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Hone your basic outdoor and survival skills with help from qualified and experienced survival pro, Tim MacWelch. Each week Tim hands out priceless information on everything from essential gear to wound care, primitive hunting and fishing traps to cooking over hot stones and much more. Don’t rely on basic human instinct to save you in a precarious situation, plan and prepare with help from the survival pro who knows.
By Tim MacWelch
These days, you’ll probably hear terms like mindfulness, awareness and self-aware being thrown around a lot. These terms are used in different ways, often to define part of someone’s identity (or image) when they seem to fit those descriptions (“oh, he’s such a mindful non-toxic male”). More commonly, however, these terms pop up to describe someone who doesn’t make the cut (“that horrible man isn’t self-aware at all!”).
By Tim MacWelch
We all know that Jim and Trav are snazzy dressers, but I know that they are more than just backcountry fashionistas. From all their years of outdoor adventuring, they know just how important clothing selection and fabric choice can be. They know that the wrong clothes can be more than just uncomfortable – they can be deadly.
You’re lost in the wildness, what do you do?
The story of two little girls, ages 8 and 5, that got lost in the California woods made headlines and captivated the attention of people across the country recently. These resourceful ladies were able to survive 44 hours on their own, about two miles from their home in what rescuers described as “rugged territory”. They took shelter under a fallen branch and huckleberry bush, drank the water that collected on the huckleberry leaves and used their rain jackets as a blanket. Although they were cold and had no food, they stayed put, and were eventually found by rescuers who were able to follow their tracks.
By Tim MacWelch
Looking to activate your life insurance policy in late winter? I hope not.
But as winter closes and spring nears, many people take unnecessary risks by trapesing out on unsafe ice. Don’t fall into deep trouble by going out on thin ice. Here are some ways to stay safe around the frozen waterways of late winter.
Cold weather poses certain risk factors for people that you just don’t have to worry about during the warmer months. Knowing how to properly prepare for exposure to cold temperatures is an important step in not falling victim to hypothermia and frostbite. Tim MacWelch, New York Times Bestselling author and the mind behind bestselling survival books, joins us this week to talk winter preparedness.
Not every survival situation begins and ends with getting lost or stranded in the wilderness. Survival is often associated with extreme situations like being attacked by a bear, surviving a snowstorm in the backseat of your broken-down car after it slides off of a cliff, taking shelter in the hollowed-out carcass of a buffalo or something else equally distressing. However, the truth is that survival can take a million different forms, the least of which you are expecting, and in the end it’s all about your preparedness and skill that pull you through.
There is a man with a glorious beard and an infinite amount survival know-how who makes Bear Grylls look like a preschooler. He’s a regular contributor here at The Revolution and an awesome mentor. Move over MacGyver, Tim MacWelch will school you while fastening your school laces and umbrella into a hot air balloon and lifting to you safety while you cry. Seriously, Tim is a walking, talking, living, breathing, hard core primitive living and survival expert. He’s the man with the plan, the one that can teach you the skills you need so you don’t end up in a survival situation to begin with and if you do, how to make it out alive.
By Tim MacWelch
Even if you have a high degree of primitive survival and bushcraft skills, you still need to carry a survival kit. Just image how hard it would be to survive if you are very ill or badly hurt. You won’t be grinding out a bow drill fire with a shattered shoulder, or building a shelter when you’ve broken your hip. Injury and illness have a way of leveling the playing field, leaving you just as vulnerable as a novice outdoor enthusiast. Beginner or expert, here’s a basic breakdown of the gear you need to be carrying.
By Tim MacWelch
The word “self-reliant” has become synonymous with emergency preparedness in so many circles today. And since none of us seem to have a working crystal ball, we never know when we’ll need to be at our self-reliant “best”. But is there more to the word – self-reliance – than its obvious meaning?
What comes to your mind when you think of survival? Tim MacWelch – survival instructor, author of multiple New York Times bestselling survival books and writer for Outdoor Life Magazine – says that most people think about survival in terms of the wilderness and wild places on land. However, in reality, the majority of our planet is covered in water making the water the ultimate wilderness.
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