There's a lot of wisdom to be found from the old hands who have spent decades hitting the local fishing holes, wandering through the woods, and surviving off the land. If someone who walked into...

The black widow spider has certainly gained a reputation for being both elegant and deadly. To the point they are one of the few feared spiders in North America, and have caught imagination as they...

Seeing expiration dates on things like a gallon of milk or package of hamburger makes sense but why would bear spray or other outdoor gear have an expiration date? Most important, for something like...

The joke that was already decades old by the time I hit my early camping years in the late 1980s/early 1990s was when it doubt, use "Scout Water" to get that fire going. Scout Water was, of course,...

Starting a fire with gasoline...it's a life choice we don't recommend. Obvious safety concerns aside, is it actually legal, though? This is a question that is generally fairly easy to answer but...

We already looked at whether or not you can safely use expired bear spray, but that's not the only safety question that focuses around bear spray and its use. Since this aerosol is used to chase off...