Exclusive: Creek Stewart lists 6 survival uses for surprising, everyday item

By: CREEK STEWART

I’ve often said that a person’s most important survival skill is the ability to improvise. The skill of “using what you have to get what you need” in a life-threatening survival scenario often involves looking at everyday items through survival-tinted glasses. Many everyday items have surprising survival applications if you’re willing think outside of the box and get creative. Sudden and unexpected survival scenarios all have one thing in common – you’ll never have exactly what you need when you need it.

In my courses at Willow Haven I’ll often challenge students to list as many survival uses they can think of for a variety of random, everyday items that one might find in their purse, car or pockets. It’s a good exercise and always produces surprising results. Below is a great example. Read more »

By Kathryn Lynch-Morin | klynchmo@mlive.com

KOCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, MI — Outdoors loving women and those interested in taking up a new outdoor hobby can look forward to the Ladies Day Out at the Cabela’s Outpost in Saginaw County.

An East Calais outdoors school revives the art of Stone Age subsistence

From: 7dvt.com

Brad Salon kneels in the dirt of an outdoor classroom on a broad ridge in East Calais. He’s gingerly setting a primitive trap, propping up a heavy plank with a few notched twigs. “Traps are blind,” he reminds his students. The 10 pupils, who span about three decades in age, have come to study primitive survival skills in the woods of Vermont.

What Salon means is that a trap, once set, won’t differentiate between “your neighbor’s cat” and a wild animal. It’s the trapper’s ethical responsibility to use caution and check a trap frequently, he urges his students. Read more »