Why? Well the answer is simple because I can. Like most people, I spend five days a week toiling for the shekels at my job. But unlike most I won’t…
I was excited to head up to the survival shelter this past weekend. From a distance, the surrounding mountains looked like they’d been dusted with a perfect blanket of snow… just the kind of winter wonderland I’d been waiting for. But as I got closer to the shelter reality hit, the snow line was about 1,000…
I’ll admit it I am a huge fan of the white stuff. Snow season is my time to shift gears, embrace new challenges and test my limits. With winter knocking at the door, I’ve been racing to finish my winter survival shelter before the first flakes start falling. And trust me, it could happen any…
I can’t say enough good things about the Silky Big Boy 2000 Folding Saw, this thing is an absolute beast! Unlike most saws that only cut on the push, the Silky cuts on both the push and the pull, making it ridiculously efficient. Seriously, this saw devours wood like a hot knife through butter. Whether you’re trimming branches,…
I decided to build a simple winter shelter on my off-grid property, sticking to my favorite life philosophy: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid). Over two visits and a few days of cobbling things together, I had what I thought was a solid plan. But thanks to some interesting weather shifts, my original idea morphed into something that,…
