Survival and Emergency Preparedness

My fitness goals have changed slightly. Still in training for next year's adventure race, but.... My wife and I just booked an adventure cruise in Alaska. We had been to Alaska in 2017 when we rented an RV and did the interior, fishing, hiking and camping for 26 days. This time we are doing the insi...

Actually been learning a thing or two about MREs. -There is a date stamped/imbedded in the heavy plastic outer packaging. It is a 4 digit code in the Julian calendar. To convert it to our date you need to do a google search for MRE date code. When converted it tells you when the MRE or HDR was made,...

Already fiq I couldn't bug out in my location.... have to go thru NYC. Always planned to bug in... and with 2/3 neighbors that are well planned to bond as a group ( hopefully ) But I still never tell them my full supply stock. Okay, there's a meteor heading your way. Annihilation is guaranteed with...

I just found my note books, maps and binder with all my info I put together for my bike bugout. I noticed in my plan that I had the railroad tracks marked out. There are tracks that go north then swing north west almost the entire way. Some of those tracks have been turned into bike paths (Rails to ...

I just picked up 17 MREs with heaters for $17. The guy I bought them from said the MREs were way out of date but still sealed "but don't eat them". He was selling them just for the heaters. When I got them home I checked the the date code on them which says they expired in Oct '23. From ev...

I hadn't really thought much about caches along the way to a bug out location (BOL). I was thinking about just stashing/hiding stuff at the site. And yes, it's much better to have a place to go than to simply get out of Dodge without a plan or destination in mind. My bug out location (BOL) is my woo...

I was acquainted with Ron Hood, who was big in survival in the 1980s. Single guy. His mode of escape was a motorcycle on railroad tracks from the San Fernando Valley to the high country. Along the way, he had two buried caches. One weekend, we went to his retreat area. 1. yes it was rural; 2. essen...

I could just bury a ammo can full of stuff in my pole barn and my kids might find it after I'm gone. Make a note for my Will..."there is a survival cache buried in the pole barn. Have fun finding it." For that matter I could stick it under the house in the crawl space or hang it from the r...

Bmyers wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 7:41 am I watched the video and was thinking about the same topic.

My first concern, with the way I lose my keys, will I be able to find a cache in 20 years?

Good point considering I'm still finding ammo and tools I stashed away in full sight in my old shed and cabin.

Just watched a Paul Harrell video where they dug up a cache that has been in the ground for 14 years. It contained a bunch of MREs, some ammo and a single shot Rossi 20 ga. with a 22lr barrel. It was what looks like a 81mm mortar ammo can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSzmP0DqsEg&embeds_refer...